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One of the most complex, and divisive, issues in modern politics is making a return under this government; ID cards. Advocates describe it as a potential way to improve public services, tackle illegal migration and modernise the state, but it remains intensely controversial, due to significant concerns over privacy, data security and equality. To discuss those issues host Alain Tolhurst is joined by Jake Richards, Labour MP for Rother Valley, Kirsty Innes, director of technology at the think tank Labour Together, Rebecca Vincent, interim director at the campaign group Big Brother Watch, and James Baker, campaigns manager at the Open Rights Group. To sign up for our newsletters click herePresented by Alain Tolhurst, produced by Nick Hilton and edited by Ewan Cameron for Podot

Alex Andreou and Naomi Smith welcome special guest founder of Scientists for EU and chair of European Movement UK, Mike Galsworthy to discuss whether it is better to unite pro-European forces behind one mission or let them be a lively, symbiotic ecosystem. Plus a deepdive into the UK's science and technology strategy. Join the US in deregulating? Or join Europe and actively drain science capacity from it? And of course 'Wokey Dokey' and 'Grin And Share It'. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** “As a campaigning organisation, you have to go to where people are - the spaces that they occupy, the informational areas that they're in, and in person. You have to meet them where they are both physically and in terms of opinion, whether ministers or voters.” “What we are talking about is not a political party winning, but rather how do you move all of UK society in the same direction. At each and every level [rejoining the EU] has to be made relevant to each and every community - personally, regionally, demographically.” “The gov't knows where the public is. The polling has been very clear for some time. The single most influential group that needs to step up right now is business - every size, every industry, every location. They need to step and push gov't towards EU alignment during this critical period in the run up to the [Starmer - von der Leyen] summit.”  “There is a real opportunity right now, given the way Trump is behaving, for a ‘brain drain' from the States and diversion of talent that would usually flow to the States, especially from Global South countries worried about the racism and the barriers to funding. The UK and Europe should get together to move on this.” “With the falling apart of USAID, the soft power opportunity there, through science and health security, is huge. This is where both the UK and the EU are strong and trusted.” “Population decline is an existential threat to mature Western economies and soon they will find that they are actually in competition for immigration. The first such country to realise this, will reap huge benefits.” CALLS TO ACTION LINKS: Click here to ask your MP to read Best for Britain's Growth Report. Sign up for European Movement here. Support the Open Rights Group here. Grin and Share It about funding underprivileged musicians by selling a stradivarius here. Ida Haendel playing Brahms Violin Concerto in D Major, Op.77 on a rare stradivarius. Full interview with Sir John Curtice on Rejoin prospects for the i here. Mike's Byline Networks is here. Our bookshop featuring many of the books we have featured can be found at uk.bookshop.org/shop/quietriot. Kick your X habit, finally, by using one of three Quiet Riot Bluesky Starter Packs. With one click, it will hook you up with, among many good accounts, Alex, Naomi, and Kenny. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** With Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell – in cahoots with Sandstone Global. Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com. Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. What Tech would I spend my £2000 on: This episode took inspiration from episode 134 of the Linux Lads podcast Pilet £295 + Pi 5 (16GB) 114.90 = £409.90 Juno Tab 3 £631.75 FairPhone 5 £599 Donations (£89.83 each): Mastodon.me.uk Open Rights Group archive.org https://archive.org/donate HPR Hosting Provide feedback on this episode.

Tony Stower is an experienced public servant and is currently Principal, Online Safety Policy at Ofcom.Maeve Walsh is a policy and government relations consultant with expertise in digital and health policy. A former civil servant with 17 years' experience in Whitehall, she has been an Associate with Carnegie UK since 2018 and is an advocate for legislation to prevent online harms.Ruth Smeeth (Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent) is a British Labour Party politician who was the MP for Stoke-on-Trent North from 2015 until 2019. Since 2022 she has been a member of the House of Lords. In June 2020, she became chief executive of Index on Censorship, an organisation which campaigns for freedom of speech.Edina Harbinja is Reader in Media/Privacy Law at Aston University. Her principal areas of research and teaching are related to the legal issues surrounding the internet and emerging technologies. She is a member of the Advisory Council at Open Rights Group, which aims to protect the digital rights of people in the UK, including privacy and free speech online.

