(Laurie Clarke had a good SFW piece about that a while back, noting how the AV lobbying body actually seconds staff to Ofcom to help write these condocs in the industry’s favour. Big tech lobbyists bad, av lobbyists good, two legs bad, four legs good. politico.eu/article/the-gr…)

Sets up infrastructure for on-device client side scanning for more purposes than this, which regulators and legislators will desire to abuse.

France’s Prime Minister has announced a TikTok ban in New Caledonia as the army is deployed to stop riots.

“I find the explanation provided very unsatisfactory" There are growing questions about the government's reasoning for awarding Faculty AI safety contracts without a competitive tender. Scoop w/ Laurie Clarke politico.eu/article/domini…

Wild times at the EDPS 20th anniversary summit: EU Commissioner for Justice Věra Jourová has said the EC proposal for the #CSARegulation would break encryption, and that this is right because of the need to protect children. This is the first time I've *ever* heard the...

People with the soul of a spreadsheet trying to 'solve' writing

How *dare* the plebs presume that politics is supposed to make their lives better in any tangible way. Return to grovelling, serf!

John Curtice: Labour's vote share is "up by just under 2% across the UK. This is entirely as a result of a 19% increase in support in Scotland. In Wales, the party's vote has actually fallen back by 4%, while in England it is largely unchanged on 2019." bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Five days into a new Labour government, and Tony Blair is already causing problems by trying to revive digital IDs (but just don't call them digital IDs!) Admits UK will need ‘a little persuading’ to embrace the idea By Vincent Manancourt w/ Laurie Clarke politico.eu/article/former…

Scoop: As revealed on Friday to POLITICOEurope subscribers, a £2m Brexit border control post in Poole has performed just two checks on EU imports politico.eu/article/a-2m-b… 1/6

.Zarah Sultana MP, a Muslim MP, says UK race riots should rightly be called racist and Islamophobic. Ed Balls, husband of the Home Secretary, sneers at her. White commentators with no lived experience of racism have a good laugh seemingly at Zarah's expense.

What we are witnessing in England is a mixture of a far-right racist riot, pogrom and terrorist insurgency. It has been whipped up by our media and political elites for decades. Some of those decrying this horror played their part in making it happen.

British MPs want to haul Elon Musk before parliament over riots politico.eu/article/united… by Laurie Clarke

Scoop by Laurie Clarke — furious British MPs will press for a parliamentary grilling of Elon Musk over riots politico.eu/article/united…

Scoop: A banker who donated over £20,000 to prominent Labour figures and worked for the party in the months leading up to the election has been given a top civil service job in Britain’s finance ministry.🧵 w/Hannah Brenton politico.eu/article/labour…

“What are we meant to do about an app headquartered in Dubai and used by the Russians for disinformation?” a U.K. government official told POLITICO. “Better to target the people using these apps to organize violence than the platforms themselves.” politico.eu/article/uk-bri…

Well this is worrying 🚨🚨🚨 “On substance, Blair wants Labour to close your GP and have you talk to a chatbot instead,” said Sam Smith at Medconfidential, an organization that campaigns on issues related to health data.” politico.eu/article/tony-b…

🤦🤦🤦 No, no, no - it is called healthCARE for a reason. And are you surprised? "The report received input from an employee in Oracle's health division, and other health tech companies." politico.eu/article/tony-b…

Who would’ve thunk it! Blair’s think tank says fewer GPs, more chatbots for NHS. It is backed by tech billionaire Larry Ellison who has pledged $375m. Ellison's Oracle benefits from an AI boom and has an interest in digitising patient medical records! politico.eu/article/tony-b…