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- Comment on London's police asked Big Tech for private communications data over 700,000 times last year 1 week ago:
But who knows
Apparently not the public. Lack of transparency makes it hard for citizens and lawmakers to make informed policy decisions.
- Comment on London's police asked Big Tech for private communications data over 700,000 times last year 1 week ago:
Thanks for the background, I’m not familiar with UK’s regulation on telcos.
I stand corrected, this isn’t like wiretap as the article mention Communication Data (CD) is metadata rather than content. It’s still very intrusive as it show who is talking to who, when, and possibily where (location is metadata).
The scale is still surprising, what kind of crime is London police investigating at a scale of 700k (or even 100k) a year ? It still beaches privacy so it should be proportional. It make sense to make access to metadata a bit easier than metadata+content. That’s food for thought for citizens and lawmakers.
- Comment on London's police asked Big Tech for private communications data over 700,000 times last year 1 week ago:
Requesting communications data from an ISP isn’t any of those things though.
What do you mean? It’s not a wiretap? Not about serious crime? Not an abuse of police power? None of the above?
- Comment on London's police asked Big Tech for private communications data over 700,000 times last year 1 week ago:
Where the warrant comes in is if you need to search a house and seize things.
A warrant is absolutely proportional for accessing private communications or searching private devices.
Privacy is a human right. It must be protected even if it’s not absolute. Having a judge approuve the equivalent of a wiretap is the right thing to do.
Abuse and disproportionate breach of privacy would certainly grind to a halt. It’s worth bothering a judge to wiretap a crime suspects, nor for minor offense or to harrass activists.
- Comment on London's police asked Big Tech for private communications data over 700,000 times last year 1 week ago:
The ability for police to request information is not controversial for crimes and online threats, given independant oversight, ideally a judge auhorizing a warrant.
What’s controversial is the scale, which suggest this power may be abuser and/or used disproportionately.
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- Comment on Windows BitLocker 0-Day Vulnerability Enables Access to Encrypted Drives 2 weeks ago:
Windows is a toy OS, good enough to play video games. But many confused people think it’s okay to use for critical or sensitive operations.
- Comment on New Mexico proposes $3.7bn fine for Meta and sweeping changes to its social platforms 2 weeks ago:
They’re requesting mostly wrong solutions for real problems.
Age verification doesn’t address social media’s problems, but does increase data collection and decrease privacy. Same for decrypting private messages.
A guardian account does seem reasonable.
They could also completely turn off user seach for minors, so they would have to add contacts by username or email, and couldn’t reach or be reached easily by online strangers.
- Comment on Google says 75% of the company's new code is AI-generated 5 weeks ago:
And I guess engineers would be held responsible for the code produced by the AI agent’s they’re pressured to use.
So they can blame and fire more engineers when things go wrong.
- Comment on Exclusive: Microsoft To Shift GitHub Copilot Users To Token-Based Billing, Tighten Rate Limits 5 weeks ago:
Good. This may result the amount of sloppy code. And prevent prices from increading for everyone.
- Comment on Oracle fired up to 30,000 workers via email after a 95% profit surge. Tech companies are cutting almost 1,000 jobs/day 1 month ago:
Oracle needs a good dose of adversarial interoperability.
- Comment on A rogue AI led to a serious security incident at Meta 1 month ago:
That’s a good way to reprennent LLMs. Very bad and very prolific consultants.
- Comment on A rogue AI led to a serious security incident at Meta 2 months ago:
It shows LLM can do significant harm without the capabilities if an AGI.
- Comment on A rogue AI led to a serious security incident at Meta 2 months ago:
According to Clayton, the AI agent involved didn’t take any technical action itself, beyond posting inaccurate technical advice, something a human could have also done.
Producing innaccurate technical advice, with a confident tons, at scale.
If it were an employee it would get a formal blame, and then demoted or fired as it continues.
- Comment on NHS ordered to share patient data with US ‘spy-tech’ firm 2 months ago:
This undermine trust in the health care system. Some may be more reluctant to go to the hospital.
- Comment on Great Tits 2 months ago:
Source?
- Comment on Explain it like I'm 5: Why is everyone on speakerphone in public? 2 months ago:
Using an ultrasonic dog trainer in public may piss off dogs, and other domesticated or wild animals in the vicinity. I woudln’t recommend this, except maybe as a last resort on rare occasions.
Kindly ask the person to use a headphone or earpiece may be more effective in many case.
- Comment on Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power 2 months ago:
The only justification you could possibly have would be that if we don’t do it, our adversaries will do it. And we will be subject to their rule of law.…
Quick, undermine democratic values and rule of law before someone else does!
- Comment on No More Neutral ⚛ 2 months ago:
I seached the answer online to better understand the meme, and that’s one of the first results.
Sorry if that’s AI generated, I didn’t searched for AI generated answer and didn’t ask ChatGPT, this is sadly what seach results looks nowadays.
Will gladly edit the top comment if you can suggest a better article.
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- Comment on A new homelessness law in Wales is being called 'world-leading' 3 months ago:
Putting less restriction on social workers seems like a step in the right direction.
The Welsh government isn’t the only one in Europe focusing on tweaking rules and on reorganisations, rather than putting resources where most needed.
Let’s hope there’s more to come to make housing more afforable, eg better regulation of airbnb-style rentals, making housing less attractive to speculators but more accessible to residents.
- Comment on Hail our new robot overlords! Amazon warehouse tour offers glimpse of future 3 months ago:
Yes, this is fuck.
I doubt a sane society would seek to replace as many jobs as possible with automation as a goal, ie intentionally. Making this a goa’ mean trying to remove humans and unions out of the equations.
A sane society may seek to decrease workplace injuries and be more efficient, ie wasting less resources while producing stuff. That coule involved better workplace conditions, better product design, and potentially automation. Automation may incidentally replace some tasks, even though it’s not the end goal.
- Comment on Epstein files photos appear to show Andrew on all fours over female 3 months ago:
BBC publishes a photo yet appears unable to describe photo with confidence, inserts “appears to” into headline.
- Comment on Tesla: 2024 was bad, 2025 was worse as profit falls 46 percent 3 months ago:
Literally who is their target market at this point.
Confused people
- Comment on UK proposes forcing Google to let publishers opt out of AI summaries 3 months ago:
It should be opt-in.
- Comment on GOG now using AI generated images on their store 3 months ago:
Ask an AI ton list static analysis tools, chose one of those, and never use AI again.
- Comment on Sam Altman’s make-or-break year: can the OpenAI CEO cash in his bet on the future? 3 months ago:
We plan to be a wildly successful company, but if we get it wrong, that’s on us.
That’s incorrect. If OpenAI get this wrong, they won’t (be able to) make investor whole. People would loose part of their savings if they’re exposed to OpenAI through direct or indirect investments.
Even if they get it right, everyone suffers from the pollution caused by AI datacenters, and from the opportunity cost since people are investing in this hyped technology rather than more reponsible things like renewables, energy efficiency, …
- Comment on AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow 4 months ago:
Cory Doctorow is an international traesure
- Comment on A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 9 Part 1: Decoding Dolby - Project Zero 4 months ago:
Incoming SMS and RCS audio attachments received by Google Messages are now automatically decoded with no user interaction
I wonder if lockdown mode disable this. We’ll probably know with article 3.