📰 Reboot's News Round-Up 📰
Rating system;
🔴 - Important/Urgent/Imminent
🟠 - Approaching/Noteworthy/Planned
🟢 - Good News
🟢👀 - Good news but beware
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🔴🔴🔴🔴 - London Police Deploy Live Facial Rec At Protests
Two large protests in London at the weekend, one was surveilled by live facial recognition, the other was not.
They are also moving away from recognition vans to having this tech installed on existing street furniture.
Remember, this tech never goes away, it simply advances.
🔴🔴🔴 - Ofcom - The Online Speech Regulator Tries To Fine US Based Websites
UK's Ofcom fined an American mental health and suicide discussion forum £950,000 for hosting speech that is legal in America, on servers in America, operated by Americans.
Online speech control = 1984.
🔴🔴🔴 - Palantir has hired more than 30 senior UK Government officials
The AI company holds £670m in UK government contracts. It has also hired dozens of senior officials from the departments awarding them – raising what transparency experts call an 'acute' corruption risk.
🔴🔴 - ChatGPT Now Wants Access To Your Bank Accounts
Due to the £300 you spent eating in restaurants last month, AI has concluded that your diabetes is self-inflicted, and thus your claim for insulin is denied. This is where this is heading.
🔴🔴 - Meta (Facebook etc.) Faces Court Over Tracking Android Users
They have been accused of exploiting vulnerabilities in standard Android to access user data. Reboot phone users unaffected.
🔴🔴 - Sweden Wants to Strap Tracking Devices on Children as Young as 13
Scandinavian country treating innocent children the same as a criminal. You can't make this stuff up.
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