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BBC Radio 4 “Last Word” | Obituary for Ross Anderson
Starts at about 07:50 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001yxqh?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
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Congressional Committee Threatens To Investigate Any Company Helping TikTok Defend Its Rights | Techdirt
> “Do you now, or have you ever, worked with TikTok to help defend its rights?” That McCarthyism-esque question is apparently being asked by members of Congress to organizations that have been working with TikTok to defend its Constitutional rights. https://www.techdirt.com/2024/05/10/congressional-committee-threatens-to-investigate-any-company-helping-tiktok-defend-its-rights/
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TheyWorkForYou is 20 years old and is starting a new project!
TWFY is a stalwart of British online democracy, a tool for tracking MPs and their voting interests and enabling their constituents to contact them directly. Their new project: WhoFundsThem — is self-explanatory in its importance. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mysociety_support-whofundsthem-activity-7194275068888186880-cfd7
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UK: “Benefit fraud squad snoops on pupil data under secret deal” | …school records being cross-checked against benefits to detect fraud
The data protection act generally requires personal information to be gathered and used for specific purpose. School records are not gathered to pursue benefit investigations: > The DfE said the data-sharing agreement was “designed to provide confidence that the right and fair amount of benefit is being paid to the right claimant and any children
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US Government forces NetChoice tech lobby group to eject TikTok
So now we have a House Un-American Internet Activities Committee?
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GitHub Copilot is not infringing your copyright | Felix Reda | …essential debunking of “AI-generated content is derivative work” and other myths
On Mastodon I’m encountering people dismissing creative commons and demanding new open source licences which are… open except to people or organisations they don’t like. For lack of this they are earth-scorchingly demanding the removal of their previously-shared wisdoms from StackOverflow under GDPR terms. Fortunately the thread contains a link to this essay from 2021
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TikTok countersue US government on grounds of 1st amendment and bill of attainder
> Congress has taken the unprecedented step of expressly singling out and banning TikTok: a vibrant online forum for protected speech and expression used by 170 million Americans to create, share, and view videos over the Internet. For the first time in history, Congress has enacted a law that subjects a single, named speech platform
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Thread by @matthew_d_green | …the dangerous trajectory towards requiring government ID for the entire internet
Unrolled at: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1787850791719460933.html
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Raging Ignorantly At The Internet Fixes Nothing | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/05/07/raging-ignorantly-at-the-internet-fixes-nothing/
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Have we seen a “trans drugs on the dark web” story yet?
The UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is issuing DNS and search result takedown requests to suppress websites that have been selling off-prescription, DIY hormone treatment. I suspect that the dark web will be the next evolution of the story.