OfDIA/DSIT. Ex- Privacy International. African Studies PhD; writes on #digitalID. GoodID community champion. Views my own. @drsamaki.bsky.social
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15 Nov 2024
It was my 10th anniversary of joining Twitter last week; it’s the only social media platform I’ve ever really engaged with. But I guess when it’s time to go, it’s time to go.
You can find me @drsamaki.bsky.social
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14 Nov 2024
Depends on the nation state. He might mean we're going to invade and take all their stuff.
13 Nov 2024
Britain must treat tech giants like nation states, minister warns
The white flag of surrender thetimes.com/uk/politics/art…
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11 Nov 2024
While the trolley problem took off in the public imagination, it seems that there are many thought experiments in the Philosophy of Mind and Philosophy of Language that seem relevant to our current situation; with a lot of ants doing a lot of caricatures of Winston Churchill. 1
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But: what does it then mean for the status of a conversation with a chatbot? It doesn’t seem to reach any kind of standard of reference to the world (real or imaginary). So is there nothing going on here except the user anthropomorphising the chatbot? 3
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I need a nice, easy guide to the Philosophy of recent developments in AI that’ll stop me worrying about all of this, as I know enough for it to bother me but not enough to reach any conclusions. Any pointers? 4
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11 Nov 2024
I'm not convinced a ban will do much to stop young people from accessing social media; but it will make it far harder to make sure they do so safely.
11 Nov 2024
It’s an unworkable idea and one that restricts young people’s freedoms, inc access to information and resources and yes, even friendships.
Resist.
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5 Nov 2024
Wouldn't worry too much if you'll be in London that day, as they're heading out of the city.
5 Nov 2024
Are they planning to rearrange the entire landscape of the city?
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4 Nov 2024
The injustice of requiring identification to attend school: it takes a societal harm falling upon the broad shoulders of the state(‘ghost children’ and corruption in schools) and makes it an individual harm (kids from marginalised backgrounds can’t attend school).
4 Nov 2024
School-leaver at 11, domestic slave at 12, gang member at 15: how a missing birth certificate derailed a life theguardian.com/global-devel…
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4 Nov 2024
When the starting point of your DPI is identity and identification: you’re running the risk of these types of harms at every stage of the system.
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30 Oct 2024
Sweden and Norway are realising that their cashless systems are vulnerable to Russian cyberattacks, and so are back to encouraging the use of cash.
theguardian.com/world/2024/o…
In other news: the push for DPI around the world continues regardless.
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I don't know if @Suitpossum is still around Twitter, but it's interesting to note that Sweden and Norway are starting to do the right thing (not least, for the hundreds of thousands excluded from these systems); all it took was an unprecedented global crisis to do it.
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30 Oct 2024
Please join me for the @SOASHistory seminar where I’ll be presenting the findings of our recent project to explore whether a reframing of the Windrush Scandal as an international statelessness crisis will help to develop new modes of resistance & advocacy soas.ac.uk/about/event/acces…
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29 Oct 2024
This is unbelievably lazy and dangerous, especially from a former solicitor running to lead the Conservative Party
Robert Jenrick gets the charges wrong then launches into "cover-up" dogwhistle while surely knowing how the law limits what information can be released before trial
29 Oct 2024
The public had a right to know the truth straight away.
I am seriously concerned that facts may have been withheld from the public.
Keir Starmer must urgently explain what he knew about the Southport attack and when he learned it.
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Tom Fisher retweeted
29 Oct 2024
The DVS section is unsafe as it has too many ministerial powers. I suggest amending DVS so an independent party (@ICOnews??) develops a statutory Code of Practice to incorporate the officially approved identity principles into the DVS section. See gov.uk/government/publicatio…
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28 Oct 2024
The analysis we were all waiting for; and - gosh, there's some nasty things lurking in that bill. The right not to be subjected to automated decision making; and changes to the use of data for the Research, Archive and Statistical purposes leap out at me.
28 Oct 2024
What are the main features of the Data (Use and Access) Bill?
The blog is in three parts: what has been dropped from DPDI in DUAB; what has been copied from DPDI into DUAB; and what is new to DUAB.
Details at end of the blog. amberhawk.typepad.com/amberh…
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28 Oct 2024
The other advantage of existing automated transcription is that the errors are usually very obvious for anyone reading the transcript, as opposed to OpenAI's hallucinations.
The extremely dumb thing about this, like your spellchecker getting worse, is that we had perfectly good specialized models for this purpose that were quite effective and now everyone is paying more for non specialized models for the same tasks, that are worse.
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25 Oct 2024
My knowledge of Habemas' Discourse Ethics is an undergraduate course twenty years ago; and while @JGFinlayson did his best, it wasn't my finest hour.
But i can still say this AI "Habemas Machine" is a problematic use of the name. arstechnica.com/ai/2024/10/g…
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24 Oct 2024
Looks to me that the Government is trying to use "tough on crime" language, via The Sun... But also playing us for fools, and hoping we don't realise that facial recognition cameras don't only record criminals.
24 Oct 2024
They’re turning Britain into an open prison.
“Virtual jails”: released prisoners could be tracked with facial recognition
Insider said “we need to learn from surveillance states who spy on their own citizens & use the same tactics with our criminals”😱
thesun.co.uk/news/31245640/f…
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24 Oct 2024
I love this about Musk and politics: he owns a social media network (probably one of the most powerful tools for shaping public opinion in history); but makes such a hash of it that he has to resort to literally giving people money.
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