Jim Killock

Hack of age verification firm may have exposed 70,000 Discord users’ ID photos Names, email addresses and other contact details of users from around the world could also have been taken

Hack of age verification firm may have exposed 70,000 Discord users’ ID photos

#onlinesafetyact #wtf #wetoldyouso

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/oct/09/hack-age-verification-firm-discord-users-id-photos

@jonquark @openrightsgroup It is definitely a significant risk, I think the HO eVisa app works like this. And of course, eVisas don’t work except on an app; in both cases the systems will make some people very dependent on relatives or partners who are abusive.

"By investing in #opensource, Europe can support small businesses, universities, and public institutions, giving them tools to compete with global tech giants.

Despite this importance, the budget proposal does not include specific funding for open source… The omission is alarming as Europe […]

@jim Tech Gets Real is now live on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/7kVl0RrTJLFJSo1XVYDc2a and Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tech-gets-real/id1841869425

@superglaze Great news! Are you doing an audio version as well, or just YT?

🚨 So I'm becoming a podcaster/YouTuber! The show's called Tech Gets Real and its all about staying in control in the AI era. This is for regular people - no jargon; short episodes - so please share with anyone who could benefit!

Episode 1 is all about how honest we should be with AIs […]

@Sunraku Yes - you have to know this tho! It does not say this anywhere on threads.com profiles.

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IDK how complicated migrating the domain from https://www.threads.net to https://www.threads.com would be, but not advertising it to users or making any provision for this is dire. #fediverse #threads #meta

So apparently part of the issue with #threads is that they moved domain from threads.net to threads.com with the result that fediverse domain handles are no longer obvious and transparent. Kind of screams neglect and don’t care won’t fix.

According to Politico, the @EUCommission is now close to publishing its final #DSA non-compliance decision against #X. But for real this time, they say. 🍿

Maybe a good moment to re-share what I just published about how #DSA and #DMA are going […]

@beaware.social@threads.com ping

Tech Litigation

Great website, via @sarahalsherif

https://tech-litigation.com/

detailing lots of case law on automated decision making

#ai #automateddecisionmaking #adm #dataprotection

Something that bothers me a lot is when people conflate "having compassion and understanding for people who hate you" with "letting people who hate you do whatever they want to you".

It's possible to have firm boundaries and to take urgent, protective action while also believing that everyone […]

@Ruth_Mottram So true, and the UK's politics of migration are appalling.

The analytic we want is to correlate news coverage / political commentary with what is cited as top concern by the public.

The UK’s problems aren’t caused by immigration It’s not hard to see how so many came to worry about the issue. But the data isn’t there

"respect the data, but also look carefully at what you see all around you. Above all, think for yourself."

A moral for the ages.

The UK’s problems aren’t caused by immigration - https://on.ft.com/3K7NCxI

Ad van with picture of Trump and Jeffrey Epstein stopped by cops in Windsor Footage shows an advertising ban with an image of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein being driven away by a police officer as the US President's visit was targeted

"Ad van with picture of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein confiscated by cops in Windsor"

#Trump visit to the UK is delivering a free speech clampdown. #freespeech #onlinesafetyact

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/ad-van-picture-donald-trump-35916462

I know, many of you will be unsurprised or even quite happy this is the case, but it is not good. #Meta should not get a free pass on this.

#threads #ActivityPub

Perhaps unsurprisingly, threads.com seems increasingly broken from an #ActivityPub perspective; subscriptions to external accounts frequently fail, and it is not picking up posts from certain user accounts.

#threads

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Well, that took long. #OnlineSafetyAct #ageverification

https://dailydarkweb.net/passportscan-allegedly-breached-178000-scanned-ids-for-sale-on-dark-web/

The government has today (8 September) announced urgent action to toughen the Online Safety Act by putting stricter legal requirements on tech companies to hunt down and remove material that encourages or assists serious self-harm, before it can destroy lives and tear families apart. While platforms already have to take specific steps to protect children from this dangerous self-harm content, the government recognises that adults battling mental health challenges are equally at risk from exposure to material that could trigger a mental health crisis or worse.

Government appears to have learnt nothing from the #OnlineSafetyAct debacle, and is planning more of the same. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/online-safety-laws-to-strengthen-to-protect-people-of-all-ages-from-devastating-self-harm-content

Via Owen Boswarva

I'd like to publish conference proceedings as epub rather than pdf, as they're more accessible, can include videos etc. They're basically standardised bundles of HTML as far as I can tell, that can be downloaded onto ereaders etc.

However, web browsers can't natively read them, and I somehow […]

@ret 100% especially when you add that the far right are inevitably quite happy to forget FX once they have the power to restrict speech they do not like. We are watching that happen in real time.

@rachel @BBCNews Sure, that is what I meant, sorry!

@BBCNews So much of this relates to the tabloidification of social media. Which is about disempowered users, who cannot choose their moderators and prioritisation engines,

Did a quick interview with @BBCNews on the Graham Linehan arrest. Whatever the specifics with GL, which are not good, there is a wider question as to why the police are dealing with speech offences through arrests. #freespeech #onlinesafetyact

In case we needed more warning against #BigTech + a push towards #DigitalSovereignty...
@pluralistic on scorching form.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115130382805060633
pluralistic@mamot.fr - William Gibson famously said "Cyberpunk was a warning, not a suggestion." But for every tech leader […]

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All three top stories on the BBC News app are about migration. The top story on #R4Today just now was also about migration.

Is this (as the #R4Today presenter has just claimed) the media reflecting the public’s interest, or is it in fact the public parroting back […]

[Original post on toot.wales]

There is an interesting new report by #AmnestyInternational about how #X's business model and content #moderation failings enabled the spread of technology-facilitated gender-based violence targeting #LGBTI people on the platform in #Poland […]

Zehn Jahre „Wir schaffen das“ - Experte: Geflüchtete aus 2015 sind Outperformer „Wir schaffen das“ – zehn Jahre später: Die Geflüchteten aus 2015 haben Migrationsforscher Brücker zufolge besser performt als die Wissenschaft erwartet hatte. Doch der politische Diskurs überlagere die objektiven Gegebenheiten.

„Wir schaffen das“ – zehn Jahre später: Die Geflüchteten aus 2015 haben Migrationsforscher Brücker zufolge besser performt als die Wissenschaft erwartet hatte. Doch der politische Diskurs überlagere die objektiven Gegebenheiten.

Big questions: what have the UK and US agreed re #Apple #ADP #encryption?

I would guess ADP will NOT return in the UK

https://www.ft.com/content/ab0aba27-81e0-4ee5-bcbb-6bce85386e40