To settle a years-long lawsuit, Google has agreed to delete “billions of data records” collected from users of “Incognito mode,” illuminating the pitfalls of relying on Chrome to protect your privacy.
Cory @pluralistic got scammed. You should read how and why — and what we can all learn from it.
Including what big banks won't learn, because a shit "AI" that sucks at doing people's jobs is cheaper than paying humans and big corporate managers wouldn't know human decency if it smacked them in the face.
@owenblacker@pluralistic Someone once used my card number (and I have no idea how they got it, I certainly didn't give it to them) to buy £8,000 of crypto (which I've never touched) in a single transaction on a website I had never used, and somehow the bank's super-duper advanced anti-fraud thought this was a-okay no problem here looks all fine and dandy. But then when I tried to buy a £3 sandwich at my regular lunchtime spot it flagged this as suspicious and blocked me...
If you grew a beard since your profile pic was taken (during Lockdown or otherwise), any chance you could update the image, so I might stand a chance of remembering who you are?
I mean, who would possibly contemplate doing something to radical as marching for peace on Remembrance Day(?!) >>
Planned protest on Armistice Day would be 'disrespectful', says Sunak https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-67305535
Ok, this is cool — you give it a location, it grabs a Google Street View, and uses some AI to reimagine it as a Dutch street that prioritises cyclists and pedestrians over cars: https://dutchcyclinglifestyle.com/