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"Surveillance is not safety." 🔒View quoted post on X
Laws requiring device scanning and age verification turn the web into a permission-based system. @roxananasoi of @Logos_network breaks down why grassroots, privacy-first tools are the only way forward.
Find the full piece in the thread below 👇
We can talk about ethics and how another corporation claimed scientific discovery without crediting the years of work of the scientific community. This won't be the first nor the last time it happens.View quoted post on X
The reality is you need private local compute at the service of science. Few are making progress in this regard, and one such is the Foresight Institute's physical AI hubs in SF and Berlin.
To launch one of these initiatives in places like the UK, for example, to support scientific discovery by taking advantage of AI capabilities, you're looking at an initial cost of tens of millions GBP. There is little incentive to support this by private capital that wants to achieve their multi-x's returns on IPO, unless there's ideology alignment.
Very excited to see the Museum of Civil Liberties live.View quoted post on X
The entry under Hall II - the Surveillance State, Nov 29 2016 documents the Investigatory Powers Act. This act became law and Britain consolidated interception, device hacking, and bulk data collection powers.
Surveillance of private communication has been a permanent legal capability here ever since. Funny because in 2013, Edward Snowden's documents show GCHQ copying traffic straight off the transatlantic cables.
But Britain could actually fill a hall of its own. 👁️
1985: Parliament passes the first British law governing phone tapping, a year after the European Court of Human Rights found the practice had no legal basis. Here begins the pattern of state acting first and legislating when caught.
2000: the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act arrives to put surveillance on a statutory footing. Within a few years councils are using its powers to check school catchment claims and dog fouling.
1999 to 2024: the Post Office prosecutes hundreds of sub-postmasters on evidence from faulty software, and the courts take two decades to catch up. Finally, Parliament passes a law to quash those convictions in bulk.
February 2025: Apple switches its strongest iCloud protection off for British customers, as a result of access pressure from Home Office, under the 2016 Act.
2026: a policing white paper promises facial recognition for every force in England and Wales, and by August the cameras are scanning passengers on the Underground.
Note that Digital ID scheme met a petition of 3M signatures and has now been parked since July, but the clock is ticking.
What other British moments could be documented in the museum? Drop a comment 👇
@GreatBritishTT @RollingHedge
Twelve months of the Logos London circle went into one question: what actually stands in the way of British civil society?
The answer is now live at 👉 gapmap.uk
204 ranked gaps.
115 resources.
11 outcomes.
Build the parallel.
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