Mariano delli Santi
@marianods.bsky.social
Legal and Policy Officer @openrightsgroup.bsky.social
"Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on the side of the egg." - cit.
Data protection, ArtificiaI intelligence, Social media pluralism, UK - EU regulation
"Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on the side of the egg." - cit.
Data protection, ArtificiaI intelligence, Social media pluralism, UK - EU regulation
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Labour plot to slash electricity prices for AI companies
LABOUR are planning to cut electricity prices for tech companies while energy bills continue to leave families struggling, The National can reveal. 👇
www.thenational.scot/news/2563567...
LABOUR are planning to cut electricity prices for tech companies while energy bills continue to leave families struggling, The National can reveal. 👇
www.thenational.scot/news/2563567...
Labour plot to slash electricity prices for AI companies while families struggle
LABOUR are planning to cut electricity prices for tech companies while energy bills continue to leave families struggling, The National can reveal.
www.thenational.scot
November 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Labour plot to slash electricity prices for AI companies
LABOUR are planning to cut electricity prices for tech companies while energy bills continue to leave families struggling, The National can reveal. 👇
www.thenational.scot/news/2563567...
LABOUR are planning to cut electricity prices for tech companies while energy bills continue to leave families struggling, The National can reveal. 👇
www.thenational.scot/news/2563567...
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Refuge isn’t weakness. It’s an investment. And the returns are human, immeasurable, and generational.
Britain once understood that. It can again.
8/8
Britain once understood that. It can again.
8/8
November 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Refuge isn’t weakness. It’s an investment. And the returns are human, immeasurable, and generational.
Britain once understood that. It can again.
8/8
Britain once understood that. It can again.
8/8
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Just the 12,000 hits on this one so far
New post from me, for UK folks only, on how you need to start preparing for Apple to switch off Advanced Data Protection and the end-to-end encryption of the data you store on it. Like I said, UK only. #SunlitUplands
heatherburns.tech/2025/11/10/t...
heatherburns.tech/2025/11/10/t...
Time to start de-Appling – Hi, I'm Heather Burns
heatherburns.tech
November 10, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Just the 12,000 hits on this one so far
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1. Clampdown on benefit cheats!
2. Clampdown on benefit cheats doesn’t work.
3. Blitz on red tape!
4. Blitz on red tape doesn’t work.
5. Go to 1.
Currently we’re between 3 and 4. I’m confident we’ll be back at 1 by Christmas.
2. Clampdown on benefit cheats doesn’t work.
3. Blitz on red tape!
4. Blitz on red tape doesn’t work.
5. Go to 1.
Currently we’re between 3 and 4. I’m confident we’ll be back at 1 by Christmas.
November 9, 2025 at 12:24 PM
1. Clampdown on benefit cheats!
2. Clampdown on benefit cheats doesn’t work.
3. Blitz on red tape!
4. Blitz on red tape doesn’t work.
5. Go to 1.
Currently we’re between 3 and 4. I’m confident we’ll be back at 1 by Christmas.
2. Clampdown on benefit cheats doesn’t work.
3. Blitz on red tape!
4. Blitz on red tape doesn’t work.
5. Go to 1.
Currently we’re between 3 and 4. I’m confident we’ll be back at 1 by Christmas.
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Mamdani is going to implement My Sharona law. Everyone will have to create songs with undeniable rock beats.
Mamdani is going to implement Shari Lewis law.
Everyone will be required to stick their fist up a lamb's a
Excuse me, there's someone at the door.
Everyone will be required to stick their fist up a lamb's a
Excuse me, there's someone at the door.
Mamdani is going to implement SSHaria law. Communications will be end to end encrypted.
November 9, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Mamdani is going to implement My Sharona law. Everyone will have to create songs with undeniable rock beats.
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And if our day-to-day politics was anything more than a cavalcade of increasingly grim betrayals of stakeholders and the interest of humanity in general by Labour desperately pursuing short-term electoral or economic gain while refusing to waiver on its fundamental electoral or economic programme.
November 8, 2025 at 9:41 AM
And if our day-to-day politics was anything more than a cavalcade of increasingly grim betrayals of stakeholders and the interest of humanity in general by Labour desperately pursuing short-term electoral or economic gain while refusing to waiver on its fundamental electoral or economic programme.
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The absolute collapse of their stupid AI ruse — hopefully followed by a massive wave of tech regulation and imprisoning the politicians who enabled this — cannot come soon enough.
