Jessica Shurson
@jessicashurson.bsky.social
Law academic @ University of Sussex. Research interests: cybercrime and criminal law; digital surveillance, investigations & evidence; privacy law. 🇺🇸 in 🇬🇧. (Views are my own.)
issuesincybercrimelaw.substack.com
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2775-2136
issuesincybercrimelaw.substack.com
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2775-2136
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welcome to bluesky. if the word "mapquest" means anything to you and/or you used it as a verb, you're in the right place
November 11, 2025 at 1:11 AM
welcome to bluesky. if the word "mapquest" means anything to you and/or you used it as a verb, you're in the right place
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Book Launch! Please join us on Wednesday 19th November @qmul.bsky.social at Queen Mary to hear the wonderful Alan Norrie discuss his latest book. Tix available online or in person - see below! Please repost.
🚨BOOK LAUNCH🚨 at the Criminal Justice Centre QM @qmul.bsky.social @crimjusticecentre.bsky.social
Alan Norrie, Rethinking Criminal Justice: Punishment, Abolition and Moral Psychology
📅 Wednesday 19th November 6pm - 7.30
📍QMUL Mile End, Room 313
Tix: FREE at tinyurl.com/2s4bf3py
Please share!
Alan Norrie, Rethinking Criminal Justice: Punishment, Abolition and Moral Psychology
📅 Wednesday 19th November 6pm - 7.30
📍QMUL Mile End, Room 313
Tix: FREE at tinyurl.com/2s4bf3py
Please share!
Book Launch - Alan Norrie, Rethinking Criminal Justice Punishment...
Book Launch - Alan Norrie, Rethinking Criminal Justice Punishment, Abolition and Moral Psychology
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November 7, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Book Launch! Please join us on Wednesday 19th November @qmul.bsky.social at Queen Mary to hear the wonderful Alan Norrie discuss his latest book. Tix available online or in person - see below! Please repost.
What is this strange emotion I’m feeling… is it… hope?
A 15-point win for VA gov. A 5-point win for VA AG in a race he was expected to lose. A 13-point win for NJ gov, in a race that was expected to be close. An outright majority in NYC in a three-way race. A 30-point win for Prop 50 in CA. #BlueWave #Election2025
November 5, 2025 at 7:50 AM
What is this strange emotion I’m feeling… is it… hope?
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My latest Lawfare piece is out!
I look at the recent #latombe case and the impact it will have on #EU / #US #dataprotection and #data #flows.
#law #academia #lawfare #cjeu
I look at the recent #latombe case and the impact it will have on #EU / #US #dataprotection and #data #flows.
#law #academia #lawfare #cjeu
In Sept. the General Court of the EU rejected a case which sought to strike down the European Commission's approval of the EU–U.S. Data Privacy Framework. The dismissal leaves the DPF legally untested in Europe and vulnerable to political shifts in Washington, writes @iainnash.bsky.social.
The European Commission’s Rejection of Latombe
The rejection leaves the DPF politically fragile, legally untested at the Court of Justice, and vulnerable to shifts in Washington.
www.lawfaremedia.org
November 3, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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Hackers have launched five cyberattacks against Britain's drinking water suppliers since the beginning of last year, according to reports filed with the drinking water watchdog and partially disclosed to Recorded Future News under freedom of information laws.
Hackers are attacking Britain’s drinking water suppliers
The U.K.'s water suppliers have reported five cyberattacks since January 2024, according to information reviewed by Recorded Future News. The incidents did not affect the safety of water supplies, but...
therecord.media
November 3, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Hackers have launched five cyberattacks against Britain's drinking water suppliers since the beginning of last year, according to reports filed with the drinking water watchdog and partially disclosed to Recorded Future News under freedom of information laws.
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Did you happen to leave your @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk purchases on the Metropolitan line yesterday?
Did one of your friends do this and send an anguished message to the group chat?
If so, Darren has just done you a very good turn. 👇
Did one of your friends do this and send an anguished message to the group chat?
If so, Darren has just done you a very good turn. 👇
If anyone lost a bag of books from LRB Bookshop on the Metropolitan Line between Baker St- Watford, I handed it to a cleaner when the train terminated at Watford tube station. And if you have far more followers than me, please share this status. LRB bookshop is not cheap!
