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Leverage the CLOUD Act To Protect Encryption | TechPolicy.Press
Pending any changes to the CLOUD Act by Congress, the Department of Justice should pull the US out of the CLOUD Act agreement with the UK unless the UK withdraws the order it issued to Apple. While there were reports in August that the UK had agreed to withdraw its order, court filings reportedly suggest
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If you want to understand the UK Gov’t institutional mindset around data protection: a 40yo “top secret” document is found in the national archives, and the finder is all of a flutter…
Yes I know about VENONA, yes I understand compartmented & codeword information protection, yes I know some of it could be current, I don’t care, to get there it has gone through official process, it’s likely been in the national archives for 10+ years already, that horse has already bolted, it should not be for
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Briefing: VPNs and the Online Safety Act | Open Rights Group
If adults are using VPNs to by-pass age-checks it is because they do not trust the age assurance providers with their personal data. An adult using a VPN does not impact the safety of a child online. https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/briefing-vpns-and-the-online-safety-act/
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The EU Commission seriously claims: “There is no such thing as #ChatControl.”
Facepalm. They don’t get it.
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“left-wing digital sovereignty” vs: “right-wing digital sovereignty”
Left-wing digital sovereignty: “Nationalise ‘The Cloud’ because it’s foreign capitalism! Seize the means of virtualised software deployment!” Right-wing digital sovereignty: “Citizens must keep their data within the geographical bounds of the nation because we have become jealous of Mark Zuckerberg of national security.”
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Checkpoint Britain: the dangers of digital ID and why privacy must be protected | Big Brother Watch
Our groundbreaking new report, ‘Checkpoint Britain: the dangers of digital ID and why privacy must be protected’ is a timely response to the Government seeming to be on the brink of forcing every UK adult onto a giant digital ID system – all in the name of tackling illegal immigration. https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/no2digitalid/
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Don’t kill people. Don’t kill babies & children, especially, but: don’t kill people. Your politics, faith, nationality, race, class — these don’t matter
Don’t kill people. Neither directly, nor by omission. Ideally, help them. But don’t kill them. Elsewhere, this, on TikTok.
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All calls for “digital sovereignty” are demands for localised authoritarianism, anti-globalism, suppression of public online free speech and public free choice. Including the US & EU, but especially anyone buying Chinese telecoms hardware.
The Internet Coup: A Technical Analysis on How a Chinese Company is Exporting The Great Firewall to Autocratic Regimes Over the past two decades, the Chinese government has been steadily refining their model of internet control using surveillance and censorship technologies domestically while promoting this approach to other nations under the banner of “digital sovereignty”.
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Nadine Dorries raps and mic drops in TikTok video on online safety [act]
Call me cynical but I don’t believe that the Reform Party will do anything about the online safety act, especially if they are embracing people like Nadine Dorries:
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Teaching AIs to know when they don’t know something
LLM hallucinations aren’t bugs, they’re compression artefacts. And we just figured out how to predict them before they happen. When your LLM confidently states that “Napoleon won the Battle of Waterloo,” it’s not broken. It’s doing exactly what it was trained to do: compress the entire internet into model weights, then decompress on demand. Sometimes,
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The first thing that’s going to happen after an age verification provider inevitably gets hacked/popped, is some really scary extortion…
As nicely summarised here by boondaburrah on Twitter, the customer base of an age verification provider provides a target-rich environment of people who have been viewing porn and probably don’t want to talk about it in public. This makes them ripe for extortionists. Avoid age verification, use VPNs to reduce your digital footprint.
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