Quartz: “…The Detroit automaker has been accused of failing to adequately disclose its relationship with a number of data brokers, including LexisNexis (RELX-0.33%) and Verisk according to a lawsuit filed last month by Texas officials. Data collected by GM vehicles, often through the company’s OnStar Smart Driver feature, was then shared by the brokers with… Continue Reading
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Slack, Teams, Google Chat: Is There Any Safe Place to Complain About Work Online?
WSJ via MSN: “Workers are getting too comfortable venting on their employers’ chat apps. We tend to forget that nothing we say there is private. Disney last week said it was quitting Slack, after a hacker gained access to an executive’s account and leaked millions of intraoffice messages. They included computer code, details about unreleased… Continue Reading
Don’t ever hand your phone to the cops
The Verge: “You should never voluntarily hand your phone to a police officer. It’s going to become increasingly tempting for the cops to ask and for you to comply, especially as more and more states adopt digital ID systems that allow driver’s licenses and state IDs to be added to Apple Wallet on iOS and… Continue Reading
10 Best Sites to Send Free Text Messages to Cell Phones (SMS)
MakeseOf: “Sending texts to your cell phone no longer requires a carrier plan. With these ten free [and/or low fee]SMS sites, you can send unlimited texts to any mobile device without relying on your network provider.” Continue Reading
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, September 21, 2024
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, September 21, 2024 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex… Continue Reading
Snapchat reserves right to put AI-generated images of users’ faces in ‘My Selfie’ ads
NY Post via MSN – original article paywalled on 404 Media: “Snapchat reserves the right to put photos of its users’ faces in ads as part of the terms of service of its “My Selfie” tool, which lets people and their friends create artificial intelligence-generated images that are trained on their selfies. “My Selfie is… Continue Reading
FTC Staff Report Finds Large Social Media and Video Streaming Companies Have Engaged in Vast Surveillance
Report recommends limiting data retention and sharing, restricting targeted advertising, and strengthening protections for teens – “A new Federal Trade Commission staff report that examines the data collection and use practices of major social media and video streaming services shows they engaged in vast surveillance of consumers in order to monetize their personal information while… Continue Reading
Large AI Dataset Has Over 1,000 Child Abuse Images, Researchers Find
Bloomberg via Yahoo Finance: “A massive public dataset used to build popular artificial intelligence image generators contains at least 1,008 instances of child sexual abuse material, a new report from the Stanford Internet Observatory found. LAION-5B, which contains more than 5 billion images and related captions from the internet, may also include thousands of additional… Continue Reading
LinkedIn Is Training AI on User Data Before Updating Its Terms of Service
TechCrunch: “LinkedIn may have trained AI models on user data without updating its terms. LinkedIn users in the U.S. — but not the EU, EEA, or Switzerland, likely due to those regions’ data privacy rules — have an opt-out toggle in their settings screen disclosing that LinkedIn scrapes personal data to train “content creation AI… Continue Reading
Big publishers think libraries are the enemy
citation needed, Molly White – Big publishers think libraries are the enemy. The recent Second Circuit decision in Hachette v. Internet Archive is only the latest battle in the war on libraries and the freedom to read: “I’ve seen quips to the effect of “if public libraries were invented today, they’d be outlawed.” The joke… Continue Reading
What Is a Digital Footprint? Here’s What to Know About Your Online Trail
MakeUseOf: Key Takeaways: Digital footprints include active and passive data, influencing personalized ads and account security. Your online presence affects credit scoring, job applications, and criminal investigations. Minimize your digital footprint by cleaning up social media, using multiple emails, and avoiding easy login options. From your early days as an internet newbie to your current… Continue Reading
DuckDuckGo Joins AI Chat, Promises Enhanced Anonymity
Tech Republic: “DuckDuckGo, a search company, launched a free and anonymous AI Chat service in June 2024. AI Chat joins DuckAssist, which generates answers based on Wikipedia, as a way to explore topics with AI. AI Chat operates with the widely used prompt-and-response process popularized by OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini. But DuckDuckGo’s AI Chat… Continue Reading
