Interestingly, in some cases the best workaround is “Use a cell-phone resident payment service which doesn’t announce its IP address to the business accepting payments, and pay for that with the credit card”, which does create value in world by being less stupid buuuut.
@patio11
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Pushing Back Against Compliance Teams: Rights and Escalation
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“Can you actually push back against a Compliance team?” Oh yeah. Heck, individual customers can push back against a Compliance team. “Can you define ‘push back’?” They tell them you can’t X. You argue you can. Someone there or senior to them backs your argument.
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Binance Compliance Waiver: Regulatory Implications for Financial Industry
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(Every Compliance department in financial industry is essentially a U.S. government proxy, but management or other teams can push back against Compliance and not automatically go to prison. Binance and CZ have essentially waived that going forward.)
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AI Monitoring Compliance and Legal Obligations for Organizations
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If you hire me as a consultant, and I tell you you should probably improve your onboarding flow, and you don’t, you will not go to prison. Would be crazy. If your monitoring consultants tell you to improve your onboarding flow, and you don’t, you have agreed to go to prison.
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US Government Surveillance Proxy at Binance Platform Monitoring
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As a specific example of speech which the ~contract compels, the monitoring apparatus getting installed in Binance is not the US government but is essentially their proxy. It will make policy recommendations which proxy for US’ aims.
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Compelled Speech Doctrine and Private AI Systems Regulation
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As one sub issue, consider the compelled speech doctrine. The USFG broadly can’t force private actors to say something they don’t believe. This includes performing work which embeds speech acts, like producing reports and analyses that would not exist but for compulsion.
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No Bug: Designed Harm and Institutional Denial
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“So what was the bug?” Ah, you see, that’s the thing. There was no bug. Everything happening was designed to happen. No party admits fault. No official party even institutionally believes that harm happened.
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Infrastructure Scale Inefficiencies Delay Administrative Consistency
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In a pattern which those familiar with infra at scale will be painfully familiar with, multiple steps are run once daily or less, and so eventually consistency in understanding Ruriko’s eligibility status takes longer than sending letters in mail purporting to revoke coverage.
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AI Document Processing Fails to Cancel Health Insurance
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After again acting as a transport for PDF documents between the federal government and a health insurer I was told that the cancellation of health insurance will not actually go through.
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Crypto litigation strategy: embracing the pig wrestling metaphor
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There’s a famous saying about not attempting to wrestle pigs, because you’ll get dirty and the pig will enjoy it. If I am ever sued over crypto nonsense, I am the pig.