The Belgian Court of Appeal rules that the Transparency & Consent Framework, used by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, and the ad industry, is illegal across Europe
Landmark court decision against “TCF” consent pop ups on 80% of the internet — Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X …
The FTC bans GM from selling driver behavior and geolocation data to consumer reporting agencies for five years, after finding GM didn't properly inform drivers
GM must now obtain explicit user consent and offer an option to delete data, ensuring greater transparency and privacy for customers. Lilian Edwards / @lilianedwards : Even as she ...
The FTC bans GM from selling driver behavior and geolocation data to consumer reporting agencies for five years, after finding GM didn't properly inform drivers
An investigation by the Federal Trade Commission determined that consumers had not been aware that the automaker was providing their driving information to data brokers.
The UK's PM debuts plans to increase its public sector compute over 20x to spark a “national renewal”, saying the UK doesn't need to walk a US or EU path on AI
Going our own way will unleash national renewal — Artificial intelligence is the defining opportunity of our generation.
Meta restarts training its AI systems on UK users' public Facebook and Instagram posts, having “incorporated regulatory feedback” to be “even more transparent”
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Sources: OpenAI developed a watermarking method for detecting text written by ChatGPT with 99.9% reliability, but its launch has been mired in internal debates
Technology that can detect text written by artificial intelligence with 99.9% certainty has been debated internally for two years
A last-minute amendment to an Irish bill would let the Data Protection Commission declare some info in privacy complaints as “confidential”, sparking an uproar
given the lack of public discussion it may have simply been overlooked what this really means for freedom of speech and journalism. https://twitter.com/... Forums: Hacker News : Ir...
Q&A with DoNotPay's Joshua Browder on pivoting from legal issues to refocus on consumer support after getting “distracted”, ChatGPT, future plans, and more
When British-American entrepreneur Joshua Browder first launched his legal services chatbot DoNotPay in 2015 …
Hands-on with DoNotPay, a service claiming to be the first robot lawyer: slow, drafted a terrible defamation demand letter, missed legal issues, and more
Note: This post is an adaptation of what started initially as a Twitter thread. — I've been going pretty hard on DoNotPay … Tweets: @lilianedwards , @scottgreenfield , @mikebutch...
A Dutch court says tracking a remote worker via webcam is an unreasonable intrusion, awarding him €75K after his US employer fired him for having his webcam off
In 2018, Oculus' Jason Rubin sent a paper to Facebook executives laying the foundation for Meta's ambitions and detailing the need to own the VR market
- In 2018, an Oculus executive named Jason Rubin wrote a 50-page document headlined “The Metaverse” that he sent to a Facebook board member and some top execs.
Meta's promised metaverse is going to be boring and is meant to distract us from the world that Facebook helped break
Meta's promised metaverse is going to be boring and is meant to distract us from the world that Facebook helped break
In 2018, Oculus' Jason Rubin sent a paper to Facebook executives laying the foundation for Meta's ambitions and detailing the need to own the VR market
- In 2018, an Oculus executive named Jason Rubin wrote a 50-page document headlined “The Metaverse” that he sent to a Facebook board member and some top execs.
Meta's promised metaverse is going to be boring and is meant to distract us from the world that Facebook helped break
In 2018, Oculus' Jason Rubin sent a paper to Facebook executives laying the foundation for Meta's ambitions and detailing the need to own the VR market
- In 2018, an Oculus executive named Jason Rubin wrote a 50-page document headlined “The Metaverse” that he sent to a Facebook board member and some top execs.
In 2018, Oculus' Jason Rubin sent a paper to Facebook executives laying the foundation for Meta's ambitions and detailing the need to own the VR market
- In 2018, an Oculus executive named Jason Rubin wrote a 50-page document headlined “The Metaverse” that he sent to a Facebook board member and some top execs. Tweets: @kevinroose ...
Meta's promised metaverse is going to be boring and is meant to distract us from the world that Facebook helped break
You're not losing your mind: it really does just sound like a worse version of the internet. Chris Vallance / BBC : Facebook's metamorphosis - will it work? Andrew Hutchinson / Soc...
Facebook files a lawsuit against BrandTotal and Unimania for breaking TOS by scraping data from Facebook, Instagram, and other sites using browser extensions
Apple and Google release FAQ for contact tracing APIs, describe changes made to address privacy concerns, and pledge to disable APIs once pandemic is contained
Russell Brandom / The Verge :