Andrew Pierce Speaks to Jim Killick of privacy organisation Open Rights Group about the problems with the Government's revised Online Safety Bill, and to Will Moy,  CEO of Full Fact, about why Prime Ministers need to watch what they say. Plus, the one thing you need to do to keep your skin looking youthful! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

1. The Independent Human Rights Act Review by the UK Government (link).2. Irish DPC's Children Front and Centre Fundamentals for a Child-oriented Approach to Data Processing, December 2021 (link).3. Austrian DPA says that The Use of Google Analytics violates the "Schrems II" decision (link). Some facts about Google Analytics data privacy (link).4. EDPS research report on Government access to data in third countries including China, India and Russia, November 2021 (link).5. EDPS Decision on the retention by Europol of datasets lacking Data Subject Categorisation (link).6. EDPB on the law enforcement directive (LED) (link).7. European Parliament's research paper on Rethinking biometrics in the era of artificial intelligence (link).8. Shinigami Eyes banned in Norway (link).9. Chinese Internet Information Service Algorithm Recommendation Management Regulations (link).10. Open Rights Group's Adtech Challenge in Killock and Veale & Ors v Information Commissioner (GI/113/2021 and ors) (link).11. French CNIL fines Google €150M and Facebook €60M for making refusing cookies not as easy as accepting them (link).12. Meta's Threat Report on the Surveillance-for-Hire Industry (link).

Bugs Harpley and John Buckman have a true success story. They are the power couple behind Decent Espresso , over the years, John has founded multiple companies including Magnatune online music service supporting independent musicians get their revenue share, BookMooch: An online community for exchanging used books. John is also a Member of the Advisory Council for the Open Rights Group and he is the former Chairman of the Board of the Electronic Frontier Foundatin (EFF) We chat about their love for Hong Kong, their choice to live in Tsuen Wan, how they wouldn't trade the Hong Kong life they have now for anything else back home and the challenges of living in a very local area of Hong Kong without speaking much Cantonese.    Join us on Patreon for weekly bonus eps every Thursday.  https://www.patreon.com/hohopod Leave us a review: (please!) https://www.ratethispodcast.com/hohohkpod Follow Mohammed on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theothermohammed/ Follow Vivek on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/funnyvivek/

Cory Doctorow is a Canadian-British citizen of Eastern European Jewish descent and, frankly, it is no less difficult to grasp his vast interests and points of expertise than his family roots. After attending four universities without obtaining a degree, Cory's career started with co-founding free software P2P company called OpenCola and selling it to the Open Text Corporation after four years. Later Doctorow relocated  to London and worked as European Affairs Coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation helping to establish the Open Rights Group, before leaving the EFF to pursue both fiction and non-fiction writing full-time.  He is also an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organization, using some of their licences for his books. Some common themes of his work include digital rights management, file sharing, and post-scarcity economics. Academically, he was named the 2006–2007 Canadian Fulbright Chair for Public Diplomacy at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy, and in 2009, Doctorow became the first Independent Studies Scholar in Virtual Residence at the University of Waterloo in Ontario. Doctorow is also a Visiting Professor at the Open University in the United Kingdom. In 2012 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from The Open University. If you want to find out how data surveillance, AI, and monopolization can be connected to drug policy, be sure to tune in to this episode! Blog: www.pluralistic.net Books: www.craphound.com/shop Podcast: www.craphound.com/podcast   Newsletter: https://mail.flarn.com/mailman/listinfo/plura-list/Medium: https://doctorow.medium.com/RSS: https://pluralistic.net/feed/Twitter: https://twitter.com/doctorow  Drugs without the hot air: Making Sense of Legal and Illegal Drugs - without the hot air “Nutsack”Harm reductionSelective enforcementElectronic frontier foundationAssociation for Computing MachineryStatement on principles for the development and deployment of equitable, private, and secure remote test administration systems.Bruce AlexanderDanah BoydNetwork effectSwitching Costs  ★ Support this podcast ★

