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"She is like an angel." Someone talking about a civil liberties activist doing activism in the U.K.

Apparently, YouTube's Content ID system is still working hard to, uh, remove remixed parodies (i.e. anime abridged series'), even though I'm fairly sure that is fair use.

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Google has announced forthcoming improvements to #DataMinimization and control over location history for users of Google Maps.

CDT welcomes these changes, which address our recommendations to protect users’ security and #privacy:

blog.google/products/maps/upda #LocationData

Hmm... I'm not a fan of it particularly. It is less precise and is usually accompanied by sensationalistic (and even misleading) language. It's also not the modern convention.

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edition.cnn.com/2023/12/11/pol

"House GOP leadership has pulled a pair of surveillance law bills from the floor, according to GOP sources, as Speaker Mike Johnson was facing backlash from his conference over the two-bill approach."

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Priya Sridhar examined the many challenges that libraries across the USA face when stocking manga, especially longer works that command larger footprints. It's a great read, that highlights the experiences of several librarians.

Link: hera.fyi/libraries
hera.fyi/libraries

"But, even if you’ve opted out, any files shared with another person who is using Dropbox AI could still be sent to OpenAI servers."

Of course.

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techcrunch.com/2023/12/13/appl

"Apple said it will no longer give over records of users’ push notifications to law enforcement unless the company receives a valid judge’s order.

In its law enforcement guidelines updated this week, Apple said law enforcement and government agencies can now obtain push notification records with a court order or a search warrant, both of which have to be approved by a judge.

Previously, Apple allowed police to obtain this information with a subpoena, which are issued by police departments and law enforcement agencies with no judicial oversight.

Apple’s change in how it handles demands for push notification data lands days after U.S. senator Ron Wyden disclosed that Apple and Google can be “secretly compelled by governments” to hand over the contents of push notifications sent to customers’ phones."

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