The kids (with phones) are alright
How a four-minute video taken on a Scottish train destroyed multiple bad tech policy arguments at once.
All posts tagged: Scotland
That time I got stalked by the real life TV stalker woman and what it taught me about data protection
I can't believe I had to write this post but there we go.
The call was coming from inside the house
In which "something bad happened in real life and that is why we need the Online Safety Bill!" rhetoric hits absolute rock bottom. Content warning
Data is political. Ask a Glaswegian.
COP26 has brought a groundbreaking technical innovation to town, for two weeks.
On data rights, immigration, privilege, power, and the shit life throws at you
A personal memoir on what it feels like when your everyday life becomes a battleground over data rights, immigration, privilege, and power.
Castles and unicorns: my legacy to the WordPress community
One of my proudest professional achievements was selecting and wrangling speakers for three years of WordCamp Edinburgh. Over the past week, videos of 2017’s talks and most of 2018’s talks have been posted at wordpress.tv.
Talking Brexit and a11y at Accessibility Scotland
I was honoured to be invited to speak at this year's Accessibility Scotland conference on Brexit's implications for web accessibility. The video of the talk has now been posted online, and it is fully captioned.
Named Persons II: Scotland’s next mass civilian database
Last week I was chatting with some rather cracking professional digital rights activists. The conversation included my attempt to get them, from their London/English perspective, to understand the different cultural approach to mass data collection and databases that we live with here in Scotland. All too often, data collection projects which would be seen as violations of privacy, data protection, and the right to private life anywhere else are seen as “unquestionably legitimate and benign” […]