The New Oil 1 year ago

#Privacy Service #Optery Faces Backlash After Plan to Send #OpenAI User Data

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Privacy Service Optery Faces Backlash After Plan to Send OpenAI User Data

Optery initially planned to send users' data to OpenAI by default, but walked back the decision over the weekend.

#DataRemoval #AI

The New Oil 1 year ago

#LinkedIn scraped user data for training before updating its terms of service

TechCrunch

LinkedIn scraped user data for training before updating its terms of service | TechCrunch

LinkedIn appears to have begun scraping user data to train generative AI models before updating its privacy policy.

#AI #privacy

The New Oil 1 year ago

#Snapchat Reserves the Right to Use #AI-Generated Images of Your Face in Ads

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Snapchat Reserves the Right to Use AI-Generated Images of Your Face in Ads

Snapchat’s “My Selfie” by default reserves the right to use your likeness in ads.

#privacy #biometrics

The New Oil 1 year ago

Larry Ellison's #AI-Powered #Surveillance Dystopia Is Already Here

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Larry Ellison's AI-Powered Surveillance Dystopia Is Already Here

"Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that’s going on."

#privacy #Oracle

The New Oil 1 year ago

#Oracle’s Larry Ellison says that #AI will someday track your every move

TechCrunch

Oracle's Larry Ellison says that AI will someday track your every move | TechCrunch

Speaking to financial analysts during a Q&A session, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison suggested that AI will power mass surveillance networks in the future.

#privacy #surveillance

The New Oil 1 year ago

#Threads makes it easier to evangelize the open social web with a new direct link feature

TechCrunch

Threads makes it easier to evangelize the open social web with a new direct link feature | TechCrunch

It’s a small advance, but one that speaks to Meta’s enginerring team paying attention to how the fediverse community is trying to educate Threa...

#Fediverse #privacy #Meta

The New Oil 1 year ago

#Google’s #GenAI facing #privacy risk assessment scrutiny in Europe

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Google's GenAI facing privacy risk assessment scrutiny in Europe | TechCrunch

Google's lead privacy regulator in the European Union has opened an investigation into whether it has complied with the bloc's data prote...

#politics #AI

The New Oil 1 year ago

#Stalker Allegedly Created #AI #Chatbot on #NSFW Platform to #Dox and Harass Woman

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Stalker Allegedly Created AI Chatbot on NSFW Platform to Dox and Harass Woman

"If another user interacting with the chatbot asked the ‘Victim’ where she lived, the chatbot could provide the Victim’s true home address fo...

#privacy #stalking

The New Oil 1 year ago

#AppleIntelligence Promises Better #AI #Privacy. Here’s How It Actually Works

WIRED

Apple Intelligence Promises Better AI Privacy. Here’s How It Actually Works

Private Cloud Compute is an entirely new kind of infrastructure that, Apple’s Craig Federighi tells WIRED, allows your personal data to be “her...

The New Oil 1 year ago

#Facebook admits to scraping every Australian adult user's public photos and posts to train #AI, with no opt-out option

Facebook admits to scraping every Australian adult user's public photos and posts to train AI, with no opt-out option

Facebook has admitted that it scrapes the public photos, posts and other data of Australian adult users to train its AI models and provides no opt-...

#privacy #Meta #Australia

The New Oil 1 year ago

What You Need to Know About #Grok #AI and Your #Privacy

WIRED

What You Need to Know About Grok AI and Your Privacy

xAI’s generative AI tool, Grok AI, is unhinged compared to its competitors. It’s also scooping up a ton of data that people post on X. Here’s...

#Twitter #X

The New Oil 1 year ago

#Mullvad: Defense against #AI-guided #TrafficAnalysis (#DAITA) Now available on #Linux and #macOS

Mullvad VPN

Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis (DAITA) Now available on Linux and macOS

Even if you have encrypted your traffic with a VPN, advanced traffic analysis is a growing threat against your privacy. Therefore, we now add suppo...

#VPN #privacy #cybersecurity

The New Oil 1 year ago

#Therapy Sessions Exposed by #MentalHealth Care Firm’s Unsecured Database

WIRED

Therapy Sessions Exposed by Mental Health Care Firm’s Unsecured Database

Video and audio of therapy sessions, transcripts, and other patient records were accidentally exposed in a publicly accessible database operated by...

#privacy #cybersecurity #DataBreach #healthcare

The New Oil 1 year ago

New #AI standards group wants to make data scraping opt-in

Ars Technica

New AI standards group wants to make data scraping opt-in

The Dataset Providers Alliance wants to make AI data licensing ethical.

#privacy

The New Oil 1 year ago

#YouTube is developing #AI detection tools for music and faces, plus creator controls for AI training

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YouTube is developing AI detection tools for music and faces, plus creator controls for AI training | TechCrunch

Also of note, YouTube is in the early stages of coming up with a solution to address the use of its content to train AI models.

#privacy #Google #FRT #FacialRecognition

The New Oil 1 year ago

#Ireland’s #privacy watchdog ends legal fight with #X over data use for #AI after it agrees to permanent limits

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Ireland's privacy watchdog ends legal fight with X over data use for AI after it agrees to permanent limits | TechCrunch

The exact contents of X's (now permanent) undertaking with the DPC have not been made public, but it's assumed the agreement limits how i...

#Twitter #politics #Europe #EU

The New Oil 1 year ago

#Firefox130 Now Available With #WebCodecs API, Third-Party #AI Chatbots

Firefox 130 Now Available With WebCodecs API, Third-Party AI Chatbots - Slashdot

Firefox 130 introduces several enhancements, including improved local translation handling, better Android page load performance, and the WebCodecs...

#Firefox #Mozilla #FOSS #privacy #chatbot

The New Oil 1 year ago

#Volkswagen is rolling out its #ChatGPT assistant to the #US

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Volkswagen is rolling out its ChatGPT assistant to the US | TechCrunch

Volkswagen is taking its ChatGPT voice assistant experiment on the road. Or more specifically, to vehicles it sells in the United States. The German

#privacy #AI

The New Oil 1 year ago

#Clearview #AI hit with its largest #GDPR fine yet as Dutch regulator considers holding execs personally liable

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Clearview AI hit with its largest GDPR fine yet as Dutch regulator considers holding execs personally liable | TechCrunch

The Netherlands' data protection authority has imposed a penalty of €30.5M on Clearview AI for GDPR violations.

#privacy #ClearviewAI #FacialRecognition #FRT #politics #Europe

The New Oil 1 year ago

US: #Alaska man busted with 10,000+ child sex abuse images despite his many encrypted apps

Ars Technica

US: Alaska man busted with 10,000+ child sex abuse images despite his many encrypted apps

Encryption alone won't save you from the feds.

#privacy #nsfw #CSAM #AI