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https://www.marketwatch.com/story/apples-hot-antitrust-autum...
Scanning publicly accessible material makes a lot of sense and is within the boundaries of section 230, tech companies are responsible for policing removing illegal or threatening material. For private or encrypted information, section 230 does not apply.
The purposes these services were designed for matters. iCloud is meant to be private, facebook would prefer everything you post is public as it’s built in to benefit their business model. Facebook should scan, iCloud shouldn’t. You are purposely obfuscating that detail.
Not necessarily. The FBI knocks on your door when they have convinced a warrant-signing judge, that’s there is probable-cause, or that additional information can be collected to build a case in which the defendant will ‘plead’ or make a deal for sentence reduction. 90% of defendants make a deal and never go to trial because by that time the stakes are so high a guilty verdict includes the harshest possible sentence.
FBI only needs to convince you they can win a case or the judge that there might be fruit behind a locked door, they don’t need direct evidence. It’s really up to the judge.
That simply can’t be because what you get out is based on how long you live, which is a ‘known, unknown’
> people don’t care about that because you’re literally, voluntarily, giving Dropbox your files.
Correct and I agree. I don’t upload my most personal photos to Dropbox for this very specific reason. In fact I stopped using Dropbox when Condi Rice joined the board because she lacks good sense and doesn’t respect civil rights. See ‘The Patriot Act’ and ‘the Invasion of Afghanistan’. It was easy to stop using Dropbox because the alternatives were vast. Apple has me very purposely locked in to this scheme to where the alternatives are a huge transition and compromise on privacy no matter where I turn.
Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/16/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-takes...
BO took a ton of money during the first round. Now the execs are pissed they weren’t awarded the contract. It seems BO just didn’t submit a compelling proposal and now they are using scorched earth behavior to get their way in court. It’s a shame because the BO team is being humiliated by the execs with their bullying antics. I have a huge amount of respect for the BO team. I KNOW they are really good and care a lot about the mission and space exploration. Too bad about the execs…
The reason this violation was able to take place is because…
> It’s all an invasion of privacy until you’re sitting on the other side of the table
The thing about privacy and the government is you must always envision yourself on the wrong side of the table, because you are. Right up to the point they are inside you. [1] Your right to privacy is your strength and without it you are a slave to forces you don’t understand, can’t see, hear, taste, or smell.
Privacy or lack there of changes who you are and how you act. It changes what you say and why.
Be very careful how you submit to surveillance. The privacy you forfeit can never be recaptured.
[1] https://news.yahoo.com/mexico-man-sues-over-repeated-anal-pr...
That’s the thing about privacy that so many don’t want to admit. “Everyone deserves it, until they don’t”. All of society’s privacy is more important than your single child, sorry.
Meanwhile I created this great new technology. It runs in the background super efficiently on your phone. It immediately detects housefires and alerts you. It uses a combination of sensors to literally detect the spark of flame and there’s only one in 1 trillion false positives.
Simply download the app and give it permission to sample your microphones, cameras, accelerometers and historical gps data to build a profile, then flick a lighter anywhere in your house and sure enough your phone alarm goes off.
How it works is incredible, an algorithm listens for supersonic soundwaves created by the chemical reaction during combustion. Video and sound samples are then reviewed by one of our technical representatives.
Housefires and house fire deaths will be a thing of the past. The only compromise is that our algorithms listen to all of your video and audio and occasionally monitored by a human technician, which might include audio of you making love to your wife.
You can request a review of Apple's actions, however we are receiving higher than normal requests at this time. This means we may be unable to review your account.
Sorry for any inconvenience.
No. NeuralMatch was “trained” using 200,000 CP images. “Neural“ is likely a reference to the perceptual matching that it uses. It is not a bit for bit match.
Perceptual matching is a technique used for categorizing images based on characteristics and content.
The algorithm will scan your library containing new information and compare it to what it understands as CP.
There will be many false positives, they will be reviewed by people. When there’s more than a few false positives, you will be investigated by the FBI.
