Vous avez peut-être eu vent des efforts qui sont actuellement déployés en Europe pour réformer la loi relative au droit d’auteur. En fait, le débat dure depuis des mois au Parlement européen, et si les nouvelles directives sont approuvées cette semaine, nous devrons filtrer et bloquer automatiquement les contenus que vous publiez, et ce, sans aucune considération pour la liberté d’expression.
Il va sans dire que nous respectons les droits d’auteur et les droits de marque des autres. Nous prenons très au sérieux les plaintes que nous recevons afin de nous assurer que vos créations sont protégées. Nos méthodes sont décrites dans nos Règles communautaires, et le cadre juridique actuellement en vigueur est juste et efficace : nous supprimons les billets et médias dont les contenus enfreindraient les droits d’auteur lorsque nous recevons une demande de retrait DMCA (Digital Millennieum Copyright Act) valide. Nous fournissons aussi aux utilisateurs faisant l’objet d’une plainte différents moyens de contester s’ils estiment que leur contenu a été retiré injustement. Tous les cas de violation sont analysés, signalés et présentés dans notre rapport de transparence biannuel.
La proposition d’utiliser une technologie de filtrage automatique des contenus enfreignant les droits d’auteur est irréfléchie et pourrait avoir des conséquences nuisibles. En effet, les filtres automatiques sont incapables de déterminer si l’utilisation d’un contenu devrait être considérée comme une “utilisation raisonnable” selon la loi, pas plus qu’ils ne peuvent déterminer si l’utilisation est autorisée par un contrat de licence. Ils ne font pas non plus la distinction entre une parodie, une satire ou même vos photos personnelles si elles ressemblent à des images protégées par les droits d’auteur. Pour faire simple : nous ne pensons pas que cette technologie puisse remplacer le jugement d’un être humain.
Tumblr est et a toujours été un lieu d’expression créative, et ces nouvelles règles ne feront que vous rendre la tâche plus difficile si vous voulez vous exprimer avec la liberté et l’ouverture dont vous jouissez en ce moment.
Si vous vivez en Europe et que vous voulez agir, visitez le site saveyourinternet.eu pour obtenir toutes les informations nécessaires.
Reminder to all of my followers in Australia! If you don’t want your entire medical record stored insecurely and readily available to every medical professional and cop WITHOUT ANY JUSTIFICATION OR NOTIFICATION or just don’t like the idea of being easily put on a list of people seeking medical care related to being LGBT, disabled, or mentally ill then you need to opt out of My Health Record before 15/10/2018 or you never get the option again.
from the australian privacy foundation’s website
As an IT professional, I highly recommend every Australian opt out of My Health Record. The government does not and is not currently capable of ensuring that anything stored in My Health Record stays private. It is, in fact, not guaranteeing that the information it will collect will remain private and has refused to even promise that it won’t let people like the health insurance industry legally get access to that information in the future.
The government can do this better – but it won’t. And as somebody who has worked in government, who has seen what it is capable of, I can only ascribe their refusal to put better privacy protections in place as intentional and not in the best interests of the population.
Opt out of My Health Record. You have till 15 October 2018. Do it sooner rather than later because they’re currently importing new records into the system.
As of July 4th 2018, the Internet as we know it might be dead for good.
The European Parliament is passing a new Copyright Directive. Article 13 #CensorshipMachine will impose widespread censorship of all the content we share online. Art, fanfiction, parodies, remixes, mashups, memes, etc.. Anything that you do not hold the rights over will be taken down.
Article 13 would force all online platforms to police and prevent the uploading of copyrighted content, or make people seek the correct licenses to post that content. Internet platforms hosting large amounts of user-uploaded content must monitor user behaviour and filter their contributions to identify and prevent copyright infringement.
Such filters will be mandatory for platforms including YouTube, Facebook, Tumblr, Reddit and Instagram, but also much smaller websites.
Last Tuesday (19th June 2018) a group of more than 70 people who have played important roles in building the internet and developing it (Tim Berners-Lee, Vincent Cerf,
Jimmy Wales, Mitchell Baker…) into what it is today addressed an open letter to the members of the European Parliament:
“As creators ourselves, we share the concern that there should be a fair distribution of revenues from the online use of copyright works, that benefits creators, publishers, and platforms alike.
But Article 13 is not the right way to achieve this. By requiring Internet platforms to perform automatic filtering all of the content that their users upload, Article 13 takes an unprecedented step towards the transformation of the Internet from an open platform for sharing and innovation, into a tool for the automated surveillance and control of its users. […] The damage that this may do to the free and open Internet as we know it is hard to predict, but in our opinions could be substantial.”
I don’t usually share this kind of thing, and I will delete it later. But this June 20th the EU want to pass Article 13 that will destroy fair use on the internet and will effect non-EU residents too. Goodbye to making money from fan art and livestreaming games and parody videos. No can do. Visit saveyourinternet.eu to very simply send a pre-written email to you MEPs. Please spread awareness as there’s not much time.
Edit for anyone seeing this original post for the first time (idk if it’ll appear on reblogs but it’s worth a shot): I’ve heard from a large number of people this is merely alt-right hysteria cos it would mean censoring them. So I’m not supporting this anymore having seen some of what was actually written in the documentation about the articles. I wanna protect fair use, but I ain’t no alt-right supporter *mic drop*
What we all need to understand about AI in a nutshell:
There’s an algorithm that can reliably predict, from aggregate facebook posts, the onset of a manic episode in a person suffering from bipolar disorder – more reliably even, than a trained psychotherapist, who only has access to the information a patient provides them in therapy sessions.
