Julian Oliver

Meta have been asking some users to confirm their identity with a 'video selfie', & for supposed account recovery. Soon, more users will be asked with threat of blocking or deleting their account as Meta prepares to launch their facial recog glasses (soon on shelves).

But it's not just about feeding their new product. Meta are harvesting biometric data on a vast scale, perhaps globally, & in full cohort with a dangerous regime.

Leaving Meta is an important act of resistance, now more than ever

#GrapheneOS appears to be standing up to UK forensics, in this painful and "unprecedented" case which could see a UK journalist go to jail for not relinquishing the passphrase to his devices. Not only is withholding his basic human right, but he does it to protect his sources, and as ratified in the European Court of Human Rights.

https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/in-edicola/articoli/2025/01/02/british-journalist-could-face-years-in-prison-for-refusing-to-hand-over-his-passwords-to-the-police/7822432/

#humanrights #infosec #privacy

What is meant by 'AI' now includes:

- Anything procedurally generated
- Some automation built from input
- Devices that take voice commands
- Text to speech (esp. if female voice with English accent)
- Speech to text (any accent)
- Autocomplete
- An NPC in a videogame
- Half of all apps for Android
- Your bank's next website
- Any serverside or closed source software you can hide some amount of complexity in
- Surprising photography
- Clippy

Update your taxonomies.

#ai #ml

So former NSA head Paul M. Nakasone is appointed to OpenAI's board of directors.

Bah, probably nothing.

Regwalled link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/06/13/openai-board-paul-nakasone-nsa/

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No need to paraphrase. First paragraph says it all:

"Claims that artificial intelligence will help solve the climate crisis are misguided, with the technology instead likely cause rising energy use and turbocharge the spread of climate disinformation, a coalition of environmental groups has warned."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/mar/07/ai-climate-change-energy-disinformation-report