UK tech policy predictions for 2022: pennies dropping everywhere
Following on from this year's 100% accurate predictions (go me!), here's what I see ahead for UK internet regulation in 2022.
Author: Heather Burns
The UK’s Online Safety Bill is a “hostage-taking” law. That should terrify you.
Here's how the UK is building a "world-leading" framework of brute force content moderation through arrests and show trials.
Internet regulation debates need rules of engagement. Here’s a start.
I don't know who needs to hear this, but there's more than one company on the internet.
Data is political. Ask a Glaswegian.
COP26 has brought a groundbreaking technical innovation to town, for two weeks.
The greatest lesson the Conservatives learned from tech
Here's why the UK's politicians are leaning in so heavily to blaming the internet for last week's murder of one of their own.
Postcard from a Challenger Kid
Sometimes age verification is an insult.
Behold! I have an opinion. An EXCLUSIVE opinion.
And it's so important that I'm not even going to tell you what it is.
World-leading internet diplomacy, or perhaps not
The enemy of my enemy is neither my friend nor a regulatory role model.
Game over for digital rights?
I'm entering my second month of job hunting and being generally bored out of my skull. There's a great article in Politico this morning that explains why.
A wonk across the rooftops
I was honoured to advise BBC Scotland's Disclosure team on a recent documentary about children's online privacy.
A natter on regulations, freedom of expression, and open source software
My friend Morten Rand-Hendriksen and I chatted about legislative threats to freedom of expression, and their potential impacts on open source software communities and projects.
Recent media quotes and talks
Links to media quotes, articles, and talks I've given in the past year, mostly in a professional capacity for my previous employer, on the Online Safety Bill as well as on various post-Brexit UK privacy issues.