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[Tim Bernard @BritishTim]

Thanks to my recent follows and I hope you like the white paper! I don't really post here any more, so best to find me @ https://t.co/yFtrXt2R9k or https://t.co/lU1VQkTigt for professional posts. Website / mastodon / threads in my bio too!

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When the UK Online Safety Act received royal assent last month, it may have felt like the end of a very long road for the legislation. That “end” would have been a mirage, writes @BritishTim, diving into Ofcom's massive set of consultation documents:
https://t.co/CQbEJbAvYu

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It's been a long and rocky road for the UK Online Safety Bill. But there is every reason to expect that next week will see the approval of the bill with no significant further changes, writes Tim Bernard (@BritishTim):
https://t.co/253PTtcLT0

[Tim Bernard @BritishTim]

Following up on #trustcon23, I wrote about how a thriving trust and safety vendor ecosystem has emerged, despite difficult headwinds for the industry as a whole.

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Tim Bernard (@BritishTim) surveys the startups and outsource firms plying their wares at TrustCon, the conference of trust and safety professionals, earlier this month in San Francisco:
https://t.co/9m5qT23mhQ

[Tim Bernard @BritishTim]

Trust and Safety rarely comes up in discussion about AI regulation. I looked at where business trends and proposed law point to a whole new world of responsibilities for T&S teams at major platforms. For @unitaryai https://t.co/l1VeupF3wj

[Tim Bernard @BritishTim]

How do social users respond to automated moderation? I looked into some recent academic work and suggested takeaways for Trust & Safety for my first article for @UnitaryAI https://t.co/OaJtHCOga7

[Tim Bernard @BritishTim]

Happy to have contributed to this report on major end-to-end encrypted messaging platforms.

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What is Secure? An Analysis of Popular Messaging Apps

A deep dive into the design and technical security of encrypted apps by Justin Hendrix, Cooper Quintin, Caroline Sinders, Leila Wylie Wagner, Tim Bernard, Ami Mehta. Read the 86-page report here:
https://t.co/9HGUqP91ei

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What is Secure? An Analysis of Popular Messaging Apps

A deep dive into the design and technical security of encrypted apps by Justin Hendrix, Cooper Quintin, Caroline Sinders, Leila Wylie Wagner, Tim Bernard, Ami Mehta. Read the 86-page report here:
https://t.co/9HGUqP91ei

[Tim Bernard @BritishTim]

Excellent article from @kait_tiffany on the difficulty of evaluating and addressing potential social media harms for teens (or anyone), that links to my article on this year's flurry of State bills. https://t.co/9IfrmECOk0

[Tim Bernard @BritishTim]

@JoeBeOne @daphnehk Great news! Do you have a link to the new text?

[Tim Bernard @BritishTim]

@avizollman

[Noah Giansiracusa @ProfNoahGian]

Here's an attempt to help bridge the divide between the different camps on AI risk (avoiding traps of saying ethics vs safety, short-term versus long, concrete versus hypothetical, or even bias & disinfo versus extinction)--or at least to help us see the other's perspective.🧵

[Tim Bernard @BritishTim]

@matthew_d_green @daphnehk @AlecMuffett Meanwhile, in the EU... https://t.co/MnGN5Tqhpw

[Tim Bernard @BritishTim]

How far will each EU country go in compromising on privacy to combat the spread of CSAM? My new analysis at @techpolicypress

[Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix]

WIRED recently published a leaked document containing feedback solicited by the European Council from EU member states regarding proposed Child Sexual Abuse regulation. The document exposes their views on encryption. Tim Bernard (@BritishTim) reviews it:
https://t.co/evqod05Kmy

[Tim Bernard @BritishTim]

How far will each EU country go in compromising on privacy to combat the spread of CSAM? My new analysis at @techpolicypress

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WIRED published a leaked document containing feedback solicited by the European Council from EU member states regarding proposed regulation to combat child sexual abuse. The document exposes their views on encryption. Tim Bernard (@BritishTim) reviews it:
https://t.co/EPTLFbQ0vu

[Tim Bernard @BritishTim]

@_alice_evans Maybe narratives of "one side good - other side bad" are just easier to internalize. Pretty standard (though not universal) in kids' stories, folk tales, myth, religion...

[Tim Bernard @BritishTim]

@danwilliamsphil Related?
https://t.co/gnuRg7kda0

[Jeremy Howard @jeremyphoward]

One thing I haven't seen mentioned elsewhere: the original request for people to sign the letter had the subject line "Invitation to join Hinton, Bengio & Amodei".

That's pretty powerful social status signaling being used to attract signatories.

[Daphne Keller @daphnehk]

Why is it so hard to keep track of all the online "child safety" bills/enacted laws from U.S. state legislatures? Because there are 144 (A HUNDRED AND FORTY FOUR!!!) of them.
@BritishTim read and analyzed them all, so we don't have to.

https://t.co/sHZIOIefEC