How to create a world as age appropriate as apple pie
A true story about what happens when "age appropriate" is allowed to become a subjective and politicised decision about how information is filtered to the young people who need it the most.
Author: Heather Burns
The Recovery Roadmap
I was honoured to be asked to write this report on the UK Tech Cluster Group’s Recovery Roadmap summit, ably supported by the UKTCG leadership team, showcasing their policy recommendations to support the tech sector’s role in the post-COVID recovery.
UX Podcast: Privacy privilege
Per and James discussed my article on privacy privilege on this week’s UX Podcast.
What the Schrems II ruling means for Brexit
I wrote in my Brexit blog about Schrems II, data protection adequacy, and pots calling kettles black. I was also quoted in Techcrunch, the Telegraph, and Digital Privacy News.
Quoted in Digital Privacy News
I spoke with Digital Privacy News about the German antitrust case which ruled that Facebook must allow users to opt-out of data sharing across its platforms.
Check your privacy privilege.
If you are a full time privacy professional in law or academia, you need to understand that one of your fundamental beliefs about online privacy is completely wrong.
One perfect shot
Only a fellow Glaswegian could have composed this photo.
The three tests of internet regulation
I've been scratching away at a rough axiom which I call the three tests of internet regulation. It would apply to anyone involved in the shaping of legislation, either inside or outside of government, as well as the media.
Table layout: or, how not to shape internet regulation in 2020
It's 2020, and the future of the internet is being shaped by consultation responses sent in Microsoft Word table cells through one draft iteration resulting in a PDF.
Safeguarding children’s privacy – the right way
When I retired from open source projects in February, I did so with more than a little curiosity about what new opportunities would come up to fill the void. That’s how life works, after all. Here is the first one.
The biggest threat to children’s privacy
Yesterday I had the misfortune of discovering an appalling violation of children's privacy rights: a piece of keylogging stalkerware being sold as a "safeguarding" tool for parents, packaged in a hysterical scare story about sexting.
Press coverage: Google Brexits
I spoke with Business Insider about the political context behind Google’s decision to move UK accounts out of the EU’s jurisdiction. I also spoke with TechCrunch about the issue from a slightly different angle. One of my tweets about the issue was retweeted by Neil Gaiman, who now owes me a new phone battery.