Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Tag: regulation

“…policy implications of the development of virtual worlds – civil, company, commercial and intellectual property law issues” | …some common sense, some utterly bonkers stuff in this European Parliament report

2024/01/25
Politicians should be using dedicated political messenger apps with record retention

2024/01/25
Joint Briefing on the Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill | A BORING TITLE FOR A TERRIFYING BLOG POST …

2024/01/23
Retired teacher’s pension stopped as provider refuses to believe she is not dead | The Guardian

2024/01/20
Short (but deep-clickable) thread by @matthew_d_green which foreshadows debate about power the UK Government seeks: to prevent fixes of security bugs they are exploiting

2024/01/15
Muffett’s Law of Regulator Usability Perception

2024/01/04
Two ways of dealing with “algorithmic rage-bait…”

2024/01/04
“The greatest lie told to the public is that people make apps to sell data. Data has no value—you can buy a complete data set on the entire US population for under $10,000. In reality, we actually do it to sell engagement. Attention is more valuable than a spreadsheet…” | Nikita Bier

2024/01/03
Statement about the EU Cyber Resilience Act – Bits from Debian | …oh, this is glorious

2023/12/28
Okta says the quiet part out loud: the goal of (all) digital identity systems is to lock people in so that they are under control; “Lock in their loyalty,” indeed

2023/12/28
Am still bemused that when Apple undocumented hardware gets misused by the NSA people are all like “…it must be for testing” yet when I *personally* wrote one cookie-handling goof/bug on Facebook it spawned (1) conspiracy theories (2) academic white papers (3) newspaper headlines and (4) EU-wide lawsuits by Belgian privacy activists

2023/12/28
Meet Joe Biden’s Favorite Hacker – The Messenger | …nice little biography of Dark Tangent

2023/12/27