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THIS AWESOMESAUCE THREAD:
Growing up, my Muslim family never celebrated Christmas. This year I am not going home, because pandemic, so my roommates are teaching me how to have my first proper Christmas. I am approaching this with anthropological precision. Here are a few observations. pic.twitter.com/1WARv5nax4 — Mohammad Hussain (@MohammadHussain) December 19, 2020
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Analysis: #VoCO #AgeAssurance & #AgeVerification by @GCHQ & @DCMS – at least now they are being honest about “we must make this legally obligatory in order to force market adoption”
A few years ago, I was part of an Open Rights Group campaign on Age Verification for porn and adult-content websites – specifically: pointing out how flawed the proposed implementations were how they would become dangerous repositories of sensitive information how they do not meet the extra obligations relating to “data concerning a person’s sex
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Awww, I’m still getting comments about #freeFelix
That’s really nice 🙂 – for anyone who doesn’t get the reference:
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By digging around on the Internet, I found a previous draft (v2) of the @DCMS @GCHQ #VoCO #AgeAssurance #AgeVerification Report; and there’s only one weird difference…
So there is the November / version 4 of this report, as linked on the HMG website. But there is also a September / version 2 of this report, as found in an S3 Bucket, linked from a project that I found called “The Government Says”, and when you compare the two files, as I
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I know that a bunch of you were joking when you suggested that @GCHQ was proposing “phrenology” as a means of #AgeVerification & #AgeAssurance; BUT THEY WEREN’T JOKING: “Facial Morphotypes”
…and “Gaits” and “Social Network Data” and “Patterns of App Use”, but especially…
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NYTimes: Zoom executive uses privileged access to user communications (before #endToEndEncryption) to quash Tiananmen memorials; yet for some reason @GCHQ doesn’t want us to have real #E2EE?
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/18/technology/zoom-tiananmen-square.html He would join conversations and then false-flag/taint them to get them taken down: Gosh, if only there was a technology which could be adopted to provide privacy and integrity of all communications against the efforts of all comers, including the Chinese government? Elsewhere: UK Govt could block Facebook plans for End-to-end Encryption