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Pat Walshe. Advocate for privacy and broader human rights impacted by data.
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”
Martin Luther King Jr (1929-1968)
"True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks (1948-2020)
Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, United Nations report finds
https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/09/1165856
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/16/middleeast/israel-gaza-genocide-un-commission-report-intl
“The AIC alleges that Optus failed to adequately manage cybersecurity and information security risk in a manner commensurate with the nature and volume of personal information that Optus held, the size of Optus, and the risk profile of Optus.” 👏
I’m so fed up of the ‘we’re victims’ culture among some biz … my data has been in breach after breach after breach ..
I had a t-shirt made from one email .. the 1st para is verbatim … I of course added ‘they were real meanies’
In the UK? Help elderly relatives/ friends to NOT fall for this SCAM text message allegedly from the Department of Work and Pensions
… technology & data used to discriminate … to ‘other’ people based on their ethnicity … their religion … tools to deny or abuse fundamental rights as we see in the US now … Orwell’s ‘1984’ is becoming ‘2025’
Orwell is buried in a village nearby. 25 June is the birthday of Eric Arthur Blair
I decided to go along & pay my respects - reflecting on the unprecedented surveillance that is eroding privacy & other fundamental human rights .. & of the increasingly authoritarian & fascist nature of the current US admin & of the role technology and data is playing in oppressing people (Gaza springs to mind) .. in the spread of misinformation & disinformation to sow division and hate … tools of oppression
