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🇪🇺 After the UK's Online Safety Act and Australia's decision to restrict much of social media to teenagers, the European Union plans to take it a step further than the two countries and implement AI scanning tools to read the private and public groupchats of European users and look for child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
The European Union wants to adopt by October 14th a final draft of its Chat Control Act which is marketed, just like in the case of the UK's Online Safety Act and Australia's ban on teenagers from using social media apps, that it is being done to protect the children!
The European Commission's premise with this act is that all European citizens are closeted pedophiles who regularly share CSAM in their private conversations and thus everything must be verified by the state to make sure that this premise is not confirmed. Not only does the EU want to implement this AI groupchat scan tool, it wants to implement everything that the UK and Australia did like mandatory age verification upon login, social media bans for teens etc.
End-to-end encryption apps in the EU would stop working as a result of the tech company not complying with this regulation or would be broken entirely upon compliance.
Unlike the UK and Australia, the EU wants social media companies to have AI scan tools not only detect CSAM but also automatically report it to the police. Hashing tools which are already in use by law enforcement and most tech companies to identify potential CSAM give way too many false positives, to the proportion of 1/5 hashed messages. The EU also wants internet providers to block certain URLs from outside the EU upon request from national authorities.
Currently there's no consensus among EU countries on how far this bill should go, with some concessions being made that users can refuse to have their conversations scanned but will then lose the ability to upload pictures, videos or audio files and also won't be able to receive any. Consensus on the matter is being expected to be reached by October 14th and by the end of 2025, a final draft should be ready.
The governments of Belgium, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Slovenia, Luxembourg and Romania haven't decided if they support this bill or not. Only Austria, Poland and The Netherlands oppose this bill.
Police in Winona Minnesota are stunned after every single one of their Flock cameras were suddenly removed in a single night.
According to the police department, all 8 of the town's cameras were cut down and hauled away.
Police are asking for the public's help to identify the individual, but the public has been responding with comments such as:
"The Flock cameras tore themselves down"
"Whoever did it, was fishing with me"
"Whoever it was, was at Bible study with me"
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Nearly 20,000 people are publicly vouching for a man accused of cutting down Flock cameras in a small West Virginia town.
People commented:
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"He was saving my neighbor's dog from a fire all day, couldn't be him."
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"This man is innocent. I saw him serving at a soup kitchen."
-"Couldn't be him. He was helping me replace the roof on a homeless shelter."
The man, Wesley Jackson, has pleaded Not Guilty.
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US diesel crack surpasses $100 a barrel for the first time on supply disruptions
... and the supply of refined fuels is already nearly exhausted. A hard landing is visible ahead, for farmers, for trucking, and ... well, for everything that requires food (people) and energy (the entire economy).
These are very likely the final days of relative normalcy during which to prepare. Get ready.
🌾 🌍 🚜 JPMorgan warns a massive global food supply crisis could begin next year as fertilizer shortages tighten agricultural supply.
JPMorgan is the latest institutional research desk to warn that the next global food crisis may already be taking shape, driven by what its analysts describe as the "Five Ws": War, Weather, Warehousing, Water, and Waste.
In a new report titled Food Security Is National Security: A Compounding Storm, a team led by London-based senior global economist Nora Szentivanyi warned that disruptions around the Strait of Hormuz and the emergence of a potentially historic El Niño could weaken crop yields, constrain agricultural production, and keep food inflation elevated through the first half of 2027.
"Successive shocks since COVID have compounded, eroding food production capacity and keeping food price pressures elevated into 2027," Szentivanyi said, warning that "this is not a short-lived shock; it has reduced the likelihood of near-term disinflation, and the food ...
