🚨 Chat monitoring sneaked into Online Safety Bill through back door measure.

The spy clause goes beyond scanning public posts to include messaging platforms like Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger and Signal.

This is a disproportionate expansion in surveillance capacity that puts everyone's privacy at risk.

We urge people in the UK to write to their MP. #BlockTheBill

#OnlineSafetyBill #privacy #freedomofspeech #cybersecurity

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/chat-monitoring-sneaked-into-online-safety-bill-through-back-door-measure/

As a blind individual, I have to say that #Caturday on #Mastodon is far far more enjoyable then at #Twitter, where the vast majority of cat photos are not described.

It is also been fascinating for me to hear descriptions written by those who sent the image, immediately followed by Apple image recognition’s attempts to describe the same image. Only rarely does that add anything to the ALT, & often directly contradicts it.

There is no auto magical solution to image description. It is something best done by a human, for only that human can explain the “why” of the image: the reason that image was chosen to speak so eloquently without words for those who can see it. ALT allows you to provide those words.

Please boost: I'm looking for literature on legal requirements for instances (moderation, data protection, liability etc.).

Especially for larger organizations/companies that want to run their own instance.

Focus on EU/Germany. Please help.

#mastodon #legal #GDPR