Big Tech falls in line with Euro demands to fight bots, deepfakes, disinformation
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2022/06/17/eu_tech_deepfakes/
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The code
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lists a broad set of commitments that signatories can choose to adhere to in the fight against digital fakery. Among the options are taking steps to demonetize disinformation; businesses should avoid placing ads next to fake news or profiting off the spread of false information online; and clearly labeling political advertisements.Other concerns include making data from social media platforms more transparent and available for researchers and supporting the work of fact checkers. The EU updated these guidelines to tackle the rise of fake bots accounts and AI-generated deepfakes too. Signatories promise to outline their internal policies for dealing with manipulated content, and have to show their algorithms used for detecting and moderating deepfakes are trustworthy.
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Věra Jourová, the EU's vice president for values and transparency, [3]said in a statement: "This new anti-disinformation Code comes at a time when Russia is weaponising disinformation as part of its military aggression against Ukraine, but also when we see attacks on democracy more broadly. We now have very significant commitments to reduce the impact of disinformation online and much more robust tools to measure how these are implemented across the EU in all countries and in all its languages."
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33 entities have [5]signed up to the latest version of the Code of Practice. Social media platforms, software vendors, media companies, and advertising industry organisations are among the signatories.
Although the Code of Practice is voluntary, parts of it are backed up by the [6]Digital Services Act (DSA). Thierry Breton, the commissioner for the Internal Market, warned large companies could be sanctioned up to 6 per cent of their annual revenues if they breach the upcoming new laws.
[7]Deepfake attacks can easily trick live facial recognition systems online
[8]'Peacetime in cyberspace is a chaotic environment' says senior US advisor
[9]EU law threatening 'commercially painful changes' for tech out tonight
[10]Good: People can spot a deepfake video. Bad: They're not so hot with text
"Disinformation is a form of invasion of our digital space, with tangible impact on our daily lives…Spreading disinformation should not bring a single euro to anyone. To be credible, the new Code of Practice will be backed up by the DSA - including for heavy dissuasive sanctions. Very large platforms that repeatedly break the Code and do not carry out risk mitigation measures properly risk fines of up to 6 [per cent] of their global turnover," he [11]said .
Signatories will have six months to implement measures outlined in the Code of Practice. They will be expected to provide a detailed report to the EU Commission at the start of 2023 detailing the actions taken to uphold their commitments. ®
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[1] https://regmedia.co.uk/2022/06/16/eu_code_of_practice_2022.pdf
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[3] https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_22_3664
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[5] https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/signatories-2022-strengthened-code-practice-disinformation
[6] https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/25/eu_digital_services_act/
[7] https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/22/ai_in_brief/
[8] https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/13/cyberspace_is_first_theatre_of_war/
[9] https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/24/eu_law_threatening_commercially_painful/
[10] https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/01/ai_deepfake_videos/
[11] https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_22_2545
[12] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
Re: Beware dragons
"A recent EU fake news was when the EU triggered article 16 of the Brexit deal because they thought cv19 vaccines where being sent from Republic of Ireland to Northern Ireland."
-To the best of my knowledge, the EU, while getting very close to doing so, did not actually trigger article 16.
Re: Beware dragons
-To the best of my knowledge, the EU, while getting very close to doing so, did not actually trigger article 16.
That right there is disinformation.
The European Union did trigger article 16, notices went out, border officials received their instructions and the time it was to be enacted was published.
These things cannot happen instantly, there is always a delay between announcement and enactment.
Yes they decided not to actually enforce their measures but they put in place the mechanisms to do so & would have.
It’s disingenuous to say they didn’t trigger article 16 because they clearly did.
It’s accurate to say they backed out without enacting the measures and notified everyone they where not going through with it anymore.
https://www.irishnews.com/news/healthcarenews/2021/01/29/news/eu-invokes-article-16-introducing-controls-on-vaccine-exports-to-northern-ireland-2203719/
https://news.sky.com/story/what-is-article-16-and-why-did-the-eu-make-a-u-turn-after-triggering-it-12202915
Id be glad to read proof that they did not trigger article 16 but all the articles, even from the EU, show they pulled the trigger on article 16 then retracted it at the last moment.
Given all the media attention it got it’s interesting that you don’t remember that.
Re: Beware dragons
Its a good job the UK and Ireland reminded the EU of the brexit negotiations as they had already forgotten how important the Irish border issue was.
It's okay when we do it
If the EU really wanted to fight disinformation, they would push European educational institutions to teach people how to recognise propaganda, manipulation techniques, how to find and verify sources and so on and so forth.
They obviously don't want to do that, because people would be able to spot their own disinformation coming from the EU, so instead they want to control the information and force 3rd parties to do it for them, so they don't have to pay.
It's a nasty business they are developing, when you also take into account they want to read private messages etc.
Re: It's okay when we do it
Education for things like that is the responsibility of the member states and not done at EU level.
I can, however, say that an attempt is made to try to teach kids to see through "fake news", to not overuse their phones/screen time, to use social media wisely and other anti online bullying measures... at least in the EU country where I live.
Re: It's okay when we do it
I'm sorry, are you advocating for the EU to dictate school curricula? Because it doesn't do that, and if it did, I suspect you would not be supportive.
The Ministry Of Truth
Who is going to control the Governments Disinformation Services ?
A rose by any other name
It walks like a duck, flies like a duck and quacks like a duck.
Guards! Guards!
Quis custodiet custard?
Beware dragons
but also when we see attacks on democracy more broadly. We now have very significant commitments to reduce the impact of disinformation online
"Disinformation is a form of invasion of our digital space, with tangible impact on our daily lives…Spreading disinformation should not bring a single euro to anyone. To be credible, the new Code of Practice will be backed up by the DSA - including for heavy dissuasive sanctions. Very large platforms that repeatedly break the Code and do not carry out risk mitigation measures properly risk fines of up to 6 [per cent] of their global turnover," he said.
The biggest issue here is who gets to define what is fact and what is not.
A recent EU fake news was when the EU triggered article 16 of the Brexit deal because they thought cv19 vaccines where being sent from Republic of Ireland to Northern Ireland.
https://www.politico.eu/article/ursula-von-der-leyen-mistakes-were-made-but-we-got-it-right-on-article-16/
That turned out to be fake news yet they reacted quickly and unilaterally to enact draconian measure.
Another classic tail would be when Bush decided he wanted to finish the job his daddy started and persuaded Blair that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. The UN looked many times and didn’t find any, so the US and UK invaded anyway and still didn’t find any wmd’s even after Sadaam was disposed and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi’s where killed.
Millions of people marched in London to oppose the invasion yet it still went ahead.
The UK and US governments issued the fake news.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction