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| | excited-pixels.com
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| | Matt Burgess at Wired has a good summary article on the current (and always ongoing) debate concerning the availability of strong encryption. In short, he sees three 'classes' of argument which are aimed at preventing individuals from protecting their communications (and their personal information) with robust encryption. Governments or law enforcement agencies are asking for...
| | berthub.eu
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| | A quick update - The European Commission and EU member states have been pondering, for years now, if they should force WhatsApp/Apple/Signal/Telegram to scan all our private messages for suspected child sexual abuse material (CSAM). For various reasons it is a horrendous idea to break end to end encryption in this likely highly ineffective way. Variations of the proposal have also included a mandate to perform such scanning of images using AI, and even to also read our text messages to see if we aren't "grooming" children.
| | pxlnv.com
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| | Since 2022, the European Parliament has been trying to pass legislation requiring digital service providers to scan for and report CSAM as it passes through their services. Giacomo Zandonini, Apostolis Fotiadis, and Lud?k Stavinoha, Balkan Insight, with a good summary in September: Welcomed by some child welfare organisations, the regulation has nevertheless been met with [...]
| | www.livescience.com
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| A recent update caused ChatGPT to turn into a sycophant, with the chatbot excessively complimenting and flattering its users with reassurances - even when they said they'd harmed animals or stopped taking their medication. OpenAI has now reversed the changes.