In questo episodio della nuova stagione di Panetta Tech News, iniziamo con un Panetta Talk. Ospite di Vincenzo Tiani è Mariano Delli Santi, Legal e Policy Officer di Open Rights Group. Mariano ci ha illustrato le novità che il governo inglese vorrebbe introdurre per modificare la normativa privacy inglese, oggi di fatto combaciante con il GDPR, per favorire la circolazione dei dati personali.Trovate più informazioni qui:1. Vincenzo Tiani su Twitter: https://twitter.com/vincenzotiani2. Mariano su Twitter: https://twitter.com/ds_m4riano 3. I tweet di Mariano sul tema: https://twitter.com/ds_m4riano/status...4. La consultazione del governo inglese: https://www.gov.uk/government/consult...5. Il nostro sito: https://www.Panetta.net6. Guarda questo episodio su YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhmIr386v_E7. Il nostro canale YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdPxjwgwge6S0vCv-CNW-SQ

Richard Tice starts the show, talking about the latest with the track and trace app. Jim Killock from the Open Rights Group speaks to Mike about the Matt Hancock CCTV and how devices have been seized from two houses. Lewis MacLeod gives Mike his best impression. Angela Levin and Mike discuss the Duke and Duchess of Netflix and finally the Perrior Awards with Izzy Rowland. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Andrew Pierce talks to Professor Robert Dingwall on why the Government needs to focus on messaging to make people less fearful as ‘Freedom Day' looms, and speaks to privacy campaigner Jim Killock of Open Rights Group on why racist abuse directed at black players is a problem for the government, not social networks. Plus, Mary Ann Sieghart on why sexism should be treated the way as racism. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Heather Burns of the Open Rights Group joins the podcast to explain how proposed legislation would outlaw all encrypted communications in the UK. The team also discusses the latest developments in Windows 11, TikTok's increasing encroachment into the real world and some colourful new labels about to appear in supermarkets. Our Hot Hardware candidate is the Eero 6, Amazon's easy-to-use Wi-Fi 6 mesh system.

In this episode, I speak with Cory Doctorow, a Canadian-British blogger, science fiction author, activist, and journalist, whose recent books include "Attack Surface" and "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism", a work of nonfiction that explores conspiracies and monopolies. A special consultant to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Cory is also a MIT Media Lab Research Affiliate and co-founder of the UK-based Open Rights Group, and serves as a visiting professor of computer science at the Open University, and a visiting professor of practice at the University of North Carolina's School of Library and Information Science. In this conversation we dissect the murky world of monopolies, technology and surveillance capitalism, and how these powers are shaping our economic and civic possibilities.

Andrew Pierce talks to Jim Killock, executive director of Open Rights Group, about whether 'vaccine passports' to access pubs and restaurants could pose a chilling privacy risk, and speaks to award-winning Daily Mail crime writer Stephen Wright about the latest twist in the disastrous VIP child abuse inquiry. Plus, is your child one of thousands sitting on up to £400m in lost savings? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Questions of content moderation and intermediary liability have seeped into just about everything these days, and not just with regards to Section 230 but also a whole host of laws in the US and around the world. A lot of people seem to think that a long list of societal and political failings can be rectified by regulating content online, and don't talk about how these problems run deeper and have been around for a long time. One person who doesn't fall into this trap is Heather Burns from the Open Rights Group, and she joins Mike on this week's episode to talk about why regulating the internet won't magically fix everything else.

