angeladaly
@nidhalaigh.bsky.social
Socio-legal academic of data & tech on a career break
Digital rights/commons, environment, & art/culture
Normally in Scotland/Alba, often out and about
Likes clean air
Own views
She/her
www.angeladaly.wordpress.com
Digital rights/commons, environment, & art/culture
Normally in Scotland/Alba, often out and about
Likes clean air
Own views
She/her
www.angeladaly.wordpress.com
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angeladaly
@nidhalaigh.bsky.social
· Sep 3
Beyond techno-optimism: four critical limitations in the UK’s AI policy for health care
In 2015, the UK Government published Artificial Intelligence: Opportunities and Implications for the Future of Decision Making ,1 initiating a pattern of biennial artificial intelligence (AI) reports ...
bjgp.org
In our new paper, we identify the limits of the UK's AI health policy:
1️⃣ Disproportionate focus on growth
2️⃣ Sidelining of regulation, ethics & public trust
3️⃣ Underestimationg true scale & cost of NHS digital transformation
4️⃣ Scant consideration of environmental impact
bjgp.org/content/75/7...
1️⃣ Disproportionate focus on growth
2️⃣ Sidelining of regulation, ethics & public trust
3️⃣ Underestimationg true scale & cost of NHS digital transformation
4️⃣ Scant consideration of environmental impact
bjgp.org/content/75/7...
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DCPC a.k.a. the digital #commons policy council is finally on #Bluesky
Please support our work by following us and spreading the good word! :-)
@grazulis.bsky.social @ramyachandra.bsky.social
@nidhalaigh.bsky.social
Please support our work by following us and spreading the good word! :-)
@grazulis.bsky.social @ramyachandra.bsky.social
@nidhalaigh.bsky.social
New DCPC stakeholder engagement tool encourages government to secure digital sovereignty, invest in sustainable resources, and rebuild trust by using digital commons. An online FAQ provides additional information and examples re. procurement, firm support and products and services.
dcpc.info/faq/
dcpc.info/faq/
October 28, 2025 at 9:45 AM
DCPC a.k.a. the digital #commons policy council is finally on #Bluesky
Please support our work by following us and spreading the good word! :-)
@grazulis.bsky.social @ramyachandra.bsky.social
@nidhalaigh.bsky.social
Please support our work by following us and spreading the good word! :-)
@grazulis.bsky.social @ramyachandra.bsky.social
@nidhalaigh.bsky.social
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Meet our Fellow @nidhalaigh.bsky.social, who is recognised as an international leader in the regulation & governance of data & digital technologies – including AI, the internet & 3D printing. Find out more about Angela and her work➡️ acss.org.uk/professor-an...
October 17, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Meet our Fellow @nidhalaigh.bsky.social, who is recognised as an international leader in the regulation & governance of data & digital technologies – including AI, the internet & 3D printing. Find out more about Angela and her work➡️ acss.org.uk/professor-an...
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Sure, let’s collate every member of the public’s personal and private information into one giant database right before handing whole swathes of the state over to multinational corporations using an emergent technology with numerous security issues
September 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Sure, let’s collate every member of the public’s personal and private information into one giant database right before handing whole swathes of the state over to multinational corporations using an emergent technology with numerous security issues
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Doing interdisciplinary comparative law
September 20, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Doing interdisciplinary comparative law
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No surprise that a hidden meeting (i.e. not on official record) between Thiel and Johnson/Cummings in 2019, just before Palantir captured NHS data, is to me the most interesting find in Boris files so far. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Johnson and Cummings’ secret meeting with Palantir founder revealed
Non-disclosure of apparent meeting a year before firm won NHS role raises serious questions over transparency
www.theguardian.com
September 8, 2025 at 6:55 PM
No surprise that a hidden meeting (i.e. not on official record) between Thiel and Johnson/Cummings in 2019, just before Palantir captured NHS data, is to me the most interesting find in Boris files so far. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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New Fellow @nidhalaigh.bsky.social is Professor of Law & Technology at @dundee.ac.uk! Angela’s research explores the interaction between legal frameworks and new digital technologies, in areas such as evidence, sector specific regulation and human rights. ➡️ acss.org.uk/news/the-aca...
