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 […]
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
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
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
Lawmakers Demand Amazon Censors Alexa After WaPo Complains Its Responses Referenced Rumble, Substack Lawmakers are demanding that Amazon take “proactive measures” to ensure that its voice assistant, Alexa, doesn’t provide “false claims about the outcome of the 2020 elections” after a Washington Post article complained that Alexa was citing responses from Rumble and Substack. The