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Bart Preneel: “The full Belgian presidency chatcontrol proposal has been leaked…”
> The full Belgian presidency chatcontrol proposal has been leaked by netzpolitik […] This proposal fails to protect children, leads to mass surveillance and presents a large risk of abuse. The criticism in our open letters is unfortunately still valid.
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AI plays NetHack, runs into long-forgotten lunar code
I dimly remembered that NetHack had this feature, although I never played it much; where modern immersive games track the sun and weather (PokemonGo, for one) back in the days of VT100 we had more blunt easter eggs for addicted players… Unrolled at: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1793930355617259811.html
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Google & Apple keeping Reddit & X in app stores despite pornography due to revenue, [Australian] eSafety boss says
Wait until she finds out that you can also access Reddit & Twitter using something called a “web browser” > The eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, told Senate estimates on Thursday that a French trial of age verification technology on global porn sites had “created so much friction that French users just went to sites
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A few weeks ago I broke my hip…
…due to a surprisingly silly fall which resulted in an ambulance journey and a rough week in hospital, since which I have been recovering at home. I’m now comfortably tottering around the house and outdoors on crutches, and I’m astounded that less than 100 years ago I would (at best) still be in traction in
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Consent to be scanned – or get banned! | …the EU’s pursuit of ChatControl decides to copy Meta’s “forced user consent is adequate to permit surveillance” approach
I’m pretty sure that there’s extant debate in the European Commission which disagrees with this approach more generally. EDRi writes: > the Belgian government has proposed a new supposed ‘solution’ to the Chat Control (Child Sexual Abuse Regulation) deadlock in the Council. Providers of private communications services must ask people to consent to faulty AI-based
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Could a Senate bill cause age verification laws to apply to Netflix? Experts say yes | The Globe & Mail
The “true north strong and free” frets about “Netflix and Chill”: > During committee testimony Monday, Ripley confirmed the government’s interpretation that as written, the proposed law would make it a rule for services like Netflix to verify the age of their users. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-could-a-senate-bill-cause-age-verification-laws-to-apply-to-netflix/
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Opinion: Ottawa wants the power to create secret backdoors in our networks to allow for surveillance – The Globe and Mail
Oh, Canada. > A federal cybersecurity bill, slated to advance through Parliament soon, contains secretive, encryption-breaking powers that the government has been loath to talk about. And they threaten the online security of everyone in Canada. Bill C-26 empowers government officials to secretly order telecommunications companies to install backdoors inside encrypted elements in Canada’s networks.
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Mozilla urges WhatsApp to combat misinformation ahead of global elections
“There must be bad stuff! They just aren’t showing it to us!” > The data that they gathered formed the basis of an award-winning paper they wrote called “What circulates on Partisan WhatsApp in India?” Although the findings were surprising — Garimella and Chandrachud found that misinformation and hate speech did not, in fact, make
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Best Fit Proportional Constituency Allocation | by @djstimms
This is a fun proportional representation idea which I haven’t seen before (not that I’m an expert) https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1795551697860792632.html
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It’s nice to see Ciaran Martin RTing Yann LeCun on AI Doomerism, and worth quoting in full
Worth saving and quoting in its entirety. > The Doomer’s Delusion:
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Xi Jinping’s recipe for total control: An army of eyes and ears | The Japan Times
As with many aspects of the state the most urgent challenge is to convince people of its utter necessity in every aspect of life, that it is under threat, and that that is their problem to solve. > The wall in the police station was covered in sheets of paper, one for every building in
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Inside the scramble to ‘prebunk’ election misinformation before it takes hold | The Washington Post | FULL ARTICLE
A gift link from one of the authors, so you can read the entire article. Radical _heresy_ of course, to suggest that misinformation is best combated directly rather than solved by “imposing a duty of care on platforms”. > Election officials around the world are adopting “prebunking” campaigns, as AI and other threats jeopardize voting.