Jen Persson🌻

#ICYMI on Oct 7, the ICO published its executive summary from a compulsory #audit of the Department for Education with implications for over 21 million people in the National Pupil Database in England ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/… #education #privacy #ChildRights #GDPR

‘Microsoft confirmed that at least some of the demonstrated attacks affect the currently deployed version of PhotoDNA, though specific details were withheld for safety reasons.’

Unlike a fresh Act of Parliament, any regulations made under this power would be exposed to legal challenge. This risk is particularly acute in a policy area like online safety which raises complex questions about freedom of speech, privacy, discrimination and platform design.

Today, the House of Lords will continue debating the Crime and Policing Bill. The debate will cover a Government amendment to confer sweeping delegated powers to rewrite online safety legislation. See our briefing on the amendment published last week 🔽 hansardsociety.org.uk/publications/b…

Can’t believe they went with this title when they could have called it “The Tiger Who Came To Tee”

Confidential health records from UK BioBank project exposed online theguardian.com/science/2026/m… @uk_biobank statement ukbiobank.ac.uk/news/a-message… Article highlights potential for re-identification in datasets shared online by researchers #patientdata #healthdata #dataprotection

@ManchesterNO2ID With staff attitudes like that you don’t need malicious actors to even break into it, eh? “You have simply demonstrated why we tell participants not to do this.” No it’s actually your responsibility to make sure data are secure. Doesn’t seem to have a clue.

this was always going to happen. It is essentially impossible to secure data when it is accessible to huge number of researchers as leaks become inevitable. theguardian.com/science/2026/m…

@Cyberleagle @AlecMuffett Posts made me go and re-read the relevant chapters of these today, and led on to Klang, — Human Rights in the Digital Age (2016). Nothing wrong with interests, but too much going on that’s too interesting to keep up with (and read what I *should* be reading right now 😆).

@AlecMuffett Oh dear, I’ll have to try to widen my interests :-).

It's increasingly getting to the point whenever I see a notification that @Cyberleagle has posted, I say "Oh God, What Now?"

Claimant was coached in court through smart glasses: lawgazette.co.uk/news/claimant-…

@DanNeidle Is it fixed yet?

Obvious questions: - how long were Companies House's systems vulnerable? - can they identify the companies whose dashboards were accessed? And equally obvious bad consequences if in fact this has been exploited.

I see some weird things but this takes the biscuit. A vulnerability in the Companies House website, that let anyone view the private dashboard of any one of the five million registered companies, see directors' personal details. And modify them.

There's always a data side hustle technologyreview.com/2026/03/10/113…

@C4Ciaran First, they report to police, right? How many incidents have been reported and how many warrants, arrests, and prosecutions have there been? If not, why not?

He says he believes it’s an “epidemic” and the situation is so grave that his team prioritises the shops they shut down based on the grooming threat to children. They’re a sort of unofficial child protection service.

Vape shops — I can share some disturbing new claims about rogue vape shops and an ‘epidemic’ of grooming. Trading standards officers tell us of complaints children are being handed free vapes in return for ‘sexual favours.’🧵

@SwailesRuth @TravelodgeUK @premierinn Yes especially urgent change of policy needed, given the wide availability of tech to be able to ID any stranger using facial recognition, or find them on social media now, and claim you know them.

Hotel rooms booked for 6 nights for work, normally I'd use @TravelodgeUK but after reading about them in the news this week, I'm going with @premierinn as I know they have a lone traveller policy. I'm sure I won't be the only one. #SafetyMatters

Kinda curious about just how adult the weather can get 🤔

PAC chair Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown said the NAO’s update showed that delivery of the Shared Services Strategy remains “disappointingly flawed” civilserviceworld.com/professions/ar…

We're now closed and will be back at 8am tomorrow. 📻 Tax is changing. From April 2026, if your combined turnover from self-employment and property is over £50,000, you must keep digital records and send quarterly updates using recognised software. ⬇️ makingtaxdigital.campaign.gov.uk/?&utm_source=t…

“In addition, they warn that expanding age-verification systems represent not only a usability challenge but a structural shift in how identity becomes tied to online behavior.” Experience from the U.S. as age-gates expand online. #Socialmediaban #ID

@AndrewOrlowski @hack_daniels Since it’s already obligatory to have owner details in a database associated with your pet’s required microchip (dog or cat) in England and Wales, then an owner ‘licence’ duty, de facto exists already in registration, if not ‘permission’ that can be denied legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/468/…

@hack_daniels 24 hour Cones Hotline, but instead of taking them out, they rush round to put them in.

Cigarettes illegal, heroin compulsory and dogs on the ration. They've not got my vote yet but I'm warming to the sheer perversity of it all.

Government: "We want to keep everyone safe online!" Also government: "We're going to break VPNs and encryption."

Former Secretary of State for Education the Rt Hon @DamianHinds raises the gaps in Clause 4. "A massive change in the way we keep records on people in this country". Will @StephenMorganMP confirm if the Clause 4 single ID *is* to be the #NHS number or it's not? #SchoolsBill 7/n

MPs today #ageverification #SchoolsBill —understand it means *everyone* adult or child needing an accepted ID to check credential Q against— above X age Y/N? Show me an AV company that doesn’t commercially exploit users including children, using our info to develop their product