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Paul Bernal

@paulbernal.bsky.social

Professor of IT Law at UEA Law School. Geek. Privacy, Politics. Wolves. Irish and British.

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I think you missed out an β€˜only’ in that statement.

04.03.2026 09:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I mean, frankly, no-one should be using TikTok for DMs anyway.

04.03.2026 08:58 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

Yup

04.03.2026 08:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Here it’s still Chinese-owned

04.03.2026 08:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just doing some proofing. Thank goodness for good copy editors! It’s great having your own mistakes found in time…

04.03.2026 08:40 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Feels that way a bit

04.03.2026 08:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Quite. Here it’s still the Chinese.

04.03.2026 08:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Quite. Here it’s still the Chinese.

04.03.2026 08:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Police have complained that it is difficult to monitor what people are doing in their homes due to the controversial privacy tech known as "curtains"

04.03.2026 08:30 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Bluesky is a bit clunky for me this morning. Hmm…

04.03.2026 08:21 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

That’s my guess

04.03.2026 08:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We need end-to-end encryption more than ever now, with a rogue government in the US in league with the worst of the techbros, with war in the Middle East, and with extremists, racists and misogynists feeling their power.

04.03.2026 08:15 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

And let hackers access your bank account.

04.03.2026 08:10 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Remember, TikTok is Chinese-owned. End-to-end encryption stops the platform itself reading your DMs. Of course TikTok’s owners want to read your DMs.

04.03.2026 08:12 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

So I’ve seen

04.03.2026 08:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The tech isn’t controversial

04.03.2026 08:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Basically, the BBC are saying it’s good to let the Chinese government read your DMs

04.03.2026 08:08 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, I just found it. Sigh

04.03.2026 08:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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No, BBC, end-to-end encryption isn’t ’controversial privacy tech’, it’s industry standard protection

04.03.2026 07:52 β€” πŸ‘ 137    πŸ” 39    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 5

Yes, the opposite is true. Who is saying this?

04.03.2026 07:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

And Slot’s interview… how entitled can you get?

03.03.2026 23:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

João Gomes was a giant tonight. Ladislav Krejčí too. And Tolu and Rodrigo perfect subs.

03.03.2026 22:55 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Most Reform members believe non-white UK citizens born abroad should be forced or encouraged to leave, poll finds Nigel Farage’s attempts to appeal to centre-ground voters may cause tension in his party, according to Hope Not Hate

More than half of Reform UK members believe non-white British citizens born abroad should be deported or encouraged to leave.

No different to the old BNP or National Front voters.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

03.03.2026 22:51 β€” πŸ‘ 764    πŸ” 237    πŸ’¬ 80    πŸ“Œ 18

He did not in fact win on tariffs.

03.03.2026 20:48 β€” πŸ‘ 133    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1

Nice of BlueSky to go down just when I wanted to celebrate beating Liverpool!

03.03.2026 22:49 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh yes

03.03.2026 22:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I did say… πŸ˜€

03.03.2026 22:45 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

The extent to which every single one of these panics features people being shown all the previous ones – video games, TV, radio, novels – and insisting that no, no this time is *actually* different (even though the others said that too) is really approaching the Arrested Development meme levels

03.03.2026 19:45 β€” πŸ‘ 137    πŸ” 38    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 0
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The @ipso.co.uk ruling of Telegraph’s preposterous β€œWe earn Β£345k but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays”, reveals the article to have been a fabrication. There is no such family as Al, Alexandra, Ali, Harry and Barry Moy. Glad to have acted as lead complainant on this.

03.03.2026 19:40 β€” πŸ‘ 369    πŸ” 115    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 14

They wouldn’t.

03.03.2026 19:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0