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Geriatric Gardener

“UK government wants to legalise automated police decision-making”

by Statewatch.org

@UKLabour

“A proposed law in the UK would allow police decisions to be made solely by computers, with no human input. The Data Use and Access Bill would remove a safeguard in data protection law that prohibits solely automated decision-making by law enforcement agencies”

statewatch.org/news/2025/april

www.statewatch.orgStatewatch | UK government wants to legalise automated police decision-makingA proposed law in the UK would allow police decisions to be made solely by computers, with no human input, if approved without changes. The Data Use and Access Bill would remove a safeguard in data protection law that prohibits solely automated decision-making by law enforcement agencies. Over 30 civil liberties, human rights, and racial justice organisations and experts, including Statewatch, have written to the government to demand changes.
#Press#UK#Automated
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katzenberger 🇺🇦

@mullvadnet

Not just #ChatControl.

Can't wait for #Orban, and consequently #Putin, to get hold of this:

»This will enable secure #automated exchanges of #fingerprints, #DNA profiles, #vehicle registration data, #facial images, and police #records through EU routers. At national level, Member States need to implement the Information Exchange Directive enhancing information exchange channels for seamless cross-border information flow, while ensuring their integration with Union-level systems, such as SIENA«

eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten

eur-lex.europa.euEUR-Lex - 52025PC0148 - EN - EUR-Lex
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Kevin Karhan :verified:

We already hae #AGI, it's just not replacing like doctorates but is rather in it's "#8bit" era...

Cuz that's already happening to some extent as machines need to be barely better than humans to win by virtue of economic scalability...

  • For comparison: Just saving 5-10% fuel on a plane is enough for airlines to retrofit entire fleets with new engines or selling them off into the used market...

youtu.be/C6D_WuLWVrQ?feature=s

YouTubeHumans Need Not ApplyBy CGP Grey
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h o ʍ l e t t

#Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery #Stores
gizmodo.com/amazon-reportedly-
“Though it seemed completely #automated, Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 #people in #India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate #checkouts. The cashiers were simply moved off-site, and they watched you as you shopped.”

Gizmodo · Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery StoresBy Maxwell Zeff
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Aral Balkan

Just learned that there’s a JavaScript-based screen reader driver for test automation called Guidepup.

guidepup.dev

Works with VoiceOver & NVDA (no Narrator or Orca/Linux support – but Orca is broken under Wayland so the latter, at least, is not surprising.)

Very cool! I look forward to the day that writing accessibility tests is as commonplace as writing unit tests.

Via @zeorin

www.guidepup.devScreen reader driver for test automation | GuidepupReliable automation for your screen reader accessibility test workflows with Guidepup. Drive VoiceOver and NVDA a11y tests with ease
#accessibility#a11y#screenReader
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Nando161

"Something you need to understand is that when #capitalists #say something “can’t be #automated” what they mean is “it can be automated, but running a #sweatshop is cheaper.”

Meanwhile, when #workers say something “can’t be automated” they mean “maybe you can automate it but the results will be somewhere between ‘incredibly poor #quality’ and ‘turns #people into meat paste’.”

Anyway I feel like that’s a distinction worth mentioning."

tumblr.com/nando161mando/72278

Tumblr#Ausgov #politas #Australia 18+Something you need to understand is that when capitalists say something “can’t be automated” what they mean is “it can be automated, but running a sweatshop is cheaper.” Meanwhile, when workers say…
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Ricardo Harvin

Abdication of our #human responsibility is the greatest danger of #AI, in all its forms, past, current, and future.

The technology should always be considered and used as #tool wielded by people with rigorous #oversight and limited power.

That won't happen, and we will absolutely live in a world where critical decisions directly and indirectly affecting all but the #elite will be #automated.

Not only were #Huxley, #Orwell, and others prescient, so too was #Kafka.

A #surreal new world dawns.

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PhoenixSerenity

When #LithiumIon #batteries fall below 75% capacity, they are considered unfit to #power #EVs but #research suggests that proper #reconditioning could #extend their life by years.
The research team will specifically be looking at #developing #automated ways to #disassemble batteries for more #efficient #recycling & #safety #protocols for recycling, #transporting & #storing them.

environmentjournal.online/arti

EnvironmentJournalNottingham Trent University embark on project to give electric vehicle batteries a ‘second life’Around 9m tonnes of lithium batteries become essentially unusable every year and are incinerated or sent to landfill. Nottingham Trent University’s Advanced Design and Manufacturing Engineering Centre (ADMEC) have been awarded a £582,000 grant as part of a Europe-wide effort to mitigate this waste. Professor Daizhong Su, Head of ADMEC…
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