Do I need to be worried?
A proposed law that would require people blogging about Ron DeSantis to register with the state is a 'clear violation of the First Amendment:' ACLU
A Florida lawmaker has introduced a bill that would require all bloggers who write about Gov. Ron DeSantis to register with the state or be fined. Organizations like the ACLU tell Insider that the proposed law violates the right to free speech.
A representative for the American Civil Liberties Union's Florida chapter told Insider the bill, S.B. 1316, is "un-American to its core."
"This is a clear violation of the First Amendment because it strongly discourages bloggers from speaking on politics – one of the most critical types of speech for maintaining a democracy," the ACLU representative told Insider.
Better than I feared, but I’d like some examples.
https://techpolicy.press/on-facebook-visual-misinfo-widespread-highly-asymmetric-across-party-lines/
On Facebook, Visual Misinfo Widespread, Highly Asymmetric Across Party Lines
… In “Visual misinformation on Facebook,” published this week in the Journal of Communication, scholars from Texas A&M University’s Department of Communication & Journalism, Columbia University’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism, and the George Washington University’s Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics collected and analyzed nearly 14 million posts from more than 14,000 pages and 11,000 public groups from August through October 2020.
From this corpus, the researchers arrived at a representative data set of political images, and another of images that specifically depicted political figures. An analysis found that 23% of political images in a sample contained misinformation, while 20% of those that depicted a political figure were misleading.
Surveillance is not just a people thing.
'Trojan horse': Why US officials have raised alarm over giant Chinese cargo cranes
Ever since US shot down a giant Chinese surveillance balloon over its airspace last month, there has been heightened global scrutiny on the scale of Beijing's spying operations.
Now, American officials have raised concerns over the possibility of a "new tool" of spying hiding in plain sight: giant Chinese-made cranes operating at US ports.
According to a report in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), Pentagon officials suspect that cranes made by Chinese manufacturer ZPMC operating at ports across America are being used to register sensitive information.
… They said that these cranes contain sophisticated sensors which can register and track the provenance and destination of containers, enabling China to capture information about materiel being shipped in or out of US to support its military operations around the world, the report said.
Perspective.
AI interview: Michael Osborne, professor of machine learning
… A key theme of his overall research has been the societal and economic impacts of new technologies, particularly with regards to automation of the workplace.
Speaking with Computer Weekly, Osborne notes the pressing need to wrest control of AI’s development and deployment away from corporations in the private sector, so that it can be used to its full potential in promoting human flourishing.
“It’s fair to say that the private sector has been a bit too powerful when it comes to AI…if we want to see the benefits of these technologies, states need to step in to unlock and to drain some of the moats that are protecting big tech,” he says.
To achieve this, he argues for tighter guardrails on what the private sector can do with AI and for a rebalancing of the scales in favour of public research institutions. Osborne also says there should be serious thought given to how political processes can be used to change the direction of travel with AI.
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