Tom Fisher

OfDIA/DSIT. Ex- Privacy International. African Studies PhD; writes on #digitalID. GoodID community champion. Views my own. @drsamaki.bsky.social

[Tom Fisher @TomSamaki]

It was my 10th anniversary of joining Twitter last week; it’s the only social media platform I’ve ever really engaged with. But I guess when it’s time to go, it’s time to go.
You can find me @drsamaki.bsky.social

[Tom Fisher @TomSamaki]

@virginmedia You are completely unreachable through Chat on your site! Or WhatsApp. So: with my contract expired, I can just leave you, right?

[Tom Fisher @TomSamaki]

Depends on the nation state. He might mean we're going to invade and take all their stuff.

[@emryss.bsky.social @emrys_s]

Britain must treat tech giants like nation states, minister warns

The white flag of surrender https://t.co/HThu0ZSU7U

[Tom Fisher @TomSamaki]

@PaulbernalUK Why are we worried about such constitutional matters, when there are people in this world suffering from the likes of pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism and pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis?

[Tom Fisher @TomSamaki]

I need a nice, easy guide to the Philosophy of recent developments in AI that’ll stop me worrying about all of this, as I know enough for it to bother me but not enough to reach any conclusions. Any pointers? 4

[Tom Fisher @TomSamaki]

While the trolley problem took off in the public imagination, it seems that there are many thought experiments in the Philosophy of Mind and Philosophy of Language that seem relevant to our current situation; with a lot of ants doing a lot of caricatures of Winston Churchill. 1

[Tom Fisher @TomSamaki]

But: what does it then mean for the status of a conversation with a chatbot? It doesn’t seem to reach any kind of standard of reference to the world (real or imaginary). So is there nothing going on here except the user anthropomorphising the chatbot? 3

[Tom Fisher @TomSamaki]

@PrivacyMatters There's not a way to do this kind of age verification 'nicely', despite what the AI age estimation people say.

[Tom Fisher @TomSamaki]

I'm not convinced a ban will do much to stop young people from accessing social media; but it will make it far harder to make sure they do so safely.

[Privacy Matters  @PrivacyMatters]

It’s an unworkable idea and one that restricts young people’s freedoms, inc access to information and resources and yes, even friendships.

Resist.

[Tom Fisher @TomSamaki]

Wouldn't worry too much if you'll be in London that day, as they're heading out of the city.

[Otto English @Otto_English]

Are they planning to rearrange the entire landscape of the city?

[Tom Fisher @TomSamaki]

When the starting point of your DPI is identity and identification: you’re running the risk of these types of harms at every stage of the system.

[Tom Fisher @TomSamaki]

The injustice of requiring identification to attend school: it takes a societal harm falling upon the broad shoulders of the state(‘ghost children’ and corruption in schools) and makes it an individual harm (kids from marginalised backgrounds can’t attend school).

[The Guardian @guardian]

School-leaver at 11, domestic slave at 12, gang member at 15: how a missing birth certificate derailed a life https://t.co/lSwnHm7KMd

[Tom Fisher @TomSamaki]

@PrivacyMatters Get well soon! Feet problems are the worst.

[Tom Fisher @TomSamaki]

I don't know if @Suitpossum is still around Twitter, but it's interesting to note that Sweden and Norway are starting to do the right thing (not least, for the hundreds of thousands excluded from these systems); all it took was an unprecedented global crisis to do it.

[Tom Fisher @TomSamaki]

Sweden and Norway are realising that their cashless systems are vulnerable to Russian cyberattacks, and so are back to encouraging the use of cash.

https://t.co/fPz6uTq1Oq

In other news: the push for DPI around the world continues regardless.

[Eve Hayes on bluesky at evehayes123 @EveHayes123]

Please join me for the @SOASHistory seminar where I’ll be presenting the findings of our recent project to explore whether a reframing of the Windrush Scandal as an international statelessness crisis will help to develop new modes of resistance & advocacy https://t.co/UEk7bZd1bt

[Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden]

This is unbelievably lazy and dangerous, especially from a former solicitor running to lead the Conservative Party

Robert Jenrick gets the charges wrong then launches into "cover-up" dogwhistle while surely knowing how the law limits what information can be released before trial

[Tom Fisher @TomSamaki]

@NoraMbagathi Congratulations! That’s great news. Hope we get to work together in the future!

[Chris Pounder @hawktalk_blog]

@TomSamaki The DVS section is unsafe as it has too many ministerial powers. I suggest amending DVS so an independent party (@ICOnews??) develops a statutory Code of Practice to incorporate the officially approved identity principles into the DVS section. See https://t.co/HdYxZPX6Oi