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By digging around on the Internet, I found a previous draft (v2) of the @DCMS @GCHQ #VoCO #AgeAssurance #AgeVerification Report; and there’s only one weird difference…
So there is the November / version 4 of this report, as linked on the HMG website. But there is also a September / version 2 of this report, as found in an S3 Bucket, linked from a project that I found called “The Government Says”, and when you compare the two files, as I…
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I know that a bunch of you were joking when you suggested that @GCHQ was proposing “phrenology” as a means of #AgeVerification & #AgeAssurance; BUT THEY WEREN’T JOKING: “Facial Morphotypes”
…and “Gaits” and “Social Network Data” and “Patterns of App Use”, but especially…
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NYTimes: Zoom executive uses privileged access to user communications (before #endToEndEncryption) to quash Tiananmen memorials; yet for some reason @GCHQ doesn’t want us to have real #E2EE?
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/18/technology/zoom-tiananmen-square.html He would join conversations and then false-flag/taint them to get them taken down: Gosh, if only there was a technology which could be adopted to provide privacy and integrity of all communications against the efforts of all comers, including the Chinese government? Elsewhere: UK Govt could block Facebook plans for End-to-end Encryption
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“#AgeAssurance should not be a tool to create a ‘walled garden’ effect where children are isolated or confined into a reduced version of the internet” – what *is* it supposed to achieve, then? Answer: “creative tension” @GCHQ
Source: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/934131/November_VoCO_report_V4__pdf.pdf
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Wow2: @GCHQ & @DCMS “VoCO (Verification of Children Online)” – “…[seeking] an internet that actively recognises children and adapts the spaces they use to make them safer by design” #AgeAssurance #AgeVerification
Let’s just gloss over the observation that an internet which is instrumented to know whether you are a child, will very likely become instrumented to know precisely who you are. If you are required to know one fact about a user, that fact is likely to be linkable to your identity, for convenience’s sake if…
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From @CJFDillow in 2018: “On Britain’s Intellectual Decline”, or perhaps: “TV doesn’t get good Marx anymore”. Nor Wittgenstein, nor Hayek…
https://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2018/05/on-britains-intellectual-decline.html Quote: This poses the question. Assuming I’m roughly right, why might this be? It could be a legacy issue. Back in the 80s, academia was demoralized and in decline. Several good judges told me that if I got a PhD I would be unemployable in the UK. I wouldn’t have been a great academic,…