Assistant professor of computer science at Sorbonne University where I co-lead the Dioptra research group in the LIP6 laboratory. Working on internet measurements and the edge cloud.
Member of EELV, which is the Green party in France.
The UK is a useful idiot for authoritarian regimes.
The Online Safety Bill is set to puncture the security of messaging apps to enable mass surveillance. It’ll give permission for it to be done in other countries.
World-leading stuff 🇬🇧
📽️ Channel 4 News @Mer__edith
"The power of the precedent is huge here ... the UK would be first to implement a law [that would allow the scanning of] every message you sent before you sent it"
"It [then] becomes easy for any other country to point and say the UK did it and the UK certainly is a democracy so how can you say this is a move towards authoritarianism?"
Part of a well worthwhile interview with Meredith Whittaker (President of Signal) @Mer__edith
Listen to this episode from The Sunday Show on Spotify. Earlier this month, Justin Hendrix traveled to RightsCon, the big gathering of individuals and organizations concerned with human rights and technology organized by Access Now. The sprawling event had hundreds of sessions on a wide range of themes, but one topic discussed across multiple tracks was the importance of encrypted communications, especially to groups such as political dissidents and journalists. A key panel at RightsCon featured Signal President Meredith Whittaker, who spoke out about policies proposed in legislatures around the world that threaten the promise of end-to-end encryption to preserve the privacy of messages sent between individuals and groups. Leaders of encrypted apps have pulled together of late to speak out against the proposed UK Online Safety Bill, signing letters and appearing at events. Shortly after RightsCon, Hendrix connected with Whittaker to learn more about Signal’s posture against such legislation, why she sees encrypted communications as so crucial to freedom and human rights, and how the company thinks about safety and its role in the broader digital ecosystem.
#LegalEthics Tidbit: After conviction, does the state still have an obligation to disclose exculpatory evidence?
Yes under CA Rule 3.8(d). A CA woman was convicted of manslaughter. She later learned the victim had once been prosecuted for aggravated assault, which would have supported her self-defense claim. The AG rebuffed her attempt to get more info, claiming it had no post-conviction duty to disclose exculpatory evidence. CA Supreme Court disagreed.
"The idea that complex social problems are amenable to cheap technical solutions is the siren song of the software salesman"
Re the Online Safety Bill/regulatory proposals invoking harm to the vulnerable as a problem mass surveillance could solve.
Really charming "topologists world map."
Forget size or position, this map *only* shows which countries border which other countries: http://tafc.space/qna/the-topologists-world-map/
I caught one of my students using their own words to write an essay. Is there some way to detect when students try to bypass the AI?
Elon Musk fired Twitter's entire staff in Brazil except a few salespeople.
Among those fired: "eight people who moderated content on the platform in order to catch posts that broke its rules against incitement to violence and misinformation."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/01/08/brazil-bolsanaro-twitter-facebook/
EU bodies have provisionally agreed a directive to strengthen implementation of the principle of equal pay, inc through pay transparency and addressing procedural difficulties in bringing claims. Analysis by Kalina Arabadjieva highlights its strengths alongside some shortcomings, eg lack of gender action plans or further obligations to consult or co-operate with social partners https://www.socialeurope.eu/pay-transparency-yes-but-we-need-more-for-equal-pay
Open Rights Group
Mark Foden
David Kluft
Meredith Whittaker
Elizabeth Ayer
Kerim Friedman 傅可恩
Samuel Oakford — WaPo
Dan Ports
Natalie Sedacca