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Tech policy wonk for hire. Policy Fellow @Coadec. Does https://t.co/TlXD201M09. WP core-privacy & cross-CMS privacy teams. Personal tweets. IANAL FFS. An humble FFS.
Apr 24, 2018 17 tweets 3 min read
Watching @UKHouseofLords Comms committee hearing on internet regulation - tweetings may follow.
parliament.uk/business/commi… There is no means of independently auditing social media companies' self-regulation - co-regulation may be the way forward. Focus tends to be quantitative (how many offensive posts taken down) than qualitative (how many takedown requests were accurate.)
Jan 27, 2018 9 tweets 3 min read
This is a thread for those of you who say coders and developers should take no role in politics. Those of you who watched my #WCLDN talk last year already heard this story. You can hear it again.

This was Rene Carmille, and that is a punch card. Image of Rene Carmille Rene Carmille was the comptroller general of the French army. He eventually headed up the French census. Census data - innocuous, straightforward facts about people - was tabulated on IBM punch cards. Then the Nazis came.