“Won’t technology like that help people with bipolar disorder?”
Theoretically, it could. But this algorithm wasn’t designed to help people with bipolar disorder.
This algorithm was designed to sell plane tickets to Las Vegas.
Guys you gotta click the link. Because this was not just an accidental outcome- it’s click bait based on algorithms.
the AI knows you’re about to hit mania so it pushes Las Vegas Airfare Adverts to you so when you hit the mania you buy one, because it’s figured out that bipolar people that have hit mania are more likely to start gambling/making impulsive decisions – and that will sell a ticket.
They didn’t explicitly mean to target bipolar people who have hit mania, but the algorithm is really good at learning shit and the more things you like or sites you visit the more accurate it’s recommendations are, so it basically started pushing ads at people with bipolar disorder and nobody knows what exactly it’s picking up on.
Seriously click the source link it’s a TED Talk about 23 minutes long.
arguably as with most AI risk it’s just the intensification of an existing trend, in this case “advertising takes advantage of people for profit”
No, seriously. If you spend any time on the internet, you need to watch this and be aware of what’s going on behind the browsers. This is not some conspiracy theory. This shit is real, it’s happening right now, and there are major ripple effects through all our online experiences, whether you know it or not.
Honestly the most damaging thing Facebook has done (and gotten away with) was pushing users to post personal identifying data like it isn’t a big deal
Like the reason it was so attractive to marketers in the first place was that it had successfully convinced people it was normal and ok to post their full names and ages and all of that biz on the internet
Before Facebook, honestly a lot of us found it weird to share identifying info on public profiles
Or even post pics and tag people without asking first
Facebook has had a huge hand in fundamentally changing our expectations of privacy and I barely see this mentioned when people go on about Big Data
As reported by Business Insider, the conversation according to SAI sources, went as follows. Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard
Zuck: Just ask.
Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
[Redacted Friend’s Name]: What? How’d you manage that one?
@fightfortheftr (April 19, 2018): There have been a lot of inaccurate reports that the FCC’s repeal of #NetNeutrality will officially go into effect next week on April 23rd. That’s not true. It’s a bit more complicated than that. Ready? Here we go:
Its understandable many journos are confused by this. It’s legitimately confusing. The FCC order said it would go into effect 60 days after publication in the Federal Register, which would have been April 23rd. But, it still has to be approved by the Office of Management & Budget.
There was another FCC filing in the Federal Register that would imply the earliest the OMB could approve this (and its worth noting that approval is basically just a technicality) is actually April 27th, but its likely to happen some time after that, possibly even weeks after.
The most important thing for EVERYONE to understand is that nothing catastrophic or dramatic is going to happen immediately when the FCC rules go into effect. Telecom shills will immediately start saying “See? The sky didn’t fall, we never needed #NetNeutrality.“
They’re lying.
The ISPs aren’t going to immediately start blocking content or rolling out paid prioritization scams. They know Congress and the public are watching them. Rather, the death of #NetNeutrality will be slow and insidious. You might not even notice it at first.
And that’s the worst part. What will happen is over time ISP scams and abuses will become more commonplace and more accepted. They’ll roll out new schemes that appear good on their face but undermine the free market of ideas by allowing ISPs to pick winners and losers.
Over time we’ll see less awesome startups. Less awesome videos. Less diverse online content. And we’ll see more content that our ISPs want us to see. The Internet will be watered down and manipulated. It will change forever in ways that harm our democracy.
But it will take time.
So: don’t fall for ISP lobbyists talking points. They’re ALREADY claiming that #NetNeutrality was never needed since the sky hasn’t fallen, and the rules haven’t even gone into effect. But also don’t panic. The Internet is not going to die next week. Keep calm and keep fighting.
The Senate will vote in a matter of weeks on a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to block the FCC’s repeal. Now is the moment to get engaged.
SESTA passed Congress a week ago. It still hasn’t been signed into law, yet in the past week all of the following have already happened:
* Reddit banned most subreddits dedicated to sales. In addition to preventing sex workers from promoting their content, this also banned subreddits dedicated to guns, drugs, and even homebrewing beer.
* Craigslist completely removed their personals section. In addition to preventing sex workers from having a platform to screen potential clients, this means that there is no more meeting people for dating or casual sex via Craigslist. The much-loved “Missed Connections” board was also briefly taken down, before being migrated elsewhere.
* Google Drive banned the sharing of porn, shutting down one of the easiest outlets for performers to send direct-sales and to share edits of content with each other. Many performers lost their entire life’s work as Google has banned performers from saving their own content once it gets flagged.
* Consensual Sex Work advertising sites CityVibe and Nightshift have shut down completely.
* Microsoft has banned all “inappropriate” or “offensive” content from its platforms. They claim they reserve the right to view everyone’s Skype calls to determine whether any violations occur, which is a huge privacy violation. In addition to preventing cam performers from doing private shows and full service sex workers from screening clients, this also prevents long distance couples from being intimate with each other over camera. These rules also apply to XBox and Office, so one can conceivably be banned for writing erotica on Microsoft Word.
SESTA isn’t even law yet and it has already destroyed internet freedom. This bill impacts everyone and will completely change how humans are “allowed” to interact with each other. Yet because the bill is explicitly designed to target sex workers, none of the people who would otherwise be up in arms are saying anything. The hatred of sex workers will destroy us all unless we all stand up and fight.
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