Meredith Whittaker Someone should tell them the European Commission explicitly recommends Signal for all communications of their staff with external people. joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/ope…

To be clear--we will stay to the end. We stand with the people in Europe & their right to privacy, whatever the Commission does

But we won't comply with any mandate to undermine our privacy guarantees. And noncompliance would result in our being barred from the market.

Signal strongly opposes this proposal.

Let there be no doubt: we will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees.

This proposal--if passed and enforced against us--would require us to make this choice.

It's surveillance wine in safety bottles.

🇬🇧🚨Beware: The #ChatControl proposal which has been stalling could be adopted by EU governments after all. France is considerung to give up its resistance.
The 'compromise': Either you agree to have your chats scanned or you can no longer share&receive pictures/videos and

AI plays NetHack, runs into long-forgotten lunar code
alecmuffett.com/article/109866
#games #history #nethack

Google & Apple keeping Reddit & X in app stores despite pornography due to revenue, [Australian] eSafety boss says
alecmuffett.com/article/109892
#AgeVerification #australia #censorship

Effects of current California Anti AI bill tl;dr:
- Only a small group of companies, rigidly controlled and overseen by a special government agency, have the right to create advanced artificial intelligence.
- Destroy open source AI.
- Unresolvable liability for model makers,

Sigh.

Labour: Purge the heretics! Burn all non believers!
Tories: Destroy the young! Hurl them into despair!
Lib Dems: Wheeeeeeee!

A few weeks ago I broke my hip…
alecmuffett.com/article/109890
#parenting

Consent to be scanned – or get banned! | …the EU’s pursuit of ChatControl decides to copy Meta’s “forced user consent is adequate to permit surveillance” approach
alecmuffett.com/article/109889
#EndToEndEncryption #backdoors #chatcontrol #surveillance

They ought to put this challenge to the writers of Judge Dredd

Could a Senate bill cause age verification laws to apply to Netflix? Experts say yes | The Globe & Mail
alecmuffett.com/article/109885
#AgeVerification #canada #netflix #surveillance

Opinion: Ottawa wants the power to create secret backdoors in our networks to allow for surveillance – The Globe and Mail
alecmuffett.com/article/109884
#EndToEndEncryption #backdoors #canada

Mozilla urges WhatsApp to combat misinformation ahead of global elections
alecmuffett.com/article/109689
#EndToEndEncryption #censorship #misinformation #regulation

In case you missed it: @Mozilla want WhatsApp - and by extension other messenger software - to become harder to use, harder to share, harder to communicate using, on the grounds that you cannot be trusted with having nice usable software during #elections

Best Fit Proportional Constituency Allocation | by Daniel Timms
alecmuffett.com/article/109881
#voting

This is the plot of Starship Troopers. Do you want to know more?

It’s nice to see Ciaran Martin RTing Yann LeCun on AI Doomerism, and worth quoting in full
alecmuffett.com/article/109878
#OpenSource #ai #doomerism