That’s what she says :)

As much as I love my EV I’ll keep my horse au naturel…

I wish I had that kind of « little extra » in my home budget…

Just ask for the customer’s first born at this stage…

Beside the « personal tasks » or generally any personal data that might be processed locally by performing those - which are likely allowed to a certain extent by internal policies in large companies - the behaviour determination by keystroke / microphone / camera analysis is a privacy concern whatever data is involved.

It’s a level of surveillance that goes way to far. This is indeed a step too far.

This is literally their latest attempt at malicious compliance so you’re not wrong. EU will play ball for sure.

Maybe that’s not the most popular content on my Plex config but all my fishing session recordings are on it and those belong to me :)

I would assume that it would take a lot of stability to reach a technology level compatible with interstellar travel. It would be only achievable for a specie that reached a very peaceful way of life. So I would assume they would be rather benevolent and avoid any accidental wipeout.

Now would they care at all… maybe as scholars of the universe ?

Yup we agree on that. This pattern is actually the most sensible approach to support privacy. Whatever happens in transmission.

The easiest implementation of this is that the recipient of an infringing message flags it from its local client. At that point it’s not encrypted if their claim of e2ee is true.

It also means that only parties involved in the message exchange can flag / report them.

Corporations are often not so monolithic ; the guys doing abuse are likely not the one who try to milk users (looking at you marketing).

Any reported message ? Back when I was doing anti spam at my ISP we could read reported spam from our customers. Obviously not all mails from / to the customers. That would be way disproportionate.

Dude, I clearly don’t fit here in Belgium and I’m born and raised here… I wish I could claim « internet citizenship » since I somehow find more like minded people here.

When the power is off chances are that whatever is integrated is degraded anyway. And for actuators just choose some that fail gracefully and allow manual handling. For the rest use HA as much as possible, favour local integrations with no cloud dependencies… and when there are dependencies than make sure the override is available physically (looking at my vaillant HP). Then stack UPSes or even better home grade batteries (my next endeavour) and have backup connectivity to internet and you’re a peachy as can be.

Neat. Is the author of that piece of engineering known? What subcontractor company made this?

About that last sentence; the same crap is creeping in Europe at the very least. There was another press release about the eu commission iirc welcoming a similar decision in spirit. Just not implemented at OS level but web-side.

Not sure or Asia and Africa are feeling about this but unfortunately USA is not alone. which in my opinion gives credits to the various theories that it’s being pushed by gafam.

Fair point. It’s so sad to think about artists being poor to start with :-/

The things with AI is that it has yet to come for the poors…

That’s what makes us humans at least…

In Europe we have the AI act which, as of August, will introduce some form of transparency obligations. Not perfect obviously but a start. Probably will not be followed by the rest of the world though so like GDPR it will be forcibly eroded by other’s interests through lobbying but at least we try.

Uh? It’s a bit less generic than that… some activities of governments are excluded from the scope but not all data processing from government agencies are.

For example this particular personal data processing likely fits under the prevention of criminal offences and threats to public security and is highly unfortunate but let’s keep shit factual.