The government is pushing for amendments to the Crime and Policing Bill with the explicit intent of accessing information stored in foreign servers and two-factor authentication codes. hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2025...

CBP claim the drones are for law enforcement surveillance, but they will inevitably capture data associated with First Amendment-protected activities. It remains to be seen if any drone data is used as evidence in subsequent criminal proceedings.

The Investigatory Powers Tribunal has rejected the Home Office’s attempt to keep the proceedings of the Apple encryption-breaching case secret.

The tribunal did not buy the government's national security arguments.

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The population would object if police access to the house also allowed foreign adversaries and criminals the opportunity to steal house keys, pin codes, etc.
www.belganewsagency.eu/europol-chie...

Farewell, CPS. Thank you for the last few years. I’m looking forward to the next gig, which starts next week.

"the truth is that Brits are consistently more authoritarian on questions of civil liberties than most politicians realise.”

www.thetimes.com/article/8c29...

Betting market for this, please.

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A rather strange article by Anthony Seldon in today’s Times.

1) Generative AI was not released in 2022.
2) You can argue that teachers should police AI in school, but that will be as effective as banning calculators in the classroom while knowing kids will use calculators for home work.

Playing chess with ChatGPT4 is interesting. It made an illegal move, I pointed this out, and its explanation made no sense.

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It's not the most important point in the article, but I don't see how we reach the point of having interstellar human communities without also having near-instant communication à la wormholes or similar.

quillette.com/2024/04/11/b...

Oh no.

Oh dear.

I wasn’t sure what my first post should be. I opted for a creepy sign I saw in Vienna.