With the cost of surveillance and mass information gathering becoming cheaper and easier, laws are struggling to keep pace. Who is fighting for transparency and working to protect your digital rights? Our guest today is Danny O’Brien. Danny has been an activist for online free speech and privacy for over 20 years. He co-founded the Open Rights Group and has defended reporters from online attacks at the committee to protect journalists. He is now the Director of Strategy at Electronic Frontier Foundation. Show Notes: [0:59] - Danny began working with Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) in 2005 but had been interested in them and digital rights overall since 1990 as a journalist. [2:18] - In the early days of EFF, the topics they were writing about seemed very theoretical to the everyday person. It became confusing, but a lot of these hypothetical situations were becoming reality in the early 2000s. [4:06] - The assistance Danny gave to journalists to keep them safer from online attacks began on a case by case basis. [6:23] - Danny explains that now they are seeing a rise in targeted attacks on journalists with government connections. [7:50] - The tools to conduct a spyware style monitoring of a particular person are now so ridiculously cheap. It can be anyone. In the early days, it always seemed like an attack was government based or done by professionals. [8:42] - Journalists in particular are highly targeted for attacks because they have likely upset someone they’ve reported about. [10:49] - When Gmail was hacked in 2009, it became apparent that the people that were targeted in that attack were Tibetan activists. [11:42] - There has been a shift into a professionalization of attacks. It is someone’s job to clock on, hack and make someone’s life unpleasant, and clock off. [13:10] - One of the key cases in the last several years in regards to digital privacy rights is the Apple San Bernardino case in which the FBI wanted a back door into the iPhone of a suspect in a shooting. [14:36] - There is a gray area where governments are saying that as long as they have the ability to do these things, they should.  [17:16] - The globalization of technology has caused confusion and blurred lines on what is legal and illegal in each country. [20:25] - Danny gives an example of a loophole in United States law regarding getting geolocation data from phones. [23:13] - The process of getting information is very murky especially in the United States. [24:41] - We need transparency before we will ever see reform. [26:40] - Google would do something called The Creepy Test where they would demonstrate something they could do internally and determine whether it was something that could be used in a “creepy” way. [28:29] - Something may seem like a great idea but wind up causing more bad than good. Danny uses apps for tracking the pandemic as an example. [30:20] - As technologists, we are capable of acting very quickly and reaching for a toolkit that we can use. [31:19] - Sometimes we have to be careful that the solutions that are the simplest from a technological point of view aren’t just shifting the complexity elsewhere.  [34:02] - The consequences of simply uploading photos online in regards to privacy were very unexpected at the start of the internet and social media. [35:49] - In the 90s there was a strong fight against encryption. Now that encryption is what holds entire economies together. [36:08] - While encryption is useful, it is also being used by cybercriminals to hide illegal activity, particularly child pornography. [39:00] - We used to argue about digital rights but now all rights are digital. Now, all laws are about the internet. [41:53] - Danny and Chris discuss the passage of a bill about the digital rights of sex workers that had several unintended consequences. [43:12] - There is a big push right now to undermine encryption particularly for fighting against sex trafficking. [44:04] - There are a lot of problems that have been created that were unintentionally created by technology that needs to be solved. [45:06] - Large companies, like Apple, Google, and Amazon, have a lot of control of our personal devices. [46:46] - We will start to see a lot of technological compromises between large companies and the government. [48:44] - Pick the privacy tools and try out different tools to find what works for you. It exercises your right to remove trackers and ads from your web experience. [50:27] - In order to exercise your rights, you need to know them. [52:38] - People wind up being the consumers of technology and they don’t become active citizens in this digital community. Education is important. [54:54] - Danny shares links to useful material to educate yourself on surveillance (listed in the Links and Resources). [57:21] - Sometimes, lawmakers don’t know all about these technological problems, so write to your lawmakers when you have concerns. [59:30] - EFF is membership driven and a huge proportion of their funding is from individual members. If you are interested in becoming a member or donating to EFF, visit their website for more information. Thanks for joining us on Easy Prey. Be sure to subscribe to our podcast on iTunes and leave a nice review.  Links and Resources: Podcast Web Page Facebook Page whatismyipaddress.com Easy Prey on Instagram Easy Prey on Twitter Easy Prey on LinkedIn Easy Prey on YouTube Easy Prey on Pinterest Open Rights Group Web Page Electronic Frontier Foundation Web Page Danny O’Brien on Twitter Surveillance Self-Defense (SSD at EFF) Security Education Companion (SEC at EFF)

