- UK Government King’s Speech proposes “Cyber ASBO” with obvious risk of scope creep into censorshipby alecm
- Don’t take away our freedom to play games when we want | 38 Degreesby alecm
- ‘Von der Leyen Announces the EU’s New Age Verification App Claiming it is “Completely Anonymous” & users “Cannot be Tracked”’ | …the EU is about to have its ‘Clipper’ momentby alecm
- From 2019: ‘If there were 5 million “bad people” on Facebook – terrorists, criminals, drug-dealers, whatever – that would be 0.2% of the userbase’by alecm
- I find it bizarre that the AgeVerification (AV) industry says “platforms don’t want AV because they don’t want private data” – BUT civil society says “platforms DO want AV because they want private data”by alecm
- Trump posts graphic video of slaying to argue for stricter immigration policies | BBC Newsby alecm
- In a X/Twitter post that garnered over 3.2 million impressions, EFF declares X is”…no longer where the fight is happening”by alecm
- A bug on the dark side of the Moonby alecm
- The trial lawyers come for online free speech | Blaze Mediaby alecm
- New Mexico’s Meta Ruling and Encryption | Schneier on Securityby alecm
- Age Verification causing people to stop installing security updates on iPhoneby alecm
- Australian eSafety: “It is a ‘dark pattern’ to permit people to 1/ amend mistakes 2/ be in control of information about themselves 3/ be obliged to validate abuse reports”by alecm
- The Timeless Fear of Corrupting the Youth | WSJby alecm
- The Big Tech verdicts you’re cheering for are actually terrible for free speech | The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expressionby alecm
- ‘…all of the evidence submitted to “prove” Meta knew their product was harmful was internal safety research they were conducting to improve their moderation and detection’by alecm
- ‘The Encryption Problem: Where “Design Liability” Leads’ | … IF YOU ARE CHEERING META LOSING 2X RECENT LAWSUITS YOU ARE SUPPORTING THE END OF ONLINE PRIVACYby alecm
- [Europe] voted today to end chat monitoring 1.0. This ends an exception that was used, in particular, by US Big Tech companies to monitor billions of people’s private messages without suspicionby alecm
- MEPs block tech firms from scanning for child sexual abuse material | POLITICOby alecm
- I am very much looking at the Apple Age Verification (AV) approach as the least bad way to do something terribleby alecm
- Remember that big win on ChatControl a couple of weeks ago? It turns out they didn’t like the result and they want to vote on it again, TODAY. Sorry.by alecm
- This cybersecurity tweet from @SciTechgovuk / DSIT is getting *brigaded* by people pointing out how the UK Government is actively undermining cybersecurityby alecm
- Human rights chief warns against banning social media for kids | POLITICOby alecm
- ‘Restricting access to social media presents “issues of human rights, because a child has a right to receive information just like anybody else.”’by alecm
- Spain: football-match-induced online censorship regularly prevents installation of Postgres on Docker for fear of illicit streamingby alecm
- PseudoDNA: Identifying Critical Vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s PhotoDNAby alecm
- “Natural collisions in Apple’s NeuralHash & Microsoft’s PhotoDNA show worrying false positives/negatives in widely deployed perceptual hashing”by alecm
- Investigation: UK spends millions on VPNs as government weighs ban for children | TechRadarby alecm
- UK House of Lords seeks ban on Swiss Army Knives that “…could be used to cut people”by alecm
- This is absolute perfection: UBUNTU SECURE BOOT AGE VERIFICATION | Hacker.Houseby alecm
- Lawyer mocks Ofcom’s big fine with bigger hamster | RollOnFridayby alecm
- Ofcom accused of posting misinformationby alecm
- Let Me Explain How a State Actor Could Perform a Denial-of-Service Attack on the Entire UK Government in the Wake of Ofcom “Online Safety Act” Client-Side Scanningby alecm
- One Week, Three Stories About Meta, Encryption, & Age Verification, and Why I’m Not Worried About (This Aspect of) Metaby alecm
- Ofcom persist in pretending that 4chan are trading in the UK, rather than accepting that Britons are visiting a foreign websiteby alecm
- I suspect that Ofcom only ever accept that it is “highly effective age assurance” if somebody gets paid, ideally repeatedly | Apple permit “account age” as a means of age verificationby alecm
- Moxie Marlinspike, of Signal fame, announces partnership with Meta to bring end-to-end encryption to Meta AI Chatby alecm
- Meta is shutting down its VR metaverse on June 15th | The Verge | …BUT WON’T SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE REGULATORS?by alecm
- There is an entire genre of tricking AI customer service bots into doing work; but few are pointing out the obvious…by alecm
- Lloyds, Bank of Scotland and Halifax apps showing customers other users’ transactions | BBC Newsby alecm
- A New Jerusalemby alecm
- I have a 2018-era MacMini with 64Gb of RAM + negligible GPU, running a 35 billion parameter model and I’m getting 4 tokens per second out of it; tell me again how we aren’t going to be running AIs locally at home?by alecm
- Ofcom’s [attempted] browbeating of Canada-based online depression forum into compliance with Online Safety Act “Age Verification”by alecm
- “JUST A LINK CAN LEAVE A TRACE” | UK Counter-Terrorism Police are feeding teenagers with horrific, emotional anti-social-media fearmongering that may end in multiple *tragedy*by alecm
- Journalists! Why you should not bother wasting your/everyone’s time covering “Age Verification” on Linux: The “Tug of War” Theory of Open Sourceby alecm
- TikTok incapable of delivering both user privacy *and* user safety, retains capability to surveil user communicationsby alecm
- “Governments should halt plans to roll out age checks on online services until privacy and security concerns are addressed, hundreds of academics said today”by alecm
- Social Media Bans are like the “Peanut Allergy” Bans of the 1990s/2000s: they will unnecessarily create a generation who cannot cope with the digital environmentby alecm
- “The world wants to ban children from social media, but there will be grave consequences for us all”| Taylor Lorenz | …Age Verification is Digital ID via the back doorby alecm
- If you read 1 thing about Social Media Bans this week, it should be Rod Wilson’s magisterial letter to the WSJ; extract, text & link belowby alecm
- Across Civil Society you can almost hear the mumbling of activists suddenly staring at their shoes wondering if they now have to defend AI & “Effective Altruism” against Trumpby alecm