November 2, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Did you happen to leave your @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk purchases on the Metropolitan line yesterday?
Did one of your friends do this and send an anguished message to the group chat?
If so, Darren has just done you a very good turn. 👇
Did one of your friends do this and send an anguished message to the group chat?
If so, Darren has just done you a very good turn. 👇
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"Meanwhile, the regulations to bring in a requirement on providers to report CSAM content to the National Crime Agency have been revoked; they were due to come into force on 3 November and, at the time of writing, there are no further details available as to why they have been reversed." > Curious.
🎂 The #onlinesafetyact is two, and so are we.
🎁 Here's the latest edition of our #onlinesafety newsletter, which has been hitting inboxes nearly every second Monday since we started.
✏️ Do sign up, if you haven't already, to receive it direct. ⬇️
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🎁 Here's the latest edition of our #onlinesafety newsletter, which has been hitting inboxes nearly every second Monday since we started.
✏️ Do sign up, if you haven't already, to receive it direct. ⬇️
mailchi.mp/581367f72801...
October 27, 2025 at 1:10 PM
"Meanwhile, the regulations to bring in a requirement on providers to report CSAM content to the National Crime Agency have been revoked; they were due to come into force on 3 November and, at the time of writing, there are no further details available as to why they have been reversed." > Curious.
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An LLM-produced essay is tangible proof that a student doesn’t care, and yet responding to it properly requires hour upon hour of careful work. It’s asymmetrical and overwhelming.
October 28, 2025 at 12:57 PM
An LLM-produced essay is tangible proof that a student doesn’t care, and yet responding to it properly requires hour upon hour of careful work. It’s asymmetrical and overwhelming.
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My latest post analyses the potential criminal liability in the UK of AI companies in light of the August report from Anthropic that its generative AI tool Claude has been used by hackers to commit cybercrimes. TL;DR: s3A CMA is a problem. open.substack.com/pub/issuesin...
New Hacking Tools: AI and Criminal Liability
Are AI companies breaking UK law by offering tools which help hackers commit cybercrime offences?
open.substack.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:20 PM
My latest post analyses the potential criminal liability in the UK of AI companies in light of the August report from Anthropic that its generative AI tool Claude has been used by hackers to commit cybercrimes. TL;DR: s3A CMA is a problem. open.substack.com/pub/issuesin...
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Always love a good analysis of CMA s3A but what's really interesting is if AI can do all these things successfully for criminals why can they not seem to for lawful markets! I'm not seeing such intelligent price discrimination...
My latest post analyses the potential criminal liability in the UK of AI companies in light of the August report from Anthropic that its generative AI tool Claude has been used by hackers to commit cybercrimes. TL;DR: s3A CMA is a problem. open.substack.com/pub/issuesin...
New Hacking Tools: AI and Criminal Liability
Are AI companies breaking UK law by offering tools which help hackers commit cybercrime offences?
open.substack.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Always love a good analysis of CMA s3A but what's really interesting is if AI can do all these things successfully for criminals why can they not seem to for lawful markets! I'm not seeing such intelligent price discrimination...
My latest post analyses the potential criminal liability in the UK of AI companies in light of the August report from Anthropic that its generative AI tool Claude has been used by hackers to commit cybercrimes. TL;DR: s3A CMA is a problem. open.substack.com/pub/issuesin...
New Hacking Tools: AI and Criminal Liability
Are AI companies breaking UK law by offering tools which help hackers commit cybercrime offences?
open.substack.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:20 PM
My latest post analyses the potential criminal liability in the UK of AI companies in light of the August report from Anthropic that its generative AI tool Claude has been used by hackers to commit cybercrimes. TL;DR: s3A CMA is a problem. open.substack.com/pub/issuesin...
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More evidence that the UK Government not only forgets that NI exists, it also forgets that the Common Travel Area exists. This is just a remarkable story of benefits being withdrawn from hundreds of families for using the CTA amid a performative benefit crackdown:
share.google/NSWTG5JNYMrz...
