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Hi, I'm Heather Burns. You’ve reached my personal site. I’m a tech policy wonk based in Glasgow, Scotland. I work for an open web built around international standards of human rights, privacy, accessibility, and freedom of expression.
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The kids (with phones) are alright
How a four-minute video taken on a Scottish train destroyed multiple bad tech policy arguments at once.
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Going bla bla bla about wtf
I had a natter with David Meyer about the past fortnight in UK tech policy drama. We did this deliberately as a casual chat, as opposed to a techlaw deep dive, so don't expect anything too heavy. (I had in fact planned to switch off my brain this summer l
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The Nerve of this woman
Scan your eyeballs, think of the children: how Britain sells surveillance as safety I wrote for The Nerve about the past fortnight in UK tech policy. I know a lot of people expected me to have a lot of things to say about what's happened, but here's the t
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You can walk away.
"Power absent ethics rests on an unshakable ability and desire to punish active resistance - to beat and arrest and try to ruin the lives of people who block freeways and set up encampments and confront lawmakers. But such power has no idea what to do aga
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