Olives @olives@qoto.org

Another highlight from 2023, lol.

Ah, yes, wrong term. Not accuracy. Quality is the word. I talk a lot about classifiers, so I got those two muddled up.

https://theconversation.com/your-car-might-be-watching-you-to-keep-you-safe-at-the-expense-of-your-privacy-213213

"Depending on which late-model vehicle you own, your car might be watching you – literally and figuratively – as you drive down the road. It’s watching you with cameras that monitor the cabin and track where you’re looking, and with sensors that track your speed, lane position and rate of acceleration."

"Your car may also transmit some of this data to the manufacturer’s data centers"

"The information can reveal your identity, your habits when you’re in your car, how safely you drive, where you’ve been and where you regularly go."

#privacy

Highlight from 2023. Suicide hotlines were sending user data (including names and email addresses) to Facebook. #privacy

https://events.ccc.de/congress/2023/hub/en/event/who-killed-the-internet-and-a-promising-alternative-for-public-communication-and-social-media-the-fediverse/ Apparently, they're going to be talking about the fediverse at a conference. Dunno if it's good.

I think you can get some mileage out of it, but it's annoying when someone tries to dismiss valid concerns there by going, "Oh you can just run your own site."

It's a very obvious consequence of "censor more! censor more! censor more! why is this here?!".

Funny how barely anyone points a finger at Thierry for being responsible for censoring Palestinian content.

As fun as it might be for someone to run their own site, "Run your own site" is hardly an answer to the middle finger of censorship that is Big Tech.

Ylva has all but admitted that chat control barely leads to the rescues of victims which raises further questions over whether it's a proportionate (or effective, as that is what was pitched) intrusion on privacy.

It would be cool if someone made transcription for that video commentary about chat control.

I'm thinking of what sort of dive to do next (at my leisure...).

I don't have a whole lot in mind, however, I'd like to see if I couldn't do something designed more to be informative, than to actively try to push back against a bunch of bad faith arguments / actors.

I remember that Busou Renkin (武装錬金, Arms Alchemy is one translation which people gave it) had a Victor. It also had that weird butterfly guy, lol. It's an interesting #anime to watch.

Symphogear is a fun anime.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2023/12/ai-created-virtual-influencers-are-stealing-business-from-humans/ As someone pointed out, some of this probably has something to do with the whole "brand safety" thing.

I don't really have an opinion on it though, I don't really see much how it matters. It's kind of seen as a "get lucky and make money" area.

https://ecnl.org/news/give-smile-get-smile-human-rights-impacts-emotion-recognition-workplace "For example, neurodivergent, LGBTQI+, and people speaking with accents or dialects might be discriminated against by voice recognition or other emotion recognition technologies."