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Heather Burns
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freelance tech policy x digital rights / human rights / good trouble / midlife MPhil student @ Strathclyde / IANAL / https://heatherburns.tech / 💬 on Signal / open to work / 🇺🇦 / "bad ass Glaswegian" apparently
I'm absolutely here for the passive-aggressive pettiness in ICO's comments. 👍
November 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
FWIW the elderly have always been the most vile and abusive to me in their racism, always in public and deliberately performative. It's nothing new.
November 17, 2025 at 11:27 AM
It’s the golf that gets me. White Scottish male privilege is a helluva drug.
November 17, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Meanwhile my native born and bred white Scottish ex-husband is enjoying his 11th year of living on benefits and watching GBNews all day, also playing golf on a concessionary card, having charmed the socks off of all accountability processes which would hang people like you and me out to dry.
November 17, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Reposted by Heather Burns
In the Epstein Administration, tanking child sexual exploitation & adult sex trafficking investigations is a bug, not a feature.
November 17, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Possibly doing what the Conservatives desperately wanted but never achieved, which is “editing” the Article 8 clauses on private communications. This is why I’ve had your 2015 UN paper open for weeks.
November 17, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Endlessly fascinated by the phenomenon of affluent white women who believe that writing sternly worded complaint letters obliges the planet to stop turning.
November 16, 2025 at 2:30 PM
as I wrote here, there were age verification vendors lobbying to have the OSA expanded to include nationality verification, which would conveniently require more adoption of their wares. N/V is just a module upgrade to existing A/V, ready to go. internet.exchangepoint.tech/the-dog-that...
The Dog that Caught the Car: Britain's 'World-Leading' Internet
Billed as a “world-leading” child-protection law, the UK’s Online Safety Act has instead normalized surveillance and ID checks. “Tech policy wonk" Heather Burns writes that the model is spreading acro...
internet.exchangepoint.tech
November 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Would love some clarity on what they mean by "british citizens" because that's either a careless phrase or something very ominous barreling down the motorway
November 14, 2025 at 1:49 PM
yeah, I kinda went viral about that this week (50k+ views) heatherburns.tech/2025/11/10/t...
Time to start de-Appling – Hi, I'm Heather Burns
heatherburns.tech
November 14, 2025 at 1:43 PM