Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Category: uncategorised

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

2020/12/18
From @CJFDillow in 2018: “On Britain’s Intellectual Decline”, or perhaps: “TV doesn’t get good Marx anymore”. Nor Wittgenstein, nor Hayek…

2020/12/18
RT: @NetworkString: >This VoCO stuff from @GCHQ seems awfully dystopian…

2020/12/18
Re: “You Must Be Able To Touch-Type To See Porn”, MPs @david4wantage & @OliverDowden seem to feel that “warrantless corporate #surveillance & tracking is OK so long as it’s state-mandated”

2020/12/18
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

2020/12/18
“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.”

2020/12/18
How UK Tech Policy is drawn: popular but misinformed concerns in 2013 become manifesto commitments in 2015, badly drafted legislation by 2017, infeasibly un-enacted in 2018, & hankered-for by reactionaries in 2020

2020/12/18
UK parliamentarians of both parties, demanding that @Facebook embed #ArtificialIntelligence “Spy-in-the-Cab” #surveillance software into @Messenger & @WhatsApp

2020/12/18
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

2020/12/18
Pretty: A long time ago I used to think that Conway’s “Game of Life” was the zenith of cool, but…

2020/12/18
Sus!

2020/12/18
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:

2020/12/18