1/ So @StevenLevy has written at length about the "Badge Posts" - the goodbye, final messages posted for other employees to read as they leave the company.
2/ But these are not just "human interest" stories; some are meant to achieve something, and in my case the goal was to move Facebook away from implementing national identities & censorship within the Facebook platform.
3/ But I felt that that was not enough to explain what was going on, how Facebook may be changed, and the critical importance of fostering frank and constructive engagement in order to make effective change.
Frances is talking to @CommonsDCMS tomorrow, so she should have opportunity to bring this message of privacy and safety to people who would benefit from it.
SATURDAY NIGHT THOUGHTS: it'll be weird if the echo-chamber of politicians, journalists, and "safety" / child-protection advocates succeed in somehow banning algorithmic content feeds… and then evaporate when the rage which feeds their community dialectic eventually dissipates.
Say we all move to "chronological" feed ranking as the sole metric. QUANGOs and Charities are not natural "friends" of people, so they'll have to vastly increase their posting and reposting rates in order to maintain visibility.
This will annoy "power users" who follow them.
The net result will be that "worthy" causes either suffer a dramatic drop in direct engagement, OR ELSE they lose access to influential followers.
There's a potential workaround in curated interest "lists", but RSS taught us that most people won't put in the effort.
3/ However it seems egregious of Ms Dick to raise this on the anniversary of a event which was clearly not enabled by E2E-Encryption - because there was hardly any of it in 2001.
Hell, the Paris attacks 14 years later, were arranged via plaintext SMS:
Apple's on-your-iPhone #CSAM scanning — using your phone's resources to check whether you're a paedophile — is illiberal, misconceived, and dangerously architected. WORSE: they tie the hands even of those who they claim will vouch for Apple's honesty…
Apple's "Appeal to Code Inspection" as a solution for trusting their #CSAM photo scanning is… a fig leaf. It's a PR spin meant to obscure something dirty — if they were serious, why not Open-Source iPhoto with reproducible builds? — but worse it ACTUALLY detracts from the issue.
The ACTUAL issue is that "what happens on your iPhone no longer stays on your iPhone"; that promise is broken, and the privacy of your phone will be in constant tension with the iCloud team's ongoing attempts to coerce you to use, and pay for, locked-in cloud storage.