Mark Richards @markalanrichards@librem.one

Most UK local government councils are sharing personal data with advertisers, some for profit
https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2019/11/96-of-councils-found-to-hand-over-users-data-to-marketing-firms/

Pre-checked cookie consent unlawful
https://thecloudlawyer.net/2019/10/16/are-your-cookies-from-planet-49/

opt-out consent is newspeak.
Consent is an act to agree to a future event.
In many websites, cookies are already sent by the time you see the opt-out, so if much of the cookie consent mechanisms were applied to sex; then we'd be calling it rape.

Privacy Badger complaining on the privacy regulator's site

British privacy regulator (ICO) breaches privacy (again)
https://markalanrichards.com/2019/10/08/British-privacy-regulator-breaches-privacy.html

Typical software development

UK remainers and privacy conscious leavers might want to contact the Brexit Party to stop them from profiling them.
https://www.thebrexitparty.org/privacy-policy/
"The Brexit Party aim to create and maintain a profile for each registered voter in the UK. "
" If you wish, you can ask us not to maintain a profile in your name using the contact details above and we will take steps to remove you from our systems."

Firefox: Leave my DNS alone https://markalanrichards.com/2019/09/14/firefox-leave-my-dns-alone.html
@mozilla

I made a microservice for clustered scheduling. Probably done before, built on quartz, interested in thoughts https://github.com/markalanrichards/micro-scheduler #java