Putting the DSA into Practice: Enforcement, Access to Justice, and Global Implications – Verfassungsblog
Twitter Limits Content Moderation Tools as US Election Looms
Twitter Inc., the social network being overhauled by new owner Elon Musk, has frozen some employee access to internal tools used for content moderation and other policy enforcement, curbing the staff’s ability to clamp down on misinformation ahead of a major US election.
Elon Musk haggles with Stephen King over verification fee after horror master blasts $20 price plan
‘We need to pay the bills somehow!’
Twitter chaos continues: 84-hour weeks, moderation frozen, ad-free articles gone
Twitter chaos continues, following the purchase of the social network by Elon Musk. From engineers being asked to work crazy hours, to Musk pulling the plug on a Twitter Blue contract with more than 300 web publishers. Musk appointed himself as absolute dictator of Twitter by disbanding the original board of directors, and replacing it […]
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Twitter's verification chaos is now a cybersecurity problem
Cybercriminals are already taking advantage of Twitter's latest tumult by sending verification-themed phishing emails.
Musk’s Twitter Will Not Be the Town Square the World Needs
This is a moment to choose a different path, inspired by the lessons of thriving offline communities.
Twitter may charge users $20 per month to be verified
That blue tick may soon literally cost you.
Online age-verification system could create ‘honeypot’ of personal data and pornography-viewing habits, privacy groups warn - The Guardian via inkl
As the government develops online safety guidelines, digital rights groups says any approach requiring the use of ID is ‘invasive…
Signal unveils how far US law enforcement will go to get information about people
The encrypted messaging developer said Santa Clara County police wanted very specific personal information of certain users, including IP addresses along with dates and times for each login.
MIT Technology Review
Companies say they want ethical AI. But those working in the field say that ambition comes at their expense.
How to Leave Dying Social Media Platforms
The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age: Citron, Danielle Keats: 9780393882315: Amazon.com: Books
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Introducing Smol Links: Shorten URLs Without Tracking – The Markup
Our WordPress plugin, built on top of Shlink, lets editors generate short URLs without compromising user privacy
Sunshine Machines: Towards a feminist future of digital care — Careful Industries
This essay explore what infrastructures are needed to cultivate a more feminist, caring digital society.
Unknown Influence | Social Media, Democracy and Transparency
Is Instagram fueling eating disorders in teenagers? Does TikTok harm your mental health? Are Facebook groups encouraging people to take part in offline violence?
The answer is… we don’t know for sure. And that’s a serious problem.
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Morning Brew ☕️ on Twitter
This sweater developed by the University of Maryland is an invisibility cloak against AI.It uses "adversarial patterns" to stop AI from recognizing the person wearing it. pic.twitter.com/aJ8LlHixvX— Morning Brew ☕️ (@MorningBrew) October 25, 2022
The Exploited Labor Behind Artificial Intelligence | NOEMA
Supporting transnational worker organizing should be at the center of the fight for “ethical AI.”
Clearview AI fined $20 million, banned from processing biometric data in Greece after GDPR violations
Greece's privacy authority has fined facial recognition company Clearview AI 20 million euros for violating parts of the GDPR.
Millions invited to take part in world’s largest health research programme - The Independent via inkl
Our Future Health plans to develop new ways to detect illnesses earlier and predict who is at higher risk of…
The Dutch benefits scandal: a cautionary tale for algorithmic enforcement – EU Law Enforcement
Dutch anti-fraud system violates human rights, court rules
A Dutch court ruled Wednesday that a government system that uses artificial intelligence to identify potential welfare fraudsters is illegal because it violates laws that shield human rights and privacy.
Dutch court rules AI benefits fraud detection system violates EU human rights
SyRI was used to predict who may be at high risk of conducting housing or social security fraud.
Oakland police say they won’t pursue use of ‘dystopian’ armed robots
Facing pushback, the Oakland Police Department this week said it would no longer seek...
The Chinese surveillance state proves that the idea of privacy is more “malleable” than you’d expect
The authors of "Surveillance State" discuss what the West misunderstands about Chinese state control and whether the invasive trajectory of surveillance tech can still be reversed.
TikTok Parent ByteDance Planned To Use TikTok To Monitor The Physical Location Of Specific American Citizens
The project, assigned to a Beijing-led team, would have involved accessing location data from some U.S. users’ devices without their knowledge or consent.
Jay Van Bavel on Twitter
A massive new study of over 400,000 college students finds that #Facebook exposure increased depression, especially among those who were most susceptible to mental illness, and reduced academic performance, by fostering unfavorable social comparisons. https://t.co/0GddnmTcAc pic.twitter.com/cwjjI1kE50— Jay Van Bavel (@jayvanbavel) October 20, 2022
Location data could be exposed in WhatsApp, Signal, and Threema
Security researchers have found a surprising method for exposing location data in otherwise secure messaging apps WhatsApp, Signal, and Threema. While the method sounds imprecise, tests showed that it provided greater than 80% reliability … Restore Privacy reports. A team of researchers has found that it’s possible to infer the locations of users of popular […]
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A really great interview with @mer__edith, president of @SignalApp"...we are not in the business of compromising on #privacy, and we are not in the business of handing people who want and need #Signal a compromised version of it..."@verge @recklesshttps://t.co/tkUJk9WDVi— ssoɯpuosɐɾ@ 🇨🇦 (@jasondmoss) October 20, 2022