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SFLC (the “Indian EFF”) facing police action & gagging orders for tracking Indian censorship & suppression of speech
An Indian right-wing volunteer paramilitary organisation is claiming that tracking free speech violations and suppression is tantamount to encouraging circumvention. I can’t imagine whom they think that will advantage. more/details: https://sflc.in/sflc-in-statement-condemning-takedown-directions-affecting-digital-rights-organisations-in-india/
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Rachel Cunliffe: “It doesn’t matter if this law had good intentions […it] bans a whole lot of stuff that the people who brought it in just don’t want to talk about. This is their law. This is their JOB.”
If your law is so badly written it bans harmless acts by mistake, that’s a problem with YOU as legislators, not with the people pointing that out Thread: No, the “porn law row” does not risk trivialising VAWG. The terrible wording of the porn law risks trivialising VAWG. If your law is so badly written…
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Guido Fawkes: “IN FULL: The Innocuous & Educational Websites Labour Is Set to Ban for Under-16s”
Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, X, Threads, Twitch, Kick and Reddit.Pinterest, Tumblr, BeReal, Lemon8, Dailymotion, VimeoBluesky, Mastodon, Quora, Substack, Medium, LinkedInDiscord, Yubo, Telegram channelsRoblox, Fortnite (player-made maps), Minecraft Marketplace and servers, Steam community, Rec Room, VRChatYouTube Kids, Lego PlaySpotify, SoundCloudStrava, Letterboxd, Goodreads, Wattpad, Twitch-style streaming sitesVinted, eBay, DepopEtsy, Gumtree, ShpockXbox Live & PlayStation Network messaging…
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Paul Walsh: “Journalists…are going to get bitten in the ass when…their whistleblowers & confidential sources will be forced to verify their real identities before they can communicate privately”
quote: Journalists who interview other journalists about technology related legislation that threatens everyone’s right to digital privacy are going to get bitten in the ass when they realise that they, their whistleblowers and confidential sources will be forced to verify their real identities before they can communicate privately. The British government is trying to outlaw…
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“Privacy is Bad” – @lisanandy; you’d think someone who cares so much about VAWG would not want to stop vulnerable people freely accessing secure communication
Paraphrasing only slightly; you’d think someone who cares so much about VAWG would not want to stop vulnerable people freely accessing secure communication. If an abuser seizes your passport & driving licence, they can effectively gag you.
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DeepMind: “Formal Verification of Signal’s Protocol with Gemini” — illicit surveillance backdoors are becoming increasingly untenable
“How Google DeepMind researchers built a new agentic framework that formally verified the code of Signal’s cryptographic protocol — long considered to be a grand security challenge” https://deepmind.google/blog/introducing-alphaproof-code/ No wonder Governments are pushing hard to get people to welcome overt surveillance.
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Terror tsar: China’s AI bot is rewriting history
“Writing for The Telegraph, he said: “If national security is concerned with protecting our Western democracy with its spirit of open enquiry and commitment to evidence and debate, then Qwen’s self-censorship and attack on the historical record and promotion of Chinese propaganda is a genuine threat.”” https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/11/08/terror-tsar-chinas-ai-bot-threatens-britain/ Archived at: https://archive.ph/kr0ux
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Clade of “Human Emacs” developers want Free/OpenSource software to be small-batch, handmade, organic, untouched by LLMs
To me it’s rather ironic that the people having this argument are largely working in the archetypal AI research language of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s: indeed, i have decided that llms are, at every level, an affront to justice, from who makes and profits and pushes them, to how they are trained, to the…
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30 years since “Smashing The Stack For Fun & Profit” – buffer overflows were the “AI AGENTS WILL DOOM US ALL” threat of the mid-90s
Mass panic and fearmongering are nothing new in information security:
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Government Plans to force #AgeVerification on EBay & Vinted are not due to “Grooming”, but instead…
There’s much speculation re: the plans, and some quite sane commentary (e.g. below) but since Vinted and EBay both have strongly enforced 18+ age requirements, the risk of “grooming” is negligible. I propose that instead there are five forces at work, in approximate order of : Some folk are saying “isn’t it strange that they…
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Le Grand Jackpotting: Activists demonstrate use of new French “Gigabyte Tax” to add €1000s to individual French website costs
Mere hours after a French Socialist Party amendment instituted per-gigabyte taxes upon “platforms” for sending data to French users, French activists are demonstrating their ability to rack-up €10,000 daily costs in “taxes” to be paid by arbitrary French websites — including political parties [All English translations via Google Translate or Twitter, by source] Friday: The…