Olives @olives@qoto.org

https://cdt.org/insights/cdt-files-amicus-brief-in-stark-v-patreon-supporting-the-free-speech-and-privacy-protections-provided-by-the-video-privacy-protection-act/

#Patreon files challenge to the constitutionality of the Video #Privacy Protection Act (#VPPA). This is in relation to Patreon sharing people's video watching habits with third parties*, in violation of this statute.

CDT, EFF, and ACLU filed amicus briefs against that, it seems.

* https://techpolicy.social/@CenDemTech/111620828690097888

https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2023/12/the-most-dangerous-canadian-internet-bill-youve-never-heard-of-is-a-step-closer-to-becoming-law/

"However, Bill S-210 goes well beyond personal choices to limit underage access to sexually explicit material on Canadian sites. Instead, it envisions government-enforced global website liability for failure to block underage access, backed by website blocking and mandated age verification systems that are likely to include face recognition technologies. The government establishes this regulatory framework and is likely to task the CRTC with providing the necessary administration. While there are surely good intentions with the bill, the risks and potential harms it poses are significant."

Canadian anti porn "save the children" #privacy invading bill closer to becoming law. It is presumably incompatible with Canada's constitution, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. #WarOnPorn

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/dec/21/un-anti-torture-watchdog-australia-custody-numbers-spit-hood-ban

"The United Nations’ anti-torture watchdog has urged Australia to curb the extraordinary number of people awaiting trial or sentencing in jails and ban the use of spit hoods.

A report, released by the UN subcommittee on the prevention of torture (SPT) this week, also called for the limiting of routine strip-searches. It comes after the body visited Australia in October last year but terminated the visit after it was prevented from entering detention facilities in New South Wales and Queensland."

That's not good.

"“Children were left alone in their cells for up to 23 hours per day, amounting to de facto solitary confinement, with lighting in cells controlled from outside,” it said."

Oh no. Not solitary. That can be very psychologically harmful (I think the strip searches too can be psychologically harmful). Although, frankly, the rest of these conditions are not, are not good.

https://qoto.org/@olives/110847252096826064 I've commented on other articles regarding solitary before, although not one in Australia.

#auspol

https://reason.com/2023/12/20/this-innocent-woman-is-on-the-hook-for-thousands-after-a-swat-team-destroyed-her-home/

"In June of 2022, law enforcement arrived at a modest home on East Calvert Street in South Bend, Indiana. They threw dozens of tear gas grenades into the house, launched flash-bangs through the front door, smashed windows, destroyed the security cameras, punched holes in the walls, ripped a panel and fan from the bathroom wall and ceiling, ransacked and tossed furniture, snatched curtains down, and broke a mirror and various storage containers. The tear gas bombs left openings in the walls, floors, and ceiling. Shattered glass lay strewn across the interior, and a litany of personal belongings—from clothing, beds, and electronics to childhood drawings and family photos—were ruined.

Police had their sights set on a man named John Parnell Thomas, then a fugitive, who is now behind bars. But law enforcement didn't apprehend Thomas at the residence on East Calvert, as he did not own the home, did not have any relationship with its owners, and had never been there."

This part is for #CriminalJustice.

"A faulty investigation led police to Hadley's house. An officer with St. Joseph County attempted to locate Thomas via Facebook, concluding erroneously that he was accessing social media from the IP address tied to the Hadley residence."

This part is for #privacy.

By not compensating her, they might be in violation of the Fifth Amendment.

"AI is a bubble." It does have that vibe to it, doesn't it, lol. Quite a few grandiose promises.

Interesting to see some U.S. lawmakers questioning the authoritarian antics of the E.U.

https://journalnow.com/north-carolina-sends-6-year-olds-to-court-why-some-say-its-time-for-change/article_e2a15a82-8383-11eb-91ee-43ce7c88753b.html It could be worse. There was a case where a younger child picked a flower off a yard and they tried to nab them for "vandalism" or something. Black. #CriminalJustice

https://reason.com/2023/12/20/10-year-old-kid-offered-probation-for-peeing-behind-his-moms-car/

"A Mississippi 10-year-old has been sentenced to three months' probation for urinating behind his mother's car. But the boy's mother is refusing to sign his probation agreement, citing the stringency of the agreement's terms.

"It's just a regular probation. I thought it was something informed for a juvenile. But it's the same terms an adult criminal would have," Carlos Moore, the family's attorney, told the Associated Press on Tuesday. "We cannot in good conscience accept a probation agreement that treats a 10-year-old child as a criminal.""

"The fact that police—and prosecutors—responded so aggressively to a completely nonviolent child has led Moore to suggest that racial bias has played a role in the boy's case."

I did have that immediate thought, that they probably wouldn't have done it, if he was white. #CriminalJustice

https://www.audacy.com/krld/news/state/texas-da-loses-fight-against-netflix-over-french-film Apparently, that's what happened with Cuties. I forgot about that incident.

https://reason.com/2023/12/20/sentencing-commission-again-proposes-restricting-judges-use-of-acquitted-conduct/

"A government panel could soon limit a little-known but outrageous practice that allows federal judges to enhance defendants' sentences based on conduct a jury acquitted them of.

The U.S. Sentencing Commission published proposed amendments to federal guidelines on December 14 that include three potential options to restrict judges' ability to use acquitted conduct at sentencing—a practice that a wide range of civil liberties advocates say is antithetical to the principles of the American justice system."

#CriminalJustice

Honestly, rather than using LLMs as some magic tool in every widget, I think it'd be more interesting used as a game.

Think roleplaying game. That'd be cool.

Yes, I like the idea of "AI" run on your local machine, rather than some thing running on the servers of your corporate overlords.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wizard_of_New_Zealand In New Zealand, they even had their own Wizard working for the government, and presumably, protecting the realm, lol.

If you have a problem with stupid politicians complaining about online porn in Europe, then you should contact them about that.

One moment.

https://qoto.org/@olives/111516011246609826 Here's some scientific resources which show it isn't awful.

Have you considered the possibility that we're already in Hell?

@ella

https://eupolicy.social/@1br0wn/111611995353395257

What does EDRi think of privacy intrusive "age verification" for porn sites?

Also, there is significant room for over reach here in terms of content removal.

https://qoto.org/@olives/111516011246609826 Also, viewing porn is unrelated to crime.

#DSA

We know that platforms have made inappropriate judgements in this area, particularly in regards to artistic works, and there appears to be implicit conflations here.

Also, in quite a few cases, someone might insinuate one thing, then another might be represented.

For now, SFW / NSFW should suffice, to explain that:

"sexy" doesn't necessarily mean NSFW.

Some degree of "nudity" isn't necessarily that strange to see either, particularly in a cartoon style, unless someone is prudish to a degree I'm not sure exists. At the very least, that is silly to censor.

One that was dropped from that update, for now, was "a few have conflated "sex", "sexy" and "nudity", because it was a more complicated one to explain.

"othering" was compacted, although it's there, because I didn't want it to dominate Part 2.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/12/victory-utah-supreme-court-upholds-right-refuse-tell-cops-your-passcode

"Last week, the Utah Supreme Court ruled that prosecutors violated a defendant’s Fifth Amendment privilege against self incrimination when they presented testimony about his refusal to give police the passcode to his cell phone. In State v. Valdez, the court found that verbally telling police a passcode is “testimonial” under the Fifth Amendment, and that the so-called foregone conclusion exception does not apply to “ordinary testimony” like this. This closely tracks arguments in the amicus brief EFF and the ACLU filed in the case."

#privacy