Swee Leng Harris

🚨 Brussels, today 🚨 Ursula! Fight for Europe – not for Trump’s tech bros.

Today, as the EU caves to pressure from Trump & Big Tech, campaigners in Brussels call on @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu to stand up for Europe and enforce our digital laws ✊#StandUpUrusla

Fascinating. Microsoft emailed me to say it was raising the price of Microsoft 365, but when i went to cancel it offered me me the old price — without all the AI bullshit.

It’s forcing AI on everyone and making them pay more for it, then only telling them they don’t have to if they try to cancel.

Have you heard of the Meta Pixel? It's a little widget that can be embedded in any website to send data about your browsing back to Meta

Unless you have a specific browser plug-in, you'll never know it's there, but it helps Meta to know A LOT about you

Starmer’s deep regret for ‘island of strangers’ speech Even as he was reading out the words declaring that Britain was in danger of becoming an “island of strangers”, Keir Starmer felt uncomfortable. He almos...

“the ‘strangers’ line was wrong – it wasn’t what he believes, it’s just not the sort of thing he would say.”

An odd position to hold about a thing you *literally* said.

And then sent people out for days to defend you saying.

The Dissociative PM.

observer.co.uk/news/politic...

If you feel like the 'token' woman, Black person, person with a disability… remember - it’s not a reflection of who you are, but of your environment.

Being the only woman in a workplace of 100 men doesn’t diminish your worth. You’ve earned your place, and you belong there.

This relevant petition has 100,000+ signatures & will be debated in Parliament at the beginning of June. I urge those in the UK to write to their MPs ahead of this debate, to ask that they attend & to voice your support: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

#AbortionRights #UKAbortionRights

Meta: this time it’s personal Take 2 mins to write to Meta now!

Over 10,000 people have emailed Meta asking them to stop using their personal data 👀

Will you join them?
action.goodlawproject.org/meta-this-ti...

With a politically-controlled central medical record they could ask the Government who would be obliged to hand the data over bsky.app/profile/pete...

Thought this was about the US.

Nope.

Senior faith leaders urge Starmer to tone down migration rhetoric Exclusive: Christian, Muslim and Jewish representatives write to prime minister after ‘island of strangers’ speech

What an insane position to have gotten himself into www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Amazing news that the Home Office has apparently worked out how to bring hundreds of thousands of native UK workers into the care industry

I cannot state this strongly enough: If you are upset about the way this government is treating trans people and immigrants, and you have a Labour MP, for God sake write to them.

My Dad died 15 months ago & spent last year of his life in a London nursing home. He was bed bound, blind, deaf, with dementia and various health issues.

Almost all his carers & nurses were non UK born and they were all brilliant. They treated my mother like family (and still do to this day) 1/3

gif of man removing latex mask of Keir Starmer, Mission: Impossible style, to reveal Nigel Farage.

how do I make this?

Tony Blair calls for radical reset of climate change policies in major intervention Former PM warns climate policy has become disconnected from ‘political, public, and economic reality’ and claims COP is struggling to ‘deliver change at the speed required’

The same Tony Blair has been paid to advise oil rich autocratic states including Azerbaijan, UAE and Kazakhstan

This should be included in *every* story about his net zero comments

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

The Tory Leader tried to portray herself as a champion of women, but I paid tribute to all who have worked to protect single-sex spaces and the dignity of trans people.

The judgement clarifies that single sex spaces can refuse trans women, I asked if they were obliged to do so.

An open letter to the Equality and Human Rights Commission from the Culture Sector, in solidarity with Trans, Nonbinary and Intersex communities. Sign your name here: tinyurl.com/ehrcletter Please share widely, and if you are not able to sign for your organisation, please share with someone who can

Meta: this time it’s personal Take 2 mins to write to Meta now!

The EU have fined Meta €200 million for forcing users to take personalised ads OR pay a subscription fee, an unfair choice.

We're campaigning for a 3rd way. And you can take 2 mins to tell Meta to stop sending you targeted ads 👇
action.goodlawproject.org/meta-this-ti...

Today, we fined Apple €500 million & Meta €200 million for breaching the Digital Markets Act.

Apple restricts developers from steering consumers to offers outside the App store.

Meta doesn't let users choose a service that uses less personal data.

These are the first DMA fines.

europa.eu/!9RDQmk

Thoughtful post colonial analysis of recent judicial decisions on trans rights, contrasting the UK Supreme Court reasoning with the Court of Justice of the EU. Love the explanation of data protection as the principle that “a person should be empowered to be the primary author of their own life”.

The Gist: Trans rights are Data rights A UK court has made a decision defining genders which has put it at odds with a less noticed, more important, decision from the CJEU. This is the Gist.

New Gist: Trans rights are Data rights

An unusually long Gist on the data protection implications of the UK Supreme Court's decision to define what is the meaning of the word 'woman' in a single UK Act.

(Also: the CJEU, colonialism, Joyce's Ulysses and Sinn Féin)

www.thegist.ie/the-gist-tra...

This is very good and worth reading in full

📢 You have the right to object to targeted ads on Instagram and Facebook.

@sweeleng.bsky.social , Tech Policy Consultant, tells you how in less than 40 seconds using this simple tool 👇
action.goodlawproject.org/meta-this-ti...

An email from Facebook to me saying "Thank you for contacting us. Our specialist team is investigating your request, which has presented some complex issues that we're carefully considering. Due to the complexity of the investigation, this process may take up to another two months, as permitted under the GDPR. We take your request seriously, and we appreciate your understanding and patience. Thanks, Privacy Operations"

Submitted a request to use my right to object to Meta using personal data about me for direct marketing following Tanya O'Carrol's recent court victory and apparently it presents some "complex issues" that may take up to another 2 months

Worried about our reliance on the #cloud? Yeah me too, but not because of #privacy or #surveillance:

My report for the critical infra lab about the deeper harms of cloudification of internet governance is out!

www.criticalinfralab.net/wp-content/u...

The Supreme Court ignored trans voices. I’m ashamed of what our law has become | Good Law Project The Supreme Court’s decision to exclude trans voices has harmed trans people – and harmed the fairness of their ruling.

I've put on my hob nailed boots and given the Supreme Court decision the kicking it deserves. goodlaw.social/vd3a

I've been reflecting some more overnight on the For Some Women Scotland case. 🧵

Webinar: Taking on Meta – What next for our data? Join us for a discussion about the right to object to your personal data being collected and processed for targeted advertising, aka stalker ads.

TODAY @6PM BST ⏰

Join our webinar on Big Tech's use of personal data for targeted advertising.

Our expert panel discuss what's next for digital rights, now that Meta has confirmed @tanyaocarroll.bsky.social's right to opt-out of stalker ads.

Register Now ⬇️

www.openrightsgroup.org/events/webin...

One mother’s win over Meta will change social media for everyone Britons will be able to opt out of targeted advertising after Tanya O’Carroll’s David-and-Goliath battle with Meta

Case closed! 🤩💥🚀. In settling my case, Meta has agreed to stop processing my personal data for direct marketing purposes. In non-legalese, that means I will no longer be shown surveillance-ads on Facebook. www.thetimes.com/article/ae70...