They are threatening fines up to 6% of global revenue. How they can enforce such judgments I don’t really understand. The standards for what is to be censored are not even yet in place. They are under development and fluid. Election Misinformation? What exactly is the standard for what is and is not misinformation. In […]
During oral arguments in a major First Amendment case on Monday, the Supreme Court expressed reservations about restricting interactions between the Biden administration and social media platforms. This concern emerged during the Murthy v. Missouri (formerly Missouri v. Biden) case, which delves into the extent of governmental influence over online content. The Biden Administration has
It has long been considered a conspiracy theory that we are headed for carbon passports. This is basically technology that tracks much of what we do, purchase and consume to form a carbon credit score. It is not mere conspiracy theory as various variants are being seriously proposed. How Carbon Passports, Social Credit, and a
Who Cares It Is Owned By Chinese Company There are competing claims here. One claim is that it is a national security threat through loss of US citizen privacy. Another is that somehow China is threatening the US through some kind of cultural corruption. At least this is what is in the minds of most
First of all the very phrase “Climate Change” is a bit odd in the way it is deployed. No one sane would argue that climate doesn’t change. Almost no one argues against the fact that what humans do is one of the causes of changes to climate. However, in actual usage, the phrase has come
Canada in its “Online Harms Bill” gives itself the right to effectively put a person who in the judgement of whomever they let judge such things has been guilty of some form of “legal but awful” speech under house arrest and take away their internet access as well. Pre-Crime: Canada’s Justice Minister Defends “Online Harms
Basic Technology Passkeys have their basis in a good idea. It is a good idea at the heart of much of modern encryption – asymmetric encryption or, as it is often called, PKI (Public Key Infrastructure). In this type of encryption there is a pair of keys. One key is public and everyone can know
Danger of Unique Identifiers As we have seen, the collection of data about all of us adds to a graph of information whose central nodes are, at worse, unique identifiers pointing straight to our person. Those identifiers are generally of some common types: The strategy here is twofold. First do not use or share the
Extent of Privacy Problem What is the extent of the threats to privacy today? How much of our information is already collected? Location Tracking The shocking news is that by default today you are tracked 24/7. Your location is easily knowable within meters and in some conditions even more precisely.How is this accomplished? Cameras, Facial
The world is increasingly hostile to anything which does not meet the approved narrative. The term “misinformation” is everywhere. Apparently this was not the case until Donald Trump won the US Presidential election. A year or two afterwards the term was in wide use and suddenly there was a “misinformation crisis”. One connection to privacy