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Graham Smith (thread on Bluesky) re: judgement on Australian eSafety Commissioner’s office shortcutting of formal process to demand content takedowns from Twitter/X
It appears that the Australians have been playing fast and loose with the formal system for content takedowns, and someone finally complained:
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I hope one day that our Online Digital Rights, Civil Society, Safety & Privacy advocates will remember that “online harms” fall into *three* categories:
1/ those which *bombard you with adverts* 2/ those which *make you feel fear, dread, or suicidal* 3/ those which *get you rounded up by the government* …and they will consider whether their extended fixation with the first two has caused them to ignore the third for rather too long?
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In This Blog Post: Links to Media coverage of the UK Home Office TCN / Technical Capability Notice demand for a backdoor into iCloud & iMessage Backups
I’ll add links to postings as comments, below. Click for access. Check back for updates. See also: https://github.com/alecmuffett/ready-made-twitter-searches#apple-uk-home-office-tcn-on-imessage-icloud-backup-encryption
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Ready-Made Twitter Search for “APPLE: UK HOME OFFICE TCN ON IMESSAGE ICLOUD BACKUP ENCRYPTION BACKDOOR”
Click here: https://github.com/alecmuffett/ready-made-twitter-searches#apple-uk-home-office-tcn-on-imessage-icloud-backup-encryption
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“[ @UKHomeOffice ] orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts [iCloud Backups]” | WaPo | …and now we wait to see how Apple responds
Technical Control Notices — secret orders to platform providers to drill holes in their security to support non-global, nation-state security interests, so “Britain” or “China” rather than “keep everyone safe” — have been issued by the UK against Apple. Of course, once a hole is drilled for one nation, it will be used by [representatives of]
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Democrats Should Be Stopping A Lawless President, Not Helping Censor The Internet, Honestly WTF Are They Thinking | Techdirt
The bill, which is a “bi-partisan” bill initially pushed by Democratic Senator Brian Schatz (in partnership with fellow Dem Chris Murphy, along with Republicans Ted Cruz and Katie Britt) is sort of a an attempt to create a “more palatable” version of KOSA, but which is still a censorship bill at its core. KOSMA reared
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Copium & Puerversiveness: when geeks aren’t as clever as they think they are
We understand copium, but to properly describe the stupidity that I read in an ArsTechnica post I sought refinement and asked some LLMs: “…is there a word to describe the state of self-delusion that one is being subversive and challenging authority through disruptive means?” ChatGPT suggested a neologism: Kakistodicy [is] a blend I created based
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Daring Fireball: ‘Apple in China’ | New Book by Patrick McGee | …one day I might make the time to read this book
Gruber seems positive about it: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/02/03/apple-in-china-mcgee
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Honestly can’t tell if Civil Society believes that copyright-breaking LibGen & SciHub are rebel heroes or piratical villains
The EFF seem in favour, Wired not so much. Overall civil society seems undecided; or is it only a problem if you take all this data that’s already copyright-broken and lying around on Russian websites, and then feed it into a Large Language Model rather than Adobe Acrobat? EFF: “…Sci-Hub, a project to provide free
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I just want to take this unparalleled opportunity, by example, to demonstrate how “we must force social network platforms to be more transparent” will make policy debate more toxic
Elon Musk and his henchvolk roam free though the fields of US Government data, and this has led to amateur political analysis of data, even stuff that has been available to the public for many years, with bias and without understanding, let alone context. Fanatics + Politics + Data = Prolific Misinformation This is a
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Reminder: merely a few months ago we were all worried about audio & video “deep fakes” and now even the Guardian is extolling their positive uses
Of course, they may not realise that that is what they are doing. Daisy is, of course, not a real grandmother but an AI bot created by computer scientists to combat fraud. Her task is simply to waste the time of the people who are trying to scam her. O2 rolled out “AI granny” Daisy