Olives @olives@qoto.org

Robotic cop:

You are under arrest!

Why? What did I do?

I don't know. The algorithm told me to arrest you.

#AI

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/03/28/california-state-senator-pushes-bill-to-remove-anonymity-from-anyone-who-is-influential-online/
What if someone makes a viral meme about cats (or video game footage)? Should that be potentially throttled because it comes from an "unauthenticated user"? Not all content is politics, much less political controversies. #FirstAmendment

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/03/28/site-that-listed-information-about-3rd-party-pokemon-fan-games-shuts-down-under-threat/ These shenanigans aren't inspiring me to buy any new Pokémon games. #copyright

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/03/28/california-state-senator-pushes-bill-to-remove-anonymity-from-anyone-who-is-influential-online/ Another bill with a load of problems.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/eff-asks-oregon-supreme-court-not-limit-fourth-amendemtn-rights-based-terms
"EFF signed on to an amicus brief drafted by the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers earlier this month petitioning the Oregon Supreme Court to review State v. Simons, a case involving law enforcement surveillance of over a year’s worth of private internet activity. We ask that the Court join the Ninth Circuit in recognizing that people have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their browsing histories, and that checking a box to access public Wi-Fi does not waive Fourth Amendment rights."
#privacy #FourthAmendment

When I see news about Russia, and the things they're doing are the absolute stuff of nightmares.

Oh, there's another Facebook privacy scandal. It would be them, wouldn't it.

Guilty until proven innocent.

https://reclaimthenet.org/google-is-ordered-to-identify-who-watched-certain-youtube-videos
"US federal law enforcement and courts have gone a step further in the extreme efforts they are making to surveil people’s activities online, including on Google’s vast platforms.

The latest is that the tech giant gets orders to identify all people who happen to be watching certain videos or livestreams on YouTube."
#privacy #YouTube

https://reclaimthenet.org/spain-reverses-telegram-block-but-users-are-alarmed-about-overreach
"Spain, a European Union member, has joined – even if only for a short while – China, Iran, Cuba, Pakistan and Thailand in blocking the encrypted messaging app Telegram.

The country’s High Court made the decision and said the ban was temporary, citing alleged copyright infringements happening on the app as the reason. The judge in charge of the case, Santiago Pedraz, first tried to get Telegram to hand over “certain information” regarding the case."
#privacy #copyright

https://reclaimthenet.org/uk-high-court-opens-a-path-for-assange-to-appeal-us-extradition
"In a preliminary victory against censorship, Julian Assange has been granted a temporary lifeline in his legal battle to avoid extradition to the US."
Notice she doesn't say anything about him being discriminated against for using his right to a fair trial.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240319191221/https://www.coe.int/en/web/portal/-/germany-follow-through-with-human-rights-commitments-and-improve-access-to-social-rights What do you think of this?

Someone being out in the community is ideal compared to locking them up in the mental hospital.

Police can be notorious for using questionable technologies / techniques, and on "just closing cases" rather than serving justice (which could mean punishing innocent people, although even if this was less so, there would still be enough there that would lead to innocent people being punished).

When you look at a few groups, at first glance, they might appear a bit like a civil society group, or a technical partner.

When you dig a bit deeper, you discover the people running it are either from the police, used to work for the police, or are in something strongly associated with the police, in one case, it was a "Police University".

After doing a bit of research into an... interesting bunch.

Quite a few groups pushing for this internet control crap (mainly chat control) in the E.U. appear to be either cops or groups strongly associated with them.

It isn't just the "fake foundation" (run by the U.S. / U.K.) or "foreign dark money" from Oak going into apparent "local groups" (quite a few which sprang up out of thin air right when the E.U. pushed the E-Privacy Directive and have a tendency towards making misleading claims).