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Josh Taylor / The Guardian: Australia abandons its plans to mandate age verification tech for porn sites, citing privacy and security concerns, and will instead focus on educating parents  —  The eSafety commissioner is to work with industry on a new code to educate parents about how to access filtering software and limit children's access http://www.techmeme.com/230830/p39?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230830p39

Aisha Counts / Bloomberg: X updates its privacy policy to include biometric information as data it plans to collect for safety and security, along with data on users' jobs and education  —  - In policy shift, X will use the data for safety, security  — Employment, education history will be used to recommend jobs http://www.techmeme.com/230830/p38?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230830p38

Financial Times: Document: the UK plans to increase use of AI-based facial recognition tech by the police, potentially deploying new biometric systems over the next 12-18 months  —  Move comes after privacy campaigners and independent academics criticised technology for being inaccurate http://www.techmeme.com/230830/p37?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230830p37

Casey Newton / Platformer: Meta's Oversight Board took 234 days to get a ruling in an incitement to violence case involving Hun Sen, revealing a problem with the board's glacial pace  —  Today let's talk about one of the most important cases that Meta's Oversight Board has heard to date — and how the process ultimately revealed … http://www.techmeme.com/230829/p42?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230829p42

Nathan Edwards / The Verge: Google announces new automation starters and actions for its Google Home app, plus new features for its Home script editor, which is available in Public Preview  —  Google Home is getting smarter.  In a pair of blog posts published today, Google announced a bunch of new automation starters … http://www.techmeme.com/230828/p14?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230828p14

Mia Sato / The Verge: A look at Smart Answers, an AI chatbot trained only on Macworld, PCWorld, Tech Advisor, and TechHive content, and offered to the outlets' readers on August 1  —  By and large, the goal has been: can we make more pages for ads without paying more writers?  —  Now, a group of tech outlets … http://www.techmeme.com/230827/p3?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230827p3

Natasha Singer / New York Times: Despite cheating and misinformation fears, some US schools that once raced to block AI chatbot access are now encouraging teachers and students to use them  —  Some districts that once raced to block A.I. chatbots are now trying to embrace them.  —  For decades, Walla Walla High School … http://www.techmeme.com/230826/p4?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230826p4