Australia’s eSafety Commissioner has released a report examining how the world’s biggest tech companies address child abuse – not what they say they do, but what actually happens. It does not make good reading. World-first report shows leading tech companies are not doing enough to tackle online child abuse | …
More argument over the Government’s Online Safety Bill
Whatever side of the argument you come down on, whether this softening of the proposed bill protects free speech or reduces the protection of the vulnerable – some of the toughest parts of the Online Safety Bill aimed at some of the richest companies on the planet are no longer …
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What can happen when bots rule social media
Following the story this week that Twitter bots consider images of meteors indecent – here is another round robin bit of hacking and Big Tech “support theatre” that can cost small businesses a lot of money. Meta keeps booting small business owners for being hacked on Facebook | Ars Technica …
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Why Big Tech automated moderation fails…
Robots spotted “intimate content” and banned Mary McIntyre from Twitter and robots handled the appeal processes upholding the ban. Now Mary has a choice – admit she broke the rules and shared “intimate content”, when she obviously has not, to get access to her account or, well there is no …
“Stole my Face”
With a headline like this and it dealing with an individual’s privacy battle against Big Tech, I had to point you at this article: Clearview Stole My Face and the EU Can’t Do Anything About It | WIRED UK When I was at university I was particularly interested in privacy …
