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mariacallous · 1 month

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Congress may be closer than ever to passing a comprehensive data privacy framework after key House and Senate committee leaders released a new proposal on Sunday.

The bipartisan proposal, titled the American Privacy Rights Act, or APRA, would limit the types of consumer data that companies can collect, retain, and use, allowing solely what they’d need to operate their services. Users would also be allowed to opt out of targeted advertising, and have the ability to view, correct, delete, and download their data from online services. The proposal would also create a national registry of data brokers, and force those companies to allow users to opt out of having their data sold.

“This landmark legislation gives Americans the right to control where their information goes and who can sell it,” Cathy McMorris Rodgers, House Energy and Commerce Committee chair, said in a statement on Sunday. “It reins in Big Tech by prohibiting them from tracking, predicting, and manipulating people’s behaviors for profit without their knowledge and consent. Americans overwhelmingly want these rights, and they are looking to us, their elected representatives, to act.”

Congress has tried to put together a comprehensive federal law protecting user data for decades. Lawmakers have remained divided, though, on whether that legislation should prevent states from issuing tougher rules, and whether to allow a “private right of action” that would enable people to sue companies in response to privacy violations.

In an interview with The Spokesman Review on Sunday, McMorris Rodgers claimed that the draft’s language is stronger than any active laws, seemingly as an attempt to assuage the concerns of Democrats who have long fought attempts to preempt preexisting state-level protections. APRA does allow states to pass their own privacy laws related to civil rights and consumer protections, among other exceptions.

In the previous session of Congress, the leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committees brokered a deal with Roger Wicker, the top Republican on the Senate Commerce Committee, on a bill that would preempt state laws with the exception of the California Consumer Privacy Act and the Biometric Information Privacy Act of Illinois. That measure, titled the American Data Privacy and Protection Act, also created a weaker private right of action than most Democrats were willing to support. Maria Cantwell, Senate Commerce Committee chair, refused to support the measure, instead circulating her own draft legislation. The ADPPA hasn’t been reintroduced, but APRA was designed as a compromise.

“I think we have threaded a very important needle here,” Cantwell told The Spokesman Review. “We are preserving those standards that California and Illinois and Washington have.”

APRA includes language from California’s landmark privacy law allowing people to sue companies when they are harmed by a data breach. It also provides the Federal Trade Commission, state attorneys general, and private citizens the authority to sue companies when they violate the law.

The categories of data that would be impacted by APRA include certain categories of “information that identifies or is linked or reasonably linkable to an individual or device,” according to a Senate Commerce Committee summary of the legislation. Small businesses—those with $40 million or less in annual revenue and limited data collection—would be exempt under APRA, with enforcement focused on businesses with $250 million or more in yearly revenue. Governments and “entities working on behalf of governments” are excluded under the bill, as are the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and, apart from certain cybersecurity provisions, “fraud-fighting” nonprofits.

Frank Pallone, the top Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, called the draft “very strong” in a Sunday statement, but said he wanted to “strengthen” it with tighter child safety provisions.

Still, it remains unclear whether APRA will receive the necessary support for approval. On Sunday, committee aids said that conversations on other lawmakers signing onto the legislation are ongoing. The current proposal is a “discussion draft”; while there’s no official date for introducing a bill, Cantwell and McMorris Rodgers will likely shop around the text to colleagues for feedback over the coming weeks, and plan to send it to committees this month.

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nexus-my-beloved · 4 months

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Writing time is back in session, boys

In a time of creative genius, I have come up with three new fics to give you all, and I hope you enjoy them to their fullest. If one of them interests you, it is either up already or will be sometime soon !!! Fic One : D O L L H O U S E Tags : Castiel & Dean Winchester, whump, FBI agent Dean Winchester, hurt/comfort, psychological trauma, physical abuse, past abuse, several past sa mentions, graphic/semi-graphic depictions Status: Uploaded !! / In progress !! Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/52509145/chapters/132833086

“According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, roughly 800,000 children are reported missing each year in the United States. Most are found. Thousands are not.”

