This is the stuff of a white supremacist who fled the end of South African apartheid in the late 1980s to illegally immigrate into the US. Notably, after repeatedly promoting and spreading white supremacist memes, his carefully curated 88 announcement for robots isn’t a coincidence. It represents the future vision of Tesla engineering the same … Continue reading Tesla Announces “8/8” Launch Date for RoboNazis→
Interesting phrasing can be found in Der Spiegel (original report in German) Specialists from the Federal Foreign Office have identified a systematic Russian campaign on Elon Musk’s platform. In the federal government, concerns about electoral influence are growing. The story is titled “carpet bombing of disinformation” (“trommelfeuer der desinformation“) referring to German psychological operations and … Continue reading “Ein Trommelfeuer der Desinformation”: German Investigation of Russian Influence Campaigns on X Twitter→
Fine issued for misuse of fingerprints. The logic of this huge enforcement action was simple, biometric data was collected disproportionate to need. Employees of a company had to have their fingerprints scanned for attendance and time registration. After investigation, the Dutch Data Protection Authority concluded that the company should not have processed employee fingerprints. The … Continue reading GDPR Fine Print: 720,000 Euro Penalty for Collecting Biometrics→