Robin Wilton 🇱🇧

The government should have left X long ago.

US privacy law is a complex mess that varies by state with nowhere near the strong rights-based protection we have in Europe. The EU-US "data bridge" only works because of a single Biden-era executive order and even then it only covers companies who deliberately opt in

But sure... US law enforcement (or any other country's, for that matter) would be a perfectly safe custodian of (i) a back door to encrypted communications, (ii) escrowed keys, (iii) pre-emptive, consentless client-side scanning.
Do Not Legislate Systemic Vulnerabilities Into Consumer Products!

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

If you want to win on the left, just run Mamdani's campaign.

IE. Have values you don't compromise on, and have plans for making things better and stick to them.

Be authentically a person who is trying to do well.

If you sow the wind...

LOKI: Proactively Discovering Online Scam Websites by Mining Toxic Search Queries - NDSS Symposium Search for:Search Button

Waiting for victims to report Internet scams is a losing game. Paudel and Stringhini propose LOKI, a data-driven framework that proactively hunts for fraud. By mining toxic search queries, it automatically surfaces tens of thousands of undiscovered scam sites. www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss-paper/l...

a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair with his eyes closed ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair with his eyes closed

See also: Brexit.

Just a reminder: "No organization put more boots on the ground at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, than the Proud Boys, and they were at the forefront of every major breach of the Capitol’s defenses, leading the on-the-ground efforts to storm the seat of government"
www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/p...

But that's far more plausible... 😉

While that's a valid assertion, in Hannan's case you also need to factor in that what he really enjoys is launching into a polemic - preferably with no accountability for the consequences, and ideally for a fat cheque. His ludicrous elevation to the Lords puts him in the ideal place for all three.

Every single time I read an article that reports how Israel gave an evacuation order to a foreign sovereign territory that they're going to bomb 'pre-emptively', I wonder how we got to a point where telling civilians that you're going to murder them is seen as decency?

Don't be riduculous, Phillip - no-one would believe something that unrealistic... 😬

Israel has been using drought as a weapon, and a means of collective punishment, for decades - in Gaza, southern Lebanon and the illegally occupied West Bank.

Here he is having a good laugh (on, as usual, a PR stunt) about having sold the UK fishing industry down the river.

Farage is a shirker, and has been in every elected role. As an MEP he skived off the Fisheries meetings when he should have been representing the UK, and only showed up in the EP for the chance of a soundbite on camera. He *doesn't want* public office - just the grift that goes with it.

Yes, many of his actions are self-destructive, but (i) that clearly doesn't stop him, and (ii) everyone else is caught in the fallout (hopefully not literally) 🙄.

At some point Western leaders are going to have to act on the fact that we can't afford Trump's chaotic, irresponsible behaviour. There need to be consequences.

Ooof.
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Isn’t it delightful that all the edtech advocates, who attacked and demeaned anyone who challenged Google schools, or edtech governance etc, all of them are falling over themselves to agree with a white man, Haidt, criticising screens in schools.

No ethics at all.

Imperator in mente suo ...
I think we all know who that would fit.

The asymmetry of the value placed on human life is so striking. Israel has a goal to recover 40-year-old remains; to do so, it invades a sovereign country, and the lives of 26 Lebanese are an afterthought. Their names not even worth printing in the New York Times.

True, *but*... it's not only Big Tech that wants a panopticon: we don't exactly see the politicians fighting against that as an outcome, do we?

It's politically easier for them to oppose "everything Big Tech wants" than "everything you need for a digital surveillance state". If child welfare really mattered, more would be done to prevent mass shootings in schools. 🤷‍♂️

Er... hasn't the US just started a war with a fundamentalist theocracy to demand regime change and a return to democratic rule? Not sure the WaPo has thought this through...

Oh my. I've just seen, in a builder's quote, someone described as a "mattress logistics operative".
Their task would have been to move the mattress from one side of the room to the other, and then back again after the interior work was done.

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A screenshot of The Intercept’s web page for Taylor Lorenz’s article headlined ‘Congress is considering abolishing your right to be anonymous online’. It shows that in order to read the article for free, you must provide The Intercept with your email address.

Just for shits and giggles, here’s a deeply ironic instance of one such dark - give us your email to read for free - pattern: @taylorlorenz.bsky.social’s piece for The Intercept on age verification as the end of online anonymity.

But that’s what burner email addresses are for, right?

Bear in mind, people who participate in standards development through the BSI don't get paid to do so. BSI is currently charging 145 of your Earth "pounds" for a copy, but only £72.50 if you're a member.

"Why pay more???"
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I see, for example, that the ISO Age Assurance Framework (27566) is "freely available" (which makes a change from their usual exorbitant prices) - but even for a 0 CHF transaction you have to create an account and agree to your personal data being shared with your national standards body 🙄. 1/2