Chris Dixon's book becomes an NYT Best Seller but with a dagger icon denoting bulk orders; a16z and some startups linked to it gave the book to staff and others
Motherboard found that firms linked to a16z and general partner Chris Dixon bought numerous copies of his new book promoting cryptocurrencies …
Stanford researchers: LAION-5B, a dataset of 5B+ images used by Stability AI and others, contains 1,008+ instances of CSAM, possibly helping AI to generate CSAM
most prominently, Stable Diffusion 1.5—to see to what degree CSAM itself might be present in the training data. https://purl.stanford.edu/... Alex Stamos / @alex.stamos : Lots of people have worried a...
A look at Fusus, which links a town's security cameras into one central hub and analyzes the feeds using AI, as its system is deployed across 2,400 US locations
https://www.404media.co/... “Ordinarily, these cameras and others like them might be disparate, their feeds only available to their respective owners: a business, a government building, a resident an...
FOIA docs: ICE used a tool called GOST to decide whether US visa applicants' social media posts are “derogatory” to the US, as part of immigration enforcement
Check out this @404mediaco story on social media surveillance docs obtained by our @ACLU_NorCal team + @ACLU. https://www.404media.co/... Terri K O / @terri@social.afront.org : This article on how the...
Experts criticize Koko, a mental health nonprofit, for directing some at-risk users on Facebook, Tumblr, Discord, and other platforms to a chatbot for a study
which was a Typeform-generated survey that presented users with a quiz with GIFs of a cat and dog. https://www.vice.com/... @motherboard : If a user's response indicated that they were at risk, they w...
Some guests and hosts say Airbnb permanently banned them after background checks by third-party company Inflection revealed minor offenses or old misdemeanors
until @maxwellstrachan and @samleecole asked about it, which inspired a frantic unbanning spree and at least one cash payout: https://www.vice.com/... @vice : Airbnb users are being banned for complet...
Served with warrants, Meta gave a teen's Messenger chats to Nebraska authorities, who charged her and her mother with breaking laws related to an abortion
Motherboard has obtained court documents that show Facebook gave police a teenager's private chats about her abortion.
Analysis of 150 US police reports mentioning Apple's AirTags shows 50 cases where women reported being stalked, mostly involving former intimate partners
Motherboard obtained reports of stalking, harassment, and abuse using Airtags, targeting victims of intimate partner violence. — Samantha Cole
EA hackers say they used stolen cookies, bought online for $10, to gain access to EA Slack, and then tricked IT support to give login tokens for EA's network
A representative for the hackers explained to Motherboard how the group stole a wealth of data from the game publishing giant. — Joseph Cox
Emails show US surveillance company Flock has rolled out a nationwide network of cameras with AI-powered license plate reading tech via 500+ police departments
Hundreds of pages of emails obtained by Motherboard show how little-known company Flock has expanded from surveilling individual neighborhoods …