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CyberSecurity Asset Management (CSAM)| Qualys
Oh dear. So much oh dear. https://www.qualys.com/apps/cybersecurity-asset-management/ Via
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“Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday that adults shouldn’t have to share their personal information to access pornography online” | wow…
“[Another Politician is] proposing that adults should have to give their ID and personal information to sketchy websites, or create a digital ID for adults to be able to browse the web where they want,” Trudeau said of Poilievre. … “That’s something we stand against.” https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-poilievre-porn-age-verification-1.7122645
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The Fundamental Problems with Social Media Age-Verification Legislation – R Street Institute
A sequence of very familiar arguments: https://www.rstreet.org/commentary/the-fundamental-problems-with-social-media-age-verification-legislation/
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Nice thing that a friend told me last night…
“I feel like we have been having basically the same conversation since we first met…” That would have been sometime in or around 2011.
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“…we need evidence from you that the harm [Apple killing WebApps is] choosing to inflict on EU businesses & consumers is real & significant”
Genuinely wondering if this will throw up anything significant; I’m pretty sure the only webapps I use are Mandelbrot generators and a random Aeropress recipe generator. Apple will break Web Apps (PWAs) in the EU within the next week ?? In order to stop them, we need evidence from you that the harm they are
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A turf war between people who want to ban social media for teenagers vs: those who want it regulated to the point of Orwellian surveillance — there can be only one!
Pardon the Highlander reference, but I never thought I’d encounter a drama* of child safety activists, so mutually exclusive in their approaches that each cannot allow the other to exist. On one side the Ghey followers, seeking outright bans on phone & social media access, so post-Brexit children can enjoy the 1970s all over again.
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How to solve all AI-oversight issues at a stroke: Nationalised Foundation Models and free GPU access in Public Libraries; cc: @vestager
Apparently the big problem with Foundation Models is not that they are a concordance of online speech which — given enough time and resource — absolutely anyone can build, which is an issue that nobody wants to address yet. No, the problem is Capitalism, and Monopoly, and apparently all these companies giving away foundation models
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*This* is how you should teach children how to be — and to make *others* — safer, online
Watch the video. This campaign is doing everything that the Online Safety Act — and its proponents — should be doing; a “Sliding Doors” story of choices and their consequences. I cannot imagine UK activists ever writing: “Sexting is sending and receiving intimate photos and videos online. Exciting, because it is a way of flirting.
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Content Moderation and Data Protection | ICO releases a short PDF, which is a bit of a Curate’s Egg on moderation issues
So I am reading this and trying to be positive, but still I get the sense of “when all you do is data protection, everything is a data protection problem” — this occasionally leaks out where ICO refer to platforms that use (rather than practise) moderation, as if it were some sort of tool. It’s
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There’s the thing about AI and “computers can’t be held accountable so must never make decisions”, but then we demand cars be fitted with cameras to not drift over white lines and this happens
[…] I was passing a bicycle the other day, and did what most people do on a road with no other cars – I just drifted over the center line to make room. Without using my turn indicator, because I was just making room. But the car’s lane-assist had gotten accidentally enabled, so the car
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Civil Society: “Woe! Save us, regulators, for evil Capitalism has anticompetitively killed all innovation!” Free Software Community: “Hi! Here’s a new Browser engine, built from scratch!”
Ladybird is an ongoing project to build an independent web browser from scratch. It is being developed as part of the SerenityOS/serenity project on GitHub. There are no downloadable binaries yet, as the project is still very unstable. You can follow the build instructions to build it for yourself. This page is not fancy because we are focusing on