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“#AgeAssurance should not be a tool to create a ‘walled garden’ effect where children are isolated or confined into a reduced version of the internet” – what *is* it supposed to achieve, then? Answer: “creative tension” @GCHQ
Source: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/934131/November_VoCO_report_V4__pdf.pdf
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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
Let’s just gloss over the observation that an internet which is instrumented to know whether you are a child, will very likely become instrumented to know precisely who you are. If you are required to know one fact about a user, that fact is likely to be linkable to your identity, for convenience’s sake if
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From @CJFDillow in 2018: “On Britain’s Intellectual Decline”, or perhaps: “TV doesn’t get good Marx anymore”. Nor Wittgenstein, nor Hayek…
https://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2018/05/on-britains-intellectual-decline.html Quote: This poses the question. Assuming I’m roughly right, why might this be? It could be a legacy issue. Back in the 80s, academia was demoralized and in decline. Several good judges told me that if I got a PhD I would be unemployable in the UK. I wouldn’t have been a great academic,
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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
Firstly, this is a bad idea, being as it is not merely magical-thinking woo-woo that will have problems at scale, but also is the sort of surveillance which (for example, and if it worked slightly at all) it Facebook were to deploy it, people would explode with rage at them for doing so. Why, then,
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“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.”
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/lords/?id=2020-12-16a.1706.5#g1713.1
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UK parliamentarians of both parties, demanding that @Facebook embed #ArtificialIntelligence “Spy-in-the-Cab” #surveillance software into @Messenger & @WhatsApp
Yvette Cooper: Will he confirm that that means major platforms will need to use this automated technology on the end-to-end encrypted private channels? https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2020-12-15a.146.0#g162.5
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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
I am generally in favour of properly-authorised, individualised, non-scalable and non-generalised, warranted “Equipment Interference”. I believe that the effort and cost of hacking an individual’s device(s) is an act proportionate to the tests of lawfulness, accountability and necessity, akin to executing a search warrant upon someone’s home. It’s reassuring that someone in the Lords appears
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Pretty: A long time ago I used to think that Conway’s “Game of Life” was the zenith of cool, but…
https://paveldogreat.github.io/WebGL-Fluid-Simulation/