Understanding Privacy is now on Amazon
The ebook version of Understanding Privacy is now available on Amazon.
Author: Heather Burns
The cavalry have arrived. But not for long.
UK civil society is currently so brittle that the weight for our digital rights battles has to be carried by organisations in the US.
Greatest hits, b-sides, and unfinished demo tracks: or, all my blogging on the Online Safety Bill
All my public-facing writing on the Online Safety Bill, 2019-2023, in one place.
On Snowballs, Napoleons, and sharks
A new podcast series has reminded me how open source community meetups saved so many people, including me, from business networking hell.
All data is health data.
In a world where people are targeted for who they are, any data you collect can and will be used against them.
Freaking out about TikTok on your work phone? You should look closer to home.
If you're worried about foreign state surveillance of your devices, or intrusive tracking of your teams, start in your living room.
The age-appropriate rubber dinghies of the sunlit uplands
An amendment to the Online Safety Bill uses its age verification requirements to censor subjective legal content determined by government policy. Just like we warned you years ago.
The disinformation about the disinformation
If you want to tackle a problem, first you have to overcome the social taboos around talking about the problem. And that's hard when politics constrain the inquiry.
2022’s best reads
The year's best books, articles, podcasts, and leisure reading too.
To protect your users, protect yourself
To mark the publication of the hard copies of my book, I penned a few words on foundational privacy, developer education, and the grandstanding policymakers looking for easy targets. Now tie that all together.
NQ, MCR, 11/22
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On unexpected unemployment
“Getting rid of public policy people when you’re claiming to do ‘real free speech’ is the stupidest move ever.” Audrey Herblin-Stoop, ex-Twitter France public policy