Public opinion on the BLM protests is shifting dramatically. Both parties are working fast to make it an election issue they can win on. Plus, some essential COVID-19 developments not getting much attention and highlights from The People's Convention. 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Can Facebook or Google really promise to keep your data private in this era of mass surveillance by the likes of the NSA and GCHQ? Max Schrems doesn't think so, and he's convinced the EU Court of Justice of the same thing. There's no way to protect user data when intelligence agencies are hoovering up all our communications and storing them on massive server farms forever. In part 2 of my chat with EFF's Danny O'Brien, we'll talk about the two Shrems cases in the EU and what the recent ruling against Privacy Shield will mean for all of us. Danny O'Brien has been an activist for online free speech and privacy for over 20 years. In his home country of the UK, he fought against repressive anti-encryption law, and helped found the Open Rights Group, Britain's own digital rights organization. He was EFF's activist from 2005 to 2007, its international outreach coordinator from 2007-2009, and international director from 2013-2019. He now supervises EFF's medium and long-term strategy, with an eye to maintaining the organization's global impact and reputation. Further Info: EU Court Again Rules That NSA Spying Makes U.S. Companies Inadequate for Privacy: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/eu-court-again-rules-nsa-spying-makes-us-companies-inadequate-privacyNone of Your Business: https://noyb.eu/en Donate to EFF: https://supporters.eff.org/donate/join-eff-today

What good are privacy laws when we all know that intelligence agencies don't play by the rules? How can any company promise to keep our data safe when we know that agencies like the NSA and GCHQ are hoovering it all up? That's the essential argument behind the Max Schrems cases at the European Court of Justice. And the EU court agrees. In part 1 of my interview with EFF's Danny O'Brien, we'll talk about how we got here and how the parallel development of data mining and mass surveillance led us to these (successful) court challenges. Danny O'Brien has been an activist for online free speech and privacy for over 20 years. In his home country of the UK, he fought against repressive anti-encryption law, and helped found the Open Rights Group, Britain's own digital rights organization. He was EFF's activist from 2005 to 2007, its international outreach coordinator from 2007-2009, and international director from 2013-2019. He now supervises EFF's medium and long-term strategy, with an eye to maintaining the organization's global impact and reputation. Further Info: EU Court Again Rules That NSA Spying Makes U.S. Companies Inadequate for Privacy: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/eu-court-again-rules-nsa-spying-makes-us-companies-inadequate-privacyDonate to EFF: https://supporters.eff.org/donate/join-eff-today

With Britain in lockdown, the government has been racing to find ways to ease restrictions without putting public safety at risk. One solution is a contact-tracing app that can enable digital contact-tracing on a large scale using bluetooth. One such app is under development by NHSX with researchers from Oxford University. Though tech giants Apple and Google announced they would tweak their smartphone operating systems to help digital contact-tracing, the UK is an outlier in rejecting this approach. Is Britain sleepwalking into another coronavirus blunder by failing to listen to global consensus and expert analysis with the release of this app? Does NHSX, as IEA Head of Lifestyle Economics Christopher Snowdon has suggested, have all the hallmarks of another government IT fiasco?  Emma Revell, IEA Head of Communications, is joined by Victoria Hewson, Head of Regulatory Affairs at the Institute of Economic Affairs, and Jim Killock, Executive Director of Open Rights Group. In the episode, Victoria refers to her blog post for the IEA website which you can read here https://iea.org.uk/the-nhsx-contact-tracing-app-unresolved-civil-liberties-and-privacy-issues/

It's crucial that apps designed to help us battle coronavirus also protect our privacy as otherwise their take-up and so public health will suffer. That's the key point made by the Open Rights Group's Jim Killock in the latest episode of Never Mind The Bar Charts as we discussed the potential risks to our civil liberties from the different attempts to track who people have been in contact with. Such contact tracing is essential to tackling coronavirus, but how can it be done best? Listen to find out... Feedback very welcome, and do share this podcast with others who you think may enjoy it. Show notes How Australia is legislating for a contact tracing app in ways that protect people's rights. The German approach to protecting civil liberties while tracking people to tackle coronavirus. Problems with the British approach. Join the Open Rights Group. Jim Killock on Twitter. Photo credit: Rieo from Pixabay. Enjoy the show? Spread the word Follow the show on Twitter. Like the show on Facebook. Subscribe, rate or review via your favourite podcasting platform - links here.

