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Meredith Whittaker

SO good -- the best follow the money reporting on who's behind the global attack on digital privacy yet.

TLDR: it's law enforcement x AI companies posing as NGOs w a commercial interest in selling scammy mass scanning tech. Deeply cynical, deeply shady.

balkaninsight.com/2023/09/25/w

25 Sep 2023 at 10:54 | Open on mastodon.world
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Meredith Whittaker

I don't know if it could be any clearer...

Image description Among the few traces of Thorn's activities in the EU's lobby transparency register is a contribution of 219,000 euros in 2021 to the WeProtect Global Alliance, the organisation that had a video conference with Kutcher and Von der Leven in late 2020. WeProtect is the offspring of two governmental initiatives - one co-founded by the Commission and the United States, the other by Britain. They merged in 2016 and, in April 2020, as momentum built for legislation to GSAM with client-side scanning technology, WeProtect was transformed from a British government-funded entity into a putatively independent "foundation' registered at a residential address in Lisse, on the Dutch North Sea coast. Its membership includes powerful security agencies, a host of governments, Big Tech managers, NGOs, and one of Johansson's most senior cabinet officials, Antonio Labrador Jimenez, who heads the Commission's team tasked with fighting CSAM.
25 Sep 2023 at 10:55 | Open on mastodon.world
Meredith Whittaker

This is absurd. A fake "foundation" stood up by the governments pushing for mass scanning in order to promote mass scanning proposals...

Among the few traces of Thorn's activities in the EU's lobby transparency register is a contribution of 219,000 euros in 2021 to the WeProtect Global Alliance, the organisation that had a video conference with Kutcher and Von der Leven in late 2020. WeProtect is the offspring of two governmental initiatives - one co-founded by the Commission and the United States, the other by Britain. They merged in 2016 and, in April 2020, as momentum built for legislation to GSAM with client-side scanning technology, WeProtect was transformed from a British government-funded entity into a putatively independent "foundation' registered at a residential address in Lisse, on the Dutch North Sea coast. Its membership includes powerful security agencies, a host of governments, Big Tech managers, NGOs, and one of Johansson's most senior cabinet officials, Antonio Labrador Jimenez, who heads the Commission's team tasked with fighting CSAM.
25 Sep 2023 at 10:56 | Open on mastodon.world
Draken BlackKnight
Meredith Whittaker

To those who've piously corrected those who've expressed the legitimate fear that mass scanning will quickly be ab/re-used for other purposes...

Europol officials floated the idea of using the proposed EU Centre to scan for more than just CSAM, telling the Commission, "There are other crime areas that would benefit from detection". According to the minutes, a Commission official "signalled understanding for the additional wishes" but "flagged the need to be realistic in terms of what could be expected, given the many sensitivities around the proposal."
25 Sep 2023 at 10:57 | Open on mastodon.world
hnapel

@Mer__edith

I hope the public and legislators will soon understand that #AI is not the solution to the exploitation of children but much more part of the problem.

businessinsider.com/fake-naked

25 Sep 2023 at 11:18 | Open on mastodon.social
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