Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺
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Advocate for privacy and broader human rights impacted by data. Love nothing better than a hike in the hills. Embracing Yutori ゆとり over on @yutoriwalking.bsky.social
Remember Trump’s Freedom 250 speech 😂 when he claimed the US had wiped out Iran’s military. He couldn’t wipe his own derrière.
Reuters@reuters.com · 2h agoExclusive: Iran warned Gulf states that any new US attack on its territory would trigger retaliation against critical energy infrastructure across the region, five sources told Reuters reut.rs/4w53aEF
Conservatives challenged for selecting a man who formed a far right group + was jailed for serious antisemitic harassment of former MP Luciana Berger.Badenoch says he has reformed sufficiently to have a local candidacy, but should not have a national platform www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/kemi-b...
Kemi Badenoch Says Former Neo-Nazi Standing For Tories Can Be A Councillor But Not An MP
The Conservative leader said she would not want to give Joshua Bonehill-Paine “a national platform”.
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Putin’s Human Safari Is the Dystopian Future of War. A grim new normal dawns in Ukraine. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Putin’s Human Safari Is the Dystopian Future of War
A grim new normal dawns in Ukraine.
theatlantic.com
#BeaconCRM "We store data in an encrypted state, but it is possible that the unauthorised third party responsible for this incident was able to decrypt it. " <ok. How are they able to decrypt it?
Dear @microsoft.com I’m using O365 only to support a specific client. I despise copilot and constantly seem to have to disable it. Even though I disable it, I note in MS Word I’m asked in some contexts if I want copilot to rewrite text I’ve chosen to write myself. No I do not. Copilot can F*ck off
When you challenge the BS inaccuracies of AI responses. "You are absolutely correct, and I apologize for the error in my previous response." Note the anthropomorphization.
UK police legal database breach exposes details of more than 100,000 officers and staff www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/se...?
UK police legal database breach exposes details of more than 100,000 officers and staff
The contact details of more than 100,000 police officers, police staff and criminal justice professionals have been exposed following a cyberattack on a legal database ...
computing.co.uk
Been calling this out since 2009. Engaged Apple & Google Android & OEMs, engaged with policy & regulatory bodies in Europe & the US, & yet here we are.
Zack Whittaker@zackwhittaker.com · yesterdayAn EFF investigation has found that some advertising SDKs enable location data collection by default. The findings aim to warn app developers that some of the third-party code they place in their apps may also collect their users’ location data when they grant permission to the app.
The High Court also heard RTC leader Ben Cullen had threatened physical violence to a resident removing flags, boasting that he was a “violent criminal” who had served 15 years in prison. Full report in today’s Clarion: oxfordclarion.uk/the-clarion-...
The Clarion, 4 August 2026
We're doing a rain dance. You? While we wait for some sorely needed water, here is some news, not all of it cheerful. Including less than savoury details about Raise the Colours; celebrating Oxford Ci...
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And dare we hope the @infocommission.bsky.social will investigate matters along with other appropriate bodies?
Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · yesterdayLeaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.
Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.
Ceuta is NOT part of Schengen - thank you @theatlantic.com for the write up www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The Far Right Is Distorting Ceuta
We’ve seen this before.
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Yet another data breach notice. So sick and tired of my data being compromised. This time FullFactUK’s processor, Beacon CRM has informed FF that it has experienced a cyber security incident involving unauthorised access to its systems. Beacon CRM ‘Voted #1 Charity CRM’. Very comforting 🤬🤬🤬
By me at this.weekinsecurity.com: A major online ads company that claims to serve 1.5 billion ads a day was hacked and began serving malware designed to steal a person's crypto. This is the latest perfect example why you should use an ad-blocker.
Online advertising giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are necessary
The hacked digital advertiser was caught serving malicious ads that allowed hackers to steal a victim's cryptocurrency.
this.weekinsecurity.com
Rather puts Grant Shapps being rejected as a Conservative candidate into perspective.
Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election
Joshua Bonehill-Paine, creator of satirical Crewkerne Gazette, has convictions including for harassing a Jewish MP
theguardian.com
BP profits more than double to $5.7bn in three months as Iran war sends oil prices soaring - "While BP banks enormous profits, millions of households are paying the price" #energycrisis #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/business/202...
BP profits more than double as Iran war sends oil prices soaring
Energy company’s $5.73bn quarterly profits come after Shell posted second highest quarterly earnings on record
theguardian.com
The UK is considering setting a new, dedicated set of rules for age assurance as digital verification services expand to further use cases including alcohol sales. The dedicated rules could take the form of a supplementary code for digital age verification www.biometricupdate.com/202608/uks-o...
UK’s OfDIA considering supplemental DVS code for age assurance | Biometric Update
UK considers dedicated digital age verification rules as OfDIA expands trusted identity framework into age assurance and other regulated sectors.
biometricupdate.com
This is just disgusting. The rise of bigotry & racist behaviour is like a cancer spreading across the UK. I abhor it. I thank the many nationalities who helped diagnose, operate & care for me when I had prostate cancer last year. I am ALIVE because of them 🙏
Jonathan Portes@jdportes.bsky.social · 2d ago"There's a real thing going on in the composition of the staff...does that not have to be looked at as well?" Nick Robinson, on Today, discussing this news.sky.com/story/nhs-st...
So, Anthropic’s CEO has expressed concern that new talent is coming to the firm for the money rather than the mission. So many corporates & start ups don’t put employees first, & have terrible benefits inc holiday/sickness. Little wonder folks want to financially protect themselves.
@statewatch.bsky.social ‘EU Commission still seeking controversial police agreement with Israel’ statewatch.org/news/2026/ju...
Exclusive: EU Commission still seeking controversial police agreement with Israel, despite warnings - Statewatch
The EU Commission has broken the law pursuing a police cooperation agreement with Israel that may itself breach international law.
statewatch.org
Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election. Convictions for assaulting police officer, burglary of a police station, malicious communications, anti-semitism, racially aggravated harassment, harrasing MPs. Tories chasing Reform vote.
Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election
Joshua Bonehill-Paine, creator of satirical Crewkerne Gazette, has convictions including for harassing a Jewish MP
theguardian.com
The picture on the front of Reform's policy is of HMS Ocean on the River Thames in 2012. It was sold by to the Brazilian navy in 2018. Turns out you can judge a book by its cover.
A post by @insights.priva.cat.web.brid.gy 'Please Stop Normalizing Meta’s Pervert Glasses' www.linkedin.com/pulse/please...
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EDPB Letter to the European Commission on US Supreme Court judgment Trump v. Slaughter. www.edpb.europa.eu/documents/ed...
Anyone else having issues accessing the Wayback Machine? Website Not Allowed “web.archive.org” is a restricted website.
Wow, I am positively surprised - Irish government has kicked a Microsoft procurement potentially worth €1 billion into touch amid a political debate about the nation's overreliance on US tech providers and a move to free and open source software www.theregister.com/public-secto...
Ireland stalls €1B Microsoft tender amid digital sovereignty questions
Government plans another Redmond-only procurement despite calls to consider European rivals
theregister.com