Matthew Rice, Scotland Director for the Open Rights Group, was our guest on today's show. The Open Rights Group are the UK's only digital campaigning organisation working to protect the rights to privacy and free speech online. We spoke all about the General Data Protection Regulation, what it means for businesses and for consumers rights over their personal data, as well as about online censorship and net neutrality. **Resources** [https://www.openrightsgroup.org/](http://https://www.openrightsgroup.org/) [http://www.thejist.co.uk/politics/data-protection-bill-explained/](http://http://www.thejist.co.uk/politics/data-protection-bill-explained/) [http://www.thejist.co.uk/politics/russia-bots-brexit/](http://http://www.thejist.co.uk/politics/russia-bots-brexit/) [http://www.thejist.co.uk/science-and-tech/conservative-proposals-for-the-internet/](http://http://www.thejist.co.uk/science-and-tech/conservative-proposals-for-the-internet/) [http://www.thejist.co.uk/science-and-tech/internet-censorship-not-way-combat-terrorism/](http://http://www.thejist.co.uk/science-and-tech/internet-censorship-not-way-combat-terrorism/) [http://www.thejist.co.uk/science-and-tech/tech-social-media-firms-police-content-sites/](http://http://www.thejist.co.uk/science-and-tech/tech-social-media-firms-police-content-sites/) [http://www.thejist.co.uk/science-and-tech/net-neutrality-important/](http://http://www.thejist.co.uk/science-and-tech/net-neutrality-important/) Follow us on Facebook or Twitter or [sign up for our mailing list to get information on my upcoming book, Brexit: The Establishment Civil War](http://http://www.establishmentcivilwar.co.uk/). Music from Just Jim - [https://soundcloud.com/justjim](http://https://soundcloud.com/justjim)

Matthew Rice, Scotland Director for the Open Rights Group, was our guest on today's show. The Open Rights Group are the UK's only digital campaigning organisation working to protect the rights to privacy and free speech online. We spoke all about the General Data Protection Regulation, what it means for businesses and for consumers rights over their personal data, as well as about online censorship and net neutrality. Resources https://www.openrightsgroup.org/ http://www.thejist.co.uk/politics/data-protection-bill-explained/ http://www.thejist.co.uk/politics/russia-bots-brexit/ http://www.thejist.co.uk/science-and-tech/conservative-proposals-for-the-internet/ http://www.thejist.co.uk/science-and-tech/internet-censorship-not-way-combat-terrorism/ http://www.thejist.co.uk/science-and-tech/tech-social-media-firms-police-content-sites/ http://www.thejist.co.uk/science-and-tech/net-neutrality-important/ Follow us on Facebook or Twitter or sign up for our mailing list to get information on my upcoming book, Brexit: The Establishment Civil War. Music from Just Jim - https://soundcloud.com/justjim

This week I spoke with Amanda Jacks of @FSA_Faircop . We discuss the recent report that facial recognition technology was used in conjunction with traditional policing methods during the recent Swansea vs Cardiff match. The topic proves a difficult one to currently assess as little legislation or governance exists to monitor or regulate it's use. This link from the Home Office gives an overview of the current framework of FRT's use and highlights the role of South Swales Police trialling live facial recognition ( LFR ) . Privacy rights organisations such as Liberty and @BigBrotherwatch have campaigned extensively to ensure the rise of invasive data surveillance is limited and monitored. Football fans will need to be aware of the growing possibility that in time, sporting events will testing stations for digital screening. This is a deep read from BigBrotherWatch's site regarding Scotland's use of facial recognition technology which they worked on with Open Rights Group. Please follow and subscribe to the podcast, and as always, all sharing of my pod is deeply appreciated.

