Olives @olives@qoto.org

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2024/03/25/world/us-open-internet-wto/ Bad idea from the U.S. Trade Representative.

As a warning, some advocacy for so-called "Trust & Safety" appears to be coming from dubious start-ups trying to sell you questionable products. It's not immediately apparent it's coming from them either.

Mike is wrong about "Trust & Safety". It is largely a PR exercise.

It would be simpler to call it what it is: Content policy and content moderation.

While it's plausible some moderation is done for the purposes of the already very vague and nebulous concept of "safety", a lot of it stems more from hard business decisions. A number of them are poor, or at least, dubious business decisions at that.

When you look at a few "policy takes", and a lot of the language (i.e. risk management) is really just a euphemism for censorship, without understanding how insufferable it would wind up being. These commentators are so out of touch.

https://www.ftm.nl/artikelen/afnemersindicaties-politie-basisregistratie-personen?share=VKplRJYoo3HINeZLen6BrzVXoSYseJNM11aGyImWzFyNhsAtxw%2BLfiPSinRCeE8=
"Elf miljoen Nederlanders worden geautomatiseerd door de politie gevolgd in de basisregistratie personen. Velen zelfs al sinds hun baby- en kindertijd. De politie overtreedt hiermee diverse wetten. De dienders en de korpsleiding weten dat al jaren, maar trekken zich er weinig van aan."
#privacy

https://www.ftm.nl/artikelen/afnemersindicaties-politie-basisregistratie-personen?share=VKplRJYoo3HINeZLen6BrzVXoSYseJNM11aGyImWzFyNhsAtxw%2BLfiPSinRCeE8=
"Eleven million Dutch people are automatically tracked by the police in the Basic Registration of Persons. Many even since their infancy and childhood. In doing so, the police are breaking various laws. The officers and the management of the police force have known this for years, but take little notice. This is according to research by Follow the Money."
#privacy

It's okay to hold off on making a take rather than making a really stupid 230 take. Messing around with that isn't a good idea and would just create frivolous lawsuits and "unintended consequences".

I think if someone is enforcing an obscenity law (mostly a thing of the past), there's a question of whether they should be referred to as law enforcement or the Gestapo.

The U.S. trade representative should go back to arguing for a free and open Internet.

Thanks to #EHDS, if you suffer from impotence and require medication for that, Ursula von der Leyen is going to know about that (or one of her underlings). #privacy

If only they didn't hold onto data they didn't need...

Even if the government isn't telling you to do it (lol), it can still be helpful from a security / privacy / user experience perspective to do when writing code.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/03/30/att-dark-web-leak/
"Information from 73 million current and former AT&T accounts appears to have been leaked onto the dark web, the communications company said Saturday."
#privacy

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/mar/30/conservatives-set-for-worst-election-result-yet-research-shows Tories likely to face bloodbath.

While I wouldn't say it applies in every case, I've seen quite a few cases where it could be attributed to that, perhaps in combination with other factors.

https://www.notus.org/technology/dhs-access-phone-movements-data
"The Department of Homeland Security is expected to stop buying access to data showing the movement of phones — a controversial practice that has allowed it to warrantlessly track hundreds of millions of people for years.

Since 2018, agencies within the department — including Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the U.S. Secret Service — have been buying access to commercially available data that revealed the movement patterns of devices, many inside the United States. Commercially available phone data can be bought and searched without judicial oversight."
#privacy #FourthAmendment

I have a suspicion that quite a bit of bigotry comes down to ableism.