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Unified Attestation is another anti-competitive system being pushed by multiple European companies. It will similarly lock people out from using arbitrary hardware and software. That's not a solution and is far worse than Android's much more open hardware attestation API.
#Fedora Sealed Bootable Container Images, Possibly Opening the Door to a “Fully Verified Boot Chain”
Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/
> No consent dialog. No opt-out UI. Re-installs itself if the user removes it manually.
That is the true definition of malware.
Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise tooling, and an automatic re-download every time the user deletes it. The pattern is identical to the Anthropic Claude Desktop case I wrote about last month, but the scale is between two and three orders of magnitude larger. This article does the legal analysis and, for the first time, the environmental analysis. The numbers are not small.
Shifting baseline syndrome ( #SBS ) is what happens when we forget how vibrant the natural world used to be. Each generation grows up with a more depleted environment and calls it “normal,” simply because it’s all they’ve ever known.
Researchers warn that this shift lowers our expectations, increases our tolerance for decline, and reduces our urgency to protect what’s left.
On Press Freedom Day, let's remind everyone that journalists need protection, also online. 📰 🌐
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Age verification laws forcing platforms to restrict content access have been multiplying exponentially.
The problem is, implementing such measures necessarily requires identifying every user accessing the content, one way or another.
This is bad news for everyone.
If these regulations continue
to proliferate, this could lead to the end of pseudonymity online, and much worse.
I wrote this article last year,
but unfortunately this problem has only become worse, and it is sadly still very relevant.
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/05/06/age-verification-wants-your-face/
#Privacy #AgeVerification #MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism
Age verification laws forcing platforms to restrict access to content online have been multiplying in recent years. The problem is, implementing such measure necessarily requires identifying each user accessing this content, one way or another. This is bad news for your privacy.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@danyork/116511753802210926
the company that pretends to protect kids by lobbying for age verification at OS level very hard also introduced these Meta glasses with AI that record everything and send back to its server. Is anyone seeing irony in it? Does Meta understands what they are doing?
And so it begins.
Chrome is shipping a Prompt API - giving websites access to the browser's built-in LLM.
This is the scope creep I wrote about... websites can now pass your page content, inputs and browsing context to an AI baked into the browser itself.
https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/iR6R7-nQeHI/m/gb9zDAMqAwAJ?pli=1
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