Lukasz Olejnik / is on Nostr

Security & Privacy. Data protection. Research. Engineering. Strategy, communication. Analyst. Technology Policy. W3C standardisation. PhD (CS/privacy), LL.M (Information Technology Law).  Consultant. Reading & writing (scientific articles, sometimes op-eds, analyses, reports, books). Seems that I like it?   
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Last Notes

2024-06-20 17:37:06

So here's EU_Commission's VP Vera Jourova speaking that the #ChatControl regulation is designed to break encryption. Mass, untargeted surveillance. Oh and by the way, the European Court of Human Rights has a verdict that untargeted encryption breaking is illegal.
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2024-06-20 17:37:06

2024-06-15 08:49:37

For the professional doomster, apocalypse is always postponed but never averted. During any major crisis, someone will claim to have forecast its occurrence. There are those who specialise in gloomy predictions and, like stopped clocks, are occasionally right.
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2024-05-26 08:46:40

The AI Overview in the core, critical, Google search product underwent some form of risk assessment. So they knew about these issues, deciding to accept the risk. No sane person would jump off a bridge because a search engine advised it, right? As Google said, such quirky advice is given in a small number of cases. Perhaps those few individuals who might follow the strange advice (glue, bridge, rocks, etc.) were deemed an acceptable risk, a business decision that someone had to approve?

2024-05-15 14:36:56

Google unveiled an LLM model that can monitor phone calls to detect suspected fraud. This technology indicates that capabilities to monitor calls, texts, and documents for undesirable content already exist or are being developed. Such a model could issue warnings, block actions, or report content, leading to technological modulation of social behavior. This poses a major threat to privacy and basic freedoms.
Read about designing technologies with values
https://blog.lukaszolejnik.com/designing-technologies-with-values-possibility-necessity-and-european-story/
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2024-05-10 06:33:45

"The theft-prevention system installed in Seattle rental cars by a car-sharing company was designed to prevent cars being towed away by thieves. It disabled the cars remotely if they were detected to be moving with the engine off. Renters taking the boat ferry found themselves unable to restart their cars when the ferry docked. An anti-theft system in a car caused major delays to a regional ferry system" https://www.ft.com/content/178ab808-21ff-4ac2-a81f-f831326c22d4