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Wow: “On age assurance, we are looking at the sort of emerging technology whereby, for example, one can look at how children type and use artificial intelligence to see that it is a child rather than an adult.” @DCMS
Firstly, this is a bad idea, being as it is not merely magical-thinking woo-woo that will have problems at scale, but also is the sort of surveillance which (for example, and if it worked slightly at all) it Facebook were to deploy it, people would explode with rage at them for doing so. Why, then,…
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“We don’t want to ban *good* anonymity, we just want to ban *bad* anonymity. Which is to say: all the anonymity where we don’t know who is doing it.”
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/lords/?id=2020-12-16a.1706.5#g1713.1
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UK parliamentarians of both parties, demanding that @Facebook embed #ArtificialIntelligence “Spy-in-the-Cab” #surveillance software into @Messenger & @WhatsApp
Yvette Cooper: Will he confirm that that means major platforms will need to use this automated technology on the end-to-end encrypted private channels? https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2020-12-15a.146.0#g162.5
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It’s interesting to read Baroness @GreenJennyJones rightly railing against ad-hoc #EquipmentInterference (EI) in favour of… #RIPA and the TCN-enabled EI that it offers
I am generally in favour of properly-authorised, individualised, non-scalable and non-generalised, warranted “Equipment Interference”. I believe that the effort and cost of hacking an individual’s device(s) is an act proportionate to the tests of lawfulness, accountability and necessity, akin to executing a search warrant upon someone’s home. It’s reassuring that someone in the Lords appears…
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Pretty: A long time ago I used to think that Conway’s “Game of Life” was the zenith of cool, but…
https://paveldogreat.github.io/WebGL-Fluid-Simulation/
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I honestly can’t decide whether Github’s removal of cookie banners means that EU privacy activists will spend more time celebrating, or trying to sue them:
The urge to play policeman is strong in the privacy community, and Github is now owned by Microsoft (and capitalism, and therefore wrong) – so I’m going to start a timer for how long it is until we see coverage of some privacy wonk finding a new way to attack what Github is doing. GitHub…
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Hallelujah, finally some reasonable coverage regarding section 230
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/what-is-section-230-and-why-do-so-many-lawmakers-want-to-repeal-it/
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Analysing the FLIR-One camera pics, finding heat leaks that need to be plugged
The very bright spot is the boiler vent; the hot water tank is against the wall vertically above it, which rather skews the perception.
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Via @stoya, a really interesting and pretty accurate explainer on how porn image classifiers work, and how people can explore, learn to work with & around them.
So I found this resource via Stoya’s instagram story: video 1: https://www.instagram.com/p/CIzsJlugi0y/ video 2: https://www.instagram.com/p/CI4blRIgHDf/ overall opsec guide for sex workers: https://www.instagram.com/madame_mammaries/guide/the-swers-guide-to-instagrams-new-tos-update/17882585107886830/ …be aware that the links go to Instagram and contain some racy material – which is germane to the matter under discussion; but rarely have I seen such a well-grounded discussion of the…