A UK judge dismisses Wikimedia's Online Safety Act challenge over requiring Wikipedia to verify users and contributors' IDs, but says it can file new challenges
Europe is not allowed to make Internet Laws. — arstechnica.com/tech-policy/ ... Hari Kunzru / @harikunzru : There is a possible future in which the UK government ends up blocking...
The UK held a hearing for Apple's legal battle with the government over providing a backdoor in its Advanced Data Protection service, without the media present
bloomberg.com/news/article... [embedded post] X: @togetherdec : .@ukhomeoffice secretly demanded backdoor access to Apple iCloud encryption Now Apple in High Court to appeal, cont...
WhatsApp says it disrupted a campaign in which 90 journalists and other members of civil society were targeted using spyware from Israel-based Paragon
What You Need To Know Türkiye Today : WhatsApp claims Israeli spyware targeted 90 journalists Business Today : WhatsApp exposes spyware targeting journalists, some users by Israeli...
Analysis: London police used facial recognition 117 times in 2024 to August, up from 32 times total from 2020 to 2023; ~770,966 people were scanned since 2020
Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu / Financial Times :
The UK government pulls back from new encryption rules in the Online Safety Bill, averting a clash with Big Tech, as the bill enters its final stages
Ministers will not immediately enforce online safety bill powers to scan apps after WhatsApp threatened shutdown
UK convenience stores are increasingly using facial recognition tech to combat shoplifting, which critics say is a disproportionate solution for minor crimes
British merchants are increasingly using the technology to combat shoplifting, raising questions about its spread as artificial intelligence rapidly improves it. Mastodon: @carnage...
The UK government says its Online Safety Bill will return to the parliament in December and will be expanded to criminalize nonconsensual “deepfake” pornography
Nonconsensual explicit images to be tackled in bill returning to parliament next month
The UK government says its Online Safety Bill will return to the parliament in December and will be expanded to criminalize nonconsensual “deepfake” pornography
Nonconsensual explicit images to be tackled in bill returning to parliament next month
UK Prime Minister Liz Truss confirms she wants to dilute the draft Online Safety Bill, focusing on protecting minors while making sure free speech is allowed
Financial Times :
UK Prime Minister Liz Truss confirms she wants to dilute the draft Online Safety Bill, focusing on protecting minors while making sure free speech is allowed
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The UK government plans to require that migrants convicted of a crime scan their faces up to five times per day on a smartwatch; locations will be tracked 24/7
Home Office and MoJ plans will require migrants convicted of crimes to take photos up to five times a day
The UK's data protection watchdog fines Clearview AI £7.5M+ for violating privacy laws and orders the company to delete UK citizen information from its systems
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch : Source: ICO .
UK government says it will move away from EU's GDPR after Brexit, including possibly ending cookie consent popups, and names John Edwards as preferred ICO head
Alex Hern / The Guardian : Source: GOV.UK .
How predictive algorithms are increasingly being used to set police patrols, prison sentences, and probation rules in the US and Europe
ideally — remove human bias. A recent United Nations report warned that governments risked “stumbling zombie-like into a digital-welfare dystopia."" https://www.nytimes.com/... Kev...
How predictive algorithms are increasingly being used to set police patrols, prison sentences, and probation rules in the US and Europe
Across the United States and Europe, software is making probation decisions and predicting whether teens will commit crime. Opponents want more human oversight. Tweets: @satariano...
Dutch court rules that a surveillance system used to detect welfare fraud violates human rights; called SyRI, it used a secret algorithm to run risk modeling
Government told to halt use of AI to detect fraud in decision hailed by privacy campaigners — A Dutch court has ordered …