Microsoft collaborates on standard for tracing the origin of digital content

https://news.microsoft.com/2021/02/22/technology-and-media-entities-join-forces-to-create-standards-group-aimed-at-building-trust-in-online-content/

by _yoqn • 5 years ago

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_yoqn2• 5 years ago

Something tells me this is another nail in the coffin of free speech online.

cema• 5 years ago

Could be. But from the article I do not see why. Could you elaborate?

_yoqn2• 5 years ago

Sure, who gets to decide who the "trusted sources" are and what information is mis/disinformation? I have been seeing a growing number of "facts" and "falsehoods" being touted by mainstream media sources which are unverifiable one way or the other.

On another note, if you wish to remain anonymous on a platform such as, say HN, by this open standard, you would be able to be linked to your Facebook/Twitter/IG/Snapchat profile and there is NOTHING you would be able to do about it aside from getting a new device for the exclusive use of a platform.

This kind of fingerprinting is not something I can see being used for any kind of good. The "authorities" are just far too prone to authoritarianism as history has shown us.

Microsoft collaborates on standard for tracing the origin of digital content

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