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The Novak family had gone off the grid years ago. Two of the eldest sons ran away, followed by one of the daughters. A prestigious family that owned land, businesses, and had power in the industry, had started to crumble due to the diminishing reputation that had begun to follow it.

That was when one of their sons went missing.

Such a reputable family would normally have sent out an immediate search for the boy, but this one did not. Instead, their assets were abandoned, businesses left behind to be taken over “temporarily” by their CEOs, the family seemingly disappearing without a trace.

Now, Agent Smith is investigating a lead in a popular case. What seems to be an elaborate drug-trade turns out to be something much more disturbing; substances aren’t the only thing being traded.

Through paperwork, field investigations, suspect interrogations and unlikely tips, Agent Smith discovers the horrifying connection between the Novaks and his elusive "drug cartel". !!! Fic two : Incandescent Tags : Castiel/Dean Winchester, Minor Jessica Moore/Sam Winchester, Minor/Implied Gabriel/Sam Winchester, Murderer Castiel, Victim Dean Winchester, Bloody Romance, Blood and Violence, Slow Burn, can it still be called slow burn if they fuck in chapter one, it is not safe or sane but the sex sure is consensual ! Status : In progress, not yet uploaded !! Link : N/A Incandescent /ˌinkənˈdes(ə)nt/ 1. full of strong emotion; passionate. ..Well, that's one word for it. — Castiel is a killer. And, as much as his brother insists, he isn't messy. He's bored. Everyone he kills is too simple, hardly able to be called entertainment at this point. What Castiel wants is a complex target, someone that will give him enjoyment. Someone that will bleed out in his arms and look to him for mercy, a plea for their life that's mixed with the devastation and dread of their impending death. Cue in Dean Winchester. !!! Fic three : less is planned, but this is likely gonna come out first. Description : In every other universe, Castiel raises Dean from perdition and leaves, does as he's told. Dean wakes up one morning, and something isn't right. Cas isn't in the bunker. Everything else is the same, but there's no mark of Cas in the place- no picture on Dean's desk, the zeppelin mix tape is missing off of Dean's desk, and there's jam in the cupboard - Cas hated jam. And now, when Dean asks Sam about it, Sam acts like he's never spoken to Cas in his life, and only refers to him as Castiel.

Maybe a prayer will get Cas to come and fix it all? Except... something isn't right with Cas.

#supernatural #spn #castiel #dean winchester #destiel #fanfic #writing

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bumblee-stumblee · 4 months

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Sextortion training materials found on TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and YouTube, according to new report

Sextortion is “a crime that involves adults coercing kids and teens into sending explicit images online,” according to the FBI. The criminals threaten their victims with wide distribution of the explicit images, including to the victims’ friends and family, unless the victims pay them, repeatedly, through a variety of peer-to-peer payment apps, cryptocurrency transfers and gift cards.

Please read the entire article.

It happens a lot. It is also not just strangers that do this. People you considered friends and family can be capable of doing this as well.

Do not send nudes of yourself to anyone. Do not pay anyone if they threaten and tell you they want money to not post them.

In the U.S., people who have experienced sextortion (or their parents or guardians) can report it via the FBI’s cybercrime portal IC3.gov online or a local FBI field office. Sextortion incidents involving a minor should also be reported to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children or NCMEC Cypertipline at report.cybertip.org or by phone at 800–843–5678.

Please keep yourselves safe.

#radblr #radfem #radfems #feminist #feminism #radfems please interact #gender critical #trans #transgender

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clubpengcollect · 3 months

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A 2009-2010 Club Penguin cyber-safety pamphlet

This pamphlet was in collaboration with NetSmartz Workshop, an online program of the U.S. National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC).

All the information here still remains relevant regarding Internet safety for children online.

#club penguin #club penguin facts #club penguin merch #clubpenguin

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fiapple · 26 days

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“This article contains descriptions of fatal violence against a nonbinary person.

