Valerie O'Neill

Founder of Baycloud with @incloud
Fully functioning, privacy respecting CMP that really works,
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[Valerie O'Neill @minabird]

This pattern is in much wider use than online pharmacies. The majority of online retailers we have scanned include third-parties on their websites that collect email addresses used for tracking across the entire web.
https://t.co/aD7E2kqdLd

[BBC Earth @BBCEarth]

Tiger Island 🧡 🐾

Deep in western Nepal, a team of wildlife filmmakers and scientists embark on a groundbreaking expedition to follow the lives of tigers in extraordinary detail. As they track two mothers and their cubs, they begin to uncover behaviours never seen before.

Coming soon.

#TigerIsland #TigerCubs #NewBehaviour

[SzabadonMagyarul 🇬🇧🇭🇺🇺🇦🇪🇺 @SzabadonMagyar]

The new government of Hungary after inauguration.
Never been so cool to be Hungarian.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Often called one of Europe’s best-preserved medieval streets, The Shambles in York is lined with overhanging timber-framed buildings that date back to the 14th century, creating an intact glimpse of the past.

[Andrew Orlowski @AndrewOrlowski]

Once you realise that Effective Altruism is a global cradle-to-grave welfare scheme for midwits, then a lot of their odd behaviour begins to make more sense.

It’s a decentralised cult that gives people even to do (literally) nothing, eg “mid career development grants”. Success is measured in attention not results. It’s all “capacity building”.

There is no attachment to This Year’s Thing. Funding for Next Year’s Thing is already assured. Joe has already moved onto creating a Magic Tree City. The year after it will be something else. Funding is infinite.

[Andrew Orlowski @AndrewOrlowski]

✍️ A fear of speaking the truth to the executive class has helped create the world’s biggest bubble. The AI isn’t working.

A satirical account is doing the job that the media won’t do, and explaining it.

At @TheCriticMag I write about how @gothburz is pioneering a new kind of journalism

https://t.co/sNdWkYdJ2b

[Andrew Orlowski @AndrewOrlowski]

“Companies are cutting human workers who are cheaper than the AI replacing them, to fund AI infrastructure that isn't generating measurable productivity returns”

Gemini thinks I called it in 2023.
But you just can’t trust AI. 😇

[Valerie O'Neill @minabird]

We have just submitted a complaint to the @ICOnews regarding Pharmacy2U sharing our email addresses and other personal data with a US based databroker
https://t.co/7fLY1duqaH
#privacy #GDPR #PECR

[Valerie O'Neill @minabird]

https://t.co/kqrbHfcGlL

[Valerie O'Neill @minabird]

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[David Erdos @DavidErdos]

On back of MPs letter about #TattleLife @iconews said it was investigating. But how can it regulate #onlineabuse when it failed to update its policy guidance for #GDPR despite saying it would do so for +5 yrs, then deleted this & now says it holds no info? https://t.co/evoohyBdTB

[Valerie O'Neill @minabird]

Donald Trump taps Silicon Valley billionaires for policy advice https://t.co/Ag8xjwWHcb via @ft

[Valerie O'Neill @minabird]

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[Kitty Cat Empire @KittyCatEmpire]

love in the purest form 🤍

[Brian Groom @GroomB]

Manchester, March 1934. The 35B tram to Stockport travels down Upper Lloyd Street, Moss Side (Mirrorpix/Manchester Evening News).

[Brian Groom @GroomB]

'It's overwhelming': plastic from 1960s Canada washes up on Orkney beach. https://t.co/TGbXJgAqZo

[David Erdos @DavidErdos]

For more ideas on how deficiencies in monitoring and enforcing #UKGDPR might be tackled see my new working paper at https://t.co/qIgQHOF5oA 3/3

[David Erdos @DavidErdos]

.@iconews new policy to just "record" many UK #GDPR complaints is at serious odds with a @PHSOmbudsman ruling from 11/2025 which held complainants had a right to "an assessment under s. 165 of the DPA as to whether it is likely or unlikely that the processing" was lawful. 1/3

[Rowan McK @remck]

Ignore the awful headline - this is a very, very good read.
https://t.co/G2usDqru2e

[Valerie O'Neill @minabird]

8 years on & the sycophancy seems to have dulled, though not the incompetence

@minabird
11 Feb 2012
Californication https://t.co/gQATGkQxqX …

[Brian Groom @GroomB]

White Horses, 2011, by Kim Haughton, Irish photographer. Unfinished home left empty after the 2008 global recession ended Ireland's boom.

[Brian Groom @GroomB]

Black Cat and Irises, 2001, watercolour by Elizabeth Blackadder (1931-2021), Scottish painter and printmaker.