In two recent incidents, US federal investigators reportedly asked Google to hand over personal information like the names, addresses, and phone numbers of users who watched certain YouTube videos and livestreams.
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US federal authorities asked Google for the names, addresses, phone numbers and activity of users ofaccounts who viewed certain YouTube videos between January 1 and January 8, 2023, according to.... #authorities #Google #identities #ordered #reportedly #Reveal #videos #Viewers #YouTube
Authorities reportedly ordered Google to reveal the identities of viewers of some YouTube videos. | Technical Terrence
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OVERREACHING. More specifics on the wide-reaching demands. Recently, it came to light that US courts are issuing orders to YouTube (Google) to hand over user information – a previously unreported form of dragnet investigation. And now additional details about the practice are emerging. Forbes broke the story last month after seeing documents that showed a court order covering all YouTube users who watched certain videos over a period of time. Personal data required by law enforcement in these cases was very detailed. Regarding Google users – that’s information from their Google accounts (name, address, phone number and records, online payments history, IP address, etc…), while everybody else visiting URLs listed in the order had their IP addresses surrendered. A one-year gag order made sure Google could not make any of this publicly known, and now we’re hearing about it because that time period has expired. However, the actual documents that the original article was based on were not published at that time; now, reports say they have been made available on the Bluesky platform. https://lnkd.in/eMV5UmZ4
More Details Have Come to Light About Feds' Surveillance of Everyone That Watched Certain YouTube Videos
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The passing of the DSA and Online Safety Bill is a significant step towards ensuring online safety and transparency. With the introduction of Transparency Reports, companies will have to address trust and safety issues on their platforms, making the industry more secure for everyone. While the industry moves forward, we must address the current needs within organizations. If you're looking for support with people, tech, process, reporting, or analytics in this space, let's chat! Here's to positive changes and improvements that will come from increased transparency. As a trusted partner, we're excited to be a part of this journey. #TrustAndSafety #TransparencyReports #OnlineSafetyBill #DSA #trustedpartner #alorica #platformsafety #transparencymatters
I have been building large internet platforms for decades now, and over that time I have seen over and over again that the actions of a few people steal value from the majority of the users platforms seek to serve -- stealing money or attention, weakening value propositions for legitimate users, even driving platforms out of business. Here, Matt Motyl, Ph.D. and take the example of social media companies to look at just how high the cost of underinvesting in platform safety can be. Yes, "Trust and Safety" can be viewed as defensive -- but it's also an implicit and explicit part of the core value proposition of every business, and I urge all companies to treat it as such! https://lnkd.in/dbbpc4Ni
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I have been building large internet platforms for decades now, and over that time I have seen over and over again that the actions of a few people steal value from the majority of the users platforms seek to serve -- stealing money or attention, weakening value propositions for legitimate users, even driving platforms out of business. Here, Matt Motyl, Ph.D. and take the example of social media companies to look at just how high the cost of underinvesting in platform safety can be. Yes, "Trust and Safety" can be viewed as defensive -- but it's also an implicit and explicit part of the core value proposition of every business, and I urge all companies to treat it as such! https://lnkd.in/dbbpc4Ni
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Roiling uncertainty about TikTok’s future and the powers of the federal government make this a vulnerable time for the social media giant. Even one Shark Tank billionaire is licking his chops and preparing a buyout offer. U.S. lawmakers, meanwhile, think the app’s users might the ones be swimming with sharks. On March 22, Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal and Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn officially called on the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to declassify information about the platform’s threat to national security and make the concerns known to the public. “We are deeply troubled by the information and concerns raised by the intelligence community in recent classified briefings to Congress. TikTok is a weapon in the hands of the Chinese government, and poses an active risk to our democratic institutions and national security,” the Senators wrote. “As Congress and the Administration consider steps to address TikTok’s ties to the Chinese government, it is critically important that the American people, especially TikTok users, understand the national security issues at stake. We therefore urge you to declassify information about TikTok and ByteDance, and their ties to Chinese governments’ influence and espionage activities, to better educate the public on the need for urgent action.” For the last week, various government leaders and members of the intelligence community have hinted at potentially damning information shared with them amid debate around TikTok’s ownership and its threat to American users. But for all the grandstanding, no specific information has been released, and other Senate and House members have clarified that they believe the security warnings presented to them apply across a slew of apps. Examples