Digital Freedoms @DigitalFr33doms

"The EU should reintroduce mass telecommunications surveillance and create backdoors to encrypted data, a new plan drafted in secret by police and security officials says." edri.org/our-work/polic…

"Twentieth century capitalism cared greatly about convenience. Products were pitched to ease everyday life, to reduce friction... There was a symbiosis between profit and convenience. That, in my own experience, seems to no longer be true." rosselliotbarkan.com/p/optimizing-t…

🇬🇧EDRi analyses the latest #ChatControl proposal correctly as #MassSurveillance ("be scanned – or get banned!") and warns "it could be coming to all our devices soon": edri.org/our-work/be-sc… #VotePirates

"the Council Legal Service made it clear that indiscriminate chat control scanning of non-suspects is still envisioned and remains a violation of fundamental rights. Nevertheless, most EU governments are determined to go ahead." #EU #ChatControl

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"the Council Legal Service made it clear that indiscriminate chat control scanning of non-suspects is still envisioned and remains a violation of fundamental rights. Nevertheless, most EU governments are determined to go ahead." #EU #ChatControl

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Key people responsible in the enshittification of Google search: wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-ki… #Enshittification #Google

"That’s what the algorithm is like nowadays—a pushy sales person who won’t take no for an answer. If it were a store, I could just walk out. But what recourse do I have when the whole Internet starts acting like this?" honest-broker.com/p/lets-just-ad…

"Independent musicians have been fooled into believing that they are merchants in this marketplace and their intellectual property is the product. It is not. Unless you are making a major label money then you are the product in this economy..." youtube.com/watch?v=kVY7-T… #Spotify

Why is the @waybackmachine so important for preserving our digital culture? According to new analysis from @pewresearch: ❌ 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible ❌ 23% of news webpages contain at least one broken link 🔗⤵️ pewresearch.org/data-labs/2024…

Unlauncher: a minimalist Android application launcher. Text-based (no icons), it allows to rename app titles (works great for organizing) and hide apps: github.com/jkuester/unlau… #DigitalMinimalism #Android #FOSS #OpenSource

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Just like Suno, Udio generates output with a striking resemblance to copyrighted music: musicbusinessworldwide.com/yes-udios-outp… #musicAI #GenAI #AIMusic #MusicTech #AI #SunoAI #Udio

Passive playlist consumption promoted by #Spotify generates billions of streams of banal anonymous background muzak. This content now permeates the culture and can be created by streaming platforms as work-for-hire or by #musicAI to avoid royalty payments. honest-broker.com/p/the-rise-of-…

The EU AI Act is a disappointment. The final version contains significant loopholes and falls short of guaranteeing human rights as a result of negotiations with member states and heavy industry lobbying: algorithmwatch.org/en/ai-act-fail… #AI #AIRegulation #AIAct

"In this presentation, @MarcRotenberg, founder of the Center for AI and Digital Policy, will provide a preliminary assessment of the current state of AI governance and the challenges ahead." #AI #AIRegulation youtube.com/watch?v=XisyZh…

Outputs from the Suno AI music generation resemble copyrighted music too closely, while (as it seems) they have no license agreements and are abusing the fair use exception. #musicAI #GenAI #AIMusic #MusicTech #AI musicbusinessworldwide.com/suno-is-a-musi…

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