The UK plans to introduce compulsory age verification for anyone in the country to access online porn - but is this a good way of restricting children's access, or a serious threat to privacy? Ed Butler speaks to Jim Killock, executive director of Open Rights Group, who fears that the move could have terrible unforeseen consequences if it enabled for example a major leak of data about people's identities and porn habits. Systems of blocking access to children do already exist, as Alastair Graham, co-chair of the Age Verification Providers Association, explains. But ultimately is relying on technology to stop children stumbling across graphic hardcore images enough? Claire Levens of advocacy group Internet Matters, who welcomes the move, says parents also need to be willing to open up a dialogue with their own children. (Picture: Young boy looking at phone screen; Credit: Clark and Company/Getty Images)

Last month Australia passed a sweeping surveillance law, quickly and without meaningful debate, called the Assistance and Access Act. Like the UK's Investigatory Powers Act of 2016. this law aims to give authorities unprecedented power to force makers of messaging services to break their software and lie to their users. Danny O'Brien, International Director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, helps us understand the true implications of these law and why they are truly harmful to democracy. Guest Information Danny O'Brien has been an activist for online free speech and privacy for over 20 years. In his home country of the UK, he fought against repressive anti-encryption law, and helped make the UK Parliament more transparent with FaxYourMP. He was EFF's activist from 2005 to 2007, and its international outreach coordinator from 2007-2009. After three years working to protect at-risk online reporters with the Committee to Protect Journalists, he returned to EFF in 2013 to supervise EFF's global strategy. He is also the co-founder of the Open Rights Group, Britain's own digital civil liberties organization. Twitter: @EFF, @malaWebsite: https://www.eff.org/ Further Information: Truly Secure Messaging: https://firewallsdontstopdragons.com/truly-secure-mobile-calls-and-messaging-for-free/Why Privacy Matters (TED Talk): https://www.ted.com/talks/glenn_greenwald_why_privacy_mattersThe Value of Privacy: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/05/the_value_of_pr.htmlDonate to the EFF! https://supporters.eff.org/donate/join-4

In this episode I have an invigorating conversation with activist and feminist pornographer Pandora Blake. We discuss the shady politics of repression of sexual expression. While there are many reasons to feel defeated and demoralized in the struggle for sexual and artistic liberation, Pandora provides a lot of strength and hope that a proud, empowered, uncompromising, pornographic revolution will prevail. Please visit her website at: http://pandorablake.com/blog About Pandora: Pandora Blake is a feminist pornographer, sex worker and sexual freedom campaigner. Her films have won multiple international awards and her website Dreams of Spanking has survived legal battles against porn censorship in the UK. Pandora is an active campaigner for sex work decriminalisation and labour rights, obscenity law reform, civil liberties and human rights, particularly relating to freedom of expression, gender, sexuality and privacy. She is official spokesperson for Backlash, which defends freedom of sexual expression among consenting adults in the UK, and organises alongside the Open Rights Group and the English Collective of Prostitutes. An experienced public speaker, Pandora regularly appears on panels and gives talks and media interviews. She runs a Patreon to support her unpaid activism and political work. As a sex worker and porn-maker, Pandora works passionately to increase social and legal acceptance of marginalised sexualities, educate the public about kink and BDSM, and reduce stigma and shame. She was awarded Publicist of the Year at the Sexual Freedom Awards 2015 for her efforts advocating for sex workers’ rights and against porn censorship. She is currently working on a book about the politics and psychology of fantasy, particularly the ones we don’t dare admit to in public. Her pornographic films are story-driven and gender-critical, exploring kinky fantasies via a queer erotic gaze. She is the sole owner and operator of Dreams of Spanking, which launched in 2011, faced government censorship for its unapologetic depiction of consensual BDSM, and successfully appealed against closure by the UK porn regulator in 2016. Her work has won awards including Best BDSM Scene 2015 at the Feminist Porn Awards, and first prize in the 2015 Short Film Competition at the Berlin Porn Film Festival. Her production ethos is performer-centric, and prioritises transparency, explicit performer consent, and equal pay for equal work. Pandora writes a blog on kink, porn and politics, and you can follow her on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

