{"id":7629,"date":"2024-06-19T12:07:57","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T19:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=7629"},"modified":"2024-06-19T12:07:57","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T19:07:57","slug":"big-tech-coalition-partners-with-wef-pushes-global-digital-safety-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2024\/06\/19\/big-tech-coalition-partners-with-wef-pushes-global-digital-safety-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Tech Coalition Partners With WEF, Pushes \u201cGlobal Digital Safety\u201d Standards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Suffices to say a trojan horse for the removal of privacy and increasing censorship to fight “misinformation”. Which is funny because the megacorp media propaganda is usually actual misinformation and they’re working to suppress people undoing their work with actual truth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/reclaimthenet.org\/big-tech-coalition-partners-with-wef-pushes-global-digital-safety-standards<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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By Didi Rankovic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you\u2019re tired of censorship and surveillance, subscribe to Reclaim The Net.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Big Tech coalition Digital Trust & Safety Partnership (DTSP), the UK\u2019s regulator OFCOM, and the World Economic Forum (WEF) have come together to produce a report.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The three entities, each in their own way, are known for advocating for or carrying out speech restrictions and policies that can result in undermining privacy and security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DTSP says it is there to \u201caddress harmful content\u201d and makes sure online age verification (\u201cage assurance\u201d) is enforced, while OFCOM states its mission to be establishing \u201conline safety.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now they have co-authored a WEF (WEF Global Coalition for Digital Safety) report<\/a> \u2013 a white paper \u2013 that puts forward the idea of closer cooperation with law enforcement in order to more effectively \u201cmeasure\u201d what they consider to be online digital safety and reduce what they identify to be risks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The importance of this is explained by the need to properly allocate funds and ensure compliance with regulations. Yet again, \u201cbalancing\u201d this with privacy and transparency concerns is mentioned several times in the report almost as a throwaway platitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report also proposes co-opting (even more) research institutions for the sake of monitoring data \u2013 as the document puts it, a \u201cwide range of data sources.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More proposals made in the paper would grant other entities access to this data, and there is a drive to develop and implement \u201ctargeted interventions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under the \u201cImpact Metrics\u201d section, the paper states that these are necessary to turn \u201csubjective user experiences into tangible, quantifiable data,\u201d which is then supposed to allow for measuring \u201cactual harm or positive impacts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To get there the proposal is to collaborate with experts as a way to understand \u201cthe experience of harm\u201d \u2013 and that includes law enforcement and \u201cindependent\u201d research groups, as well as advocacy groups for survivors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those, as well as law enforcement, are supposed to be engaged when \u201csituations involving severe adverse effect and significant harm\u201d are observed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, the paper proposes collecting a wide range of data for the sake of performing these \u201cmeasurements\u201d \u2013 from platforms, researchers, and (no doubt select) civil society entities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report goes on to say it is crucial to make sure to find out best ways of collecting targeted data, \u201cwhile avoiding privacy issues\u201d (but doesn\u2019t say how).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The resulting targeted interventions should be \u201charmonized globally.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for who should have access to this data, the paper states:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cStreamlining processes for data access and promoting partnerships between researchers and data custodians in a privacy-protecting way can enhance data availability for research purposes, leading to more robust and evidence-based approaches to measuring and addressing digital safety issues.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Suffices to say a trojan horse for the removal of privacy and increasing censorship to fight “misinformation”. Which is funny because the megacorp media propaganda is usually actual misinformation and they’re working to suppress people undoing their work with actual truth. https:\/\/reclaimthenet.org\/big-tech-coalition-partners-with-wef-pushes-global-digital-safety-standards By Didi Rankovic If you\u2019re tired of censorship and surveillance, subscribe to Reclaim […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7630,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7629\/revisions\/7630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}