Open Rights Group
@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

Bluesky will be age-gating content for UK users. It’s your privacy that pays.

The UK Online Safety Act has unleashed an unregulated market in age verification.

That we have to do these intrusive checks with countless providers for different platforms is dangerous.

https://www.theverge.com/news/704468/bluesky-age-verification-uk-online-safety-act

#onlinesafetyact #ageverification #ageassurance #privacy #dataprotection #data #biometrics #onlinesafety #ukpolitics #ukpol #bluesky
Keiron O'Shea 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
@redpenguin@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

I'm Keiron - I build AI stuff for the Welsh NHS and somehow convinced them to let me automate clinical coding.

Big fan of FOSS everything. When I'm not wrangling NHS data, you'll find me taking photos, making music, cooking, or getting wound up about politics.

Chat to me about terrible NHS IT systems or Welsh place names that are impossible to pronounce.

#HealthTech#NHS#FOSS#Photography#Music#Cooking#UKPolitics

#Introduction

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Open Rights Group
@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

Age verification is a goldrush for providers who don’t need certification.

The risks to the privacy and security of our sensitive personal data are high.

It didn’t need to be this way. Our digital rights should come first.

Our website explains what the UK Online Safety Act means for users and site owners with age verification ⬇️

https://www.ageverificationfacts.org.uk/

#onlinesafetyact #ageverification #ageassurance #privacy #dataprotection #data #biometrics #onlinesafety #ukpolitics #ukpol
Open Rights Group
@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

Bluesky will be age-gating content for UK users. It’s your privacy that pays.

The UK Online Safety Act has unleashed an unregulated market in age verification.

That we have to do these intrusive checks with countless providers for different platforms is dangerous.

https://www.theverge.com/news/704468/bluesky-age-verification-uk-online-safety-act

#onlinesafetyact #ageverification #ageassurance #privacy #dataprotection #data #biometrics #onlinesafety #ukpolitics #ukpol #bluesky
Open Rights Group
@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

The UK Online Safety Act could’ve required proper regulation of age verification providers and given us a choice.

We should be able to pick a provider with high privacy standards that can work for any and every platform. It could and should be interoperable.

Instead, we either accept what we’re given or lose access to chunks of the Internet.

#onlinesafetyact #ageverification #ageassurance #privacy #dataprotection #data #biometrics #onlinesafety #ukpolitics #ukpol
JuneSim63
@junesim63@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

I'm with the British Medical Association here. Genocide enabler Palantir should be nowhere near our NHS.

#Palantir#NHS#BMA#UKPolitics

Palantir accuses UK doctors of choosing ‘ideology over patient interest’ in NHS data row | Palantir | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/08/palantir-technology-uk-doctors-patient-nhs-data
JuneSim63
@junesim63@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

When this government does something good, we should shout about it. This new amendment to the Employment Rights Bill, currently going through Parliament, is one such.

#NDAs#WorkersRights#UKPolitics
UK bosses to be banned from using NDAs to cover up misconduct at work | Employment law | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jul/07/uk-bosses-to-be-banned-using-ndas-cover-up-misconduct-work?CMP=GTUK_email
Open Rights Group
@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Grindr is rolling out age verification for UK users to comply with the Online Safety Act.

The Act lets platforms choose the provider to do these checks and requires no certification for high privacy standards.

Users deserve to have their data handled securely.

https://www.attitude.co.uk/news/grindr-introduces-age-verification-for-uk-based-users-486823/

#ageverification #ageassurance#OnlineSafetyAct #privacy #ukpolitics #ukpol #grindr

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@fkamiah17@syzito.xyz  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

"A starting point, in my view, must be recognition that the Thatcher experiment failed ... "

Quite a statement from - checks notes - the Financial Times.

FT: "The roots of the British malaise lie in a sick economy"

https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.ft.com/content/8a4995cd-1f4e-4d39-a20f-880122a80853

#UKPolitics

Extract from the FT article in the main post Indubitably, a serious government would be devoting vast intellectual resources to the question of how to raise the growth rate. None has, including this one. A starting point, in my view, must be recognition that the Thatcher experiment failed: it did not transform the underlying performance of the economy for the better. This must now be admitted. Too much of the post-Thatcher performance was unsustainable. This was, in good part, because it was the fruit of a global credit bubble, in which the UK was a leading actor.
Extract from the FT article in the main post Indubitably, a serious government would be devoting vast intellectual resources to the question of how to raise the growth rate. None has, including this one. A starting point, in my view, must be recognition that the Thatcher experiment failed: it did not transform the underlying performance of the economy for the better. This must now be admitted. Too much of the post-Thatcher performance was unsustainable. This was, in good part, because it was the fruit of a global credit bubble, in which the UK was a leading actor.
Extract from the FT article in the main post Indubitably, a serious government would be devoting vast intellectual resources to the question of how to raise the growth rate. None has, including this one. A starting point, in my view, must be recognition that the Thatcher experiment failed: it did not transform the underlying performance of the economy for the better. This must now be admitted. Too much of the post-Thatcher performance was unsustainable. This was, in good part, because it was the fruit of a global credit bubble, in which the UK was a leading actor.