Privacy's Defender
My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance
by Cindy Cohn mitpress.mit.edu/978026205124...

So that’s clearly your fault?

brain donors of the firm giving it all away and paying for the privilege

I muse on what it is about Palantir's business model that triggers my spidey sense ... backofmind.substack.com/p/brain-dono...

Here’s a history project for you, pick one arm from one of the “tram for cambridge” dreams, and count how many freeholders are touched by that one arm today, vs 1950? Then how many within 50ft for vibrations?then do CBG station to Kings’s chapel

The French were able to do a bunch of major reworking of cities in the 1900s (twice!) off almost-blank sheets of paper that we never had. Plus, density going up and ownership getting more spread over time

When we hit 1000 signatures on Friday it was a proper dream, to petition for a public inquiry into Section 28

We want to get to 10000 so we get a response from the Government. Can you help with direct sharing in your newsletter? Whatsapp groups? Posts?

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

What’s the domain name worth these days? Phoenix media as a charity for a tax write off for the VCs?

Vibercrime is a very good name

As GDS starts to move away from the web towards app-mandatory for access to services, and then info about services, I wonder what the equivalent tomorrow would be…

I Decompiled the White House's New App

buff.ly/JSFtAN8

The official White House Android app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy's GitHub Pages.

At @redpeppermag.bsky.social we work on a very tight budget, but *always* prioritise accuracy/ quality over quantity of articles

With #Goodwin and #AI trending, here’s why fact-checking — of the most time labour-intensive tasks in journalism — is getting harder… and why we take it so seriously
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There’s a Parl debate on the topic first week back. The DH summary will say “it’ll be distracting from priorities and lengthen waiting lists” and Wes will say that was the answer he wanted. The opposite answer could easily be given and also be true. Can be triggered, lack of DH/E desire to

Lord Frost

Surprising to hear the new head of the IEA, Thatcher's favourite think tank, say that water privatisation hasn't worked.

hah

That’s brutal. Absolutely spot on, but brutal. 

Nice, but are the books on your shelf organised by your cats?

“Her daughter’s new student enrollment form was denied due to “license plate recognition software showing only Chicago addresses overnight” in July and August... “Although you are the owner on record of a house in our district, license plate recognition shows that is not the place where you reside.”

Who has got a good take on the ID cards consultation deprecating gov.uk for user services?

what I said in the Cambridge Development Corporation consultation www.disruptiveproactivity.com/2026/03/publ...

perfect sentence...

indeed.

The test is whether what they say it was is what it was shown to be...

Did the demo do that?

This doesn’t look like the prototype, it’s a fake mockup more imaginary than the one last year where Kyle accidentally published his own drivers licence number. Look at the drivers licence screen - that’s not going to get anyone anywhere (well, maybe it’ll get someone arrested)

the deadline varies by company. If you look on CH at the relevant company page and the director tab, it'll tell you what it thinks it was overnight.

we have an international agreement that other people shouldn't use them, and a strong consensus that country says that they themselves should.

It's simple really, it's because he faced no real accountability for his actions.

this is quite a fun Parliamentary speech www.theyworkforyou.com/whall/?id=20...

Looks to be

a volunteer project very easily becomes infrastructure that someone depends on...