Championing digital rights, privacy and liberty within the Labour movement. đšđď¸ âď¸ [email protected]
Joined January 2026
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Labour Digital Rights Network retweeted
New - AI in the Shadows: How the UK Home Office Is Policing Borders Without Scrutiny
computerweekly.com/news/3666⌠via @computerweekly
Labour Digital Rights Network retweeted
A government watchdog is considering a probe into the Home Officeâs use of ChatGPT technology to process asylum claims amid concerns over the toolsâ accuracy and secrecy surrounding their use. buff.ly/NP26VNo
Labour Digital Rights Network retweeted
When Metaâs âpervert glassesâ let creeps film you in secret, itâs women who pay the price.
Add your name and tell Zuckerberg to put womenâs safety first âď¸
goodlaw.social/af3w
Labour Digital Rights Network retweeted
Even Ofcom admits it.
Instead of doubling down on further digital prohibition and censorship, it is time for Labour to scrap the Online Safety Act.
Labour Digital Rights Network retweeted
Ofcom admits thereâs been "no significant change" in children encountering harmful material since the Online Safety Act came into force.
The law created giant digital ID honeypots and rampant censorship - while failing to stop harm.
The left fell into a Tory surveillance trap by backing content prohibition over platform accountability. Why are we now expanding a broken law into subjective topics like "depression" and "body image"?
Itâs time for a total rethink - which must start with Labour scrapping the Online Safety Act.
Labour Digital Rights Network retweeted
Labour wants to give 16 and 17-year-olds the vote, but how can young people make an informed choice if the Online Safety Act censors the climate debates that shape their future?
If they are mature enough to vote, they are mature enough to read about government policy.
Labour Digital Rights Network retweeted
When progressive leaders engage in this type of performative asceticism - or ban entire age groups from accessing the news - they cede the digital public square entirely to the right.
We have to be in the conversation to win the argument. Stop the moral posturing.
Labour Digital Rights Network retweeted
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Permanent facial recognition cameras will be installed in Oxford Street by December.
Thousands of Christmas shoppers will have their faces scanned by this unregulated surveillance technology without being given a choice.
independent.co.uk/news/uk/hoâŚ
Labour Digital Rights Network retweeted
One good comment to the UK Online Safety Act consultation: age verification mandates are exposing UK Internet users to unbelievable levels of opsec and identity theft risk, drive people to the dark web, and could be abused by future govts.
From: an actual software developer
Labour Digital Rights Network retweeted
A schoolteacher responds to Parliament's Online Safety Act Inquiry. He writes that it has made "literally no difference" to safety, censored the Internet for adults, "terrible" for user privacy, and is easily circumvented - by children - with no effort.
committees.parliament.uk/wriâŚ
Labour Digital Rights Network retweeted
â˝Stop treating football fans like criminals @metpoliceuk
Orwellian live facial recognition will scan thousands of innocent fans at the Chelsea vs Tottenham match at Stamford Bridge on Saturday.
Mass surveillance has no place in British sport.
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independent.co.uk/sport/footâŚ
Labour Digital Rights Network retweeted
The UK is now classed as a country where encryption is under severe threat, alongside China & Russia, as this map shows.
Encryption keeps our communications secure.
Itâs staggering that the UK government isnât doing everything in its power to defend it.
gp-digital.org/world-map-of-âŚ
Labour Digital Rights Network retweeted
The death of internet anonymity is looming, bringing with it severe implications for our free speech rights. And no one seems to want to stop it.
Laws aimed at protecting children online could have serious unintended consequences.
đ° @BostonGlobe
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Labour Digital Rights Network retweeted
Anonymity is one of the best guards we have against consequences ranging from social embarrassment to overt government oppression. So why are we giving it up without a fight?
My latest at @BostonGlobe on free speech, anonymity, and the changing internet: bostonglobe.com/2026/10/20/mâŚ
Labour Digital Rights Network retweeted
Just two tech companies have paid fines to Ofcom for being in breach of the Online Safety Act, Melanie Dawes of Ofcom tells MPs this morning
One is being appealed, and one is not yet overdue, leaving a total of nine currently unpaid.
"Of the nine that are unpaid in total, two are porn companies that have now implemented highly effective age assurance...Â
"Another four have geo-blocked the UK. And so that's three that are still available without the risks being mitigated out of the 11 services."
"We won't be able to recover every single fine on online safety," she continued. "If foreign courts decide to... try and get in our way, there will be a point at which we have to accept that we won't be able to recover that money.
"But we will always seek to go as far as we can. And in the end, what encourages me about the companies we fined is that they've actually done the things that we want to protect the public, and that is the real test of our implementation of the Act."
Labour Digital Rights Network retweeted
Around the world, states are using tech to monitor populations, suppress dissent & exert control often without transparency, meaningful oversight or routes to redress.
Our new Global Report on the Authoritarian Use of Technology documents this trend.
privacyinternational.org/repâŚ
Labour Digital Rights Network retweeted
đ˛Speech policing in the UK has become a game of chance.
Cumbria Police arrests people for âspeech offencesâ at 14 times the rate of neighbouring Northumbria.
In our report, we expose the postcode lottery of policing in Britain.
Read⤾ď¸
bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaâŚ
Labour Digital Rights Network retweeted
Banning things is easy.
Drawing a clear line between criminality and consensual sexual expression is much harder, writes @cgdav135 đ
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Labour Digital Rights Network retweeted
âď¸ Not quite how I expected to make my @unherd debut.
If free speech means anything, it means defending even that which we find objectionable or morally reprehensible.
Please give it a read. đ
Banning things is easy.
Drawing a clear line between criminality and consensual sexual expression is much harder, writes @cgdav135 đ
buff.ly/aT0c5Wy
Labour Digital Rights Network retweeted
At conference I had a number of Labour members who were critical/concerned that I am active on here with @LabDRN.
Whether we like it or not, this platform is where a significant chunk of political discourse takes place. We should be part of the conversation.
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