An out of this world take on the craziness in Europe as to the Google - Facebook wars and the European Union
Here is a good read as to the emerging face off between the European Union and Facebook and Google which fits into the narrative of a world at war via computer information use and push button automated cyber warfare to come.
https://www.steptoecyberblog.com/2022/01/18/episode-390-have-facebook-and-google-cornered-the-market-on-antitrust-troubles/
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Episode 390: Have Facebook and Google Cornered the Market on Antitrust Troubles?
By?Stewart Baker?on?January 18, 2022
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Just one week of antitrust litigation news shows how much turbulence Facebook and Google are encountering.?Michael Weiner?gives us a remarkably compact summary of the many issues, from deeply historical (Facebook’s purchase of Instagram) to cutting edge tech (complaints?about Oculus self-preferencing). In all, he brings us current on two?state?AG case, two FTC cases, and one DOJ case against the twin giants of surveillance advertising.
Speaking of litigation, no major new technology has been greeted with more litigation in its infancy than face recognition. So this week we interview?Hoan Ton-That,?CEO of what must be the most controversial tech startup in decades –?Clearview AI.?We probe deeply into face recognition’s reputation for bias, and what the company is doing about it. Hoan is clearly taking the controversy in stride and confident that the technology will overcome efforts to turn it toxic. Meanwhile, I note, the debate is clearing out what would have been formidable competition from the likes of Microsoft, Amazon, and IBM. If you think face recognition should be banned as racist, sexist, and inaccurate, this interview will make you think.
Meanwhile,?David Kris?notes, rumors of war are rampant on the Russian-Ukrainian border – and in cyberspace. So far, it’s a bit of a phony cyberwar, featuring?web defacing?and?dormant file wipers. But it could blow up at any time, and we may be surprised how much damage can be done with a keyboard.
Speaking of damage done with a keyboard, open source software is showing how much damage can be done without even trying (although some developers are in fact?trying pretty hard).?Nick Weaver?and I dig into the Log4j and other messes, and the?White House effort?to head off future open source debacles.
David is in charge of good news this week. It looks as though Russia has?arrested a bunch of REvil coconspirators, including one person that?the White House holds responsible?for the Colonial Pipeline attack. It’s surely not a coincidence that this hint of cooperation from Vladimir Putin comes when he’d very much like to have leverage on the Biden administration over Ukraine.
The EU is now firmly committed to cutting off the continent from a host of technologies offered, often free, by Silicon Valley. Google Analytics is out,?according to Austrian authorities, even if this means?accusing the European Parliament of violating European law. Nick reminds us that this isn’t all the services that could be cut off.?Google Translate also depends on transatlantic data flows and could become unavailable in Europe. I offer an incendiary solution to that problem.
Secure messaging is still under attack, but this week its European governments taking the shots.?The UK government is planning?an ad campaign?against end-to-end encryption, and Germany is growling about?shutting down Telegram?for allowing hate speech. Nick issues a heartfelt complaint about the disingenuity of both sides in the crypto debate.
Speaking of Germans who can’t live up to their reputation on protecting privacy, Nick notes that?German police did exactly what Gapple feared, using a coronavirus contact-tracing app to find potential witnesses.?Meanwhile, in good news, let’s not forget Twitter, whose woke colonialism led it to suspend Nigeria’s president for threatening secessionists with war. Turns out it was easier to go to war with Twitter, which has now?unconditionally surrendered to the Nigerian government.
Finally, I claim kinship with Joe Rogan as?one of the podcasters that bien pensant NGOs and academics hope to censor. My plan is to create a joint defense fund to which Joe and I will each contribute 1% of our podcasting revenues.
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In so many words, Facebook and Google are on the verge of having their MARKET MODEL declared ILLEGAL in the EU and that will lead to many European countries and the EU parliament trying to make especially Facebooks model of "information sharing" ILLEGAL in the EU.; Allegedly on privacy concerns. More to it than that, we also have that Google Translate and other Silicon valley "innovations" on the verge of being blocked for good. Not to be outdone, is also that nation states, from Russia to Britain and the USA all weaponize information collected on Facebook and Google. This has implications as to the Ukraine conflict, as to the other issues in Europe, namely that almost every European country has active separatist movements, and also the fact that Germany is throwing its weight around as to violating privacy, using CONAVIRUS tracing.
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Andrew Beckwith, PhD