Scan your eyeballs, think of the children: how Britain sells surveillance as safety

I wrote for The Nerve about the past fortnight in UK tech policy.

I know a lot of people expected me to have a lot of things to say about what’s happened, but here’s the thing:

aside from that article, there is absolutely nothing to say that I didn’t already say here in this blog, in my fleeting and regrettable professional capacities, or in the media, in (checks notes)
2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, and 2016.

Which is why I took that article right back to where it began, ten years ago next week. Everything always circles right back to where it began. And I do mean everything.