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JamesBaker

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Platform power and free expression program manager at @openrightsgroup. (he/him) messaging in a personal capacity on #privacy #civilliberties opposing the automatic exercise of social control through generalised surveillance

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@JamesBaker@social.openrightsgroup.org avatar JamesBaker , to random

📚 18th–19th c. – Novel reading panic
🗞️ Early 1900s – Dime novels & pulp fiction
🦸 1950s – Comic books & juvenile delinquency
🎸 1950s–60s – Rock ’n’ roll
📺 1960s–70s – Television addiction
🎲 1970s–80s – Dungeons & Dragons
🤘 1980s – Heavy metal & Satanic Panic
🎮 1990s – Video game violence and VHS nasties
🌐 2000s – Internet & online danger
📱 2010s–2020s – Social media & smartphone addiction

@JamesBaker@social.openrightsgroup.org avatar JamesBaker , to random

The amount of live show tickets that force you to download you a data tracking app to access them is such a con. Why should going to see live music mean handing over your personal data

@JamesBaker@social.openrightsgroup.org avatar JamesBaker , to random

Hebden Bridge has lost a phone mast. No prior warning just everyone on some networks like O2 just losing signal overnight. But hey the Government wants us all to have digital ID so that’s alright even if we can no longer even access the internet!

@JamesBaker@social.openrightsgroup.org avatar JamesBaker , to random

Wow Mirror now reporting an ad van protesting the Trump visits has been ceased by Police. It appears the U.K. does actually have a free speech crisis! https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/ad-van-picture-donald-trump-35916462

@JamesBaker@social.openrightsgroup.org avatar JamesBaker , to random

Arrested for ‘malicious communication ‘. The communication was projecting an image of Trump with Epstein on Windsor Castle. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/donald-trump-jeffrey-epstein-windsor-castle-b2827891.html

@JamesBaker@social.openrightsgroup.org avatar JamesBaker , to random

Anyone using Grindr will have to upload an ID document and photos to US company Facetec. https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/07/03/grindr-uk-age-assurance-security/ what could go wrong?!

@JamesBaker@social.openrightsgroup.org avatar JamesBaker , to random

Today in at in with @openrightsgroup come along and say hello at our stall.