Gavin Newsom Trumps Elon Musk With New California Deepfake Law

[misskit]

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday signed a restrictive law on the use of digitally altered political photos and videos, also known as deepfakes, in the Golden State. Newsom signed the legislation, which will take effect before the November election, onstage at this year’s Dreamforce conference. He also signed two more laws related to artificial intelligence: Law AB 2655 requires online platforms to “block the posting of materially deceptive content related to elections in California” and label content as “inauthentic, fake, or false,” with exemption for parody and satire. Law AB 2839 prohibits “knowingly distributing an advertisement or other election communication” that contains deceptive content within a period of 120 days before an election and in some cases 60 days after. The laws made good on Newsom’s July promise to combat altered political messages after billionaire Elon Musk retweeted a deepfake of Vice President Kamala Harris and called it “parody.” The laws quickly drew the ire of Musk, who claimed in a series of tweets that Newsom “just announced that he signed a LAW to make parody illegal.”

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[baldrick]

what all these laws around the world designed to reign in the power of social media are overlooking is there are new generations of applications in beta now which are not controlled by a centralized entity or can be decrypted by anyone but the users

fully privacy , anonymity and decentralization has been designed in as the basics to thwart any government interferance

[misskit]

Is this the kind of platform you mean?


Global police dismantle encrypted messaging app used by criminals

International police forces have taken down an encrypted communication platform and arrested 51 people, marking a success for co-ordinated efforts to crack down on anonymous messaging services used by criminal groups.


Europol and law enforcement agencies from nine countries dismantled Ghost, an online platform which used three different encryption standards and allowed users to destroy all messages by sending a specific code, Europol announced on Wednesday.


The crackdown is the latest operation by international agencies to decode encrypted messaging services used by criminals to manage their international operations, following the takedown of platforms such as EncroChat and Sky ECC in recent years.


“Italian organised crime, outlaw motorcycle gangs, Middle Eastern organised crime and Korean organised crime have been using Ghost in Australia and overseas to import illicit drugs and to order the killing of individuals involved in various criminal enterprises,” David McLean, assistant commissioner of Australia’s federal police, said at a press conference in The Hague.


Based on a joint investigation that began in 2022, 38 people were arrested in Australia, 11 in Ireland, one in Canada and one in Italy, the latter belonging to the Sacra Corona Unita mafia organisation based in the southern Puglia region, Europol said.


McLean said Ghost was administered by a 32-year-old man from Australia, one of the operation’s principal targets.


As a result of the decryption operation, where officers broke the app’s code so they could read users’ messages, the death or injury of as many as 50 people could have been prevented, McLean said.


Further arrests are expected, Europol added.


According to Europol, the EU’s law enforcement co-operation agency, several thousand people used Ghost around the world, with around 1,000 messages exchanged every day.


National police have been struggling to tackle the global operations of criminal groups, and the ability to read their messages is a key element in prosecuting them.


“Encrypted phone communication is a challenge for contemporary policing, but one which we are now making significant inroads into,” said Justin Kelly, assistant commissioner of the Garda Síochána, Ireland’s police force.


Jean-Philippe Lecouffe, deputy executive director of Europol, said Ghost had a smaller user base than previously decoded platforms EncroChat or SkyECC, indicating that criminals are using a wider range of encrypted message platforms.


“The landscape is now much more fragmented, we have multiple smaller networks that are used by the criminals,” he said.


EncroChat was decrypted by international police forces in 2020. Last year, Europol said its decryption led to more than 6,500 arrests worldwide and about €900,000, mostly in cash, seized.


Afterwards, many users switched to another platform called Sky ECC, which was unlocked by Belgian, Dutch and French law enforcement in 2021, leading to large-scale raids and arrests.


Those decryptions are still leading to fresh charges and convictions. A Brussels court is scheduled to hand down a judgment based on decrypted information from SkyECC involving more than 120 defendants next month.

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[baldrick]

Is this the kind of platform you mean?

no - that is pseudo anonymity - anything centralized is always going to be doomed

Bison Relay - but you do need technical skill to get it working - they are actively producing easy methods to allow people to onboard - this mesh will not just be social media / forum / chat but will also allow creation of stores - because each interaction requires a micro transaction it makes spam too expensive

[misskit]

I read the info on their site. Way over my head.

[harrybarracuda]

what all these laws around the world designed to reign in the power of social media are overlooking is there are new generations of applications in beta now which are not controlled by a centralized entity or can be decrypted by anyone but the users

fully privacy , anonymity and decentralization has been designed in as the basics to thwart any government interferance

That may be, but for now it's aimed at existing apps.

Anything else is a bit complicated for trumpanzees anyway.

[Airportwo]

Anything else is a bit complicated for trumpanzees anyway.

The Kamala fan boys like your good self should have no issues then

[harrybarracuda]

The Kamala fan boys like your good self should have no issues then

And along comes a trumpanzee to prove my point.

[baldrick]

I am sure you understand that the mental gymnastics required to support trump distill to I am scared of dem niggers

but removing your comments from government surveillance and the AI incompetence driven by corporate pig troughs will be essential

a person who believes his every thought and move is being surveilled will conform to the idiocy related karen norm - and thus the magic of human innovation and outlying ideas will wither

[harrybarracuda]

I am sure you understand that the mental gymnastics required to support trump distill to I am scared of dem niggers

but removing your comments from government surveillance and the AI incompetence driven by corporate pig troughs will be essential

a person who believes his every thought and move is being surveilled will conform to the idiocy related karen norm - and thus the magic of human innovation and outlying ideas will wither

I just have an overwhelming feeling you could make your point clearer...