I agree. I feel like the only way is to pass laws (and maybe even constitutional amendments) which severely lock down the federal government. A lot. I don't really know of any other way to do it, but I'm also not a lawyer. Especially since I don't see how else we could neuter that one political party without doing very very drastic things.
Am I the only one who thinks that after this administration is finally removed (either because it left willingly or because we had to... Convince it to leave), we'll either be removing or rewriting a bunch of rules/regs/laws? Though I have no idea how to balance discretion with legal specificity, sadly.
Completely agree. One of the points a lot of my more center/right-leaning family members like to bring up is that the government's internal systems should talk to each other. Which I would agree to, if it was being done properly/legally. And DOGE weren't the ones doing it. Though the fact that USCIS and SSA don't at least transmit basic information like this is just weird to me. They wouldn't even need to share databases, just basic data about a person. That would at least open up the possibility of automatic SSN issuance...
Yeah, this is definitively true, if my research is true and I haven't found one of those AI slop websites. (I literally found one yesterday, for the first time, on Kagi, so...) Supposedly, USCIS did something to N-400 in 2024 that allowed you to "request" that your citizenship data with the SSA be automatically updated. But, of course, then Trump took office, and such was "suspended" / "temporarily paused". Because of course it was.
Is this actually true? Idk if it is, haven't ever heard of this... But if this is true then yes, there are probably hundreds of thousands to millions who have missed this step. How much you wanna bet that they don't even advertise it very well?
And even if we consider a theoretical reality where they only use that slice of information, that information alone is enough to completely ruin your life and do quite a lot of damage.
... alleging that its expansion of SAVE and other data consolidation efforts violate the Privacy Act, a federal law that prohibits public agencies from misusing private information.SCOTUS will have something to say about that, I'm sure...
I feel like it's time for some kind of anti-SLAPP law but for trademarks and patents. I don't really see any way for us to "fix" the laws/system though -- lawyers I imagine will always do bullshit like this.
Then they either shouldn't store the chats at all or should store them on the users device. This is literally a solved problem by now. There is no way of anonymizing the data (or de-identifying it or anything else) given it's not structured data and identifying what is "sensitive" and not is practically impossible. But if OAI didn't want to suffer this, maybe they should've actually thought about cybersecurity and privacy instead of just creating something and ignoring it until it was impossible to ignore anymore. This is entirely OAI's fault.
OpenAI offered a much more privacy-protective alternative: hand over only a targeted set of logs actually relevant to the case, rather than dumping 20 million records wholesale.Okay, but was this something OpenAI would have control over? If so, I can kinda understand why the news orgs were not even remotely eager to take them up on that offer. There would be nothing stopping OAI from doing some secret record clean-up to get completely off the hook, and I wouldn't put it past them to try that given all the other weird things they've tried in these cases.
God, part of me wonders if agencies like these will ever get their credibility back after all the dust settles, or if it'll be so bad Congress will just say "fuck it" and eliminate them altogether or something. Or something else. Who knows at this point?
Is that information disclosure protection clause even legal? I thought FOIA overrode such things? But I'm no FOIA expert so...
I would trust the word of a judge that's been in the DOJ for 50 years over Trumps DOGE and DOJ idiots who have little to no experience in those same departments.
Here is what I find confusing: why is the BBC even scared at all? Trump would need to bring the lawsuit in the UK, not the US. And I mean sure, he could bring it in the US and maybe get a default judgement, but then he would still need to get enforced in the UK. Which... Seems practically impossible? Cross-boarder lawsuits are a total nightmare for good reason.
The President of the United States, with access to the best information and advisors in the world, ...Your, uh, assuming that he actually does have this access. And that his staff and advisors would use such access themselves... Based on the incompetency and sheer stupidity of the people in the Oval Office, it wouldn't at all surprise me to learn that they don't even know what Dunning Kruger means. Even if they have access to both the largest encyclopedia ever created, and the largest information network ever devised. After all, all that stuff is leftist material. Right? Right?
This is downright weird to me. There are people in the US who are citizens who don't have drivers licenses (I am such a person). Social security numbers are a far more accurate and unique identifier, since from what I know they are never reused. Oh wait. Sorry. I'm being logical. I keep forgetting that this administration runs on vibes and not on logic or the law. Damn.
I hate to be "that guy," but are we positive that this will actual continue? I really would like to believe this, but I also don't want to get overconfident in possibilities either. Things are sadly very volatile at the moment, and I may be wrong but I don't know if we should declare victory so soon. But maybe I'm just way too cynical for my own good.
Christian? I could've sworn it said Nazian for a second...
Would you like some a-salt with that sandwich?
I would like to hope that we will have a much more ruthless democratic administration one of these days. Hopefully one that uses all these weapons Trump has created for himself against the Republican party. If there's one thing these assholes need to learn, it's that when you implement precedent to ignore the law, the other party can do it too.