2026-02-19 04:01:49
Highlights are as follows:
2026-02-19 01:57:25
privacy impact: logfiles of fuzzy-matching hash databases become long-term surveillance pipeline to retrospectively track whistleblower leak images, Snowden 2.0, etc; plus enabling censorship of arbitrary content.
WATCH THIS SPACE; ETA 2230H LONDON.
2026-02-16 20:35:20
There will be a voter demographic who will suddenly have to make a first time choice re: who to vote for, having also immersed themselves for the first time in social media over the previous 11 months.
The party that dominates TikTok will win their votes.
Currently, that’s ReformUK.
The status quo can’t continue, and without real change the pressure for an under?16 social media ban will only increase.
2026-02-16 15:54:21
Andy Burrows, Molly Rose, formerly NSPCC, wants it bigger, harder, stronger:
“…the Prime Minister must now go further. Sir Keir Starmer should commit to a new Online Safety Act that strengthens regulation and that makes clear that product safety and children’s wellbeing is the cost of doing business in the UK.”
2026-02-16 13:09:18
“We are determined to give children the childhood they deserve and to prepare them for the future at time of rapid technological change.”
2026-02-16 13:05:58
Like “legal but harmful” will we have a classification of data that is “potentially suicide-adjacent?”
“We will also strengthen protections for families facing the most devastating circumstances, by ensuring that vital data following a child’s death is preserved before it can be deleted, except in cases where online activity is clearly not relevant to the death”