Olives @olives@qoto.org

Reboosting the post on the Australian consultation on government censorship as it is very important. #auspol #anime #FreeSpeech #FreeExpression

I decided to bring it up again now because Facebook is yet again flaunting the program, despite it being disturbingly opaque, vague, and seemingly broad.

I'm a fairly no nonsense person here, so Facebook operating a platform to sift through other people's data tends to ring alarm bells in my head, *especially* when considering their history when it comes to privacy.

I've commented on Lantern before, such as when Facebook commissioned a phoney "human rights assessment" to essentially justify what they wanted to do.

It is opaque. There are terms which appear alarmingly over-broad. It involves companies who have not been competent in handling such things. It appears to be intrusive.

I have nothing but condemnation for Facebook's (opaque) "Lantern" program and the barely disguised tech cartel it operates under.

We need to have a conversation about whether antitrust legislation is needed here, especially when programs like this come with risks to #privacy and free expression.

Do you trust Facebook with your personal data (from other tech companies)? A "well trusted" custodian of data? Well, that is what Lantern is. A non-consensual transfer of personal data to Facebook on the grounds of it being "suspicious".

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/fourth-amendment-not-sale-act-passed-house-now-it-should-pass-senate
"The #FourthAmendment is Not For Sale Act, H.R.4639, originally introduced in the Senate by Senator Ron Wyden in 2021, has now made the important and historic step of passing the U.S. House of Representatives."
#privacy

https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/17/a16z-backed-rewind-pivots-to-build-ai-powered-pendant-to-record-your-conversations/
This is worse than a regular recording device as it encourages people to collect data about other people (in person no less) by marketing doing so as powering "a nifty little assistant". #privacy

Someone pointed out that APRA doesn't regulate the government's handling of data, lol, unlike the GDPR which does.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00902-2 I think this article over-simplifies what could be done at the end, as it's really not that simple, particularly when you know more about how the Internet works (censorship can be extremely troublesome).

That said, it's a good takedown of a social media moral panic.

https://www.defendonlineprivacy.com/ca/action.php Apparently, a so-called #AgeVerification bill has passed out of committee in #California, so this one is worth taking time to oppose too. #privacy #FirstAmendment

https://act.eff.org/action/tell-the-u-s-senate-stop-risaa-the-fisa-mass-surveillance-expansion Another call to action against the Section 702 expansion, this one is a bit broader than the other one. #privacy

I think it's less that it's dumb and more that this technology is being used in a way that it is clearly inappropriate for.