Perceptual matching is used to sort categories of images. A quick DuckDuckGo will turn up many results. No stretch of the imagination will turn this into a bit for a bit comparison. This is a machine learning algorithm used to categorize images. https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2019/10/learning-implicit...
Matthew Green is tweeting about this: https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/14230711866160005... and mentions that it is "preceptial hashing”
9 to 5 Mac article, in which they restate that it is not a classical bit-by-bit hash:
https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/05/scanning-for-child-abuse-imag...
It is a perceptual Hash of the images characteristics and perceived continent by the algorithm, that’s the “neural” in neuralmatch.
Apple, for yours has been building-in machine learning dedicated chips into their builds so this shouldn’t affect battery life.
Matthew Green is tweeting about this: https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/14230711866160005... and mentions that it is "preceptial hasing"
9 to 5 Mac article, in which they restate that it is not a classical bit-by-bit hash:
https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/05/scanning-for-child-abuse-imag...
It _is_? What am I/are you missing here?
> apple design is in the tank right now
There have been a diverse group of trolls screaming this for about 40 years. Meanwhile they are only the best by default. Don’t like it? Make something better
NSO: "We checked, you're clean"
The Public: "I plan to speak publicly about this violation of my privacy"
Local DA: "An investigation revealed some suspicious activity in your secretly subpoenaed browser history... 6 years ago..."
The Public: "Investigation? I didn't do anything wrong! Is this because I want to voice my objection to the current privacy laws?! This sounds an awful lot like parallel construction"
Local DA: "We are not at liberty to disclose the nature of the information we have on you as it contains information involving other active cases. You are under arrest."
This is bigotry plain and simple. It’s the ‘gayness’ the church has a problem with.
Saying 'If he had sex, he's immoral and should resign as priest and the religious order' is consciously or unconsciously issuing a homophobic attack because it was Grindr for gay sex with a man. If it was a man that had sex with an adult woman, no one would care, The Pillar wouldn't have publicized the data findings, this wouldn't be an article on arstechnica, and you wouldn't care either. Also Priesthood isn't a job you leave. It isn't a job, it's for life. There nothing to go to after.
It would be like saying ‘if you smoke pot, you are “actively engaged in behaviors that are abhorrent to the“… country because it’s listed as a Schedule I substance, federally banned, so you should leave and go to another country. No I won’t. Will stay here smoke my pot, thumb my nose at you and change the laws. And we did, we’ll change the church too.
I have a problem with people attacking gays or straights for wanting love. I don't care what your religion or organization is.
Saying 'If he had sex, he's immoral and should resign as priest and the religious order' is consciously or unconsciously issuing a homophobic attack because it was Grindr for gay sex with a man. If it was a man that had sex with an adult woman, no one would care, The Pillar wouldn't have publicized the data findings, this wouldn't be an article on arstechnica, and you wouldn't care either. Also Priesthood isn't a job you leave. It isn't a job, it's for life.
I grew up in the church. I have friends in the church. I know a lot of priests and I knew a lot of gay priests. There are a lot of good people there.
If none of that was good enough to change your tack, you will N E V E R defeat the church, and people need/want it. The're the single biggest land real-estate owners in the world with 1.3 billion baptised Catholics worldwide as of 2019. Money is power and this scandal will blow over, they are on a long-term plan. You can help the church evolve to a kinder organization; kinder to its priests and its parishioners.
Personally, I don't like church, it's not for me. Deep down everyone knows right and wrong, and existence a god doesn't help answer any questions I have. The idea of heaven allows people to think there is something better after. There isn't.
False. You’ll fear losing privacy and freedom to speak freely even if you have nothing to hide. We have seen this effect in real-time as governments began “secretly” monitoring communication in 2006 and even more so as tech companies started banning speech. You will self-censor even when you have nothing to hide.
Privacy is like the bathroom door. We close it even though everyone knows what we are doing. It’s not a secret.
It’s like the freedom to speak even if you have nothing to say.
You wouldn’t use a public bathroom stall that didn’t have a door. You would be plenty angry and confused if I started arbitrarily dictating what you could and couldn’t say.