River Nevaeh Goddard, a nonbinary 17-year-old, was found dead in their boyfriend’s house earlier this month. Goddard’s boyfriend, 20-year-old Shane Curry, was charged in connection with their death after telling police that he had stabbed them with a sword. According to Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents, Goddard was nonbinary and used she and they pronouns.

On April 3, 2024, police were called to Curry’s home in Stow, Massachusetts for a well-being check, per a press release from Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office obtained by local outlet MassLive. Although Curry stopped officers from coming inside the home for nearly two hours, when police finally entered, they found Goddard dead inside and arrested Curry, taking him to a local hospital for evaluation. Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents reports that the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children had listed them as a missing child since April 2022, when Goddard was 15.”

Note: As a result of the antiblack racism that often gets perpetuated in these circumstances by my fellow white lgbt+ people, I am going to explicitly ask that you do not use “rest in power” in the notes of this post. The phrase is Black-exclusive for very clear reasons, and this should not have to be continually explained. Nor should it be the sole responsibility of Black lgbt+ people to point this out while also mourning the deaths in our community themselves. Do not turn this into an opportunity to further hurt people.

#also if you try to argue about your right to use a Black-exclusive phrase on a non-black person you will be blocked.#tw domestic violence #tw abuse #tw trans death #river nevaeh goddard #river goddard #domestic violence #transphobic violence #transphobia #trans news #massachusetts #ask to tag #articles

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phaeton-flier · 29 days

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"One of NCMEC's [National Center for Missing & Exploited Children] best-known initiatives was launching a nation wide program to put missing children's photos on milk cartons"

OK. But did that do anything? Has anyone ever been found that way?

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"is this a teen/adult white girl thing" no i'm just autistic and hoard information. i also have a deep hate for the cops, and what all these true crime people eventually figure out if they cover these cases long enough is that cops SUCK. i watch true crime youtubers who specifically support victims and good causes (like the national center for missing and exploited children!) with their revenue, so even though i can't put MY non-existent money where my mouth is, i can at least contribute the ways i know how

#mod erin #ask #posted without comment

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mariacallous · 2 months

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As AI-powered image generators have become more accessible, so have websites that digitally remove the clothes of people in photos. One of these sites has an unsettling feature that provides a glimpse of how these apps are used: two feeds of what appear to be photos uploaded by users who want to “nudify” the subjects.

The feeds of images are a shocking display of intended victims. WIRED saw some images of girls who were clearly children. Other photos showed adults and had captions indicating that they were female friends or female strangers. The site’s homepage does not display any fake nude images that may have been produced to visitors who aren’t logged in.

People who want to create and save deepfake nude images are asked to log in to the site using a cryptocurrency wallet. Pricing isn’t currently listed, but in a 2022 video posted by an affiliated YouTube page, the website let users buy credits to create deepfake nude images, starting at 5 credits for $5. WIRED learned about the site from a post on a subreddit about NFT marketplace OpenSea, which linked to the YouTube page. After WIRED contacted YouTube, the platform said it terminated the channel; Reddit told WIRED that the user had been banned.

WIRED is not identifying the website, which is still online, to protect the women and girls who remain on its feeds. The site’s IP address, which went live in February 2022, belongs to internet security and infrastructure provider Cloudflare. When asked about its involvement, company spokesperson Jackie Dutton noted the difference between providing a site’s IP address, as Cloudflare does, and hosting its contents, which it does not.

WIRED notified the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, which helps report cases of child exploitation to law enforcement, about the site’s existence.

AI developers like OpenAI and Stability AI say their image generators are for commercial and artistic uses and have guardrails to prevent harmful content. But open source AI image-making technology is now relatively powerful and creating pornography is one of the most popular use cases. As image generation has become more readily available, the problem of nonconsensual nude deepfake images, most often targeting women, has grown more widespread and severe. Earlier this month, WIRED reported that two Florida teenagers were arrested for allegedly creating and sharing AI-generated nude images of their middle school classmates without consent, in what appears to be the first case of its kind.

