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  • On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not.

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  • The verification demand is for Google certified Android.

    ‘electronic information system’ means a system, including electrical or electronic equipment, capable of processing, storing or transmitting digital data;

    The OS or a phone both fit that definition.

    ‘component’ means software or hardware intended for integration into an electronic information system;

    An app fits the definition of a component.

    Maybe you would have to argue that an app is not actually a component. But if it's a stand-alone thing, then why does it rely on an OS?

    I think you can make a good argument that a phone without an OS is not a system. It's not capable of much. Maybe custom roms will remain an option.

    Anyway, Google is not abusing that loophole. So, no problem. F-Droid encourages users to complain to EU lawmakers about Google being a meanie. Maybe the EU will close it anyway as part of future tech regulation.

  • Studie: Live-Gesichtserkennung durch Polizei nur rechtswidrig möglich

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  • Ein Warnhinweis:

    Das Deepfake-Thema ist bekannt, oder? Viele befürworten Verbote. Schon mal überlegt, wie man die durchsetzt? Ohne Gesichtserkennung wird's schwierig.

    Auch um "Rachepornos" auszumerzen, müsste man mit Gesichtserkennung, mit biometrischen Datenbanken, im großen Stil arbeiten. Allgemein: Um unautorisierte Fotos und Videos zu unterdrücken.

    Vor ein paar Monaten ging eine Präzedenzklage gegen Google groß durch die Medien (unterstützt von Hateaid). In dem Fall geht es speziell um private, geleakte Amateurpornos. Es wird von "Bild-basierter Gewalt" geredet, aber das Ergebnis wäre natürlich auf alle Bilder/Videos mit Personenbezug anwendbar. Mit Gewalt ist die Verletzung des Rechts am eigenen Bild gemeint.

    Google entfernt natürlich Suchergebnisse zur eigenen Person, die einem nicht passen ("Recht auf Vergessenwerden"). Man braucht keinen Grund dafür, um etwas entfernen zu lassen. Umgekehrt, Google muss begründen, warum es Suchergebnisse anzeigen oder auch nur speichern darf, per DSGVO.

    Bei der Klage geht es darum, dass Google nicht nur gemeldet Links unterdrückt, sondern überhaupt alle "kerngleichen" Inhalte. So ein Wunsch lässt sich kaum erfüllen, ohne über das Aussehen der Person zu gehen. Andere Klagen zu solchen Überwachungspflichten sind da schon viel weiter.

    Techfirmen, wie Google oder Meta, wollen solche Überwachungspflichten nicht. Sowas ist teuer und rechtlich riskant.

    Wenn ihr also hört, dass "die Zivilgesellschaft" gegen die Techkonzerne klagt, um sie zur Einhaltung der DSGVO zu zwingen, denkt nicht, dass es gegen Überwachung geht. Um Daten zu schützen, muss man Daten überwachen.

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  • Ich mach doch mal einen Factcheck.

    "Gesichtserkennung" ist rechtlich verschiedentlich eingeschränkt, also nicht verboten. Im Umkehrschluss: Sie ist erlaubt.

    Diese "Studie" bespricht, wie Gesichtserkennung im Internet funktioniert (zB bei PimEyes). Das scheint technisch solide zu sein. Aber die Behauptung ergibt sich daraus eben nicht.

    Ganz kurz: Eine spezielle KI (kein Chatbot) analysiert Bilder/Videos und speichert das Aussehen der abgebildeten Personen als Zahlenkombi. Um effizient Personen auf verschiedenen Bildern abzugleichen, auf Bildern zu suchen, speichert man diese Zahlenkombis um arbeitet mit denen.

    Im KI Gesetz heißt es (Hervorhebung von mir):

    e) das Inverkehrbringen, die Inbetriebnahme für diesen spezifischen Zweck oder die Verwendung von KI-Systemen, die Datenbanken zur Gesichtserkennung durch das ungezielte Auslesen von Gesichtsbildern aus dem Internet oder von Überwachungsaufnahmen erstellen oder erweitern;

    Wenn ich also eine Datenbank mit gesuchten Personen (vermisst, verdächtig, ...) erstelle, dann ist das ganz sicher unproblematisch. Wenn man diese Datenbank nun "Live" mit Überwachungsaufnahmen abgleicht, dann ist das kein Problem, solange nicht andere Vorschriften greifen. Problematisch wäre es, wenn die Daten über das Aussehen, die Zahlenkombis, von den zufällig erfassten Personen gespeichert werden. Dann hätte man eine Datenbank, aber wenn die Daten verworfen werden, dann ich sehe ich kein Problem in dieser Hinsicht.

    Auch: Falls ausgesuchtes Material für spezielle Ermittlungen indexiert wird, dann sollte das eigentlich gehen, weil nicht "ungezielt".

    Was genau "ungezielt" heißt, werden sicher die Gerichte klären.

  • On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not.

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  • Here's a definition:

    ‘product with digital elements’ means a software or hardware product and its remote data processing solutions, including software or hardware components being placed on the market separately;

    I don't think it's a stretch to say that such apps are components "placed on the market separately". In fact, I think it's exactly within the meaning. In any case, even if not, such loopholes are usually plugged by some of the vague, general obligations.

