Meta is updating its child safety standards as countries across the globe consider social media bans for teenagers.
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Meta is updating its child safety standards as countries across the globe consider social media bans for teenagers.
some really really great people lost their jobs at cash app and across Block today
my partner is safe but if anyone is looking for client devs, some of the best android engineers especially are looking for new roles
new from @katiemcque.bsky.social:
@riana.bsky.social has talked about this at length, but the actionability of reports submitted by tech companies to NCMEC is a huge unsolved and growing problem
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When Congress incentivizes over-reporting but leaves what to report up to platforms’ discretion (since for constitutional reasons the govt can’t tell private actors what to do), this is what you get. If NCMEC or LE can’t directly tell platforms what to (not) do, they drag them in the press instead.
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The American president is more insulated from accountability than a British royal.
Our political system provides the elite with immunity. It has to change.
Amid the deals and demos at the India AI Impact Summit this week, the opportunity to shift the global debate about AI and what kind of world we are building appears to be lost, writes Tech Policy Press contributing editor Amber Sinha. www.techpolicy.press/indias-ai-su...
OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit
A must read fiction book honoring Fred in the best way. SO good. One of my fave books this year! Even more chilling with what is happening now.
New #research from Resolver “The Com” my takeaway: this isn’t one group it’s a growing network of online harms that spreads across platforms and mixes CSAM, self-harm, extremism & cybercrime. Addressing it requires coordinated action. No more silos! Read the full briefing here: ter.li/7ffbot
Incredibly rough to read but there needs to be more clarity in what platforms need to report to NCMEC & LE these annotations in the form are confusing.
It is very cool!!
“We intentionally use an over-inclusive threshold for scanning, which yields a high percentage of false positives,” this sounds to me like they were not reviewing any matches and doing automatic reports. Companies should be called out for bad reports to NCMEC - it impacts kids being helped.
This is huge news. I have spent the past 6 months wondering wtf was up with Amazon: they filed 380,000 AI-related CyberTipline reports to NCMEC in the first half of 2025.
Turns out ALL of it was known CSAM they found by screening their AI training data. It's NOT AI-generated or AI-morphed CSAM.
We are fun at parties
production-grade tools for online safety CAN be built in the public, and CAN be collaboratively developed by engineers across different organizations.
We're proud to announce Osprey and so grateful to all the contributors who made this possible!
Release notes here: github.com/roostorg/osp...
I'm over a week late in reading this, but huge kudos to Charlie Warzel and Matteo Wong for doing the thing I thought nobody seemed to be doing, which is asking xAI's investors why they're giving money to the deepfake NCII/CSAM machine (spoiler alert: no answers): www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
The EU is the latest regulator to investigate X’s Grok over AI-generated sexual abuse. Ramsha Jahangir reports on where governments stand — and what the fragmented response shows about the challenges of protecting children online across borders.
Our new memorandum of understanding with @ofcom.bsky.social builds on strong existing relationship and lays the groundwork for how we can assist Ofcom in its duties under the Online Safety Act.
Read more on our website. www.iwf.org.uk/news-media/n...
@cassidyjames.com and I will be at #FOSDEM and will be demoing* Osprey in our talk Sunday morning: fosdem.org/2026/schedul...
*Let's be honest, should we really test the wifi and live demo overlords first thing Sunday morning? Probably not. Probably pre-recorded.
Online safety laws like the DSA are expanding. For hosting providers and registrars, the challenge is building safety models that align with new and emerging laws.
On Feb 4, DTSP is hosting a webinar on how DTSP’s Safe Framework supports domain registries with compliance.
Companies should NOT be criticized for the amount CSAM reported. Companies SHOULD be criticized for sending high FP rates to NCMEC & low quality reports ie no location or data that can’t go to LE these def slow down helping kids!! #childsafety #ncmec #reportact
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Funding ICE yet Trump admin has aggressively rolled back efforts to combat human trafficking, including sex trafficking, and cut funding to support survivors of these crimes: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives.
We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.
I spoke with WIRED about the risks online age verification present, especially under the threat of an administration that will do anything in their power to surveil, oppress, and kill us.
www.wired.com/story/age-ve...
Well that is comforting
I miss working in an office. I know I’m that annoying person.
This is why there is no free speech without anonymous speech.
This is why online ID checks / age verification is incompatible with the 1st amendment and human rights.
This is why "make everyone use their real names" is not a real solution to online hate & harm
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