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How Signal’s Meredith Whittaker Remembers SignalGate: ‘No Fucking Way’ | WIRED
On this week’s episode of The Big Interview, [Katie] talked to Whittaker, who also cofounded the AI Now Institute, about the aftermath of SignalGate, the trajectory of artificial intelligence, and the tech industry’s current relationship with politics. https://www.wired.com/story/the-big-interview-podcast-meredith-whittaker-signal/ archived at https://archive.ph/FBj8J
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Open Rights Group: “The Online Safety Act is coming for Streamers”
Basically: ANYBODY WHO IS STREAMING will need to be age verified to make sure that they are not a child, otherwise they will be banned from receiving comments and audience interaction. Video:
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The Guardian uses — and then hides/recants — photos of schoolgirl in article targeting fearful parents; perhaps we need a better conversation?
If, like me, you’re a parent, there’s a good chance that you woke up on Saturday to outraged fellow parents on various group chats, sharing a story from the Guardian: Exclusive: Instagram pictures of girls as young as 13 were posted to promote Threads site ‘as bait’, campaigner says …with a very bait-like photograph immediately
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Keir Starmer set to unveil digital ID scheme | Here we go again, the government believing that KYC needs to be pushed into every (any?) aspect of life
The ID would probably be used for right-to-work checks and to determine whether a person was eligible for a home rental contract, they said. Gosh, is that really such an enormous fucking problem that it is a proportionate economic solution to push 60 million ID cards out? https://www.ft.com/content/f2b333ba-3157-473f-b831-9eb7856c1edd and https://archive.ph/DFRkG
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White House outlines TikTok deal that would give US control of algorithm | Translation: American TikTok will no longer have the working algorithms, and…
…and instead they will push Trump down everyone’s throat. “WE’RE TAKING BACK CONTROL BY BUYING A CAR. THERE’S NO ENGINE BUT THAT’S OKAY…” The White House has announced that US companies will now control TikTok’s algorithm and Americans will hold six of seven board seats for the app’s US operations in a much-anticipated deal with
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Stuff that you don’t see on Reddit in the UK because you aren’t age verified
From groups which are not normally NSFW:
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With the Jimmy Kimmel saga, the media is learning what happens when you give a mouse a cookie | CNN Business
Spoiler alert: The mouse has some more demands https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/19/business/media-business-trump-kimmel The same thinking can and should be applied to British online safety regulation.
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MI6 launch contact website on @torproject dark web / onion services; thank you @FCDOGovUK for validating use of Tor & VPNs in these troubling times
The URL is linked below due to excessive line length; I’m disappointed that they did not deploy on HTTPS over Tor, but that’s what you get for having pentesters build darkweb sites. 🙂 [edit: a previous version thanked the HO not the FCO, my bad, but also good that some part of the Government is
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Has Britain Gone Too Far With Its Digital Controls? | The New York Times
Yes. And the Tony Blair institute is a lot of the problem. “There’s a big philosophical debate going on here,” said Ryan Wain, the executive director of the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, a London group started by the former prime minister that supports the government’s policies. “There’s a big question about what is
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Massive Attack Turns Concert Into Facial Recognition Surveillance Experiment | “…Imagine you’re vibing to Teardrop when your face appears on the LED screen behind the band…”
…The audience split predictably along ideological lines. Privacy advocates called it a boundary violation disguised as art. Others viewed it as necessary shock therapy for our sleepwalking acceptance of facial recognition in everyday spaces. Both reactions prove the intervention achieved its disruptive goal. And the state will revolt at anyone or anything exercising capabilities that
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