Bokhari: Microsoft and Friends Want to Destroy Online Privacy

Breitbart ^ | February 25, 2021 | Allum Bokhari

[SuzanneC]

Microsoft has teamed up with a number of tech and media companies to create a system of tracing content around the internet that could destroy online privacy and anonymity, radically transforming the nature of the web.

[SuzanneC]

This should scare the everloving daylights out of you!

[Gene Eric]

Google already knows

[Anti-Bubba182]

“....According to Microsoft’s press release, it has partnered with several other organizations to form the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA).

Put simply, the purpose of this organization is to devise a system whereby all content on the internet can be traced back to its author.....”

There are positives in being able to find the author, especially guttersnipes starting rumors to trash someone with lies.

[G Larry]

Did the Biden Administration demand this, or did it originate with Big Tech?

[G Larry]

Wait until they outlaw burner phones...

[Wuli]

The synchronicity of the U.S. deep state and big tech keeps growing. That is self evident when you acknowledge that anything that big tech can learn about anyone IS electronically scarfed up 24/7/365 by the U.S. deep state.

[SecondAmendment]

There is no way this will work without some sort of Government enforcement like the Digital Millennium Act, so methinks a big part of C2PA will involve D.C. K-Street types.

We need to find and organize some deep pocket Conservatives and Libertarians to counter the Left's digital hegemony...

[chief lee runamok]

What else is new?

It's raining today.

[Bulwyf]

Who decides what’s a lie or not?

[null and void]

Google already knows

What google hasn't found out, facebook has been told...

[z3n]

Yep.

Google knows what people search for, and they’ve been making that their business model for a long time. Even if you take steps for privacy, they still keep a deep cache of IP addresses (which is why VPN is so alluring now).

That is why Microsoft is so envious of Google.

Apple knows!
An operating system (on a computer or device) is the perfect way to spy. That’s why google got envious of Microsoft and Apple and made their own operating system and their own browser. Microsoft new this before everyone, and even tried to package their own browser into their operating system in the 90s and got sued for it.

These guys now want to work together. After several decades, the rivarly and envy is still fierce, but these guy go about in the same circles and the politics is pulling them together.

[null and void]

the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA).

I wonder why the abbreviation isn't CCPA...

[ex91B10]

Someone will find a way to work around it.

[DesertRhino]

Pure fascism. Precisely Mussolini’s blueprint.

Tech does what government wants but is forbidden.
Government in return gives tech money and legal protection and protection from competition.

[null and void]

Someone's car will make a Hastings retreat into a tree or a bridge abutment...

[Robert DeLong]

Well, let’s just say that it has positive, as well as, negative aspects to it. By far, I can think up more on the negative side of the ledger than I can for the positive side.

[Pollard]

Put simply, the purpose of this organization is to devise a system whereby all content on the internet can be traced back to its author.

The press release states that it will develop these specifications for “common asset types and formats,” meaning videos, documents, audio, and images.

Whether it’s a meme, an audio remix, or a written article, the goal is to ensure that when content reaches the internet, it will come attached with a set of signals allowing its provenance — meaning authorship — can be detected.
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Consider the companies that have signed on to this initiative. Leading the pack is Microsoft, which operates Word, Paint, Notepad, Edge, and the Office Suite. If you create a .doc or a .jpg, a Microsoft service is probably involved in some capacity.

Then there’s Adobe, the company behind Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, and Premiere Pro, as well as several other market-leading applications for publishing photos, videos, and documents.

There’s also Truepic, a company that has developed technology to track the provenance of photos from the very moment they are captured on a smartphone.

Finally, there’s Intel, which dominates the market in laptop and desktop central processing units (CPUs). The CPU is responsible for processing virtually all information on computers. Whether you’re typing a sentence or taking a screenshot, it’s the CPU that is processing that data.

Accessing the CPU is the ultimate form of digital surveillance. Even if you’re disconnected from the internet, the CPU still sees what your computer is doing.

Better use an old computer running a prior version of Linux to make your memes from now on.

[cgbg]

NSA and the “friendly” intelligence services have it all already....

“Privacy” is a horse and buggy concept—it is long gone...

If some vendor promises you privacy, they are either rock stupid or lying.

[PIF]

Who decides what’s a lie or not?

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Our betters, of course. Lies and truth are fungible and interchangeable.

[polymuser]

“Who decides what’s a lie or not?”

The Ministry of Truth.