Discussants: John Naughton, David Vincent, Julian Huppert, Nora Ni Loideain Chair: Daniel Wilson On 16 November 2016, both Houses of Parliament completed their examination and review of the Investigatory Powers Bill and it will become law before the end of 2016. When it was first published in draft form a year ago, the then Home Secretary, Theresa May, promised that the Bill would establish a “world-leading oversight regime” with “powers fit for the digital age” that would be “clear and understandable”. Nevertheless, the Bill has since been the subject of considerable controversy. Advocates, including, Professor Sir David Omand (a former Director of GCHQ ), stress that the importance of the new statute cannot be overestimated as it puts the secret surveillance activities of the State “under the rule of law” for the first time in 500 years and makes such powers “comprehensible to the citizen”. Critics, however, argue that the new law provides the State with unprecedented powers that are “more suited to a dictatorship than a democracy” (Jim Killock, Executive Director, Open Rights Group). Civil society organisations have described the law as a “Snooper’s Charter”. Of particular concern is the scope of powers provided under the law which will enable public authorities “to indiscriminately hack, intercept, record, and monitor the communications and internet use of the entire population” (Bella Sankey, Policy Director, Liberty). In its final event of the Technology and Democracy Project’s 2016 seminar series, an interdisciplinary panel of speakers will address the political, historical, technological and human rights implications posed by this divisive new legislative framework. Please join us for a discussion of what kind of precedent this significant new law represents for technology and democracy both within and beyond the UK.

In the twelfth edition of the Secure Sessions podcast, Josh and our interviewee, Jim Killock, got into the thick of state-sponsored surveillance. Comparing the stark contrast between the US and UK in permitted Internet access as well as surveillance practices, questions of ethics arise. Listen to the podcast now for an eye-opening discussion about Snooper's Charter, the excuses used to advance the surveillance state, and more!

On Wednesday 29th April 2015 Jim Killock, executive director of the Open Rights Group, spoke at the Emmanuel College Law Society on the subject of "How digital rights are undermined by mass surveillance: why it matters and what we can do about it". The Open Rights Group is a not for profit organisation which campaigns on a wide range of civil liberties issues, including mass surveillance, copyright, censorship, data protection and open data and privacy.

On Wednesday 29th April 2015 Jim Killock, executive director of the Open Rights Group, spoke at the Emmanuel College Law Society on the subject of "How digital rights are undermined by mass surveillance: why it matters and what we can do about it". The Open Rights Group is a not for profit organisation which campaigns on a wide range of civil liberties issues, including mass surveillance, copyright, censorship, data protection and open data and privacy.

On Wednesday 29th April 2015 Jim Killock, executive director of the Open Rights Group, spoke at the Emmanuel College Law Society on the subject of "How digital rights are undermined by mass surveillance: why it matters and what we can do about it". The Open Rights Group is a not for profit organisation which campaigns on a wide range of civil liberties issues, including mass surveillance, copyright, censorship, data protection and open data and privacy.

On Wednesday 29th April 2015 Jim Killock, executive director of the Open Rights Group, spoke at the Emmanuel College Law Society on the subject of "How digital rights are undermined by mass surveillance: why it matters and what we can do about it". The Open Rights Group is a not for profit organisation which campaigns on a wide range of civil liberties issues, including mass surveillance, copyright, censorship, data protection and open data and privacy.

#Orgcon14 I chat with @williamheath, @dcampbell_iptv and @Doctorow. Check out http://OpenRightsGroup.org, http://www.duncancampbell.org, http://mostlysignssomeportents.tumblr.com & http://Mydex.org

A video Interview with Suw Charman of the UK’s Open Rights Group, covering Digital Rights, Copyright Reform, Privacy, Data Retention, Automatic Vehicle Tracking and other issues. Listen: Suw Interview Watch: Youtube Feed: RSS