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.@vonderleyen "The European #AgeVerification app is technically ready. It respects the highest privacy standards in the world. It's open-source, so anyone can check the code..." I did. It didn't take long to find what looks like a serious #privacy issue. The app goes to great lengths to protect the AV data AFTER collection (is_over_18: true is AES-GCM'd); it does so pretty well. But, the source image used to collect that data is written to disk without encryption and not deleted correctly. For NFC biometric data: It pulls DG2 and writes a lossless PNG to the filesystem. It's only deleted on success. If it fails for any reason (user clicks back, scan fails & retries, app crashes etc), the full biometric image remains on the device in cache. This is protected with CE keys at the Android level, but the app makes no attempt to encrypt/protect them. For selfie pictures: Different scenario. These images are written to external storage in lossless PNG format, but they're never deleted. Not a cache... long-term storage. These are protected with DE keys at the Android level, but again, the app makes no attempt to encrypt/protect them. This is akin to taking a picture of your passport/government ID using the camera app and keeping it just in case. You can encrypt data taken from it until you're blue in the face... leaving the original image on disk is crazy & unnecessary. From a #GDPR standpoint: Biometric data collected is special category data. If there's no lawful basis to retain it after processing, that's potentially a material breach. youtube.com/watch?v=4VRRri…

A white South African whose family has been in Africa for 400 years is a "colonizer" with no homeland. But a man who crossed the U.S. border illegally yesterday is a “fellow American” with full moral authority.



“The Republicans will fix it this time” “The Democrats will fix it this time”

[ 🇪🇺 UNION EUROPÉENNE | 🇫🇷 FRANCE ] 🔸 La Commission européenne s’apprête à ouvrir une enquête approfondie sur les aides d’État accordées par la France à EDF pour la construction de 6 réacteurs EPR2, un programme estimé jusqu’à 72,8 milliards d’euros, selon Reuters. 🔸 Bruxelles veut vérifier que ce soutien, incluant prêts publics et mécanisme de garantie des revenus, ne fausse pas la concurrence, alors qu’EDF représente déjà plus de 75 % de la production d’électricité en France.

This didn’t happen to everything everywhere by chance.


Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund is backing a company bringing AI to cow herding at a $2 billion valuation bloomberg.com/news/articles/…


Isn't it ironic that many Brits voted for Brexit because they wanted immigration to go down? How did this happen?


this is actually insane > be tech guy in australia > adopt cancer riddled rescue dog, months to live > not_going_to_give_you_up.mp4 > pay $3,000 to sequence her tumor DNA > feed it to ChatGPT and AlphaFold > zero background in biology > identify mutated proteins, match them to drug targets > design a custom mRNA cancer vaccine from scratch > genomics professor is “gobsmacked” that some puppy lover did this on his own > need ethics approval to administer it > red tape takes longer than designing the vaccine > 3 months, finally approved > drive 10 hours to get rosie her first injection > tumor halves > coat gets glossy again > dog is alive and happy > professor: “if we can do this for a dog, why aren’t we rolling this out to humans?” one man with a chatbot, and $3,000 just outperformed the entire pharmaceutical discovery pipeline. we are going to cure so many diseases. I dont think people realize how good things are going to get










