On 5/16/21, jim bell wrote:

https://news.yahoo.com/facebook-urged-abandon-encryption-plans-070553456.htm...

Facebook has been urged to halt its encryption plans after child abuse reports more than halved in Europe due to new privacy laws. The social media giant was f...

User education on identifying child abuse missing. Each of those machine learning algorithms can be reversed into clear interactions human beings could identify their friends as having. Meanwhile, with their algorithm running, somebody could coerce or hack part of facebook to safely abuse a child on their platform. Noted that the numbers that dropped were very substantial. Not something I'm usually exposed to. Incredible win for people being able to pressure what algorithms facebook uses on their consumers. Some day we will see our private marketing models and get paid for doing market research for them while they run an AI in front of us that focuses on how to keep us doing it by filtering and emphasizing our relations with our friends.