Kev Brewer

Writer, Producer, Broadcaster former BBC. TV & Radio - 40+ years of experience; media trainer, script doctor, Star Trek OG fan, Doctor Whovian, left-handed lateral thinker. Loves technology, endlessly curious about the world; owner of 18yr old deaf cat called Ronnie. From Nottingham, UK.

Kev Brewer boosted:
noyb.eunoybeu
2025-05-15

📰🤖 "Meta's still violating GDPR rules with latest plan to train AI on EU user data, says noyb"

The Register on our cease-and-desist letter to Meta 👇

theregister.com/2025/05/14/met

Kev BrewerKev@twit.social
2025-05-14

@leo @jeffjarvis

All that Data the Brokers grab - well it's now come to the logical conclusion...in a very bad way.

..“I was pretty horrified to hear we use stolen data in our system. In addition to being attained illegally, it seems like that could create really perverse incentives for more data to be leaked and stolen,” they wrote. “What if data was stolen from Flock? Should that then become standard data in everyone else’s system?”...

404media.co/license-plate-read

Kev BrewerKev@twit.social
2025-03-29

@leo @jeffjarvis

Hollywood whinges about copyright - except when they can cash in.

deadline.com/2025/03/inside-yo

Kev BrewerKev@twit.social
2025-03-13

@leo

They're determined to stop her.

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq5zyq

Here's the interview she gave to BBC's 'The Media Show'

bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0028syn

Kev Brewer boosted:
Jonathanjmcrookston
2025-02-28

@pluralistic oh man, this is bleak:

"Before Shiftkey offers a nurse a shift, it purchases that worker's credit history from a data-broker. Specifically, it pays to find out how much credit-card debt the nurse is carrying, and whether it is overdue.

The more desperate the nurse's financial straits are, the lower the wage on offer. Because the more desperate you are, the less you'll accept to come and do the gruntwork of caring for the sick, the elderly, and the dying."

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Chief TWiT :twit:leo@twit.social
2025-02-28
Kev BrewerKev@twit.social
2025-02-27

@leo
@jeffjarvis

'...guarantees compliance with strict privacy and security requirements like GDPR, the company said. That also means you don’t need the other party’s consent to record, streamlining the note-taking process....'

thenextweb.com/news/bliro-ai-a

Kev BrewerKev@twit.social
2025-02-08
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Jeff Jarvisjeffjarvis
2025-01-27

How about using the appropriate verb "purge," ? That is what this is, not just a "shake up." You continue to soft-pedal totalitarianism and fascism with your white-gloved euphemisms.

Trump Administration Moves Swiftly to Shake Up Top Career Justice Dept. Ranks
The early days of the transition have been marked by dismissals, demotions and dread.
Kev Brewer boosted:
sezduck :clubtwit:sezduck@twit.social
2025-01-25
A Borg cube floats ominously in space against the backdrop of Earth. Text at the top reads, “We are the Borg.” Below, text says, “Life as you know it is over. You are no longer in debt. You no longer have to pay bills. You will never have to deal with your boss again.” The meme is captioned above: “Well, since you put it that way…” followed by a laughing emoji.

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