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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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Gender-based violence orgs: how much do you know about encryption?
At Chayn, we believe encryption is a feminist issue and a matter of gender justice. Most importantly, it’s vital to protecting survivors of gender based violence. From safeguarding private messages and access to medical information, to shielding activists from state surveillance, strong encryption isn’t just tech, it can be a lifeline. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/chayn_gbv-encryption-feminism-activity-7366061863610032128-J_It
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Horrific video shows racial abuse of Halifax healthcare worker in park | YorkshireLive
I cannot understand why anybody with a liberal disposition would be inclined to force ID Cards – digital or otherwise – onto the British population in order that racists can have more “LET’S SEE YOUR ID CARD THEN” ammunition. These people are obscene: https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/local-news/row-row-row-your-boat-32381503
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Australia to Enforce Mandatory Social Media Age Checks | Australian e-Safety Commissioner bans plotline of Bluey episode
Bluey is a phenomenon, especially if you are a parent. It’s the finest export from Australia since Kylie Minogue & Steve Irwin. Series 2 Episode 24 “Faceytalk” is all about young kids in an extended family sharing silly times together over social media. Admittedly it does end in one of the kids overexcitedly drowning a
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Huntress Endpoint Detection and Response “does an (alleged) Kaspersky” and chooses to dox a customer having unilaterally decided the customer is evil
…we determined that the host that had installed the Huntress agent was, in fact, malicious. We wanted to serve the broader community by sharing what we learned about the tradecraft that the threat actor was using in this incident. In deciding what information to publish about this investigation, we carefully considered several factors, like strictly
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