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Michael Veale

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Michael Veale writes michael veale, a personal blog at michae.lv about politics and security. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Deleting DMs from Twitter Using the GDPR”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-01, and you can follow it by feed.

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3mentions?
3HN people?
2020–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2022

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Michael Veale's personal site, linked for an access template. A commenter cites it as the method from a story about a phone that was spying on its owner and the companies behind it.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

professor of technology law and policy, UCL

Most-linked posts?

  1. Deleting DMs from Twitter Using the GDPR
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-12

What Hacker News says?

  1. For those interested, Michael Veale’s template : https://michae.lv/access-template/ (From the "Method" part at the end of the full article : https://nrkbeta.no/2020/12/03/my-phone-was-spying-on-me-so-i... )

    Comment linking /access-template/

    on “My Phone Was Spying on Me, So I Tracked Down the Surveillants”
  2. Submitted Deleting DMs from Twitter Using the GDPR as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Deleting DMs from Twitter Using the GDPR as a story · 1 points

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