The Internet Exchange is a weekly publication by Mallory Knodel.
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India asking Whatsapp, Signal, and Telegram to justify the username feature could lead to far-reaching consequences that may discourage innovation and encourage copycat demands globally
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AI is moving fast, but implementation? Not so much.
In the latest edition of the Internet Exchange newsletter, we feature @sayashk @mozilla on why the gap between AI breakthroughs and real-world adoption is wider than we think.
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The Decentralization Research Center and Project Liberty Institute present an initial report introducing data cooperatives as a model that could enable individuals and communities to have a voice, choice, and stake in the digital economy: projectliberty.io/news/how-c…
Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 US election was a win for Big Tech, but that doesn’t mean it’s a win for users techpolicy.press/what-trumps…
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Today, the FTC is sharing a series of resources focused on its ongoing research into the surveillance pricing ecosystem, which uses personal data to target different customers with different prices for the same goods and services: bit.ly/4fXMh6Z /1
![Text: What Goes into Surveillance Pricing
What's the price of X? [arrow] What's the price of X for consumer C through channel Z at location L at time T?
Photo of X with price tag
Price is increasingly multi-dimensional:
- Price targeting tools can be used to make pricing recommendation changes at different frequencies - from minutes to monthly:
Different people can get different prices. Companies can determine prices for different locations, stores, customers, up to and including individual transactions.
Companies can pursue price complexity and scale with fewer resources.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ghg3LUEWoAAvc45.png?name=orig)
ALT Text: What Goes into Surveillance Pricing What's the price of X? [arrow] What's the price of X for consumer C through channel Z at location L at time T? Photo of X with price tag Price is increasingly multi-dimensional: - Price targeting tools can be used to make pricing recommendation changes at different frequencies - from minutes to monthly: Different people can get different prices. Companies can determine prices for different locations, stores, customers, up to and including individual transactions. Companies can pursue price complexity and scale with fewer resources.
Or TikTok could just make its service more resilient to censorship idk just an idea internet.exchangepoint.tech/…
Here’s the original eprint.iacr.org/2024/2086
I wrote a post about how AI will get along with end-to-end encryption. TL;DR: maybe not so well! blog.cryptographyengineering…
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I wrote a post about how AI will get along with end-to-end encryption. TL;DR: maybe not so well! blog.cryptographyengineering…
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If there's a way to use Bluesky without locking myself to the platform, I will join the party there in a hot second. And if there's a way to join the Bluesky party from the Fediverse, then god*damn* I will party my ass off.
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This is an excellent primer on some of the privacy dangers posed by large scale AI, from a cybersecurity perspective. Written in clear language, it's the most accessible rundown I've seen yet on these topics. Thank you, @TedOnPrivacy!
desfontain.es/blog/privacy-i…
I wrote for @techpolicypress about What Trump’s Return Means For Encryption techpolicy.press/what-trumps…
Spoiler: because he fundamentally misunderstands how Wikipedia is written, edited and maintained (by unquantifiable volunteerism the world over).
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Rijesh Panicker and @bharath_red speak to Mallory Knodel (@future_email), executive director of the Social Web Foundation, looking beyond the AI hype to discuss the impact of AI on society.
YouTube: shorturl.at/OklaR
Spotify: shorturl.at/qjHSF
Apple Podcasts:shorturl.at/qXumr
Had a fascinating conversation with Mallory Knodel (@future_email) and Rijesh on ATP exploring the opportunities and risks of AI. Don't miss it! open.spotify.com/episode/51D…
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How is artificial intelligence going be deployed? We know historically that when machinery came into production, John Stuart Mill said, machinery should lighten the load of labor, I cannot understand why when machinery is actually employed, it is doubling the load of labor. [1/8]
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The Tech Coup in full effect ↘️
Elon Musk plans to spend election night with Donald Trump, giving the former president direct access to the person controlling X, a key information platform, on what could be a chaotic evening. nyti.ms/3Apvv1R