September 8, 2025 at 11:22 AM
New Fellow @nidhalaigh.bsky.social is Professor of Law & Technology at @dundee.ac.uk! Angela’s research explores the interaction between legal frameworks and new digital technologies, in areas such as evidence, sector specific regulation and human rights. ➡️ acss.org.uk/news/the-aca...
Very honoured to be among them.
We are delighted to welcome 63 leading social scientists who highlight the importance of the #socialsciences in understanding & tackling some of society’s most pressing challenges to our Fellowship. Look out for some of our new Fellows later today. See the full list acss.org.uk/news/the-aca...
September 8, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Very honoured to be among them.
So nice to get some more Institute of Network Culture goodies today, book aesthetics always on point.
September 6, 2025 at 4:29 PM
So nice to get some more Institute of Network Culture goodies today, book aesthetics always on point.
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Visit our website, and read about our strong opposition to the recently rejected University Recovery Plan: a plan created by the short-term team in charge at University of Dundee.
sites.dundee.ac.uk/ducu/
#SaveHE #SaveDundeeUni
sites.dundee.ac.uk/ducu/
#SaveHE #SaveDundeeUni
Dundee University and College Union
sites.dundee.ac.uk
September 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Visit our website, and read about our strong opposition to the recently rejected University Recovery Plan: a plan created by the short-term team in charge at University of Dundee.
sites.dundee.ac.uk/ducu/
#SaveHE #SaveDundeeUni
sites.dundee.ac.uk/ducu/
#SaveHE #SaveDundeeUni
In our new paper, we identify the limits of the UK's AI health policy:
1️⃣ Disproportionate focus on growth
2️⃣ Sidelining of regulation, ethics & public trust
3️⃣ Underestimationg true scale & cost of NHS digital transformation
4️⃣ Scant consideration of environmental impact
bjgp.org/content/75/7...
1️⃣ Disproportionate focus on growth
2️⃣ Sidelining of regulation, ethics & public trust
3️⃣ Underestimationg true scale & cost of NHS digital transformation
4️⃣ Scant consideration of environmental impact
bjgp.org/content/75/7...
Beyond techno-optimism: four critical limitations in the UK’s AI policy for health care
In 2015, the UK Government published Artificial Intelligence: Opportunities and Implications for the Future of Decision Making ,1 initiating a pattern of biennial artificial intelligence (AI) reports ...
bjgp.org
September 3, 2025 at 10:02 AM
In our new paper, we identify the limits of the UK's AI health policy:
1️⃣ Disproportionate focus on growth
2️⃣ Sidelining of regulation, ethics & public trust
3️⃣ Underestimationg true scale & cost of NHS digital transformation
4️⃣ Scant consideration of environmental impact
bjgp.org/content/75/7...
1️⃣ Disproportionate focus on growth
2️⃣ Sidelining of regulation, ethics & public trust
3️⃣ Underestimationg true scale & cost of NHS digital transformation
4️⃣ Scant consideration of environmental impact
bjgp.org/content/75/7...
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“Although Microsoft is used up and down the UK by police and law enforcement bodies, so far only SPA – and now Police Scotland – have asked the important questions: Where does our data go? Do you have a map or data flow model? What assurances can you give us around our regulatory DPA Part 3 needs?"
Scottish police do not know where their sensitive data is going, because they trusted it to an American multinational (Microsoft) which simply refuses to tell them.
Remember this when the US screams about Europe wanting to regulate the big tech players.
Remember this when the US screams about Europe wanting to regulate the big tech players.
Microsoft refuses to divulge data flows to Police Scotland | Computer Weekly
Tech giant Microsoft is refusing to divulge key information to Police Scotland about where the sensitive data it uploads to Office 365 will be processed, leaving the force unable to comply with UK-wid...
www.computerweekly.com
August 30, 2025 at 12:11 PM
“Although Microsoft is used up and down the UK by police and law enforcement bodies, so far only SPA – and now Police Scotland – have asked the important questions: Where does our data go? Do you have a map or data flow model? What assurances can you give us around our regulatory DPA Part 3 needs?"
In @uofglasgow.bsky.social today and fitting that I come across Ruth Ewan's Silent Agitator IWW sculpture.
