Initial thoughts on Thompson & Carlo v the Met - live facial recognition case handed down yesterday.
Tl;dr - huge PR win for the Met. No questions. But the key human rights issues unaddressed.
Police LFR not arbitrary. But no comment on whether it is necessary.
aihumanrights.blog/2026/04/22/2...
This article is devastating. And a damning indictment both of UK government policy on universities (or lack thereof) and of university management.
www.theguardian.com/education/ng...
Hard to beat the OG
New AI & Human Rights newsletter.
All content. No craic.
#AI #HumanRights
aihumanrights.blog/2026/03/26/2...
No really, I am not kidding when I say that the data broker industry must be destroyed: www.npr.org/2026/03/25/n...
An FOI clampdown would be the perfect signal to officials that they will be even less accountable, and even more able to act for private rather than public interests.
UK considers FOI clampdown as requests soar - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
How Paris beat the car www.ft.com/content/882e...
Sets it up for a great game next week
First Lady of Iraq:
"Leave The Kurds Alone. We Are Not Guns For Hire."
Am about halfway through, it’s a v good read so far
I've written a post setting out why I think the Divisional Court reached the right conclusions in its recent Palestine Action ruling.
WE THE PEOPLES OF THE UNITED NATIONS DETERMINED
to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and
to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person,
m.youtube.com/watch?v=A7ci...
What!?
Delighted to announce that following the consultation, I'm giving the green light to make Oxford Street traffic-free.
By @billgoodwin.bsky.social
‘Police and MI5 conducted seven unlawful operations to obtain phone data relating to former BBC journalist Vincent Kearney, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal heard today’
www.computerweekly.com/news/3666393...
I believe this is the first instance of wrongful arrest involving facial recognition in the Uk
Education Secretary defends freezing the repayment threshold for student loans in England.
Ridiculous plan to align repayment threshold with minimum wage.
Graduates pay tax+repayment at marginal rate of 37%, higher than capital gains tax rate for the super rich.
Abolish uni fees. Write-off debt.
Dorothy 😘👌
Or the snow plows that didn’t work in the snow of 2010/2011 (ish?)
Really looking forward to Aonghus Kelly's lunchtime seminar tomorrow at the Irish Centre for Human Rights on the rule of law, geopolitics and the climate emergency.
Irish Centre for Human Rights Seminar Room, Tuesday 24th February 1-2pm
@uniofgalway.bsky.social @uniofgalwaylaw.bsky.social
England water company bosses raked in £15m+ in pay/perks last yr.
£900m dividends paid. Customer bills up 26%.
Companies have 1200 criminal convictions. Fines not collected.
Sewage dumping killing people.
No exec prosecuted.
End the scam. Must Nationalise.
For about two years this was my, sit at the desk, put music on, change vibe, settle into work, album. So good, and so familiar at this stage.
At the moment it’s ’secret life’ by eno/fred again
Irish rugby #ENGvIRE
“It details the deaths of at least 463 Palestinians, including 157 children, from starvation in the Gaza strip. The situation of famine and malnutrition, … was a direct result of actions taken by the Israeli Government, such as the blocking of … humanitarian aid …”
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
"The body of evidence we collected ... leaves only one reasonable inference," said UN expert Mona Rishmawi. "The RSF acted with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, the Zaghawa and Fur communities in El-Fasher. These are the hallmarks of genocide."
reliefweb.int/node/4199260
And is arguably already a violation of Art 2(4) UN Charter regarding the threat of force against the political independence of a State.
We appear to be at the planning and preparation stages of what would be an act of aggression of considerable gravity and scale, in manifest violation of the UN Charter.
