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David Banisar

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Visiting Fellow at LSE, Intl Fellow at Government Accountability Project, consultant and human rights lawyer. Working on privacy, free expression, transparency, whistleblowing, sustainable development etc. Random mapmaker.


David Banisar's avatar David Banisar @dbanisar.bsky.social
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ID cards are definitely a cure for prejudice and bigots.

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Happy 58th Birthday, FOIA! civic-texts.ghost.io/happy-58th-b... Our rights to access information, challenge unjust secrecy in courts of law, and to arm our fellow citizens with facts are essential to life, liberty, & the pursuit of happiness.

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Needs to be a compilation of Onion articles (with permission of course) to be truly effective.

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And he's buying a stairway to Heaven….

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She was amazing on AOL back in the day too

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Pizza delivery sucks tho so not so prescient.

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Suck on your GDPR now Europe!

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Are you sure it’s not v-necks?

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David Banisar's avatar David Banisar @dbanisar.bsky.social
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Publishing a Russian anti-corruption expose near a fourth floor window?

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David Banisar's avatar David Banisar @dbanisar.bsky.social
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Probably not quite right to say that Meta is cutting the @oversightboard.bsky.social staff as they are an independent organisation funded by Meta and make their own choices. Whether Meta gives enough to fully support them is another matter (tho nearly $300m so far isn’t chicken feed)

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Deeply concerned that things have gotten out of hand at @ioe.bsky.social Is this the last chance to save humanity?

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A reminder of the importance of open justice in ensuring that the public can see what is being done in a trial.

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You could print a commemorative version on an appropriate medium, like toilet roll.....

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Applies just as well in NGO world!

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Depends on your view of the Spanish-American War

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To be fair, I caught it a couple of years ago and I don't think it needs much work. Perhaps a watermelon or balloons to take it over the top.

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I can’t wait to try the PowerPC and break the evil Intel empire.

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Alberta RCMP officer charged with national security breach by accessing records for Rwanda

www.msn.com/en-ca/news/c...

I thought Rwanda was our partner in democracy?

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If we had only listened to the great Gen Jack Ripper when he said, "I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids."

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An update of the global map of countries with comprehensive data protection laws and bills. 160 countries and self-governing jurisdictions around the world have now adopted comprehensive data protection laws or regulations - 8 new in 2023 - covering around 82% of the global population.

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