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Submission + - EU approve draft regulations on social media giants (openaccessgovernment.org)

Submitted by UpnAtom
UpnAtom writes: The draft Digital Services Act gives researchers access to algorithms and data. It makes social media companies more responsible for content. It also sets up an oversight committee to build upon these basics.

Other than the US Government, the EU is the only organisation with the commercial power to force these US corporations to comply. The EU Parliament voted so strongly to approve the draft Act that there's little doubt such a law will be enacted this year.

Submission + - Experiment confirms that causality is fuzzy (physicsworld.com) 2

Submitted by UpnAtom
UpnAtom writes: The Institute of Physics' online magazine writes:

"In classical physics – and everyday life – there is a strict causal relationship between consecutive events. If a second event (B) happens after a first event (A), for example, then B cannot affect the outcome of A. This relationship, however, breaks down in quantum mechanics because the temporal spread of a particles’s wave function can be greater than the separation in time between A and B."

They report on an published study by the University of Queensland which "confirmed that quantum mechanics allows events to occur with no definite causal order."

What are the implications?
Privacy

Submission + - No passport for Britons refusing mass-surveillance

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UpnAtom
UpnAtom writes: "From the And you thought Sweden was bad dept:

People who refuse to give up their bank records, tax records & details of any benefits they've claimed and the records of their car movements for the last year, or refuse to submit to an interrogation on whether they are the same person that this mountain of data belongs to will be denied passports from March 26th.

The Blair Govt has already admitted that this and other data will be cross-linked so that the Home Office and other officials can spy on the everyday lives of innocent Britons.

Britons were already the most spied upon nation in Western Europe. Data-mining through this unprecedented level of mass-surveillance allows any future British govt to leapfrog even countries like China and North Korea."

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