given included app permissions like keystroke tracking and microphone access — Senators like Blackburn and Blumenthal hint to greater “espionage” attempts. SEE ALSO: Instagram just limited the political content you see. You can change that. The Senate body is deep in discussion on the Protecting Americans from Foreign Advisory Controlled Applications Act, a so-called national security effort to limit U.S. distribution of foreign country-owned apps that may pose cybersecurity concerns. The bill, passed by the House on March 13, has been decried as a violation of free speech and commerce protections by TikTok users and civil liberties leaders alike. Should it pass another vote, the bill would force TikTok to divest from its parent company ByteDance in favor of ownership by an entity that isn’t a foreign adversary (read: non-Chinese). In response to the House’s consensus and general confusion over the bill’s potential impact, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew took to the app to clarify his stance: “This legislation, if signed into law, will lead to a ban of TikTok in the United States. Even the bill sponsors admit that that’s their goal. This bill gives more power to a
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One of the internet milestones: will propaganda be a government or corporate function? Both options are really bad. Is sending spam a free speech right? Many issues, no good solution. I see the privacy, spying on users and selling the data or providing them as a service as more critical, as that provides the spying and targeted propaganda tools to anybody with $. https://lnkd.in/eHs3CYAa #socialmedia #internet #freespeech
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Great article by Glenn E. and Matt Motyl, Ph.D. here about the true cost of cutting #trustandsafety. What stands out to me is that while Trust and Safety has been around for many years now and just about every tech company has a (albeit recently reduced) T&S function, our most salient examples of safety-gone-wrong are still the biggest names. Facebook, Instagram, Google, Youtube, X. When you consolidate for shared ownership, there are only 3 companies listed here and they are among the three most commonly cited examples of platforms that have issues with T&S. Some of this is due to their size; they're the largest platforms in terms of users and are therefore the most top of mind when we think of problems and have the largest regulatory targets on their backs. But some of it is also due to them being the first companies to ever disclose their issues in Transparency Reports. Google was a pioneer of transparency reporting back in 2010 and Facebook released it's first Transparency Report in 2013. The fact that many more tech companies will have to release Transparency Reports thanks to the passage of the DSA and Online Safety Bill means that we'll begin to see a much greater breadth of trust and safety issues. My hope is that we'll better understand how different platforms are targeted by bad actors and how they address those bad actors so that the industry as a whole improves.
I have been building large internet platforms for decades now, and over that time I have seen over and over again that the actions of a few people steal value from the majority of the users platforms seek to serve -- stealing money or attention, weakening value propositions for legitimate users, even driving platforms out of business. Here, Matt Motyl, Ph.D. and take the example of social media companies to look at just how high the cost of underinvesting in platform safety can be. Yes, "Trust and Safety" can be viewed as defensive -- but it's also an implicit and explicit part of the core value proposition of every business, and I urge all companies to treat it as such! https://lnkd.in/dbbpc4Ni
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Blackmail can be a very serious offence... and X has to prove it… yes, European citizens should know the details of this matter... What is the definition of a reliable/credible/trustworthy source of information/data? Does any social media platform fit this definition? ‘BlueCheckmarks’ -> What does this have to do with 'trustworthy information source'? The blue checkmark means „that the account has an active subscription to X Premium and meets our eligibility requirements” https://lnkd.in/dBgzKEYY Why are users with a blue checkmark considered "trustworthy" and users without a blue checkmark not? Respect all users, not divide them! Marking and dividing people is never a good idea... "and blocks access to data for researchers" - why do you think this happens? https://lnkd.in/d_G5EERG
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As a person that's pretty active in various forms of social media, I think about this pretty often. There are a lot of services where the "verified" mark means little more than "pays a subscription", rather than actually verifying any kind of identity. I'm not active on Bluesky, but I do rather like their DNS-based approach -- you are someuser.bsky.social... or you can be whatever.example.com (or just example.com) with a domain that you control, with a TXT record for verification. Sure, that still doesn't verify an actual identity, but at least it's some form of actual verification -- do you trust that domain to be controlled by me? (Discord also has this system.)
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In a groundbreaking move, the European Commission has officially launched formal proceedings against X, formerly known as Twitter, under the Digital Services Act (DSA) for suspected violations of the regulation. This is the first time the commission has launched formal proceedings under the DSA. Dive into today's article as we delve deep into the intricacies of the EC's formal proceedings and the potential implications for other companies falling under the DSA's purview. https://lnkd.in/eBFj5QAH #DigitalServicesAct #Regulation #EUCommission #TechNews #DigitalPlatforms
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