2022’s best reads
The year's best books, articles, podcasts, and leisure reading too.
Author: Heather Burns
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
Good editors and how to spot them
If you’ve been reading my book, and it hasn’t made you lose the will to live, you can thank Owen Gregory for that.
Online harms are hard. Meet a woman who is harder.
Meet my friend Mika, whose four-year ordeal at the hands of a deranged and unaccountable stalker has influenced some of my thinking on policy. It should influence yours too.
A little story about my book and a troublemaker who tried to derail it, as you do
When I say "these things only happen to me", this is what I mean.
A thought experiment: what if we talked about the over-60s’ screen time the way we talk about young people’s screen time?
Won't somebody think of the OAPs?
Fixing the UK’s Online Safety Bill, part 1: we need answers.
These unanswered questions need to be cleared out of the way before the Bill can progress, regardless of who takes over that work next month.
Fixing the UK’s Online Safety Bill, part 0: no, it’s not fixable.
Ahead of its return in September, I want to offer some constructive thoughts on how the Online Safety Bill's weaknesses should be improved. That's an academic exercise, though, because this Bill is not fixable.
The week the open web won
No, I didn't destroy the Online Safety Bill with this blog. I did something even better.
Here’s why your project is in scope of the Online Safety Bill
An anecdote from the road about the somewhat muddled thinking that has gone into defining the Bill's sweeping compliance requirements.