    I don't think ADB installation is a loophole. Once you poke around in the insides of a device, you're generally on your own. I expect that devices are going to become more locked down before these regulations enter into force but only as far as absolutely necessary. Google doesn't want to lock out the next generation of devs. Unless or until there is some fuss about people doing something bad and this is declared a loophole.

  • On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not.

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  • You're arguing that a dev shouldn't be seen as supplying to Google just because their apps run on a Google system. I agree, that could be a valid argument, but I am not too sure if it would work in court.

    Google is certainly following the spirit of the law. Maybe there is a tiny loophole here but imagine Google leaves that open. A few people install some shady app store full of malware and scams. Would a court find that Google had fulfilled all its legal obligations to protect its users?

  • On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not.

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  • That says when Google distributes an app via the Play Store, Google must be able to name the developer.

    You're thinking of the DSA (Article 30), in force since last year. The CRA is on top (or beside) of that, starting in 2027. Some are also pointing the finger at the RED (Article 3 3.). That's the one that made Apple do USB chargers.

    I expect phones are going to become a lot more locked down, especially in the EU.

    It does not say that when I distribute an app via my website, Google has any obligations whatsoever.

    Yes. Google is only demanding verification for certified phones.

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  • collect certain information from developers

    Yes. Like a copy of their identity papers.

    Consult Article 23 ("Identification of economic operators") of the CRA. The entry into force fits Google's timeline.

  • On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not.

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  • I think Google is mainly aiming to comply with EU law. But Brussels effect...

    It should give Europeans pause that their tech regulation is red state style. Explains why their tech industry is on a red state level.

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  • Die sind mir schon in der Vergangenheit als extrem unseriös aufgefallen. Da machen keine Leute mit Sachkenntnissen mit, sondern eher so Medien/PR-Typen.

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  • Liegstuhl aufklapp

    im Auftrag von Algorithmwatch

    Liegstuhl einklapp

  • Anti-Piracy Firm Threatens ICANN with Lawsuit Over .to Domain Piracy * TorrentFreak

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  • Check out some thread on AI and copyright. That oughta tell you how copyright people "think", for lack of a better word. Not impossible to succeed with that kind of thing in Europe.

  • Australian Government gets a taste of what everyday people have to deal with in terms of data breaches as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's mobile phone number released online

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  • I doubt there's anywhere where the phone book wasn't digitized. In Germany, the requirement to publish your address + number was eventually dropped, though; maybe because the phone system was privatized.

  • 4chan fined $26K for refusing to assess risks under UK Online Safety Act

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  • Salman Rushdie: First time?

  • Erklärung zu Alterskontrollen: 25 EU-Staaten wählen den billigen Weg

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  • Es ist ein erschreckendes Schlafwandeln in den totalen Überwachungsstaat. Haben wir einem europäischen Trump irgendetwas entgegenzusetzen?

  • 4chan fined $26K for refusing to assess risks under UK Online Safety Act

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  • UK cabinet is mainly GenXers. I didn't count exactly, but Boomers still seem to outnumber Millennials. Definitely on the way out, though.

    I wouldn't mind the politicians from 30 years ago, who stayed away from this bullshit.

  • 4chan fined $26K for refusing to assess risks under UK Online Safety Act

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  • If some laws in country A have a problem with this, then they should unplug their internet wires at the border, or at least learn how to use them and/or govern their citizens.

    What used to be called The Great Firewall of China. It used to be unthinkable for western countries.

    You can't blame this on old people. This is only happening now that the Boomers are on the way out. People who sent international letters or made international phone calls were aware that they were communicating with a different country with different laws. I think we are seeing this now, because now we have people who experience the internet as something happening on their own phone, at their location.

  • Australian Government gets a taste of what everyday people have to deal with in terms of data breaches as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's mobile phone number released online

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  • It's kinda funny how times change.

    In Germany, it even used to be that your phone number, along with your name and address, was published in the phone book, by law. If you wanted to be delisted, you had to provide a valid reason, such as being stalked. Just because was not good enough. At every street corner was a phone booth with the phone book of your town with your name and address. At post offices, you could find phone books from other towns. (The phone system was run by the postal service, which was a government agency.)

    Phone books were a bit of a plot point in Terminator. The terminator gets the list of Connors from the phone book and kills them in that order.

  • i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too

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  • Grocery store.

    Assume that all the foodstuffs that people normally eat have the same potassium content as these nettles. Then you'd need to consume 1.25kg of your normal food per day to get enough potassium. Someone who consumes less than 1.25kg of those normal food stuffs would not get enough potassium. If normal food stuffs have a significantly lower potassium content, then you'd expect widespread potassium deficiency.

    Maybe, but it doesn't seem to be a serious public health issue. So common food can't have significantly lower potassium content than those nettles. What with averages being averages, some foods will have more than others.

  • Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble

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  • Feels more like the brick layer is equivalent to someone paid to create training data. You absolutely would want to ask the architects and engineers researching no ways in housing and construction. Not that they know what avenues of research will work out, but they do know the avenues of research.

    No one expected the splash that LLMs or image diffusion models would make. Years later, the conversations on Lemmy are still dominated by people who still haven't looked up how they work.

    GPTs completely nuked the whole field of natural language processing (NLP). People had dedicated years of their lives to solving tiny aspects of that. That got solved practically over night. Sentiment analysis? Just ask the chatbot. Some of the seemingly smart people who make seemingly informed criticisms of LLMs are NLP guys, who just can't let go of their old ideas.