August 29, 2025 at 12:50 PM
In @uofglasgow.bsky.social today and fitting that I come across Ruth Ewan's Silent Agitator IWW sculpture.
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Police Scotland have been urged to 'immediately abandon' plans to introduce facial recognition software for public surveillance by Amnesty International and 13 other advocacy groups
Police Scotland urged to 'immediately abandon' live facial recognition plans
www.thenational.scot
August 26, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Police Scotland have been urged to 'immediately abandon' plans to introduce facial recognition software for public surveillance by Amnesty International and 13 other advocacy groups
Agree 100% with this motion to @snp.org national conference calling for Police Scotland not to invest in live facial recognition and its use should not be allowed in Scotland without new primary legislation which is compatible with human rights law & EU AI Act.
www.thenational.scot/news/2541206...
www.thenational.scot/news/2541206...
Police Scotland using live facial recognition 'not justifiable', SNP members say
POLICE Scotland's consideration to use live facial recognition technology is “not justifiable” and would be a “radical departure” from the…
www.thenational.scot
August 24, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Agree 100% with this motion to @snp.org national conference calling for Police Scotland not to invest in live facial recognition and its use should not be allowed in Scotland without new primary legislation which is compatible with human rights law & EU AI Act.
www.thenational.scot/news/2541206...
www.thenational.scot/news/2541206...
Carnival vibes for those of us elsewhere with Barrington Levy on KEXP - more dancing, less intrusive and racist facial recognition cameras!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfgZ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfgZ...
August 22, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Carnival vibes for those of us elsewhere with Barrington Levy on KEXP - more dancing, less intrusive and racist facial recognition cameras!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfgZ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfgZ...
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You said there would be no redundancies on national television.
Then confirmed on 1st July to 1000 staff and @thecourier.co.uk there is no Plan ‘B’ for redundancies.
Then six weeks later it’s revealed your failed “recovery plan” wanted 190 compulsory redundancies.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=X3hF...
Then confirmed on 1st July to 1000 staff and @thecourier.co.uk there is no Plan ‘B’ for redundancies.
Then six weeks later it’s revealed your failed “recovery plan” wanted 190 compulsory redundancies.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=X3hF...
Scottish Government announces £40m bailout for university
YouTube video by STV News
m.youtube.com
August 19, 2025 at 8:05 PM
You said there would be no redundancies on national television.
Then confirmed on 1st July to 1000 staff and @thecourier.co.uk there is no Plan ‘B’ for redundancies.
Then six weeks later it’s revealed your failed “recovery plan” wanted 190 compulsory redundancies.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=X3hF...
Then confirmed on 1st July to 1000 staff and @thecourier.co.uk there is no Plan ‘B’ for redundancies.
Then six weeks later it’s revealed your failed “recovery plan” wanted 190 compulsory redundancies.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=X3hF...
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How about we replace Chancellors, VCs and senior managers with chatbots? (They've already replaced themselves with AI but continue to collect the salary and make awful decisions) share.google/xLXvRgJsFPIz...
Universities must be reimagined for the AI age
Australia’s competitiveness depends on how quickly we can align education, technology and workforce development.
share.google
August 19, 2025 at 7:49 AM
How about we replace Chancellors, VCs and senior managers with chatbots? (They've already replaced themselves with AI but continue to collect the salary and make awful decisions) share.google/xLXvRgJsFPIz...
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‘Too hungry to think, too weak to sit upright. Concentration slips away’: the struggle to stay focussed as an academic in Gaza
‘Too hungry to think, too weak to sit upright. Concentration slips away’: the struggle to stay focussed as an academic in Gaza
It is hard to keep the mind sharp when the body is thin and dehydrated, but solidarity is teaching starving students their thoughts still matter
www.theguardian.com
August 19, 2025 at 8:29 AM
‘Too hungry to think, too weak to sit upright. Concentration slips away’: the struggle to stay focussed as an academic in Gaza
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'This was the way the North coast of Caithness was militarised and not one single political voice was raised in opposition. No democratically elected representative of the people voiced concern. They still don’t.'
