Reforming the law

Even if you’ve got nothing to hide.

The new SynthID website can now identify AI content from Google, OpenAI, and more.

I feel I need to start out posts like this by reminding anyone that nudification apps are bad. They're almost exclusively used to abuse and harass people, most often women. That said, if you're going to ban them legally, you can't just say "nudification apps are illegal." That's not how the First Amendment works. And,...

Texas tops list with 8,100 bans while Stephen King is again most banned author, PEN America finds

Psiphon, which helps people living in oppressive regimes evade online censorship, says Bill C-22 would compel it to help build a surveillance system in this country

Meta , TikTok and X are challenging British regulator Ofcom over the amount of information it is demanding they provide under Britain's ​nascent online safety regime.

The reports of OpenAI agents harming 3rd party sites keep coming.

At least one LGBTQ establishment in Texas says the social media giant has incorrectly disabled its social media account, potentially hurting business.

Recent events thrust eugenics back into the public eye, but we should remember that the field of "race science" is thoroughly discredited.

The police hold unique powers to demand answers, to surveil us without our knowledge, to access our homes and most sensitive personal records, and ultimately, to deny us our liberty. How they use, …

In 2022, they opened their arms to Ukrainian refugees. But this year, the arrival of more than 300 asylum seekers has split the community. Can the rift be healed?

ElevationLab has released an AirTag product I find appalling, and I strongly urge they immediately withdraw it from sale and recall all inventory. The AirTag Silencer is a simple device: remove the…

Eleven months ago, I wrote about what I thought was a truly fascinating find: that some kids appeared to be using some random old NPR podcasts on Spotify as a personal chat room to get around various restrictions. It was mentioned, somewhat in passing, on the "How to do Everything" podcast last October, where someone...

Northern Ireland’s so-called marching season is usually petering out by now. This year looks to be different. On Sunday 27 September, after a 28-year wait and a flurry of last-minute legal challeng…

Freedom of information request finds six-month trial cost £320,000, used almost 100 police hours and led to just one – incorrect – alert A six-month trial of live facial recognition (LFR) technology in London’s railway stations that cost more than £320,000 and almost 100 hours of police officers’ time ended in one false match against a watchlist of suspects and no arrests. More than half a million faces were scanned between February and July this year in some of the capital’s busiest transport hubs during the British Transport Police (BTP) trial of the surveillance technology, which aimed to help catch offenders and people breaching court orders. Continue reading...

This umbrella review synthesizes and quantifies meta-analytic associations between screen-based media exposure and developmental outcomes among individuals aged 18 years or younger.

🇫🇷 French: Traduction du dossier Chat Control 2.0, stopchatcontrol.fr🇸🇪 Swedish: Chat Control 2.0🇩🇰 Danish: chatcontrol.dk🇳🇱 Dutch: Chatcontrole Table of contents: The End of the P...

As often seems to happen when ministers are being hauled over the coals for their decision making, Cabinet Office record keeping policies have been back in the news. As I reported in The Times back…

Under the draft laws, tech firms face fines if they do not give users the option to switch off algorithms.

In this digital age, encryption is essential to protect our privacy rights. That’s why we’re taking legal action against the Government’s attempts to break it.