Notices by jim (jim@campaign.openworlds.info), page 2

Blighty's online pr0n gatekeepers are begging for a regulatory beating, says digital rights org https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/06/17/uk_p0rn_gatekeepers_beg_for_regulatory_beating/ #pornblock #ageverification

It's back—#jail4journalists under a new UK Espionage Act: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/05/20/espionage_act_proposal/

Home Sec Sajid Javid proposes criminal sanctions for whistleblowers / theguardian journalists to stop any future Edward Snowden

@jpmens There you go. The Internet does not revolve around the British House of Lords, nor the UK's strange policy solutions for Internet content. #doh

DNS over HTTPS is getting serious backlash in the UK because DNS poisoning plus DPI for DNS rewriting is the basis of content filtering and injunction-based blocking.

Sadly nobody remembers that people warned that "censorship is interpreted as damage" in a network.

#doh

@spud

This has always been there, I think. Decentralisation surely means greater control at the point you own, but less overall.

At least one can decide to ignore specific instances tho?

Trying to decide if my hotel here in Almaty has flaky DNS or if #khazakhstan is randomly blocking / reducing access to things.

archive.org definitely seems to be blocked, full stop.

@ghost_bird I think they don't spot barmy so well with the Internet. DCMS are under-resourced, lack weight and structurally set up to accept barmy from rights holders in the creative industries.

Can we trust the porn industry with personal data?

Mindgeek owns the biggest #ageverification product as well as the main porn sites.

It lost:

* 1 million customer records in 2012
* 800,000 customer records, card details in 2016
* Delivered three major malware ad attacks

https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/MindGeek/List_of_MindGeek_data_breaches

On a complete separate note: is it just me or has the UK gone completely barmy re Internet policy?

Other countries have their problems but we seem to be doing particularly badly.

What porn you watch can be very sensitive information. It's striking that MPs don't seem concerned, it's not like public knowledge about watching porn has never impacted an MPs career.

Why should AV be sometimes safer and sometimes unsafe?

Why should do some consumers deserve privacy protection, while others don't?

The idea that #ageverification privacy protections should be *optional* is barmy, indefensible but hey: it's also government policy.

Looks like #ageverifcation launch date is about to be announced: will DCMS and Jeremy Hunt say anything about *regulating* for privacy, or just tell us how good their *voluntary* privacy scheme is?

Let's be completely clear: this is a *government scheme. If your privacy is in jeopardy: it is DCMS and Jeremy Hunt who are to blame.

They chose not to legislate. They chose to have a voluntary privacy standard.

AV dangers are obvious, from outing people to ruining careers and even suicides.

We have this in the UK btw. It's called CTIRU, has filed over 250,000 removal requests without prior authorisation:

https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Counter-Terrorism_Internet_Referral_Unit

Why should we trust the government #onlineharms White Paper, suggesting outsourcing legal judgments to private companies, when it can't get this stuff right itself?

Governments give the message they don't care about due process, accuracy, oversight, accountability, free speech.

Official EU Agencies Falsely Report More Than 550 http://Archive.org URLs as Terrorist Content

Government agencies reporting material for removal without prior authorisation, oversight.

https://blog.archive.org/2019/04/10/official-eu-agencies-falsely-report-more-than-550-archive-org-urls-as-terrorist-content/

Scientists at the EU have discovered the first photos of Brexit at the end of the M87. Well done everyone!