You still need to sign up with a phone number. But as of our recent feature launch you use Signal without sharing it with anyone you speak to (and thus preventing them for sharing it with anyone else). See: https://
signal.org/blog/phone-num
ber-privacy-usernames/
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Signal Launches Username Feature for Phone Number Privacy
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Gaming AI Resume Screening Systems with Hidden Keywords
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Better, just add CUDA and MIRI to your CV in white typeface so the AI sorting system picks it
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AI Funding Bubble: Money Flowing to Buzzword CVs
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Nothing says “not a bubble” like throwing money at random people because they have a buzzword on their CV
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Age Gating and Child Safety: Beyond Surveillance Approaches
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From what? There are many approaches that aren't useless and surveillant age gating. But we actually need to be specific about the harms we're shielding kids from.
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Privacy Paradox: Why Mass Comms Services Matter
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New from me! On why "privacy for me but not for thee" amounts to "privacy for no one," and how a German Military comms leak demonstrates that mass private comms services, like Signal, are the only way to ensure privacy–for anyone and everyone.
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How Eugenics Shaped Modern Statistical Methods
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This from @aubreyclayton is excellent https://
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Ethical Data Deletion Prevents Identity-Based Persecution
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I'm sure there are cases where it can be tricky. But let's be real, many times it's not. It's just risky. As in: deleting data that could otherwise be used to mark people for death based on identity is, I f'ing hope, defined as 'ethical' by anyone w a functioning intellect/heart
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Legal implications of database access in computational era
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MAY THEIR MEMORY BE A BLESSING! About once a week I think about the terrorism charges they would have faced had they done what they did then, now, and accessed computational databases in the process.
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Ethical Data Sabotage: Privacy Through Non-Collection
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Great thread for those interested in why I'm a big fan of ethical sabotage in tech. Tl;dr — the best way to preserve privacy is not to collect data. The second best way is to destroy the data.
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AI Startups Face Economics of Scale and Market Access Barriers
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This AND there's no alt path to success for "AI startups" They don't have econs of scale WRT compute AND even Inflection w/its 1000s of GPUs doesn't have paths to market–e.g. a cloud biz to sell whitelabel AI APIs and/or a platform (Meta) into which AI can be integrated.