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Éamonn

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Managing engineering team enhancing user-facing #privacy, fairness, and #AI compliance at #Google Search Opinions here are strictly my own — I’m not speaking for Google Formerly Bell Labs, HP Labs, and various startups Have worked on chip design software, Internet collaboration software, IoT, computational aesthetics, search engine UI, and privacy #EU citizen, from #Ireland Have lived in Dublin, London, Princeton, San Francisco, and Calistoga https://eamonn.org

eobrain 11 months ago

“I really think this a precursor for genocide"…"We've seen it happen. Real people's lives are actually going to be endangered." "Mr. Trump also said Meta’s change was 'probably' a result of the threats he had made against the company and Mr. Zuckerberg"

Platformer

Meta surrenders to the right on speech

“I really think this a precursor for genocide,” a former employee tells Platformer

eobrain 11 months ago

One notable things is that Zuckerberg explicitly says he is making these changes because of US political changes And yet we know that this new toleration of disinfo and hate speech will have global impact that will cause people to be killed around the world (remember Myanmar) And that's not to mention his utter dismissal of European concerns about Meta, including calling on Trump to help him fight the EU

Threads

Katie Notopoulos (@katienotopoulos) on Threads

I think it’s worth watching Zuck’s full video about the new moderation, not just his posts on here. You get a little more color about...

eobrain 11 months ago

"misinformation is powerful, not because it changes minds, but because it allows people to maintain their beliefs in light of growing evidence to the contrary. The internet may function not so much as a brainwashing engine but as a justification machine. A rationale is always just a scroll or a click away"

The Atlantic

The Internet Is Worse Than a Brainwashing Machine

A rationale is always just a scroll or a click away.

eobrain 11 months ago

How to do content moderation on a system designed to be maximally privacy preserving? This proposal uses server-based block lists that rely on cooperation of at least one of the clients involved

GitHub

simplex-chat/docs/rfcs/2024-12-30-content-moderation.md at stable · simplex-chat/simplex-chat

SimpleX - the first messaging network operating without user identifiers of any kind - 100% private by design! iOS, Android and desktop apps 📱! ...

eobrain 11 months ago

I spent the afternoon at SFMOMA, and I saw lots of impressive and dramatic art, not least Amy Sherald's portraits of Michelle Obama and Breonna Taylor But somehow, this one modest photograph of the artist March Avery by Consuelo Kanaga reeled me in more than anything else I saw there

eobrain 11 months ago

I love that the radar speed display signs that I encountered in Canada said THANKS* when I was at or below the speed limit Positive reinforcement for good behavior! * Actually they said MERCI because I was in Quebec

eobrain 11 months ago

One thing I miss from before the pandemic was the vibrant tech meetup scene in San Francisco I used to go several times a month to meetups like Waffle JS, Papers We Love, and random ones hosted by various companies I even gave presentations a few times myself Does anything like that exist now?

eobrain 11 months ago

When a tech snakeoil website quotes "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" the perfect response from Tattie is "unfounded belief in a sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magical thinking"

Eldritch Café

Tattie (@Tattie@eldritch.cafe)

@eob@social.coop unfounded belief in a sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magical thinking @sophieschmieg@infosec.exchange

eobrain 11 months ago

LOL on "speculation about human extinction is well beyond the FTC’s immediate concerns" But, seriously, this blog post from the FTC has good examples of some of the more immediate AI risks https://www.ftc.gov/policy/advocacy-research/tech-at-ftc/2025/01/ai-risk-consumer-harm

eobrain 11 months ago

Good start Now do it for all countries, including the US

TechRadar

US government says companies are no longer allowed to send bulk data to these nations

US data is off the table for China, Iran, North Korea, Russia, and more

eobrain 11 months ago

Here's a good example of how bias can creep into AI The marketing materials for an AI company shows an example that does not take into account same-sex marriage or various other family structures (It states as a rule that the spouse of the father of a child is that child's mother)

eobrain 11 months ago

I created a chart that you can use to identify a language (Just European language using Latin-based alphabets) Review and corrections welcome (Based on the work of other. See post for credits.)

Eamonn O'Brien-Strain

Identifying a Written Language

Here's a cheat sheet that you can use to determine what language you are looking at: This is only for European languages that use a Lati...

eobrain 0 years ago

Is the Web as we know it going to survive the disruption that's happening? Maybe one possibility is that a new smaller web will rise like a phoenix from the wreckage

Scott C. Richmond

The web is too big, or scaling down

I started writing this post in October, when . I got distracted by the professoring business, and didn't finish it until now. It's not quite so sal...

eobrain 0 years ago

If you've got some experience around data protection and GDPR, and have some opinions to share you might want to take this NOYB survey:

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eobrain 0 years ago

If your product design is good, it is easy to figure out the words to put on the buttons and links in the UI If every simple wording seems like it would be misleading or confusing, and there is not enough room in the UI to explain the nuance… that is a sign your basic design is bad

eobrain 1 year ago

Is there a way to tell if someone is human on the internet? Maybe, if this idea of "personhood credentials" is to be believed Also, I wonder could it provide a better way to do age verification without violating the rights of adults?

arXiv.org

Personhood credentials: Artificial intelligence and the value of privacy-preserving tools to distinguish who is real online

Anonymity is an important principle online. However, malicious actors have long used misleading identities to conduct fraud, spread disinformation,...

eobrain 1 year ago

Abuse of government surveillance is in living memory in Europe Even if you trust your current government to bypass encryption to protect children, a future government may abuse that power

Global Encryption Coalition

European Union Member States Speak Up for Encryption – Global Encryption Coalition

Global Encryption Coalition members have been closely monitoring the conversations happening in the European Union (EU) surrounding the Child Sexua...

eobrain 1 year ago

Anthropic has an interesting approach to identifying Trust & Safety issues in a bottom-up way Because it is finding violations in the actually usage data it is not limited by the imagination of a red-team that is trying to anticipate violations https://www.anthropic.com/research/clio

eobrain 1 year ago

"when surveillance of abortion and reproductive health clinics could rise…companies providing monitoring tools to the government are prepared to use healthcare information to track down targets"

404 Media

Location Data Firm Offers to Help Cops Track Targets via Doctor Visits

Fog Data Science is a location tracking company that takes data harvested from smartphones and makes it accessible to cops. A document obtained by ...

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