"Police and private companies should 'immediately stop' the use of facial recognition surveillance, says a group of politicians and privacy campaigners. They have raised concerns around human rights, potential for discrimination and 'the lack of a democratic mandate. It comes after the government announced plans for police to access passport photos to help catch criminals."
"The Identity Politics of Heritage.
Decommunization, Decolonization, and Derussification of Kyiv Monuments after Russia’s Full Scale Invasion of Ukraine" by Olena Betlii (2022).
"Russia’s war against Ukraine has shown not only how the Kremlin has weaponized history, but also how the victim can fight back by breaking historical ties with the aggressor. Since March 2022, Ukraine has been developing new identity politics of heritage. The article focuses on decisions made by the Kyiv City Council, the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture and Information Policy, and the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory regarding material objects associated with Russian or Soviet heritage. It also shows how Kyiv opinionmakers and experts have reacted to changes that will eventually result in the reshaping of the city’s memory landscape".
"New York state banned the use of facial recognition technology in schools Wednesday, following a report that concluded the risks to student privacy and civil rights outweigh potential security benefits."
Amid India’s digital infra push, Moody’s says the world’s largest digital ID programme often denies service to users; it questions reliability of biometric technology, warns of privacy and security risks.
People who engage in #hate#attacks and #vandalism while wearing #masks are the biggest #cowards on the planet. If they're so proud of themselves and their actions and their cause, why are they #hiding their #faces? It's because they know they're #scumbags, and they know what they're doing is legally, morally, and socially unacceptable. And they're terrified of having their #identity exposed for fear of the #consequences. That's a #coward.
Also, crossover events between Y chromosome & X resulting in novel recombinations are a fucking thing, as are Barr Bodies & deactivation of chromosomes.
Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) Expertly describes [Complex Systems] & the unpredictability of emergent complexity in systems.
How these genetic variables & hormone products interplay w/brain development, self identity, processing of cultural norms, is an example of a highly variable outcome.
Gujarat: 2 lakh Aadhaar, PAN cards forged and sold; 2 arrested in Surat
The accused were accessing the government database, which is a case of illegal authorisation and a serious threat to national security, said a police official
Leftists must stop building their #identity around being Leftists.
Identity is primary to the human experience and will always be protected. If 'the revolution' or whatever society you advocate for were to occur that identity would be obliterated because Leftists largely understand themselves in relation to #Capitalism ie the dominant mode. As such they will take any and all action required protect that identity.
This particularly applies to whites because their identity is generally speaking far more fragmented than those who have cultural, community based, or ancestral identities and mythologies (ie collective stories) to reinforce other aspects of their identity.
Here's a screencast demonstration of Single Sign-On facilitated by loosely-coupling #Identity and #Authentication, courtesy of the #IndieAuth protocol.
This is The Clubhouse where I meet with the cool kids who are going to help me build out New, interactive, Worlds: of Color and Adventure; and who yearn to learn patterns of Creation that will encourage them to Make! something of them Selves.
If you are at any stage in your #identity or #infosec career and curious how to start or expand yourself as an identity practitioner, come check out my talk on Track 2 at @BlueTeamCon 2023 today at 12:00pm.
As part of the process I changed my surname from Salim to Lind, getting it closer to my ancestors' original 林 ( a lot of us Chinese-Indonesians were forced to change our surnames under the military dictatorship, see https://archive.is/339Nn ) so it feels like freedom in more ways than one.
As part of the process I changed my surname from Salim to Lind, getting it closer to my ancestors' original 林 ( a lot of us Chinese-Indonesians were forced to change our surnames under the military dictatorship, see https://archive.is/339Nn ) so it feels like freedom in more ways than one.
Another DEF CON talk: "Attacking Decentralized Identity". It introduced and clarified DIDs and verifiable credentials in approachable language. Here's my distillation of that introduction.
This talk will give a brief introduction into two EU bills that should top of mind for the digital rights and hacker community. The negotiations for the digital #identity and digital euro proposals have the potential to for tectonic change in the digital age. This talk will provide basic info, explain a bit how the EU works and try to mobilise more people to join the debate.
I remerber a #PEP for proposing to add a constant to #Python marking this absence of value for a parameter in a function call. This would fix cases where None is a valid value.
But I can't find this PEP. Does someone else remeber this?
We don't actually need a special constant for this; this is a pretty standard Python #idiom:
NOT_SET = object()
def f(a: int, b: int = NOT_SET):
if b is NOT_SET:
function called without second argument
...
NOT_SET is a bare object, which will never compare equal to anything else, and is a singleton so the natural test is #object#identity. It absolutely distinguishes between "no argument" and "caller happened to pass the #default value #explicitly".