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.
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.
A personal memoir on what it feels like when your everyday life becomes a battleground over data rights, immigration, privilege, and power.
Policymakers are laying the scaffolding for regulation which will censor your ability to say what's on your mind. What better way for them to show their commitment than volunteering to go first?
Over the past year, I had the privilege of contributing to a UNICEF manifesto on the better governance of children's data. I'm thrilled to finally announce that the manifesto has been published.
Here's what we trainee diplomats were getting to grips with at the turn of the millennium.
The next time a policymaker tells you that the internet is an "unregulated wild west", point them here to take the shine off their sheriff star.
I went on the Techdirt podcast to discuss the recent push, by governments and media alike, to scapegoat intermediary liability law where social safety nets have failed.
What's ahead for UK internet regulation in 2021? It ain't good.
A status update from the front lines of tech policy.
I spoke with Wired about the domestic and international policy implications of the UK's data protection regulator being physically absent and structurally passive.
A musing on the Piglet's Code and the Online Farms Framework.