Barnstormer of an essay by Bruce Schneier about AI and trust. Worth spending some time with - hard to extract the highlights since there are so many of them

A key idea is that we are predisposed to trust AI chat interfaces because they imitate humans, which means we are highly susceptible to profit-seeking biases baked into them

Needed: "A public model is a model built by the public for the public. It requires political accountability, not just market accountability."
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/12/ai-and-trust.html

You can enable tracker stripping from the URL for when you want to copy&paste one from Firefox.
Type about:config in the search/URL bar and finding the privacy.query_stripping setting.

I like privacy.query_stripping.strip_on_share.enabled

The latest #EDRigram is out!🥳 Check out the top #DigitalRights updates from across Europe:

⚖️EU content regulation goes to court
📹Lawmakers' faces are getting scanned with a facial recognition algorithm
🇳🇴Massive #GDPR violations in Norway
& more ➡️ https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-23-november-2023/

🚨 Another EU mass surveillance attempt. Will kill privacy on web. Must not pass. 🚨

“[A]ll web browsers distributed in Europe will be required to trust the certificate authorities and cryptographic keys selected by EU governments.

These changes radically expand the capability of EU governments to surveil their citizens by ensuring cryptographic keys under government control can be used to intercept encrypted web traffic across the EU.”

https://last-chance-for-eidas.org

#eu #privacy #surveillance #eidas

Mozilla is ringing the alarm bell on a dangerous EU regulation.

https://last-chance-for-eidas.org

HELP PLEASE! (This is important - a boost would appreciated - I’m trying to prove a point with a company who won’t apologise!)

If an airport lounge advertises “hot and cold food” what would you assume?