November 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM
The absolute collapse of their stupid AI ruse — hopefully followed by a massive wave of tech regulation and imprisoning the politicians who enabled this — cannot come soon enough.
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Incredible amount of China-panic over at the other place, apparently they might be trying to influence the UK away from democracy.
Funnily enough not mentioned is the other superpower whose leaders have explicitly stated their intentions in that direction.
Funnily enough not mentioned is the other superpower whose leaders have explicitly stated their intentions in that direction.
October 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Incredible amount of China-panic over at the other place, apparently they might be trying to influence the UK away from democracy.
Funnily enough not mentioned is the other superpower whose leaders have explicitly stated their intentions in that direction.
Funnily enough not mentioned is the other superpower whose leaders have explicitly stated their intentions in that direction.
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Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.
October 13, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.
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Next was an engaging panel on risks to GDPR and digital privacy more broadly with @ellenoregan.bsky.social, @mariamagierska.bsky.social, Anja Wyrobek, @marianods.bsky.social, and Jesper Lund at EDRi www.youtube.com/live/EokGEfs... (4/7)
Privacy Camp 2025: room Salle des Arches
YouTube video by European Digital Rights
www.youtube.com
October 1, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Next was an engaging panel on risks to GDPR and digital privacy more broadly with @ellenoregan.bsky.social, @mariamagierska.bsky.social, Anja Wyrobek, @marianods.bsky.social, and Jesper Lund at EDRi www.youtube.com/live/EokGEfs... (4/7)
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Matthew 15:29-31: And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them after verifying their citizenship status.
October 2, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Matthew 15:29-31: And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them after verifying their citizenship status.
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People recognised as refugees fleeing persecution & granted the right to live in the UK to be denied the right to be joined safely by their spouse & children.
This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights
People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2025 at 7:13 AM
People recognised as refugees fleeing persecution & granted the right to live in the UK to be denied the right to be joined safely by their spouse & children.
This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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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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Well funny they had Trump fly out of Stansted. Ending on an authentically shit British experience.
September 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Well funny they had Trump fly out of Stansted. Ending on an authentically shit British experience.
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Americans are careening towards a 'years of lead' scenario, in some cases willingly, and none of them seem to understand just how horrific that will be.
September 12, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Americans are careening towards a 'years of lead' scenario, in some cases willingly, and none of them seem to understand just how horrific that will be.
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Thanks very much for participating ladies and gentlemen, the Event of Noticing has now come to an end. Please do not continue to notice things about the British establishment, they will not be Noticed and your mobile provider may still charge you.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cz...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cz...
Peter Mandelson sacked as US ambassador by Keir Starmer over emails to Jeffrey Epstein
The Foreign Office says he was fired
www.bbc.co.uk
September 11, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Thanks very much for participating ladies and gentlemen, the Event of Noticing has now come to an end. Please do not continue to notice things about the British establishment, they will not be Noticed and your mobile provider may still charge you.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cz...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cz...
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“You're taking advantage of people who are still trying to recover.”
20 years after Hurricane Katrina, the residents of the Ninth Ward are still fighting for survival. The latest threat? A $5 billion canal project that could drown them all over again.
Our collab with @capitalb.bsky.social:
20 years after Hurricane Katrina, the residents of the Ninth Ward are still fighting for survival. The latest threat? A $5 billion canal project that could drown them all over again.
Our collab with @capitalb.bsky.social:
September 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
“You're taking advantage of people who are still trying to recover.”
20 years after Hurricane Katrina, the residents of the Ninth Ward are still fighting for survival. The latest threat? A $5 billion canal project that could drown them all over again.
Our collab with @capitalb.bsky.social:
20 years after Hurricane Katrina, the residents of the Ninth Ward are still fighting for survival. The latest threat? A $5 billion canal project that could drown them all over again.
Our collab with @capitalb.bsky.social:
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They’re selling our country to US corporate tech bosses without our consent or even letting us see the deal - it’s FUCKED UP.
Be scared. Lord Mandelson is at the centre of a US-UK Tech deal ready to be signed next week.
MPs and the public know nothing about its contents, as the government has been even more secretive than Johnson’s on trade.
But we know enough to be very worried 🧵
MPs and the public know nothing about its contents, as the government has been even more secretive than Johnson’s on trade.
But we know enough to be very worried 🧵
September 9, 2025 at 8:38 AM
They’re selling our country to US corporate tech bosses without our consent or even letting us see the deal - it’s FUCKED UP.
