Dashboard-wide screen and almost absent physical controls? No, thank you.

Ferrari may not have nailed it, but it's a move to the right direction.

At least it's not your living room TV put in a holder. (Hi Elon!)

Can't help but notice the weird choice of illustration in TFA.

Ivanti is a US company. But if you have never heard of them, the dragon-resembling creature in the illustration (representing the dormant backdoor?) makes it look like the incident is somehow related to China.

Ivanti may be a US company but the webshells very likely aren’t.

Anyway, the image is just the end result of plugging the title into nano banana. You ought to address your complaints to Google :)

You might be taking the "I" in AI too literally.

Still. I understand the officers having "qualified immunity". But not the agency.

If an agency has shitty officers doing dodgy stuff, it's on the agency. The agents may be declared immune to direct litigation, but any claims and reparations should be automatically shifted to the agency.

If the agency has become corrupt, tweaking immunity isn't going to fix it. Only voters can solve that by saying clearly "no, this is not the agency we want."

If that is what the voters want, then the victim minority can only reconsider their role in the social contract.

I do not understand officers having qualified immunity. They are armed for of the government and they have much lower expectations placed on them the normal citizens.

The fact that cops can break laws, actually harm people and then make prosecution basically impossible is bonkers.

Indeed, it's those normal citizens who hold those expectations. Quite a lot of people voted explicitly for this, and are getting what they voted for.

This is indeed bonkers, because history is rife with examples of this ending badly. And that bonkers goes far deeper than just this issue.

It’s a sticky issue. Without QI, it seems very plausible that many law enforcement departments would be seriously hamstrung by continual waves of legal action and thus cost taxpayers a lot more to operate effectively. Not only would many people use a court of law as a fallback from the court of public opinion, but the legal industry would support this given the lucrative monetary and reputational advantages of suing the government.

And I’m saying that as someone extremely pro-curtailment of police/TSA/CBP scope and resources, and extremely critical and aware of the law enforcement abuse and overreach epidemic. This one just doesn’t have an easy solve—not without a massive overhaul of the entire US justice system down to the roots.

Surely other countries manage it without having a QI doctrine.

Why now? Because in the past 2-3 years it has been made abundantly clear that:

(a) Social media operators choose to do nothing at all against coordinated influencing operations, unless the influencing goes against the interests of very specific countries and groups.

(b) US government most likely has unfettered access to social media data. As if this isn't bad enough, they will probably give them out to Palantir for "data integration" and under uncertain terms.

Those things were pretty clear well before 2-3 years.

Social media is seen as a driver for people having opinions deemed a threat to the status quo. Western governments have been fighting a long battle to use these tools to control domestic influence and at times have probably thought they were winning, but recently things seem to be turn a bit.

"Think of the children" is obviously the oldest and most pathetic trick in their playbook. We know it's a bald faced lie because data and studies on social media harms on children has been coming out for well over a decade by now, and not a finger was lifted for years. So we know that is not the reason, and we know they are lying about the reason. Therefore we know the real reason is seen as unpopular with the electorate. And curbing foreign (including US government) influence and access to data is not unpopular anywhere.

Please, enlighten us on the track record of Spain.

Because I really can't recall anything outrageous, and surely nothing on the level of surveilance existing in the UK.

Hacienda is the most extractive Tax Agency in the world. They have lobbied for ever more intrusion into private lifes of citizens in order to extract more money. Thus they have included a "lifestyle auditing" that has access to many cross-databases, utilities, insurance, etc....

If you set up a system of ID identification linked to your real ID and IP, Hacienda (and the police, and eventually private companies) will be able to backtrack.

The current PM's rother, wife and half of his cabinet are involved in corruption scandals linked to COVID funds given to companies that bribed people. This is the government that will implement such efforts. Would you be able to trust them ?

> half of his cabinet.

That’s bold and inaccurate. What you shouldn’t trust is El Corte Inglés, who would code another shitty platform for the Spanish institutions.

My old adidas may be long gone, but they still live rent-free on Ian's Shoelace Site since 2009.

And so it begins.

Have we seen any signs of any limits to erratic behaviour?

Ever heard of the acronym 'TACO'?