Guy who makes the podiums for Downing Street announcements here, can’t believe that Burnham is already putting people out of jobs

We’re hiring for the coolest job in tech campaigning - Co-Executive Director at @foxglovelegal.bsky.social! jobs.theguardian.com/job/10151645...

Co-Executive Director (Maternity Cover) - UK-based, ideally London. Remote with international travel (approx. 20%). job with Foxglove | 10151645

Seeking an experienced Exec Director with co-responsibility for our strategy, impact, advocacy, operations, fundraising and public facing work.

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🚨 NEWS: The European Commission finds addictive design of Instagram & Facebook in breach of the Digital Services Act "Meta did not adequately assess the risks of its addictive design on the physical and mental wellbeing of users, including minors and vulnerable adults" ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Commission preliminarily finds the addictive design of Instagram and Facebook in breach of the Digital Services Act

Today, the European Commission preliminarily found Meta in breach of the Digital Services Act for the addictive design of Instagram and Facebook.

ec.europa.eu

ICYMI: Watch Foxglove's @marthadark.bsky.social explain how Palantir dug their way into the UK's health service - and why they shouldn't be there at all:

Daniel Garrahan @dangarrahan.bsky.social · 4w ago

Palantir is one of the world's most controversial technology companies. This @financialtimes.com film explores how it turns raw data into power - corporate power, government power and military power youtu.be/kJ5XRl7PWxM?...

Another headline "benefit" of Palantir's NHS contract is looking "increasingly flimsy", according to the @financialtimes.com. A claimed "15% reduction in discharge delays" may be a product of a "litany of errors" in record-keeping, according to at least 4 NHS trusts.: www.ft.com/content/977a...

They're right. As they say: Palantir is a threat to public trust in healthcare, there are lots of UK alternatives and Palantir's stats on their kit aren't quite right. It's time to kick them out. Join @foxglovelegal.bsky.social & partners in the: No Palantir in Our NHS campaign. nopalantir.org.uk

No Palantir in our NHS

Add your name now to call for US data company Palantir to be dropped from the NHS – and for the future of health data to keep faith with patient trust.

nopalantir.org.uk

A second government committee (Health and Social Care Committee) is now calling on gov to exercise the break clause on the NHS Federated Data Platform contract with spy-tech firm Palantir. committees.parliament.uk/publications...

BREAKING: a second select committee has called on the government to trigger the break clause in the NHS contract with Palantir. committees.parliament.uk/committee/81...

Drop Palantir’s Federated Data Platform and look for alternative, MPs tell Health Minister - Committees - UK Parliament

MPs have urged the government to cut ties with Palantir and the Federated Data Platform (FDP), and to begin looking for an alternative.

committees.parliament.uk

A quarter of terror attacks in Britain over the past decade have targeted Muslims, but some have gone largely unnoticed because of delays formally declaring them terrorism Most jihadist attacks, by contrast, have been declared within hours of taking place inews.co.uk/news/uk-terr...

The UK terror attacks you don't hear about - and how they go under the radar

Some incidents are not being confirmed as terrorism for up to nine months, leaving the public unaware about the threat on British streets

inews.co.uk

Amazing work from @tmsqrll.bsky.social @dncampbell.bsky.social & team @foxglovelegal.bsky.social this week. The NHS says its web page about the benefits of Palantir's NHS kit.. doesn't actually prove any benefits have been delivered to the NHS. Thank god £380mill of taxpayer money was spent on it...

Foxglove Legal@foxglovelegal.bsky.social · last mo.

NHS admits the 'Uptake and Benefits' page for the Federated Data Platform... does not in fact prove Palantir's kit has delivered any benefits to the NHS. We've written to Health Sec James Murray asking for an explanation. Great reporting from @laurahughesft.bsky.social: www.ft.com/content/9348...

NHS admits the 'Uptake and Benefits' page for the Federated Data Platform... does not in fact prove Palantir's kit has delivered any benefits to the NHS. We've written to Health Sec James Murray asking for an explanation. Great reporting from @laurahughesft.bsky.social: www.ft.com/content/9348...

Britain will use AI to assess ages of asylum seekers in a world-first, with other countries likely to follow suit But our investigation, based on a leaked report and our own algorithmic audit, finds the technology is deeply unreliable

Asylum by Algorithm

The UK has turned to AI to determine the age of asylum seekers, and other countries are likely to follow suit. Our investigation finds the technology is deeply unreliable.

lighthousereports.com

Two ex-scientific advisors to the Home Office have spoken out for the first time, saying they weren't consulted on the plans & have grave doubts Meanwhile an open letter to the Home Office by @fox-glove.bsky.social, @hrw.org & more calls for a halt to the rollout

Foxglove, Human Rights Watch and 60 other organisations write open letter to Government condemning Home Office border tool aimed at asylum-seeking children

This open letter has been prepared by Foxglove and Human Rights Watch. A full list of signatories can be found at the bottom of the page.

foxglove.org.uk

NEW: @foxglovelegal.bsky.social's investigation into the effectiveness of Palantir's kit for the NHS has been published in the @financialtimes.com today! www.ft.com/content/a3e9...

