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@ThinkingSapien Yeah, that is the trouble with recent precedent (which the Ninth Circuit is going to have to fix when it reaches them), it opens the door to arguing "this" or "that".

reclaimthenet.org/the-digital-

"Governments and corporations around the world are showing great enthusiasm in either already implementing, or planning to implement some form of digital IDs.

As it turns out ironically, these efforts are presented to citizens as not only making their lives easier through convenience, but also making sure their personal data contained within these digital IDs is safer in a world teeming with malicious actors.

Opponents have been warning about serious privacy implications, but also argue against the claim that data security actually gets improved."

"In numbers, a staggering 50 million records containing personally identifiable information have surfaced on the dark web. The reason so many stolen datasets have made it to the black digital market all at once appear to be “technicalities” related to the time window during which most of it will be “sellable”.

Breaking down that 50 million number, Resecurity said that 22 million records were stolen from a telecommunications company in Peru, which include what’s known there as DNIs – national IDs."

eff.org/deeplinks/2024/01/vict

"Video footage captured by police drones sent in response to 911 calls cannot be kept entirely secret from the public, a California appellate court ruled last week.

The decision by the California Court of Appeal for the Fourth District came after a journalist sought access to videos created by Chula Vista Police Department’s “Drones as First Responders” (DFR) program. The police department is the first law enforcement agency in the country to use drones to respond to emergency calls, and several other agencies across the U.S. have since adopted similar models.

After the journalist, Arturo Castañares of La Prensa, sued, the trial court ruled that Chula Vista police could withhold all footage because the videos were exempt from disclosure as law enforcement investigatory records under the California Public Records Act. Castañares appealed."

"The appellate court agreed that drone footage is not categorically exempt from public disclosure. In reversing the trial court’s decision, the California Court of Appeal ruled that although some 911 calls are likely part of law enforcement investigation or at least are used to determine whether a crime occurred, not all 911 calls involve crimes.

“For example, a 911 call about a mountain lion roaming a neighborhood, a water leak, or a stranded motorist on the freeway could warrant the use of a drone but do not suggest a crime might have been committed or is in the process of being committed,” the court wrote."

reason.com/2024/01/03/maines-b

"Advocates of asymmetrical criminalization say it's beneficial for people selling sex, but a wealth of evidence suggests otherwise. Because no matter what you call it, this model keeps prostitution a black market—which means most of the things that make prostitution dangerous remain intact.

Under "partial decriminalization" like Maine's, it's still illegal for sex workers to work together, to work in safe locations, or to employ people to help keep them safe. Their work is still policed, only now it's deemed for their own good. They still can't advertise openly. They still face reluctance from clients—perhaps more than ever—to submit to screening procedures. And because some segment of law-abiding or risk-averse people are going to be turned off by a criminalized system in a way they might not be under decriminalization, the pool of prostitution customers is tilted toward people who might be riskier in a number of ways."

"One study published in 2023 found that liberalizing prostitution laws led to lower rape rates overall, while passing stricter prohibitions led to increases in rape rates. Implementation of the Nordic Model was associated with the biggest increase.

Research on the Nordic Model in various European countries has found it failed to decrease the prevalence of prostitution"

reason.com/2024/01/02/devolvin

"A federal circuit judge wants the Supreme Court to scrap a longstanding test for determining what is cruel and unusual punishment. In an October speech to the Federalist Society, Reuters reported, Judge Thomas Hardiman, appointed by President George W. Bush to the Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, advocated a "return to the text and original meaning of the Eighth Amendment" and an end to the "evolving standards of decency" test created by the Supreme Court in the 1950s.

In 1958, the Supreme Court ruled that stripping someone's citizenship for committing a crime violated the Eighth Amendment. Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote that, to determine what constitutes cruel or unusual, the Court "must draw its meaning from the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society." That test has since been used by liberal Supreme Court majorities to strike down death penalty protocols, ban capital sentences for crimes that did not result in death, and outlaw death sentences for offenses committed as a minor."

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It's worth noting that while these cases seem spotty and sporadic, these are probably the cases we know about, and it doesn't account for any potential chilling effect.

As always, I would strongly encourage contacting reps at territory, state, and federal levels to oppose any and all censorship.

If "Link History", is buried in a menu somewhere, then it's probably safe to assume that most people will never change the default.

Olives  
https://gizmodo.com/meet-link-history-facebook-s-new-way-to-track-the-we-1851134018 "Facebook recently rolled out a new “Link History” setting that...

gizmodo.com/meet-link-history-

"Facebook recently rolled out a new “Link History” setting that creates a special repository of all the links you click on in the Facebook mobile app. Users can opt-out, but Link History is turned on by default, and the data is used for targeted ads."

"Meta has always kept track of the links you click on, and this is the first time users have had any visibility or control over this corner of the company’s internet spying apparatus. In other words, Meta is just asking users for permission for a category of tracking that it’s been using for over a decade. Beyond that, there are a number of ways this setting might give users an illusion of privacy that Meta isn’t offering."

It was kind of ironic when someone used "generative AI is infringing on Disney's copyrights" as an example of something "absolutely terrible" because Disney is like the ultimate example of copyright being absolutely abused and stretched beyond breaking point.

So, a depiction of Tigger entered the public domain too along with Steamboat Willie, so you can expect him to show up in the sequel to this film, lol.

Olives  
https://nichegamer.com/reviews/winnie-the-pooh-blood-and-honey-review/ Lol.

eff.org/deeplinks/2023/12/taki

This is certainly interesting (I see the EFF has been busy this year), but before risking interacting with people with exceptionally poor takes (probably not from the EFF, mind you), I invite @eff to read the following "articles" (can something be called an article on this platform?) which I wrote (one pertaining to how porn isn't some spooky thing, but also, one about people who almost pathologically* can't stop trying to conflate content containing fictional scenarios / people, with abuse, also engaging in rounds of concern trolling, which is honestly a form of implicit conflation):

qoto.org/@olives/1115160112466 Porn isn't spooky

qoto.org/@olives/1111915432366 Conflation. This doesn't go into any specific conflation but it does go into general patterns of conflation.

Curiously, one of the people I cite here actually used to work for the EFF (as recently as 2018, it seems). Not that I allow him to carry this piece. It's based on a number of observations from a number of people, quite a few locations, what the vast majority of content seems to look like, and *not* trying to project a censorial agenda.

* Metaphor.

One will also attempt to lie to someone's face about apparent "abuse", and trying to depict a general purpose service as being "negligent", then it will turn out it is a photo indistinguishable from legitimate (and even non-sexual) conduct. The sort of (probable very rare) scenario which exists as more of an attempted "gotcha" than a legitimate threat.

Unfortunately, stretching terms (and also methodologies which don't involve actually examining content) seem to be becoming more common.

This is probably just a drop in the bucket of shenanigans. In any case, while moderation is probably important, it doesn't mean there aren't problematic grifters out there trying to make a name out of "dirt".

Robotics; Notes was an unusual but interesting anime, apparently based on a visual novel (quite a few of them are).

I think it was made by the people who came up with Steins Gate, and that other one, Chaos Head.

If there's an Electronic Frontier Foundation, is there also an Analogue Frontier Foundation? Lol.

Then again, maybe there should be an Analogue Frontier Foundation with the sort of civil rights violations that happen in the offline world...

Are there any or related subjects which you'd like me to cover?

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