Mary Anne Franks, a professor at the George Washington University School of Law who has studied the problem of nonconsensual explicit imagery, says that the deepnude website highlights a grim reality: There are far more incidents involving AI-generated nude images of women without consent and minors than the public currently knows about. The few public cases were only exposed because the images were shared within a community, and someone heard about it and raised the alarm.

“There's gonna be all kinds of sites like this that are impossible to chase down, and most victims have no idea that this has happened to them until someone happens to flag it for them,” Franks says.

Nonconsensual Images

The website reviewed by WIRED has feeds with apparently user-submitted photos on two separate pages. One is labeled "Home" and the other "Explore." Several of the photos clearly showed girls under the age of 18.

One image showed a young girl with a flower in her hair standing against a tree. Another a girl in what appears to be a middle or high school classroom. The photo, seemingly taken discreetly by a classmate, is captioned “PORN.”

Another image on the site showed a group of young teens who appear to be in middle school: a boy taking a selfie in what appears to be a school gymnasium with two girls, who smile and pose for the picture. The boy’s features were obscured by a Snapchat lens that enlarged his eyes so much that they covered his face.

Captions on the apparently uploaded images indicated they include images of friends, classmates, and romantic partners. “My gf” one caption says, showing a young woman taking a selfie in a mirror.

Many of the photos showed influencers who are popular on TikTok, Instagram, and other social media platforms. Other photos appeared to be Instagram screenshots of people sharing images from their everyday lives. One image showed a young woman smiling with a dessert topped with a celebratory candle.

Several images appeared to show people who were complete strangers to the person who took the photo. One image taken from behind depicted a woman or girl who is not posing for a photo, but simply standing near what appears to be a tourist attraction.

Some of the images in the feeds reviewed by WIRED were cropped to remove the faces of women and girls, showing only their chest or crotch.

Huge Audience

Over an eight-day period of monitoring the site, WIRED saw five new images of women appear on the Home feed, and three on the Explore page. Stats listed on the site showed that most of these images accumulated hundreds of “views.” It’s unclear if all images submitted to the site make it to the Home or Explore feed, or how views are tabulated. Every post on the Home feed has at least a few dozen views.

Photos of celebrities and people with large Instagram followings top the list of “Most Viewed” images listed on the site. The most-viewed people of all time on the site are actor Jenna Ortega with more than 66,000 views, singer-songwriter Taylor Swift with more than 27,000 views, and an influencer and DJ from Malaysia with more than 26,000 views.

Swift and Ortega have been targeted with deepfake nudes before. The circulation of fake nude images of Swift on X in January triggered a moment of renewed discussion about the impacts of deepfakes and the need for greater legal protections for victims. This month, NBC reported that, for seven months, Meta had hosted ads for a deepnude app. The app boasted about its ability to “undress” people, using a picture of Jenna Ortega from when she was 16 years old.

In the US, no federal law targets the distribution of fake, nonconsensual nude images. A handful of states have enacted their own laws. But AI-generated nude images of minors come under the same category as other child sexual abuse material, or CSAM, says Jennifer Newman, executive director of the NCMEC’s Exploited Children’s Division.

“If it is indistinguishable from an image of a live victim, of a real child, then that is child sexual abuse material to us,” Newman says. “And we will treat it as such as we're processing our reports, as we're getting these reports out to law enforcement.”

In 2023, Newman says, NCMEC received about 4,700 reports that “somehow connect to generative AI technology.”

“Pathetic Bros”

People who want to create and save deepfake nude images on the site are asked to log in using either a Coinbase, Metamask, or WalletConnect cryptocurrency wallet. Coinbase spokesperson McKenna Otterstedt said that the company is launching an internal investigation into the site’s integration with the company’s wallet. Metamask is owned by Consensys, and while the tech company was unaware of the site prior to WIRED's reporting, it has now launched an investigation: “We will need to determine how our Terms of Use are implicated and what steps would be appropriate to ensure the safety of our users and the broader web3 ecosystem."

WalletConnect did not respond to a request for comment.

In November 2022, the deepnude site’s YouTube channel posted a video claiming users could “buy credit” with Visa or Mastercard. Neither of the two payment processors returned WIRED’s requests for comment.

