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Leak Exposes Details of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society

Google is testing a new CAPTCHA that asks you to make hand gestures on camera

This actually works. Why didn't anyone tell me about this before?

SignalTrace: License Plate Readers Now Track Phones, AirPods, and Smartwatches

cross-posted from: lemmy.today/post/54858306 Flock cameras just got even worse

Canada wants to join the age verification bandwagon and censor the internet with Bill C-34

AI Billionaires Are Starting to Get Scared

cross-posted from: kbin.earth/m/AntiAI@lemmy.blahaj.zone/t/2771990 As data centers are shut down by angry mobs and AI surveillance cameras are ripped from their poles, the world’s tech billionaires and CEOs are waking up to the reality that the masses are, broadly speaking, not on board with their plan to automate the world with AI.

Are you telling me they don't?

Digital ID in the UK: The Government Says It Is Voluntary, But Your Employer Might Not Give You a Choice

cross-posted from: lemmy.today/post/52990902 Even if an employer doesn’t require the new ID, remember the UK government said that all IDs will soon have to be verified digitally. That suggests the employer will send the ID image or data to a government server which will respond with whether the person is allowed to work. So all IDs will essentially be turned into digital IDs and the government can make individuals unemployable if they do something the government doesn’t like.

Are you telling me they don't?

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Pollsters are now asking AIs to answer surveys as if they were humans and passing the results off as poll statistics

Group Pushing Age Verification Requirements for AI Turns Out to Be Sneakily Backed by OpenAI

UK planning to team up with "big tech" in next pandemic for "whole-of-society" "live location data" and AI surveillance

cross-posted from: lemmy.today/post/50424637 UKHSA will explore options to work with ‘big tech’ to use live location data and artificial intelligence (AI) for a more rapid, large-scale detection and alert system during pandemics. These services will adopt a whole-of-society approach with accessible and multilingual formats, and UKHSA will work to consider and build the equivalent tools needed for digitally excluded communities. gov.uk/…/uk-government-approach-to-implementing-t…

Claude Code source leak reveals how much info Anthropic can hoover up about you and your system

Europol predicts a 2035 with no privacy, robot police, robots displacing workers, debates about "robot rights" and criminals commanding hundreds of drones simultaneously

cross-posted from: lemmy.today/post/49749386 If the video isn’t working, try these links: cdn.videy.co/8f2f25e11.mp4 streamable.com/0xj1ni (slightly better quality but only up for 2 days) Clipped from full hour long video (around 49 minutes in): https://www.removedute.com/video/jmhFAjqbxnQ Europol report: …europa.eu/…/The-Unmanned-Future-Report.pdf

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