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NI parents caught in UK crackdown lose child benefit after travelling via Dublin
Exclusive: new anti-fraud system fails to account for fact many return to country via airport in Irish capital
share.google
October 26, 2025 at 1:20 PM
More evidence that the UK Government not only forgets that NI exists, it also forgets that the Common Travel Area exists. This is just a remarkable story of benefits being withdrawn from hundreds of families for using the CTA amid a performative benefit crackdown:
share.google/NSWTG5JNYMrz...
share.google/NSWTG5JNYMrz...
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This is nuts. Too much money is going to specific grants about AI and STEM, and all the others need to fight for scraps.
We need more funding for social sciences and the arts immediately.
We need more funding for social sciences and the arts immediately.
After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results:
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
October 22, 2025 at 11:18 AM
This is nuts. Too much money is going to specific grants about AI and STEM, and all the others need to fight for scraps.
We need more funding for social sciences and the arts immediately.
We need more funding for social sciences and the arts immediately.
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After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results:
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
October 22, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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In celebration of #InternationalOpenAccessWeek, be sure to check out the latest ICLQ articles via FirstView @cambup-law.cambridge.org, covering everything from #ExtraterritorialJurisdiction in digital investigations to the ICJ's #Palestine #AdvisoryOpinion.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
FirstView articles | International & Comparative Law Quarterly | Cambridge Core
International & Comparative Law Quarterly - Professor Spyros Maniatis, Professor Alex Mills
www.cambridge.org
October 21, 2025 at 8:55 AM
In celebration of #InternationalOpenAccessWeek, be sure to check out the latest ICLQ articles via FirstView @cambup-law.cambridge.org, covering everything from #ExtraterritorialJurisdiction in digital investigations to the ICJ's #Palestine #AdvisoryOpinion.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Any suggestions for things to do in (or near) Leiden with a 4 year old?
October 20, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Any suggestions for things to do in (or near) Leiden with a 4 year old?
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This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.
October 20, 2025 at 8:41 AM
This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.
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Yessss
Cardiff will be the first UK city to introduce a surcharge for oversized SUVs and trucks, "while very large vehicles – those over 3,500kg – will be excluded from residential permits entirely."
Cardiff set to tackle SUV 'carspreading' in UK first
Cardiff Council is set to become the first local authority in the UK to introduce higher parking charges for SUVs and other heavy vehicles, in a move campaigners say will make city streets safer and f...
nation.cymru
October 16, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Yessss
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If all that was needed was access, schools would have been phased out by books.
Wow. Just wow.
"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?
Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do
www.forbes.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:02 AM
If all that was needed was access, schools would have been phased out by books.
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🧵What’s the biggest lie the surveillance industry tells? That they only sell to legal clients. That there are red lines. But what do these companies say when they think nobody is watching? We went undercover to find out
October 15, 2025 at 8:23 AM
🧵What’s the biggest lie the surveillance industry tells? That they only sell to legal clients. That there are red lines. But what do these companies say when they think nobody is watching? We went undercover to find out
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It is laughable to think that you can neuter the far right with minor tweaks like this.
How many Conservative or Reform supporters even know that immigrants have to pass a language test? They object to immigration on emotional grounds, not because they have dry objections to eligibility criteria.
How many Conservative or Reform supporters even know that immigrants have to pass a language test? They object to immigration on emotional grounds, not because they have dry objections to eligibility criteria.
October 15, 2025 at 7:20 AM
It is laughable to think that you can neuter the far right with minor tweaks like this.
How many Conservative or Reform supporters even know that immigrants have to pass a language test? They object to immigration on emotional grounds, not because they have dry objections to eligibility criteria.
How many Conservative or Reform supporters even know that immigrants have to pass a language test? They object to immigration on emotional grounds, not because they have dry objections to eligibility criteria.
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To be frank, this kind of research—straightforward with profound global privacy and surveillance implications—is rare. There is usually some caveat that makes it niche or insubstantial. This one is not that.
NEW: A stunning new study finds that satellite transmissions—from calls and texts on T-Mobile to US and Mexico military communications—were sent unencrypted for any snoop to grab. @agreenberg.bsky.social and @mattburgess1.bsky.social have the scoop: www.wired.com/story/satell...
Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data
With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...
www.wired.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:39 AM
To be frank, this kind of research—straightforward with profound global privacy and surveillance implications—is rare. There is usually some caveat that makes it niche or insubstantial. This one is not that.