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“my son’s iPhone died after trying to play fortnite, PLEASE HELP!” | Oops…
Feel the EU-enabled freedom of a cohort of users previously convinced that nothing can ever go wrong, suddenly being exposed to the Windows-like risks of installing random code… https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/s/5RrWNMiPFb via:
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Has anyone yet seen explicit carve outs for surveillance of end-to-end encrypted messenger systems such as ChatControl?
As usual with authority “…we only want to facially recognise the bad people, not us…” — where of course anyone who is not-us is implicitly bad, or at very least a potential risk to us. The NFL is using facial-recognition technology this season for those credentialed for games, including for players, media and vendors. The…
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The evolution of expert communities | @lcamtuf
I wonder if this is a general observation of civil society? > In almost every instance, [online communities of experts] followed the same trajectory — so today, I’d like to put forward a general lifecycle model for expert-led communities: https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/the-evolution-of-expert-communities
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No, the government isn’t planning to introduce ID cards | @Psythor on the companies which are trying to become essential middlemen for the internet
Because rent seeking is always popular: https://takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/trust-but-verify
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Republicans Pump Brakes on KOSA After Realizing It Could Censor Them Too | Techdirt
…according to a new report in The Hill (which claims that there is still work going on behind the scenes to get KOSA moving again), the real reason is that the GOP has realized that the censorial portions of the bill could be used to suppress their own culture warrioring speech: https://www.techdirt.com/2024/08/16/republicans-pump-brakes-on-kosa-after-realizing-it-could-censor-them-too/
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A key part of California’s online safety law for kids is still on hold after appeals court ruling | The Verge
the state’s law “attempts to indirectly censor the material available to children online, by delegating the controversial question of what content may ‘harm to children’ to the companies themselves.” https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/16/24221907/california-age-appropriate-design-code-appeals-court-preliminary-injunction-netchoice
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Barnstorming thread by Ari Cohn on the fear-mongering that surrounds modern technology
Read the whole thing, linked at: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1824252178380316839.html We love, and I mean LOVE, to panic about stuff that there’s no evidence is actually happening in this country. You’d think we’d have learned by now.
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US: states that mandate age verification lead to performative self-censorship of Porn sites; UK: Porn-site holding companies & advocacy groups work with regulator towards “workable” age verification…
Perhaps both sides want age verification but there’s the open question of who profits from it?
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I suspect that this tweet was written by somebody who doesn’t use daily contactless payments
“<BA-DINK> PLEASE RE-PRESENT CARD” “Shit.” > the applications for one time programs embedded in a disposable NFC filament using the latest v5 spec is especially interesting. The content of the NFC can only be read once when given power, making it a real world non fungible consumable. https://x.com/blockrotator/status/1824046422955872271
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This amazing double thread by @daphnehk on California’s cloning of @5RightsFound’s Age Appropriate Design Code…
…are some of the AADC observations which we wish we had seen coming out of the House of Lords, except coming out of the US 9th circuit appeal court because the House of Lords contains Baroness Kidron. Alas, there are too many loose ends still. > The easy part was about the law’s requirement to…
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Brussels [European Commission] slaps down Thierry Breton over ‘harmful content’ letter to Elon Musk | …and rightfully throws @ThierryBreton under a metaphorical bus
Breton is a loose cannon: > On Tuesday the European Commission denied that Breton had approval from its president Ursula von der Leyen to send the letter. “The timing and the wording of the letter were neither co-ordinated or agreed with the president nor with the [commissioners],” it said. An EU official, who asked not…