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UK Greens citing Churchill Government re: last time the UK abolished ID Cards
Who would ever have expected? https://x.com/BigBrotherWatch/status/1979502732827320333
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In case you missed it: “US court permanently bans Pegasus spyware maker from hacking WhatsApp”
I rather hope that the same thinking can be applied to Government. https://x.com/jsrailton/status/1979322864953364682
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Do not introduce Digital ID cards | Petitions
Now over 2.9 million signatories: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730194?s=35
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White House Invades Bluesky to Troll, Predictably Gets Mass Blocked
The innately antisocial social network has at least one upside: https://gizmodo.com/white-house-blocked-on-bluesky-2000674092
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When Face Recognition Doesn’t Know Your Face Is a Face | WIRED
Remember those soap dispensers which didn’t work for anybody who had darker skin? Now imagine that they are adopted by an entire government and run everything: https://www.wired.com/story/when-face-recognition-doesnt-know-your-face-is-a-face/
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The ongoing repercussions of the Online Safety Act | BroadbandDeals.co.uk
Whatever you do, don’t go down the age verification route. Our previous advice not to upload personally identifiable information like passport scans to the mysterious operators of overseas websites remains as strong as ever. That’s especially true following news 70,000 government-supplied ID images have been stolen from gaming app Discord, after they were uploaded to
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Educational project for your kids: Mummify a Chicken!
This. Really. https://www.threads.com/@pixiedustandcymbalta/post/DP73fuoDNyp
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4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence | Hacker News
Oh my the fun within the comments! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45614148
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Crossed wires derailed a UK child abuse case for months | The Register | Two botched police CSAM raids on innocent persons because literally crossed wires
…police burst through AFG’s door, only to find SPR and FYC in attendance … Police seized devices from the property and took them away for analysis, which yielded no findings of [CSAM] … an engineer carrying out maintenance on a street cabinet serving both properties eight years earlier crossed two wires, which meant that Individual
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The Ofcom Tea Party: 4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence, British regulator claims “sovereign immunity” to defend itself – and sovereign powers to regulate foreign companies
Ofcom — driven by the letter of British law that they are bound to follow, but still Ofcom — are quietly making Britain look (a) very silly and (b) as if we haven’t yet shucked-off the American Revolution, let alone colonialism. What’s Happened Now? Preston Byrne, lawyer for 4Chan, has published the (apparently full) correspondence
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Microsoft’s OneDrive Begins Testing Face-Recognizing AI for Photos (for Some Preview Users) | Slashdot | …and: “You can only turn off this setting 3 times a year”
Oh FFS, if this turns out to be a legitimate report it’s going to be a nightmare in several different dimensions of stupidity, illiberality & regulatory posturing: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/10/11/0238213/microsofts-onedrive-begins-testing-face-recognizing-ai-for-photos-for-some-preview-users
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US State Department trawls social media for critics of Charlie Kirk, revokes visas…
Seems that the first amendment is being respected selectively: (thread) The State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk. Here are just a few examples of aliens who are no longer welcome in the U.S.:
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