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web.archive.org/web/2024011304

Another British case. Have they considered the possibility that such incidences occur due to the existence of a black market here...? That if cannabis was legal, this wouldn't happen?

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As some pointed out, limiting 's enforcement to just the FTC doing it, wouldn't really fix the bill. Though, Blumenthal still wants AGs to be able to do so (despite them being even more prone to political grandstanding).

It's worth considering that, at best, it would likely lead to status quo, or worse, they'll be chasing every little possible moral panic (and historically, there have been quite a few involving minors), and it is very likely to be leveraged to disproportionate ends (which are in themselves harmful to many users on these platforms). There is also a possibility that it might be leveraged to political ends, and if you're a Democrat, that could take the form of another Republican president in the future.

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Whenever I write "U.K. Home Office", I'm tempted to post a picture of Priti Patel's smug face.

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qoto.org/@olives/1111915432366 It looks like I also have to offer up my dive into bad faith conflations between fiction and reality to the tag too. Well, just in case.

It's a useful one to keep in mind just in case a bad faith actor deliberately? tries to invoke AI panic.

qoto.org/@olives/1115160112466 That said, I've been over science that tears into puritanical nonsense before.

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

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eff.org/press/releases/eff-unv

"The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today unveiled its new Street Level Surveillance hub, a standalone website featuring expanded and updated content on various technologies that law enforcement agencies commonly use to invade Americans’ ."

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eff.org/press/releases/eff-urg

"Keyword warrants that let police indiscriminately sift through search engine databases are unconstitutional dragnets that target free speech, lack particularity and probable cause, and violate the privacy of countless innocent people, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and other organizations argued in a brief filed today to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Everyone deserves to search online without police looking over their shoulder, yet millions of innocent Americans’ privacy rights are at risk in Commonwealth v. Kurtz—only the second case of its kind to reach a state’s highest court. The brief filed by EFF, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL), and the Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (PACDL) challenges the constitutionality of a keyword search warrant issued by the police to Google. The case involves a massive invasion of Google users’ privacy, and unless the lower court’s ruling is overturned, it could be applied to any user using any search engine.

“Keyword search warrants are totally incompatible with constitutional protections for privacy and freedom of speech and expression,” said EFF Surveillance Litigation Director Andrew Crocker. “All keyword warrants—which target our speech when we seek information on a search engine—have the potential to implicate innocent people who just happen to be searching for something an officer believes is somehow linked to a crime. Dragnet warrants that target speech simply have no place in a democracy.”"

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web.archive.org/web/2024010909

"The case concerned a request for public access to exchanges the Commission had with Thorn, an organisation which describes itself as an NGO, in the context of drafting a proposal for a Regulation on preventing and combatting child sexual abuse. The organisation has developed and sells tools for detecting child sexual abuse material.

The Commission gave access to a number of documents but refused to disclose (parts of) some documents saying that disclosure would undermine the commercial interests of the organisation.

The Ombudsman inspected the documents and found that the extent to which the Commission had refused access was unreasonable. The Ombudsman also noted that the Commission does not seem to have considered all elements that are relevant to assess whether there is an overriding public interest in disclosure. In light of this, the Ombudsman found that the Commission’s refusal of access constituted maladministration. She recommended that the Commission reconsider its decision with a view to giving significantly increased, if not full, public access to the documents at issue. In light of the related ongoing legislative procedure and the resulting time-sensitivity of this case, the Ombudsman urged the Commission to implement her recommendation swiftly."

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reason.com/2024/01/09/study-es

"These inexpensive field tests use color reactions to indicate the presence of compounds found in certain drugs. However, the well-documented problem is that the compounds these kits test for are not exclusive to illicit drugs and are, in fact, found in dozens of legal substances. Over the years, officers have arrested and jailed innocent people after drug field kits returned presumptive positive results on bird poop, donut glaze, cotton candy, and sand from inside a stress ball. The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office in Florida stopped using test kits this September after discovering that several common over-the-counter cold medications returned false positives for cocaine."

"Although the true error rate of these kits is not known, the Quattrone Center estimates, based on the incomplete data it could glean from state drug labs and other sources, that as many as 30,000 innocent people a year may be wrongly arrested for drug possession based on their results, making these tests "one of the largest, if not the largest, known contributing factor to wrongful arrests and convictions in the United States.""

""Presumptive field drug test kits are known to produce 'false positive' errors and were never designed or intended to provide conclusive evidence of the presence of drugs," Ross Miller, Quattrone Center assistant director and lead author of the report, said in a press release. "But in our criminal legal system, where plea bargaining is the norm and actual fact-finding by trial is exceedingly rare, these error-prone tests have become de facto determinants of guilt in a substantial share of criminal cases in the United States and, as a result, a significant cause of wrongful convictions.""

Also, while this refers to drugs, it might also be useful to in showing that false positives can lead to people being wrongfully arrested or convicted.

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Have you seen the barely Finnish non-profit yet?

We're mostly ignoring them to avoid giving them attention they don't deserve. If you're curious, they receive millions from a conservative New York based group (which seems to constitute the vast majority of their funding). While this New York group (which appears to receive significant amounts of money from the U.K. Home Office, and yes, the Oak Foundation, according to one of their reports and website material) tries to present a "neutral" veneer at times, they very much only fund groups which align with their ideology / views, and do not fund others.

This group is extremely activist, will actively twist, mislead, and misrepresent, and has been known to attempt to denigrate threats to their ideology. They're also very one dimensional and lacking in subtlety.

They mostly appeared out of nowhere one day, right in time to lobby against, say privacy, however, every time they appear, the cr-p stinks more.

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It's kind of annoying how someone might say "someone saw something violent or otherwise unpleasant once", therefore there is a "big problem".

Yes, that is really the methodology I've seen one use. It's *that* awful.

Also, there are like "violent video game" vibes where seeing "violence" (we know how that can be specified) isn't really a big deal.

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eff.org/deeplinks/2024/01/priv

"The latest version of Privacy Badger replaces embedded tweets with click-to-activate placeholders."

This isn't the only tool you could use for this, although it is an interesting one.

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By the way, there's a based on George Orwell's 1984.

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edri.org/our-work/european-com

"For digital rights groups, its overall political agenda is particularly concerning. The initiative is guided by the dangerously misleading concept of “security by design” introduced in the Council’s original scoping paper. This notion, although mirroring the key EU data protection obligation of “privacy by design and by default”, seems to actually serve diametrically opposed goals."

If you remember George Orwell's 1984, the ministries do the opposite of whatever it is they say they're doing.

"However, their requests were turned down and they were invited instead to submit written comments, which, if deemed relevant, could lead to a proper invitation at a later date."

Presumably, that would require nodding along to everything they want...

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do we need to start holding our own roundtables and publishing shiny reports or something

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I think that, yeah, it is kind of cringeworthy when some platform claims to be "free speech", but then, they're like, "Oh no no no no no, sex is a no-no", but then, they're like, "Well, Nazi speech is free speech."

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