Das Kanzleramt startet einen eigenen Kanal auf Tiktok. Die Plattform gilt als Datensammler, für Scholz gelten also besondere Sicherheitsvorkehrungen. http://www.taz.de/!6002894/
Moving fast and breaking things is a very fitting motto for so many of the tech efforts of the last years. And where I suppose it should mean "breaking up old, encrusted structures", there is no guarantee it doesn't mean breaking their own things eventually. 1/3
I released a new version of the DomainClassifier python library with improved performance and built-in caching. Thanks to @terrtia for the contribution.
DomainClassifier is a simple Python library to extract and classify Internet domains/hostnames/IP addresses from raw unstructured text files following their existence, localization or attributes.
DomainClassifier can be used to extract Internet hosts from any free texts or collected unstructured information. It's for example used in @ail_project to guess all potential hostname/domain from any text.
The terrible human toll in Gaza has many causes.
A chilling investigation by +972 highlights efficiency:
An engineer: “When a 3-year-old girl is killed in a home in Gaza, it’s because someone in the army decided it wasn’t a big deal for her to be killed.”
An AI outputs "100 targets a day". Like a factory with murder delivery:
"According to the investigation, another reason for the large number of targets, and the extensive harm to civilian life in Gaza, is the widespread use of a system called “Habsora” (“The Gospel”), which is largely built on artificial intelligence and can “generate” targets almost automatically at a rate that far exceeds what was previously possible. This AI system, as described by a former intelligence officer, essentially facilitates a “mass assassination factory.”"
"The third is “power targets,” which includes high-rises and residential towers in the heart of cities, and public buildings such as universities, banks, and government offices."
“Levy describes a system that has almost reached perfection. The political echelon wants to maintain the status quo, and the military provides it with legitimacy in exchange for funds and status.”
“Levy points out the gradual withdrawal of the old Ashkenazi middle class from the ranks of the combat forces[…]:
• the military’s complete reliance on technology as a decisive factor in warfare;
• the adoption of the concept […] of an army that is “small and lethal”;
• the obsession with the idea of #deterrence, which is supposed to negate the other side’s will to fight; and
• the complete addiction to the status quo as the only possible and desirable state of affairs.”
I'm setting up print sales on my site, using WooCommerce and PayPal. PayPal sets cookies when people visit my site (not just when using checkout) but I don't want it to.
How do I block PayPal from setting cookies on visitors' devices? I'm guessing there are a few lines of code somewhere that I need to delete or comment out?
I tried using my site's cart and checkout (still hidden at the moment) with all cookies blocked in Firefox and it seemed to work fine, so it doesn't seem like this is necessary for the checkout to function, but is just PayPal being creepy.
This is an old BBC News piece on data mining. Let's put it in context. My VPN has, in the past seven days, blocked nearly 40,000 tracking attempts by data miners embedded in the BBC News app on my Android phone. Forty thousand, and I'm paying for the data throughput.
#AI#GenerativeAI#WebScraping#DataMining#Privacy#DataProtection: "What kind of info are we comfortable forking over to the AIs, if any? Right now we are in the midst of a destabilizing moment. It’s alarming, yes, but it’s also an opportunity to renegotiate what we do and do not want to hand over to tech giants that have been gathering our personal data for decades now. But to make those sorts of decisions, first we have to know where we stand. What are the websites and apps we use every day doing with our data? Are they using it to train their AI systems? What can we do about it if so?
A good rule of thumb, to begin with: If you are posting pictures or words to a public-facing platform or website, chances are that information is going to be scraped by a system crawling the internet gathering data for AI companies, and very likely used to train an AI model of one kind or another. If it hasn’t already."
India’s Privacy Bill (DPDP, 2023): A Detailed Analysis
There are several major changes that have been made to the final Bill that has been tabled in Parliament. Some of these changes will have a significant impact on privacy and go beyond the scope of the parameters that were laid down by the historic Puttaswamy Vs Union of India judgment of August 2017.
The Bill violates the right to privacy, grants unchecked powers to the government, and expands the scope for surveillance. The rights of 1.4 billion people in India hang in the balance.
@thomasfuchs This was already a issue much more than 5 years ago
People who said "Google it!" might have meant this honest because their "my Google" showed them what they expected, as #Google has done #DataMining their past life to know what to show them
They did not recogice that "the same Google" might have shown very different and perhaps completely useless results to other persons, because their personal history might be completely different and never had the hints needed
So, as I understand it, and correct me if I'm wrong, the core of #Mastodon's timeline is the #protocol that hands off everybody's posts on one instance, to all the other instances.
#Threads is an instance on the protocol that Masto uses to share posts across the world.
As I also understand it, while an instance may block incoming posts, that doesn't stop outgoing posts going to that instance, nor between people where one has migrated to the blocked instance.
Ergo: Threads is doing what I came to masto from #facebook to stop participating in - the largest #datamining and user manipulation experiment in the history of advertising.
Yes, Masto itself is cool, but like any tool, it can, and is, being used for evil. In the case of threads, it's the "hoovering up", analysing and using all of our data to manipulate people. Maybe not manipulating us, here, but certainly manipulating people on any timeline that Meta owns, and any customers of their advertising clients. And our data gives them more reaction measures, a superthread of human reactions and the goads that alter people's choices subconciously.
I'd argue that Threads isn't just data mining, it's stealing our reaction history. I destroyed my facebook account when I left. I withdrew my consent to be data mined. Now, even this post, where I again restate my position that I do not consent to my data being used as human reaction analytics, they are likely using threads to pilfer the data of even people who are not consenting to them pilfering it. That means I am seriously considering leaving the fediverse.
can fpgrowth be implemented via HNSW? is it? more generally, my question is if a vector DB can implement fpgrowth in one sort or another #ai#ml#datamining#math#vectordb#vector
I'm setting up photo print sales on my site using WooCommerce. I'm offering PayPal as one payment option, but PayPal sets a cookie, the only one on my site.
Of course, if someone uses their PayPal account to buy something from me, PayPal knows about it and I need to be sent enough data about them to verify that they've paid. But PayPal doesn't need to track all my site visitors and their behavior, which I'm assuming their cookie would do.
Can I limit which pages the cookie appears on (e.g. only the checkout page) or otherwise limit info sent to PayPal?
If not, I may skip the PayPal option altogether, but given how limited my sales will likely be already, I'd hate to lose sales because of it. I do offer a check/money order option for anyone not in a hurry (latter can be a postal money order, so completely anonymous).
Dass die EU-Kommission die Totalüberwachung und digitale
Kontrolle im Internet genauso wie im Alltag, an ihren Außengrenzen zur Bekämpfung von fliehenden Menschen und im Inneren u.a. für den Datenkapitalismus weiter ausbaut, ist nichts Neues. Nicht nur besteht sie aus stramm neoliberalen, autoritären Politiker*innen, die schon zuvor immer wieder mit repressiven Vorhaben angekommen sind, es geht allgemein mit dem Überwachungs- und Krisenkapitalismus auch eine autoritäre Transformation einher.
Als Antiautoritäre stellen wir uns diesen Entwicklungen und Allen, die sie voranbringen wollen, entschlossen entgegen!
Bayerische #Polizei testet Datamining mit echten Personendaten - Palantir-Software
"Im bayerischen Landeskriminalamt läuft seit Monaten ein Testbetrieb der umstrittenen Analysesoftware von Palantir mit echten Personendaten․ Der Landesbeauftragte für #Datenschutz hat erst über Recherchen des Bayerischen Rundfunks davon erfahren – und will den Vorgang prüfen․"