I guess making money somewhat honestly by having customers that actually pay for a service with at least some guarantees of privacy and safety is not as lucrative as having an open platform network where people are tricked into giving out all their data while they are spied upon for whatever reasons.
Google Gemini now has extensions that can for example use the content of your Gmail inbox, very practical but also very scary from a security/privacy perspective. #googlegemini#AI#extensies#security#privacy
(screenshot in dutch)
#AdTech#DataProtection#Privacy#TargetedAds: "In April, attorney Christine Dudley was listening to a book on her iPhone while playing a game on her Android tablet when she started to see in-game ads that reflected the audiobooks she recently checked out of the San Francisco Public Library.
Her audiobook consumption, she explained, had been highly focused the previous month, focused on a specific subgenre that she doesn't believe would come up by chance.
"You don't coincidentally come across mobile ads [for that particular subgenre]," she told The Register. "Those ads made me extremely angry."
Concerns about the privacy of library reading material date back to the early 20th century, explained Dorothea Salo, academic librarian and library-school instructor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, to The Register.
"There was a time when American libraries weren't sure what their stance on reader privacy should be," said Salo."
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Weer alleen juristen en directeuren gevraagd, terwijl ze eindeloos veel effectiever zouder zijn met een paar programmeurs. Heel veel werk valt te automatiseren, zoals bijvoorbeeld @noybeu doet, met slechts een fractie van het budget tov de AP.
Are you a journalist, activist or whistleblower in need of an anonymous email account that doesn't require a personally identifiable recovery email address or phone number?
There are many reasons for choosing #private alternatives to Big Tech. Tracking cookies, targeted ads, and closed source software are just the tip of the iceberg. 🧊
What #privacy concerns are keeping you up at night? 🤔
WhatsApp introduces "ask meta ai" in the local chat search bar, and Slack auto-feeds messages to train their LLM robots https://eigenmagic.net/@NewtonMark/112455578857917485 ... Delta Chat is among the shrinking number of messaging applications that does not look at your data except to end-to-end encrypt it and send it over interoperable message transport servers chosen by yourselves and your contacts. #decentralization#security#privacy ftw!
Gli utenti di Slack, un’app di messaggistica per le aziende, scoprono che i loro dati vengono ampiamente usati per addestrare modelli di machine learning, nonostante questo non sia chiaramente indicato nelle politiche sulla privacy del servizio.
Nella pagina stessa di Slack AI si legge:
“Lavora senza preoccupazioni
I tuoi dati sono tuoi. Non li utilizziamo per addestrare l’IA di Slack. Tutto gira all’interno dell’infrastruttura sicura di Slack, rispettando gli stessi standard di conformità di Slack.”
[https://slack.com/intl/it-it/features/ai]
Israeli historian Ilan Pappe was targeted by US CBP this week. They took his phone & asked him questions like did he believe Israel was committing genocide against Palestinians, &if he had any Palestinian friends.
My first reaction was that CBP doesn't know the first thing about Israeli historians, & likely Israel's govt told the US to target him. Turns out Pappe believes Israel's govt was involved.
"A spokesperson for CBP did not comment on Pappe's specific claims, saying in a statement: "Respecting privacy rights of travelers, U.S. Customs & Border Protection (CBP) does not disclose specific details about individual encounters during inspections at a port of entry."
Pappe: "they took my phone and copied everything on it." #Privacy
"Over the decades, Arab American advocates in Michigan have raised concerns about being profiled at airports"
@neurovagrant Perhaps someone will market a #RFID cell phone sleeve similar to the ones that cover one's credit card to prevent RFID scanning... #surveillance#privacy
"It’s not just Big Tech that’s playing for all the marbles - it’s also the systems of democratic control and accountability. If Apple can sabotage the DMA’s insistence on taking away its veto over its customers’ software choices, that will spill over into the US Department of Justice’s case over the same issue, as well as the cases in Japan and South Korea."