I met up with Tom this morning and he asked me if I was planning another zine. I told him about the idea behind Interfaces of Refusal, but actually I've got another idea. This one would be called something like Field Notes on Ambient Surveillance and cover the way in which, over the last couple of decades, surveillance has become normalised.
…Since hitting publish on Anonymous credentials for the web (no, not those kind) I've been doing some work for Kerri Lemoie at the Digital Credentials Consortium and it's made me think that PACT (Private Access Control Tokens) might actually be useful for Verifiable Credentials (VCs), too.
…This is a long post from Mozilla that probably won't get the attention it deserves outside of a niche, geeky audience. I'm very pleased that people are figuring out answers to these issues.
Let's start with the problem:
…A follow-up to [this note] given Anthropic's recent announcement that they're going to require government-issued ID to use "certain features" of their models. They're using none other than Peter Thiel-backed Persona for this. Ugh.
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