Protecting the privacy of political dissidents and other people who need online anonymity doesn't have to mean you also have to protect pedophiles. It's not an either/or situation. #TOR #CSAM @cdnchildprotect.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The cult vibes have escaped contain.

UPDATE: This has gotten worse. Blackburn struck a deal to facially exempt certain types of state AI regs, but actually included a provision that would prohibit nearly all regulation on tech companies including those that Blackburn seemed to try to get out of the law

This crazy provision in the OBBB will remove states’ capacity to regulate driverless vehicles, AI in aircraft, medical devices. It will gut various ongoing lawsuits. Never thought I’d see republicans denying states’ rights! www.wsj.com/politics/rep...

This is a good start but next time add a few zeros to the fine or it won’t have teeth. www.dataprotection.ie/en/news-medi...

There it is.

Shocking story by @bcmerchant.bsky.social about striking mental health care professionals at #kaiser. This is what #bigtech and #bighealth have in mind for our healthcare. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/therapists...

Incredible report shared by @counteringcrime.bsky.social's @kenyadan.bsky.social about chimps smuggled from DRC to Indian for a billionaire's zoo. africageographic.com/stories/how-...

The incredible work of @counteringcrime.bsky.social members @atharproject.bsky.social are now being featured in a documentary. Archeologists go undercover to save antiquities stolen by ISIS and sold on...wait for it...FACEBOOK. Check out the trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sngc...

“A new survey of the six leading publicly available AI voice cloning tools found that five have easily bypassable safeguards, making it simple to clone a person’s voice without their consent.” 4 of the services only require checking a box saying the person whose voice is used gave authorization.

Social media feeds shape what we see—but how do they actually work? Cybersecurity for Democracy Project co-director Laura Edelson details a new framework that breaks down algorithmic feeds into four key dimensions, helping users & researchers understand their impact.

What could possibly go wrong, chapter 11 M 46868837 www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/t...

What could possibly go wrong, version 1585826364868573737 @hypervisible.bsky.social @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social

"We can’t have solutions that swap in one obstacle for families with another... it just won’t work if we remove Section 230 immunity, but replace it with the requirement that a plaintiff must plead the platform had actual knowledge" of CSAM or trafficking crimes. 🙌👏 @cagoldberglaw.bsky.social

Match Group made a show of hiring trust & safety workers to assure users it platform was safe. When negative media attention and congressional scrutiny died down, the company laid off its core safety team and outsourced their jobs. Read more from @eedugdale.bsky.social & Hanisha Harjani:

I applaud #tinasmith for retiring at an appropriate age and wish every US Senator her age and older would follow her lead. #termlimits www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/u...

I recommend @techpolicypress.bsky.social for balanced (ie not tech funded) analysis of tech policy.

Are social media companies doing enough to combat illegal wildlife trafficking? Numbers from new report suggest they are blocking fewer postings. Read more: wp.me/p9BenY-1Q3 @gretchenpeters.bsky.social @sarahdurant.bsky.social‬‬ @alexverbeek.bsky.social @bigearthdata.bsky.social

disinformation is organized crime. www.aspistrategist.org.au/to-fight-dis...

I did it years ago. I got back tons of time and my mental health improved.

Fact checking is free speech.

Translation: We still quietly take money from Meta so we will applaud their bullshit moves but frame it as a good faith effort while pretending to be guardians of personal freedom when we are actually tech industry puppets.

From @anntelnaes.bsky.social: "As an editorial cartoonist, my job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable. For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that critical job. So I have decided to leave the Post." anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

#Meta takes down too much harmless stuff, and leaves up too much bad stuff, so you're really failing on both ends @nickclegg. www.theverge.com/2024/12/3/24...

Huge news in the tech litigation space!! Snap's petition in the CA Appeals Court has been denied. Neville v Snap now moves into discovery.

A victory in the fight against online harms as #Telegram agrees to join the #InternetWatchFoundation. Many who track the online spread of #CSAM believe #TG is world's largest repository of child sex abuse content, and a place where offenders share and trade it. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The FTC has again posted a list of research questions they are interested in (and there's some real bangers in here from supply chain to data privacy), so let's do a quick overview/highlights 🧵 www.ftc.gov/policy/advoc...

Keep forgetting to post, @counteringcrime.bsky.social was on @nbcnews.com last week about our new report on #DeepFakes being used to scam people. Warning: there is a tsunami of fraud coming our way. 1/ www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news...

In #OZ, #Meta is now requiring #financial-advertisers to be verified, which is a big change from what happens in the #US, #CA, and the #EU where financial scams ABOUND on their shitty platforms. But I have to wonder, why stop there? 1/ www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

"Long-term investment in trauma-informed preventative work with boys and young men would help the government achieve its mission to halve VAWG, though this needs to be done in the context of wider public debate about men’s behaviour at home, in public spaces and in the workplace." 👏👏👏

As a former date rape counselor I’m amazed by this request. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/p...

This tweet by @tante.cc encapsulates how I have felt all week working to get Section 2255A deleted from the #STOPCSAM Act, before it gets tacked onto the back of one of the end of year bills moving through Congress, like my soul wants to leave my body. 1/

Yes. It's still all scams. A socially destructive set of technologies and attached belief systems.

Sorry to report that #BigTech is up to its usual antics, this time at the expense of #CSAM victims. Language in section 2255A of the otherwise excellent #STOPCSAM bill would block victims' path to justice. for #techmedia, I thought you would be interested 1/ youtu.be/-G-hC6zCwKc

I am BEGGING everyone with elders in your life to talk to them about scams and how professionalized the cybercrime industry is 😮‍💨 Yes, a "financial advisor" who was recommended by "your bank" can have fancy websites tracking "your stock", and have employees that call to "advise" you on your stock.

You know what I really like is the notion that, sure, Section 230 should protect user-generated content but algorithmic distribution is the platform’s speech so it’s not 230 protected. Think about it.

Hey US Congress: instead of passing STOP CSAM with language (section 2255a) that actually PROTECTS #Bigtech why don’t you follow #scotland’s lead?

I'm late to the game on this, but I've recently discovered that the #STOPCSAM act, which we @counteringcrime.bsky.social otherwise support, now has provisions that would make it near impossible for #CSAM survivors to sue tech companies in civil court. I wonder whose lobbyists got them added? Hmm! 🤔

“Other companies could still potentially scrape your Bluesky posts for training. Bluesky’s robots.txt doesn’t exclude crawlers from Google, OpenAI, or others, meaning those companies may crawl Bluesky data. ‘Bluesky is an open and public social network, much like websites on the Internet itself…’”

What the Hack this week speaks to Dick Gephardt on #Section230, mirroring what I said last week. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

Last week I was on What the Hack with Adam Levin podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

I've been on a dystopian journey into the world of deep fake fraud, and I'm here to say some scary-ass shit is coming our way. static1.squarespace.com/static/6451b...

Illicit actors are weaponizing #AI and #deepfake technologies to defraud and predate innocent people under a failed legal regime that effectively subsidizes the tech industry, writes @gretchenpeters.bsky.social of the Alliance to Counter Crime Online:

Simply put, yes. But you must do the original form. #romana #pilates www.nytimes.com/2022/07/22/w...

About a decade ago I testified in a trial in BC related to a #Sikh extremist. There was a similar blend of drug trafficking & extremism, with spooks from #Pakistan (and #India) in the background on that case. www.nytimes.com/2023/12/02/n...