Palantir NHS claims rely on just a few hospitals

Data shows some trusts have delivered fewer operations since adopting the US company’s technology

ft.com

Our investigation at @foxglovelegal.bsky.social found that nearly a third of NHS hospitals have delivered *fewer* operations since adopting Palantir’s Federated Data Platform, indicating its claimed benefits should come with a serious health warning. Exclusive in the FT. www.ft.com/content/a3e9...

Palantir NHS claims rely on just a few hospitals

Data shows some trusts have delivered fewer operations since adopting the US company’s technology

ft.com

3 weeks ago Ofcom put out a celebratory press release that X the everything app had agreed to try to follow the law. Right now if you search “Belfast” on X the everything app, the very top result is an uncensored video of an attempted beheading + call for mass deportation of “Africans”.

"X has finally pinky sworn that it will really try to follow the law about terrorist content" doesn't strike me as a stonking victory in the online harms arena www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

X to block UK access to accounts linked to terrorist groups in Ofcom agreement

Media regulator announces commitments by Elon Musk’s platform to crack down on terrorist and hate content

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Google have underestimated their planned data centres’ impact on the U.K. carbon budget by a factor of five. Thanks @aishadown.bsky.social for covering this @foxglovelegal.bsky.social find which has been driving me slightly insane ever since I noticed it. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Google developers significantly misstate carbon emissions of proposed UK datacentres

Emissions understated by factor of five in Essex plans for tech giant, while Greystoke’s Lincolnshire plans show similar error

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truly devastating for the thousands of folks who were due to travel (or had already travelled) to Zambia for the world’s largest digital human rights conference.

RightsCon@rightscon.org · 3mo ago

It is with heavy hearts that we share: RightsCon will not proceed in Zambia or online.

One for the 'you couldn't make it up' pile: South Africa's govt has had to withdraw its draft AI Policy after it was found to include fictitious AI-generated citations apanews.net/south-africa...

South Africa withdraws AI policy after fictitious sources found

South Africa withdraws draft AI policy after investigations reveal the document contains fictitious academic sources.

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Months of investigative work at @foxglovelegal.bsky.social, now covered in the Guardian, have led me to one inexorable conclusion: the government hasn’t a bloody clue what it’s doing about data centre carbon emissions. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

UK departments at odds over energy demands of AI datacentres

Discrepancy in forecasts raises questions over government planning for net zero

theguardian.com

After we @foxglovelegal.bsky.social worked with Carbon Brief to show the government’s data centres emissions projections were a fantasy, government responded by… deleting the projections and replacing them with a note that they are under “routine review”. So much for transparency.

seemingly massive turnout at the London march against the far right today. feels good to see so many people in this country still oppose fascism

Foxglove's @tmsqrll.bsky.social: "In approving this monstrous data centre, the council failed to properly weigh the enormous harms to the environment of the sheer quantities of electricity this development will use [and] credulously accepted the developer’s incorrect figures"

Foxglove Legal@foxglovelegal.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Press release: English council approves data centre with one million tonnes annual climate pollution www.foxglove.org.uk/2026/03/11/p...

Well the council approved the data centre unanimously. They seemed compelled by the argument that it will bring economic growth and jobs, and that if it’s not built here it will be somewhere else. It’s deeply disappointing they ignored the impacts it will have on the climate.

Tim Squirrell@tmsqrll.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Speaking in opposition to this 1GW data centre at a planning committee today. So many things wrong with how they’re treating environmental impacts, but one especially sticks in the craw. Quick thread. www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Speaking in opposition to this 1GW data centre at a planning committee today. So many things wrong with how they’re treating environmental impacts, but one especially sticks in the craw. Quick thread. www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

AI data centre to match carbon footprint of BA flights

Planning documents for a £10 billion data centre project in Lincolnshire reveal its annual emissions will reach one million tonnes of carbon dioxide

thetimes.com

get in losers, we’re doing the satanic panic again complete with credulous coverage that fails to ask the basic question of whether the people using ChatGPT for “therapy” are “recovering” real memories of satanic ritual abuse. sorry but this is terrible reporting www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

ChatGPT driving rise in reports of ‘satanic’ organised ritual abuse, UK experts say

Exclusive: ‘Witchcraft, spirit possession and spiritual abuse’ offending typified by sexual abuse, violence and neglect

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Great description from @foxglovelegal.bsky.social here (if I do say so myself), "inviting in foxes to consult on the future of the henhouse" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Treasury calls in Blair thinktank to advise on using AI across public services

Unimpressed tech equity campaigners compare move to ‘inviting in foxes to consult on the future of the henhouse’

theguardian.com

UKTV Gold Fascism: neofascist aesthetics but for an audience of 70-something ex-pats living in Spain

Sharon 🪳🌹@sharonk.bsky.social · 6mo ago

> Rupert Lowe's Restore Britain talking about national restoration > using the Australian band AC/DC's Thunderstuck come on man there had to be at least one British rock band you could have opted for instead

Aside from anything else in this mess, it's galling to hear the co-founder of Childnet say "well we're an online safety organisation, *of course* we take money from Big Tech". That's not a given! You don't have to do that! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

‘It felt hypocritical’: child internet safety campaign accused of censoring teenagers’ speeches

Exclusive: Childnet, a UK charity part-funded by US tech firms, edited out warnings by two young speakers at its 2024 Safer Internet Day event

theguardian.com