You have plenty to fear even when you have nothing to hide.
Privacy should not be confused with secrecy. These two are often conflated by those who wish to compromise your privacy.
Vatican bars gay union blessing, says God ‘can’t bless sin’ https://apnews.com/article/vatican-decree-same-sex-unions-ca... This is from March 2021…
You seem to be talking out of both sides your mouth. You are continuously wrong and willful in not acknowledging it.
Just to be clear I speak from experience when I talk about the church. My uncle was in the seminary, my other uncle is a catholic priest, my father was in the seminary, my best friend is a devout Catholic who’s been going to church every day for the past 60 years. I know church doctrine. I don’t think you do
I’ve met all the nice catholic people you describe. I’ve also met the not so nice people you pretend aren’t a large influential part of the Catholic Church. Maybe your state is a wonderland. Travel a bit and see the rest of the world and know what it actually looks like when you are gay
But let’s be honest it’s unspoken that they prefer straight virgins right?
Actually it’s spoken. Quite verbose in fact. The church is constantly attacking gays and for them to be non-bias in this case is completely out of character and you are giving them way too much courtesy.
Many people go to gay bars not to hook up, but to be around other gay people. Gay bars are not a hookup app.
You don’t know him and you can’t claim to know what he thinks or believes. No one follows the catholic theology to absolutely strict adherence. Just some are more strict about some aspects. You accusing him of having no faith or belief in the religion he has dedicated his life to is offensive. Your quick judgement is probably because he’s gay… and religious, thus a hypocrite, in some peoples eyes. Just remember it’s the Church that turned away from gays not the other way around.
Having to abstain from physical contact with another adult human is a deeply unnatural and inhuman protocol. I don’t judge any one for wanting to touched and loved.
As for your quick and abrasive judgement: A group of men preparing to stone an adulterous woman to death were addressed by Jesus with the words: ‘He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her’ (John 8:7).
I got canceled in the group I founded. 12 years ago I started a reddit community based on my relationships and attractions. After building to 28k subs 10 years later, fb groups and meetups around the country. Animosity toward leadership and mods began to form. A small group of users formed resistance and started a scuffle in a post, then threats toward meetup attendees directed at mods started appearing on the discord. Complaints started appearing on the facebook group. There was no reasoning or logic to their complaints and they almost seemed incorrigible... like a bloodlust. In the end, I was forced out and exiled. I would later learn that the resistance was mostly unstable crazed users who fed on drama. Since the event their reddit and facebook profiles document a life in chaos for each of them.
It's weird not being able to speak in a community you designed and built over a decade. Even as your face/likeness and artwork is still in use in all the published materials. Thankfully things have mostly calmed down now.
Yes the game is afoot. Everyone is hedging. I’ve lived in the city for 12 years now and even in that short time I’ve watched it change. The value of these company’s stonks have sky rocketed and that translates in to people on the ground and buildings in the air, in my city as well as others. We know what Amazon did to the Seattle real-estate markets and the culture. Well they (FAANG) did it to NYC too. There were other biggggg problems before but this feels like people are upset, maybe as you point out at the wrong target.
A ridiculous amount of the apartments go unoccupied because they are someone’s pietaterre or just an investment asset. That to me is insulting and am a little bitter that they benefit, cause rent prices to sky rocket and yet don’t even live here and barely visit.
I have watched the culture; food, art and music scene die here as the rich buy convert and transform everything in to their playground; Hudson Yard, and Avenue of the worlds school where tuition for kindergarten is $60,000. The restaurants are worse yet more pretentious and more expensive than ever. Many business store fronts go unoccupied, because the asking price is too high yet the landlords never drop the rent, because they don’t have to. The building is an investment asset. So premium storefront goes unused and papered over for years and in some cases, decades.
The rich maybe aren’t the problem but they seem to be causing a lot of problems...
Edit: to be clear, I live in one of the neighborhoods that is actively being “gentrified” after it was already gentrified in the 90s so I have a front row view to all this development.