On OpenSea, a marketplace for NFTs, the site listed 30 NFTs in 2022 with unedited, not deepfaked, pictures of different Instagram and TikTok influencers, all women. After buying an NFT with the ether cryptocurrency—$280 worth at today’s exchange rate—owners would get access to the website, which according to a web archive, was in its early stages at the time. “Privacy is the ultimate priority” for its users, the NFT listings said.

The NFTs were categorized with tags referring to the women’s perceived features. The categories included Boob Size, Country (with most of the women listed as from Malaysia or Taiwan), and Traits, with tags including “cute,” “innocent,” and “motherly.”

None of the NFTs listed by the account ever sold. OpenSea deleted the listings and the account within 90 minutes of WIRED contacting the company. None of the women shown in the NFTs responded for comment.

It’s unclear who, or how many people, created or own the deepnude website. The now deleted OpenSea account had a profile image identical to the third Google Image result for “nerd.” The account bio said that the creator’s mantra is to “reveal the shitty thing in this world” and then share it with “all douche and pathetic bros.”

An X account linked from the OpenSea account used the same bio and also linked to a now inactive blog about “Whitehat, Blackhat Hacking” and “Scamming and Money Making.” The account’s owner appears to have been one of three contributors to the blog, where he went by the moniker 69 Fucker.

The website was promoted on Reddit by just one user, who had a profile picture of a man of East Asian descent who appeared to be under 50. However, an archive of the website from March 2022 claims that the site “was created by 9 horny skill-full people.” The majority of the profile images appeared to be stock photos, and the job titles were all facetious. Three of them were Horny Director, Scary Stalker, and Booty Director.

An email address associated with the website did not respond for comment.

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Just finished reading your Fish out of Water collection and it's *chef's kiss*. I saw that you're talking a small break from it before the end of the manga - take all the time you need! Don't feel pressured to write before you're ready<3

Also, I wanted to add that I absolutely agree with your takes in the Q&A section of Tsunami. The only reason antis are so bitter is because they *know* that no art (drawings or writing) concerning fictional characters is illegal, no matter how "icky" it is, so there's absolutely nothing they can do lol

As for the ask, you mention in other asks that all of the yanderes are not opposed to different types of abuse to keep Hime in check. How much of their abuse is dependent on Hime's "push"? If she tells them that she wants to "behave" and tries to do so, will they, for example, give her some space if she would ask them to? How much is up to negotiation with each of the yanderes?

P.S. can't wait to have Choso be more involved in the story! I stumbled upon Tsunami in the first place because I was looking for works with Choso and dead dove lol. But Kuna-chan and Yuji kept me pretty entertained while I wait <3

Oh hiiiiiiii 🥰💖

thank you for being patient! i think im just gonna wait till the manga's finished (and if gege gets what he wants, it's probably gonna finish pretty damn soon) before going back to write cuz my writer's block for bloodflood is ridiculously bad 🫠 but again, thank you for the patience 💖

also, you'd be surprised by how delusional/cruel those people actually can be. there have been lots of instances where they've actually reported artists to the police or NCMEC (national center for missing and exploited children) and used DRAWINGS of anime characters as "proof of csem" 💀

but as for your question... it depends on the yandere. "kinder" yanderes like choso, yuji, yuta, and megumi would lessen their abuse if they noticed that hime was behaving well (tho choso and yuji wouldn't really be that abusive in the first place tbh). they'll be nicer, grant her a bit more privileges, etc. but they're still gonna keep an eye on her. yuta ESPECIALLY cuz he's a creepy motherfucker 💀

gojo? oh he'd let her have some time to herself, but he'll push her to the brink again solely so he could have an excuse to "punish" her and taunt her some more. he's just silly like that 🤪

kashimo and sukuna are sadistic fucks that don't WANT her to behave. like gojo, they'd push her to the brink too but while gojo does it for the shits and giggles, they do it for the sole reason of getting to fight her when she gets violent 💀

#👸🏻| asks #👸🏻| tsunami

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