Keir Starmer set to unveil digital ID scheme | Here we go again, the government believing that KYC needs to be pushed into every (any?) aspect of life https://alecmuffett.com/article/115113 #DigitalId #IdCards #KierStarmer #WasteOfMoney #privacy

happy earth, wind & fire day.

What is it about 'digital' that seduces every political party into abandoning points of principle? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Use it to mine for votes and target people for lockup -- er, sorry, 'terrorists' supporting 'ANTIFA'. Odds about whether they'll have to agree to a loyalty pledge first?

And don't forget this gem: "Leavitt said that data and privacy for the app in the US will be led by tech giant Oracle, which is chaired by Larry Ellison, one of the world's richest people and a Trump ally." Basically, the kids will be on a video-heavy version of Truth Social, and Trump will

White House outlines TikTok deal that would give US control of algorithm | Translation: American TikTok will no longer have the working algorithms, and… https://alecmuffett.com/article/115110 #algorithms #tiktok #trump

Dems ought to be telling people now these letters are worth absolutely nothing.

In the oral argument in the immunity case, Trump's lawyer's answer to the question, "What would be the check on the President just using his officers to break the law?" was, "People will not follow illegal orders." We're about to find out whether that's true.

Stuff that you don’t see on Reddit in the UK because you aren’t age verified https://alecmuffett.com/article/115105 #AgeVerification #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #reddit #surveillance #vpns

With the Jimmy Kimmel saga, the media is learning what happens when you give a mouse a cookie | CNN Business https://alecmuffett.com/article/115102 #FreeSpeech #JimmyKimmel #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #privacy #surveillance #trump #vpns

I wonder if I can quote this without having to invoke the age verification checks?

MI6 launch contact website on @torproject dark web / onion services; thank you @ukhomeoffice for validating use of Tor & VPNs in these troubling times https://alecmuffett.com/article/115083 #DarkWeb #SilentCourier #mi6 #surveillance #tor #vpns

Next time someone suggests that online platforms should be licensed remember that… https://alecmuffett.com/article/115078 #FreeSpeech #GrahamSmith #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #SocialMedia #censorship #ofcom #surveillance

Death of text predicted, film at 11.

Next time someone suggests that online platforms should be licensed remember that, in the pantheon of laws touching on freedom of expression, broadcast licensing has always been the exception not the rule - and a dangerous one at that. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Has Britain Gone Too Far With Its Digital Controls? | The New York Times https://alecmuffett.com/article/115073 #AgeVerification #DigitalId #IdCards #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyBill #TonyBlairInstitute #censorship #ofcom #surveillance

Massive Attack Turns Concert Into Facial Recognition Surveillance Experiment | “…Imagine you’re vibing to Teardrop when your face appears on the LED screen behind the band…” https://alecmuffett.com/article/115055 #FacialRecognition #MassiveAttack #surveillance

MI5 concedes it ‘unlawfully’ obtained data from former BBC journalist | …a mere 16+ years to obtain this concession https://alecmuffett.com/article/115050 #EndToEndEncryption #backdoors #censorship #encryption #mi5

Geedge & MESA Leak: Analyzing the Great Firewall’s Largest Document Leak https://alecmuffett.com/article/114999 #GreatFirewall #china #cybersecurity #leak

Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape | BogdanTheGeek’s Blog https://alecmuffett.com/article/115039 #censorship #internet #maker #technology

I strongly suspect that Bluesky “content moderation” and “safety” is following the same trajectory that Facebook did, and that “distribution” excuses it… https://alecmuffett.com/article/115021 #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #bluesky #censorship #surveillance

2015: “AI Images Look Ridiculously Fake” | 2025: “AI Images Look Ridiculously Real” | The solution to risk is education https://alecmuffett.com/article/115003 #GenAi #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #ai #censorship #llm #propaganda #surveillance

Does anyone else suspect that people who want the UK to withdraw from the ECHR are people who want to reintroduce capital punishment? https://alecmuffett.com/article/115001 #CapitalPunishment #echr

“Why does remy have such strongly held opinions on internet censorship?” https://alecmuffett.com/article/114997 #EndToEndEncryption #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #encryption #privacy #surveillance

California legislature passes bill forcing web browsers to let consumers automatically opt out of data sharing | WELL, GOSH, NOBODY HAS EVER TRIED THAT BEFORE. CLEARLY THIS IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO https://alecmuffett.com/article/114968 #california #privacy #regulation #stupid

The EU Commission seriously claims: “There is no such thing as #ChatControl.” https://alecmuffett.com/article/114954#ChatControl#ChatControl #ClientSideScanning #EndToEndEncryption #OnlineSafety #StopScanningMe #censorship #messenger #signal #surveillance #whatsapp

Von der Leyen Pushes EU Online Speech Crackdown in 2025 | EU wants to ban European under-16s from social media https://alecmuffett.com/article/114966 #EuropeanUnion #OnlineSafety #SocialMedia #censorship #circumvention #surveillance

Do you ever get the impression that Americans are so used to the shooter being dead that they don't know how to conduct themselves regarding pre-trial speculation and/or are incapable of waiting to actually find out from the perp himself?

Holy shit, he’s openly advocating for the murder of homeless people.

Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers | …this is a wonderful and absolutely necessary tool for AI policy experts https://alecmuffett.com/article/114986 #EndOfWorld #GenAi #ai #alignment #apocalypse #doomerism #llm

Not quite verbatim as represented, but not far off.

If everyone (including kids) can see someone be literally assassinated on a podium as “news”, but require age verification for addiction recovery forums, maybe the online safety act tries to solve the wr[…] https://alecmuffett.com/article/114970

Hey, global citizens, aren’t you glad that you have end-to-end encrypted messenger systems that meaningfully protect your chat content without being scanned or filtered by the government? https://alecmuffett.com/article/114972

So what we are now understanding is that in the modern era, Kirk was a moderate?

Leverage the CLOUD Act To Protect Encryption | TechPolicy.Press https://alecmuffett.com/article/114964 #CloudAct #EndToEndEncryption #HomeOffice #apple #censorship #encryption #icloud #surveillance #tcn

If you want to understand the UK Gov’t institutional mindset around data protection: a 40yo “top secret” document is found in the national archives, and the finder is all of a flutter… https://alecmuffett.com/article/114962

Briefing: VPNs and the Online Safety Act | Open Rights Group https://alecmuffett.com/article/114958 #AgeVerification #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #surveillance #vpns

The EU Commission seriously claims: “There is no such thing as #ChatControl.” https://alecmuffett.com/article/114954#ChatControl#ChatControl #ClientSideScanning #EndToEndEncryption #OnlineSafety #StopScanningMe #censorship #messenger #signal #surveillance #whatsapp

“left-wing digital sovereignty” vs: “right-wing digital sovereignty” https://alecmuffett.com/article/114950 #DigitalSovereignty

Checkpoint Britain: the dangers of digital ID and why privacy must be protected | Big Brother Watch https://alecmuffett.com/article/114948 #BigBrotherWatch #DigitalId #IdCards #censorship #identity #immigration #surveillance #uk

Don’t kill people. Don’t kill babies & children, especially, but: don’t kill people. Your politics, faith, nationality, race, class — these don’t matter https://alecmuffett.com/article/114942 #kindness

All calls for “digital sovereignty” are demands for localised authoritarianism, anti-globalism,  suppression of public online free speech and public free choice. Including the US & EU, but especially an[…] https://alecmuffett.com/article/114934

"we can calculate exactly how many bits of information are needed to prevent any specific hallucination" Those last three words are worrying. Also, it only really helps if the AI only "knows" things that are true - given what's it's trained on that often isn't the case.

Preston Byrne: “Australia trying to get those orders out the door before the UK folds and the censorship fightback playbook is finalized” https://alecmuffett.com/article/114932 #AgeVerification #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #australia #censorship #surveillance #vpns

Nadine Dorries raps and mic drops in TikTok video on online safety [act] https://alecmuffett.com/article/114930 #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #reform #surveillance

Teaching AIs to know when they don’t know something https://alecmuffett.com/article/114926 #ai #llm

The first thing that’s going to happen after an age verification provider inevitably gets hacked/popped, is some really scary extortion… https://alecmuffett.com/article/114924 #AgeVerification #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #extortion #sextortion #surveillance #vpns

Gender-based violence orgs: how much do you know about encryption? https://alecmuffett.com/article/114922 #EndToEndEncryption #chayn #encryption #gender #privacy #vawg

Horrific video shows racial abuse of Halifax healthcare worker in park | YorkshireLive https://alecmuffett.com/article/114920 #DigitalId #IdCards