Here it is, my UK journalism lowlights of the year:

1. Laura Kuennsberg jumping into Pippa Crears' mentions to defend Dominic Cummings after getting a text from.... Dominic Cummings

2. The BBC portraying Rishi Sunak as Superman
3. This piece of Boris Johnson on holiday in The Sun
4. Chris Mason going "OOOF!" to a response to an ice cream company
5. The Twentyman saga
6. This Telegraph front page - No 10 wedding and baby too
7. The Times putting a literal halo on Rishi Sunak
8. This article by Peston on Herd Immunity
9. The ridiculous nonsense around Boris Johnson doing press ups
10. Hipster Analysis
11. Peston with "A moment of great pathos"
12. Laura Kuenssberg portraying the economy in line with Tory messaging as akin to a household budget saying “the credit card, the national mortgage, everything absolutely maxxed out"

https://t.co/YvpGEPo9OM
13. The ludicrous hyperbole around Jess Phillips short lived leadership campaign
14. The Government leaking that Christmas has been cancelled for millions to a journalist who was locked out of her own twitter account
15. Laura Kuennsberg tweeting this ridiculous video about herd immunity
16. Peston calling the UK under Tories "Cuba without the sunshine"
17. The Times piece on "Dishy Rishi"
18. Boris Johnson watching Lord of the Rings
19. Laura Kuennsberg's editorialisation that there had been no opposition for the last 4 years
20. This from HIGNFY
21. A final late entry, The Sun portraying Boris Johnson as Santa

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22. A further late entry, Chris Mason simping here for Boris Johnson

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THREAD:
Instead of attacking those of us raising it, why aren’t mainstream “liberal” journalists on here as outraged as we are about how many senior Democratic Party figures seem to have been compromised by Chinese spies?

Genocide is non-negotiable

#TAGG 🧿

See examples:

1) Dem Senator Feinstein’s staffer for 20 years outed as a Chinese spy


2) Dem Eric Swallwell caught in a female Chinese spy’s snare:


3) Dem Senator Boxer registers as a foreign agent for Chinese surveillance firm:


3) Dem Hunter Biden allegedly invests in Megvii, a firm accused of helping to round up Uyghurs using A+++ facial recognition technology

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Recently, the @CNIL issued a decision regarding the GDPR compliance of an unknown French adtech company named "Vectaury". It may seem like small fry, but the decision has potential wide-ranging impacts for Google, the IAB framework, and today's adtech. It's thread time! 👇

It's all in French, but if you're up for it you can read:
• Their blog post (lacks the most interesting details):
https://t.co/PHkDcOT1hy
• Their high-level legal decision: https://t.co/hwpiEvjodt
• The full notification: https://t.co/QQB7rfynha

I've read it so you needn't!

Vectaury was collecting geolocation data in order to create profiles (eg. people who often go to this or that type of shop) so as to power ad targeting. They operate through embedded SDKs and ad bidding, making them invisible to users.

The @CNIL notes that profiling based off of geolocation presents particular risks since it reveals people's movements and habits. As risky, the processing requires consent — this will be the heart of their assessment.

Interesting point: they justify the decision in part because of how many people COULD be targeted in this way (rather than how many have — though they note that too). Because it's on a phone, and many have phones, it is considered large-scale processing no matter what.
The chorus of this song uses the shlokas taken from Sundarkand of Ramayana.

It is a series of Sanskrit shlokas recited by Jambavant to Hanuman to remind Him of his true potential.

1. धीवर प्रसार शौर्य भरा: The brave persevering one, your bravery is taking you forward.


2. उतसारा स्थिरा घम्भीरा: The one who is leaping higher and higher, who is firm and stable and seriously determined.

3. ुग्रामा असामा शौर्या भावा: He is strong, and without an equal in the ability/mentality to fight

4. रौद्रमा नवा भीतिर्मा: His anger will cause new fears in his foes.

5.विजिटरीपुरु धीरधारा, कलोथरा शिखरा कठोरा: This is a complex expression seen only in Indic language poetry. The poet is stating that Shivudu is experiencing the intensity of climbing a tough peak, and likening

it to the feeling in a hard battle, when you see your enemy defeated, and blood flowing like a rivulet. This is classical Veera rasa.

6.कुलकु थारथिलीथा गम्भीरा, जाया विराट वीरा: His rough body itself is like a sharp weapon (because he is determined to win). Hail this complete

hero of the world.

7.विलयगागनथाला भिकारा, गरज्जद्धरा गारा: The hero is destructive in the air/sky as well (because he can leap at an enemy from a great height). He can defeat the enemy (simply) with his fearsome roar of war.