-
GitHub Copilot is not infringing your copyright | Felix Reda | …essential debunking of “AI-generated content is derivative work” and other myths
On Mastodon I’m encountering people dismissing creative commons and demanding new open source licences which are… open except to people or organisations they don’t like. For lack of this they are earth-scorchingly demanding the removal of their previously-shared wisdoms from StackOverflow under GDPR terms. Fortunately the thread contains a link to this essay from 2021…
-
TikTok countersue US government on grounds of 1st amendment and bill of attainder
> Congress has taken the unprecedented step of expressly singling out and banning TikTok: a vibrant online forum for protected speech and expression used by 170 million Americans to create, share, and view videos over the Internet. For the first time in history, Congress has enacted a law that subjects a single, named speech platform…
-
Thread by @matthew_d_green | …the dangerous trajectory towards requiring government ID for the entire internet
Unrolled at: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1787850791719460933.html
-
Raging Ignorantly At The Internet Fixes Nothing | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/05/07/raging-ignorantly-at-the-internet-fixes-nothing/
-
Have we seen a “trans drugs on the dark web” story yet?
The UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is issuing DNS and search result takedown requests to suppress websites that have been selling off-prescription, DIY hormone treatment. I suspect that the dark web will be the next evolution of the story.
-
China hacked Ministry of Defence, Sky News learns | Politics News
Well, this should be fun, but it also sounds familiar from last few years in the USA: > The cyberattack was on a payroll system with current service personnel and some veterans. It is largely names and bank details that have been exposed. https://news.sky.com/story/china-hacked-ministry-of-defence-sky-news-learns-13130757
-
Nigeria imposes 0.5% “Cybersecurity Levy” on electronic transfers, because of course that’s how you do information security
Western governments are missing a trick: > Following the enactment of the Cybercrime (Prohibition, Prevention, etc) (amendment) Act 2024 and under the provision of Section 44 (2)(a) of the Act, a levy of 0.5 per cent (0.005) equivalent to a half per cent of all electronic transactions value by the business specified in the Second…
-
Charting a Vision of Progress for European Tech Policy | by Kay Jebelli | Chamber of Progress | Apr, 2024 | Medium
> When it comes to tech policy, it seems that there are two increasingly diverging interpretations of today’s world. On the one hand, we are told that technology is challenging our economy, our democracy, our very humanity. We are told that large digital monopolies have stifled innovation and progress, that these platforms are incentivised to…
-
Polish Embassy Interviews 1st Person to Crack Enigma: Marian Rejewski | flyingpenguin
> They feature war hero Marian Rejewski, the 1st person to crack the Enigma code, describing major breakthroughs before and during WWII (which the British rarely, if ever, gave proper credit to Poland): https://www.flyingpenguin.com/?p=56989
-
Complexity, the Law and noyb suing OpenAI
Carey’s entirely plausible analysis of the actual problem with AI and GDPR which is currently being trumpeted by Max Schrems’ project: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/complexity-law-noyb-suing-openai-carey-lening-cdpp-nxxoe