i wanted to understand why i don't trust politicians anymore and ended up in a four-hour long rabbit hole on the history of regulation 🙃

What happens when we replace our friends and lovers with Generative AI?

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#GenAI #AICompanions #Psychology #Desire

Is it possible for tools to have ethics or is their morality determined by how we choose to use them?

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#AI #Ethics

AI identified up to 37,000 targets in Gaza. Could the technology used by Israel be leveraged by Europe?

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#Europe #EUAIAct #AI #Gaza #Genocide

Europe wants to break encryption before quantum computing had a chance to, all in the name of protecting children, but does it make sense?

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#DataPrivacy #Surveillance #Chatcontrol #Europe

They charged me without blinking, but suddenly it’s “ID, proof of life, and a blood sample, please” when I wanted my data deleted. Now they’ve got my bank info held hostage.

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#GDPR #DigitalRights #DataPrivacy #DataHostage #RightToBeForgotten

The data protection agency’s response was basically “oh yeah, it’s illegal, we sent them a letter, case closed” 🙃

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#GDPR #DigitalRights #DataPrivacy #DataProtection

You will be watched. You will be policed. You will be what they make you or you will be punished.

This is fascism. This is what it looks like, what it’s always looked like, and just like the last time— private business is no saviour, just a collaborator.

We’ve been degenerating to this for awhile.

Why is it so difficult to put the companies on a data diet? Because the banners aren’t consent, they’re coercion by design. If we can’t deny tracking easily, then we can’t consent freely.

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#GDPR #DigitalRights #DataPrivacy #CookieConsent #DarkPatterns

Literally the *only* question of how to "manage" that extinction should be about ensuring Fossil Fuel workers have well-funded transitions into other industries.

That's it.

Cut off these company's tax breaks and subsidies and it'll die on its own. Capitalism isn't keeping it afloat. Corruption is.

Whenever someone tells me we're living in a fake news era and people are using LLMs to stay informed, all I can think of is this:

It's so weird to me how every time I post a story on Medium, there's a popover reminding me I'm not making any money from it... Apparently, a girl can't have a hobby she doesn't monetize 🙄

Have you ever been denied assistance because you didn't want your call to be recorded?

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#GDPR #DataPrivacy #DataProtection #CivilRights

#BookSky

As if weaponized incompetence wasn’t enough, they went on to weaponize legitimate interest. We have to constantly remember that the system protects compliance, not people.

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#GDPR #LegitimateInterest #DigitalRights #DataJustice #DarkPatterns

GDPR promised digital rights, it got us consent theatre.

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#Privacy #GDPR #DarkPatterns #TechEthics #DataProtection #UserExperience #UX