George Gunn, via @bellacaledonia.bsky.social
George Gunn, via @bellacaledonia.bsky.social
Dounreay In Extremis
DOUNREAY IN EXTREMIS: From The Province of the Cat by George Gunn. It is a relatively recent phenomenon – the metamorphosis of politicians from inspirational, sincere, wide-eyed dreamers, whose pri…
bellacaledonia.org.uk
August 15, 2025 at 8:00 AM
'This was the way the North coast of Caithness was militarised and not one single political voice was raised in opposition. No democratically elected representative of the people voiced concern. They still don’t.'
George Gunn, via @bellacaledonia.bsky.social
George Gunn, via @bellacaledonia.bsky.social
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UK gov: we want to build vast new data centres because something something AI and never mind the environmental cost.
Also UK gov: oh no! Water shortages! Quick, everyone delete a few emails!
Who put these chuds in charge? 🙄
Also UK gov: oh no! Water shortages! Quick, everyone delete a few emails!
Who put these chuds in charge? 🙄
The UK government has urged people to delete old pictures and emails as 'data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems'.
http://jrnl.ie/6788643
http://jrnl.ie/6788643
UK government advises people to delete old photos and emails as England faces water shortfall
The UK government has urged people to delete old pictures and emails as ‘data centres require cast amounts of water to cool their systems’.
jrnl.ie
August 12, 2025 at 4:49 PM
UK gov: we want to build vast new data centres because something something AI and never mind the environmental cost.
Also UK gov: oh no! Water shortages! Quick, everyone delete a few emails!
Who put these chuds in charge? 🙄
Also UK gov: oh no! Water shortages! Quick, everyone delete a few emails!
Who put these chuds in charge? 🙄
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The University of Dundee has announced it will defer the 1.4% national pay rise for staff in higher education.
With inflation above 3% this means hard working staff at the University will be getting at least a 3% real terms pay cut this year.
With inflation above 3% this means hard working staff at the University will be getting at least a 3% real terms pay cut this year.
August 12, 2025 at 9:28 AM
The University of Dundee has announced it will defer the 1.4% national pay rise for staff in higher education.
With inflation above 3% this means hard working staff at the University will be getting at least a 3% real terms pay cut this year.
With inflation above 3% this means hard working staff at the University will be getting at least a 3% real terms pay cut this year.
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Buried in The Observer yesterday was this: UK police knocking on doors demanding details of social media accounts of people, to pass to a foreign government, simply because they happen to live near where a US politician wanted to have a holiday observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
August 11, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Buried in The Observer yesterday was this: UK police knocking on doors demanding details of social media accounts of people, to pass to a foreign government, simply because they happen to live near where a US politician wanted to have a holiday observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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Breaking: the court ruling in Wikipedia's legal challenge to the Online Safety Act categorisation regime has just been handed down. The court dismissed Wikipedia's challenge. This is bad. This is very bad. wikimediafoundation.org/news/2025/08...
Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regulations – Wikimedia Foundation
UPDATE: On Monday, 11 August, the High Court of Justice dismissed the Wikimedia Foundation’s challenge to the UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA) Categorisation Regulations. While the decision does not provi...
wikimediafoundation.org
August 11, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Breaking: the court ruling in Wikipedia's legal challenge to the Online Safety Act categorisation regime has just been handed down. The court dismissed Wikipedia's challenge. This is bad. This is very bad. wikimediafoundation.org/news/2025/08...
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'The scandal reveals – again – how ineffective SEPA is as a regulator, and how blase the MOD is in its treatment of public safety and environmental justice. The lack of transparency would not be tolerated anywhere else in the UK.'
Mike Small via @bellacaledonia.bsky.social
bellacaledonia.org.u...
Mike Small via @bellacaledonia.bsky.social
bellacaledonia.org.u...
Radioactive Water
Tenacious journalism by Rob Edwards at The Ferret have exposed a shocking state of affairs at the Royal Navy’s armaments depot at Coulport on Loch Long where radioactive water from the base t…
bellacaledonia.org.uk
August 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
'The scandal reveals – again – how ineffective SEPA is as a regulator, and how blase the MOD is in its treatment of public safety and environmental justice. The lack of transparency would not be tolerated anywhere else in the UK.'
Mike Small via @bellacaledonia.bsky.social
bellacaledonia.org.u...
Mike Small via @bellacaledonia.bsky.social
bellacaledonia.org.u...