Colin Hayhurst ✅

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CEO @mojeek #Search Free from #Surveillance | Own views expressed here.
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Colin Hayhurst ✅Dec 6, 2024
Humans should not be victims of bad AI, so I co-signed this letter.
From: @openrightsgroup
https://social.openrightsgroup.org/@openrightsgroup/113606285995459971
Open Rights Group (@[email protected])

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 53 experts and civil society groups call on the UK government to scrap proposals that'll remove the right not to be subject to decisions made by AI. The Data Bill MUST keep the right to human review! Read our open letter ⬇️ #DUABill #PeopleNotMachines #AI #DataBill #dataprotection #privacy #GDPR #ukpolitics https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/letter-to-peter-kyle-keep-our-right-not-to-be-subjected-to-decisions-based-solely-on-ai/

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Colin Hayhurst ✅Dec 2, 2024
Open Rights GroupDec 2, 2024

Over 300 people have signed our petition to save the right to human review of decisions made by AI.

The UK #DataBill must not expose us to algorithmic biases and mistakes. Humans, not machines, should have the final say in life-changing decisions.

Add your name NOW ⬇️

#dataprotection #AI #DUABill £GDPR #ukpolitics

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ai-says-no-tell-keir-starmer-that-people-not-machines-should-oversee-life-changing-decisions

AI says NO: Tell Keir Starmer that people, not machines should oversee life-changing decisions

Clause 80 of the Government’s Data (Use and Access) Bill could strip away your right to decide whether people or machines make decisions that impact our lives. Big Tech and Whitehall are eager to cut costs by using AI algorithms to make crucial decisions about you. Soon, computers—not people—could determine the outcome of your benefit claims, job applications, or mortgage approvals. Right now, UK GDPR protects your right not to be simply subjected to life-changing decisions made solely by...

38 Degrees
Colin Hayhurst ✅Nov 22, 2023
What's up Poland?
https://app.electricitymaps.com/map
Live 24/7 CO₂ emissions of electricity consumption

Electricity Maps is a live 24/7 visualization of where your electricity comes from and how much CO2 was emitted to produce it.

Colin Hayhurst ✅Nov 22, 2023
Mojeek Search EngineNov 22, 2023

wearing my low-carbon load badge with pride 🫡 (result also doesn't take into account green hosting, so it's even better than that)

https://www.websitecarbon.com/website/mojeek-com/

mojeek.com - Website Carbon Calculator

Check the website carbon emissions for mojeek.com

Website Carbon Calculator
Colin Hayhurst ✅Nov 22, 2023
"GPT store was the last straw"
https://www.reddit.com/user/Anxious_Bandicoot126/comments/?sort=new
Reddit - Dive into anything

Colin Hayhurst ✅Nov 17, 2023

An increase in agency for Windows users. Nice one #DMA.

https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/microsoft-will-let-windows-11-users-in-europe-uninstall-edge-bing-and-disable-ads-in-eea-dma

Microsoft will let users uninstall Edge, Bing, and disable ads on Windows 11 as it complies with the Digital Markets Act

Microsoft ensures Windows 11 is compliant with the Digital Markets Act in the European Economic Area.

Windows Central
Colin Hayhurst ✅Nov 10, 2023
Amazon are right at home ... in a panopticon ... in Haarlem 🇳🇱
Colin Hayhurst ✅Nov 2, 2023
Mojeek Search EngineNov 2, 2023

📢 Calling all creators, publishers, and content contributors on the web! 🌐

Today we are announcing an important open letter which proposes a simple specification to enable fair usage of content for search and AI. This is a threat now, not an #AISafetySummit future one.

#NoML #OpenLetter #AI

Join us by signing & sharing the open letter 👇

https://noml.info/

noml open letter

sign the open letter proposing noml, a specification for those who want content searchable on search engines, but not used for machine learning.

noml.info
Colin Hayhurst ✅Oct 6, 2023
Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉Oct 5, 2023
Colin Hayhurst gives a excellent insight into the nuts and bolts of the @Mojeek search engine. #ossym2023
Colin Hayhurst ✅Aug 22, 2023
Meredith WhittakerAug 21, 2023

In reply to a quick conversation with Lord Bethell of the UK Parliament on Twitter, I composed an open response.

You can find the original (ongoing) conversation here: https://twitter.com/mer__edith/status/1692547122850111667

The the open response here: https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/LBResponse.pdf

Meredith Whittaker on X

Hi Lord Bethell, great to meet you. We're a nonprofit, not BigTech, and we've have never opposed whole Bill. We're alarmed by clause 111 giving Ofcom powers to mandate a backdoor in e2e encryption, undermining the safety & security of the UK's core infrastructure & basic rights.

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