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The Gist: Too Wrong to Fix

The Irish Government has been telling people its mass surveillance law didn't need to be submitted to the EU. Then, just before Christmas, they tried anyway.

This is the Gist.

thegist.ie/the-gist-too-w…

(6/6) @iccltweet's opening paragraph in their press release perhaps can be read as 'European Ombudsman tells European Commission to keep doing what they are doing but improve it'.

I am currently at my wits end with OneTrust DataGuidance and their crappy password reset process and non-existent support.

As a company from eastern Germany, we know that building a wall to try and keep people from leaving isn't a good idea.

Find me where the elephants roam free (now with alt-text)

Find me in the Other Place (where the elephants roam free)

Nope - and also not legal in parts of the US or under their FTC consent decree, but I guess you make bad choices when you gut the teams in charge of compliance, trust and safety, legal, etc.

NIST retired SHA1 hashing function. It's officially out of state of the art, and another reason why any scheme, if for any reason, is using it for password generation/management is infringing #GDPR . nist.gov/news-events/ne…

Two of @Mozilla's fellows, Abeba Birhane and Deb Raji, have constructively critiqued the highly touted and overhyped large language models - ChatGPT (a question-answering chatbot) and Galactica (a tool for scientific writing). Take a read.
wired.com/story/large-la…

I have just discovered this obituary for Susan Leigh Anderson. Susan (along with her husband Michael) innovated 'Machine Ethics' back in the early 2000's and led the way in developing what is now called #aiethics . She was a true innovator. Machine Ethics
legacy.com/us/obituaries/…