when the dems jumped on the “tiktik is spying on you! Evil CCP is turning the youth into communists!”

TikTok IS spying on you.

But it’s true that the evil CCP is no longer communist: just totalitarian crony capitalist.

debit = no rent

Funny, I rented from Hertz about two weeks ago and there was a big sign at the counter explaining their terms of business for renting with a debit card. And it didn’t say “We don’t do it.”

It’s designed to suck.

It works as Hertz intended. And that’s the problem.

AI is great for sensitivity (noticing potential issues), but terrible for specivity (giving many false positives).

AI is not uniqely prone to false positives; in this case, it’s being used deliberately to produce them.

If data is collected that can be used for blackmail, it will eventially be used for that purpose.

Sounds like a great opportunity to challenge any procurement policy that implements that EO.

It’s not at all bad for an initial proof of concept.

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A better rule is that PII data should never be used as a basis for auth/auth except by government agencies in the process of delivering legally mandated government services.

I live in the UK and, like nearly everyone else in the UK, have never been required to do this. The only time it’s required is when accessing adult-only sites, and there are some obvious workarounds in those cases, yarr.

Don Quixote was a fool but not an asshole.

Besides bullying, what is the mechanism for enforcing such an executive order?

If you are implying there’s some equivalence between the MAGAdiots and the EU, you’re delusional.

House Judiciary is controlled by Republicans. Therefore, anything it says is lies.

They seem butthurt that Nazis can be kicked off platforms in the EU. Tough shit.

Live location doesn’t add anything

Yeah, seriously, how did society function before GPS?

by law, I can not be equipped with a panic button for rescue purposes, as it is deemed unlawful surveillance of the worker

That makes no sense. What country and what law? For one example, GDPR has an exemption for cases like that. And for another, how can it be surveillance when the communication is initiated by the worker as part of their job?

The UK government was also getting advice from its own cybersecurity people that the backdoor idea wasn’t viable.

Vance deserves no credit for this or anything else.

They can. They just don’t want to.

Greer has always been a narcissistic troll.