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The UK Parliament had a full opportunity to recalibrate #dataprotection & #ePrivacy compliance for #AdTech in Data (Use and Access) Act & did so. In immediately eroding these rights, the ICO’s stance would seriously undermine both the rule of law and democratic processes. 3/3
September 1, 2025 at 10:17 AM
The UK Parliament had a full opportunity to recalibrate #dataprotection & #ePrivacy compliance for #AdTech in Data (Use and Access) Act & did so. In immediately eroding these rights, the ICO’s stance would seriously undermine both the rule of law and democratic processes. 3/3
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The sheer lack of self awareness and integrity required for them to post that juxtaposed with multiple articles about the unethical and dangerous realities of the actions of these tech companies is staggering.
@theguardian.com has been completely compromised by these scam artists.
@theguardian.com has been completely compromised by these scam artists.
September 1, 2025 at 10:46 AM
The sheer lack of self awareness and integrity required for them to post that juxtaposed with multiple articles about the unethical and dangerous realities of the actions of these tech companies is staggering.
@theguardian.com has been completely compromised by these scam artists.
@theguardian.com has been completely compromised by these scam artists.
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I wouldn’t have thought many Labour MPs came into politics to strip the rights of torture survivors to be reunited with the spouses & children.
They need to take a long hard look in the mirror & ask whether Starmer, Cooper & Reeves are really the leadership their careers should be remembered with.
They need to take a long hard look in the mirror & ask whether Starmer, Cooper & Reeves are really the leadership their careers should be remembered with.
September 1, 2025 at 7:43 AM
I wouldn’t have thought many Labour MPs came into politics to strip the rights of torture survivors to be reunited with the spouses & children.
They need to take a long hard look in the mirror & ask whether Starmer, Cooper & Reeves are really the leadership their careers should be remembered with.
They need to take a long hard look in the mirror & ask whether Starmer, Cooper & Reeves are really the leadership their careers should be remembered with.
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The EU is a market with 450 million people.
There is vast public support for regulation of big tech and for companies to meet their responsibilities.
Giving in after a decade of efforts in this space is undesirable and unnecessary.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/b...
There is vast public support for regulation of big tech and for companies to meet their responsibilities.
Giving in after a decade of efforts in this space is undesirable and unnecessary.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/b...
Trump Wants Europe to Stop Regulating Big Tech. Will It Bend?
www.nytimes.com
August 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The EU is a market with 450 million people.
There is vast public support for regulation of big tech and for companies to meet their responsibilities.
Giving in after a decade of efforts in this space is undesirable and unnecessary.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/b...
There is vast public support for regulation of big tech and for companies to meet their responsibilities.
Giving in after a decade of efforts in this space is undesirable and unnecessary.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/b...
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Meta and its pasty robot boy are pouring billions of dollars into "AI" and the products are just hilariously unpopular and bad.
Nobody Likes Zuckerberg's Glitchy AI App
So far the most Meta has to show for it is a glitchy chatbot, a growing chorus of irritated users, and frustrated shareholders who would like to have something show for the billions of dollars spent o...
gizmodo.com
August 19, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Meta and its pasty robot boy are pouring billions of dollars into "AI" and the products are just hilariously unpopular and bad.
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Posting this again. Not enough electricity left to build affordable homes in 3 west London boroughs, because all capacity has been used by a data centre.
#affordablehousingUK
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/repo...
#affordablehousingUK
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/repo...
Report: Home building to halt in West London, due to data center power demands
All the electricity capacity is already used up, GLA tells developers
www.datacenterdynamics.com
August 14, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Posting this again. Not enough electricity left to build affordable homes in 3 west London boroughs, because all capacity has been used by a data centre.
#affordablehousingUK
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/repo...
#affordablehousingUK
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/repo...
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Ohhhhh, Douglas Adams, how we miss ya.
Google Gemini doesn’t appear to be doing too well:
‘"I am a disgrace to this planet. I am a disgrace to this universe. I am a disgrace to all universes . . . I am a disgrace to all possible and impossible universes and all that is not a universe," the bot continued.’
‘"I am a disgrace to this planet. I am a disgrace to this universe. I am a disgrace to all universes . . . I am a disgrace to all possible and impossible universes and all that is not a universe," the bot continued.’
Google says it's working on a fix for Gemini's self-loathing 'I am a failure' comments
Google Gemini users said the bot is sharing self-loathing messages while attempting to solve tasks, including "I am a disgrace to this universe."
www.businessinsider.com
August 8, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Ohhhhh, Douglas Adams, how we miss ya.