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Submission + - France gives online firms one hour to pull 'terrorist' content 1

rewindustry writes: the BBC is reporting that France has given online social sites one hour to pull content that the police decide is in contravention of the new law.

https://www.bbc.com/news/techn...

I am reporting this story because this approach seems open to sabotage to me, and I would like to discuss this.

it seems to me it should be easy to flood major social sites with anonymous fake posts that would contravene the new laws (preferably without hurting real people) in order to clog the system.

this should work particularly well against those sites which cannot easily redact posts, i should think.

it would be an unfortunate way to oppose the law, in that it would hurt the sites themselves,. demonstrating that the law is not practical, however what price freedom?

Comment admit this is only a theory (Score 1) 106

however, as far as i can tell, the reason behind all this yankee posturing over huawei is because their products interfere with the benighted states world wide roll out of it's own spy hardware.

i arrive at this prejudice by watching who makes the most noise - the lady doth protest too much, methinks.

Submission + - Google tracked his bike ride past a burglary, and that made him a suspect (nbcnews.com)

JustAnotherOldGuy writes: "I was using an app to see how many miles I rode my bike and now it was putting me at the scene of the crime," said Zachary McCoy. Yep, that's all it took. Google’s legal investigations support team emailed him to let him know that local police had demanded information related to his Google account. The man's lawyer dug around and learned that the notice had been prompted by a “geofence warrant,” a police surveillance tool that casts a virtual dragnet over crime scenes, sweeping up Google location data — drawn from users’ GPS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and cellular connections — from everyone nearby. An avid biker, he used an exercise-tracking app, RunKeeper, to record his rides. The app relied on his phone’s location services, which fed his movements to Google. He looked up his route on the day of the March 29, 2019, burglary and saw that he had passed the victim’s house three times within an hour, part of his frequent loops through his neighborhood, he said. “It was a nightmare scenario,” McCoy recalled. “I was using an app to see how many miles I rode my bike and now it was putting me at the scene of the crime. And I was the lead suspect.”

Comment spot the con? (Score 1) 389

dear tfa - did you do that deliberately?

we (mostly) all know and understand the old latinate legalese in re pro and con, but we all also know that the meanings of the word "con" has changed, in current use, and are no longer "polite".

therefore, dear author, pray tell - was that a deliberate con there?

Comment sterile sex and the star trek premise (Score 1) 508

it all works for me - robots would not normally, i assume, procreate, so this should help to reduce the glut of humaninanity..

and i see this as being on the path toward the point where money/property/power etc become immaterial..

and we all must understand the real meaning of wealth itself.

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