“Palantir formed a partnership with the Israeli military in January 2024, and Google is part of a $1.2 billion cloud contract with the Israeli government.) Poulson tells WIRED that on Wednesday, the conference began mandatory bag-checks at at least one talk.”
ICYMI: Meta to use public posts to train AI models, users can opt out https://ppc.land/meta-to-use-public-posts-to-train-ai-models-users-can-opt-out/ #Meta #AI #PrivacyConcerns #DataHarvesting #ArtificialIntelligence
ICYMI: Meta to use public posts to train AI models, users can opt out: Meta announced plans to harvest public user content for AI training, raising privacy concerns. https://ppc.land/meta-to-use-public-posts-to-train-ai-models-users-can-opt-out/ #Meta #AI #PrivacyConcerns #DataHarvesting #ArtificialIntelligence
Just a TED talk.
This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOoT8AbkNE
/2. “Are you “led by your emotions” but “reluctant to express them”? Do you enjoy volunteering and hands-on activities? If so, and you purchased a firearm in the last several decades, America’s chief gun lobby has a Senate candidate it would like to talk to you about.
Those traits belong to “The Carer,” one of five psychological profiles the political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica developed on behalf of the National Shooting Sports Foundation…”
#DataHarvesting #NRA #CambridgeAnalytica
WOW. Here’s another great read. 
This one is from #ProPublica #uspol #GunRights #NRA #DataHarvesting #CambridgeAnalytics
“How Cambridge Analytica helped campaign to gun owners; what DOGE has been up to this week; and more from our newsroom.”
https://link.propublica.net/view/60db4fe2dfa07b0083681991n3upv.1eom/9ec44455
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#California Sues Data-Harvesting Company #NPD , Enforcing Strict #Privacy Law - Slashdot
California's attempt to regulate the industry inspired the nonprofit Consumer Reportsto create an app called #PermissionSlip that reveals what data companies collect and, for people in U.S. states, will "work with you to file a request, telling companies to stop selling your personal information."
#dataharvesting #surveillance #tracking
Couple this with Mozilla's stunning (but wholly expected) descent into Advertising and the whole company just looks massively untrustworthy now.
That's Thunderbird now being removed from my phone -I had the new app- and my PC where it's only a backup to Vivaldi browser's in-built email client anyway.
Just no, Mozilla.
#Mozilla #Firefox #Thunderbird #Advertising #DataHarvesting
RE: https://sigmoid.social/users/davidculley/statuses/113245153254319956
Join the harvester roundtable during #DataCite2024 Community Meeting. The session provides an overview of some of the cutting-edge tools and services available for working with DataCite metadata, including our APIs, Commons, the public data file, and more. https://datacite.org/event/how-discovery-systems-use-datacite-metadata-harvester-roundtable/
#openscience #OpenResearch #Metadata #dataHarvesting
It’s data harvesting season! Every F*****g service is updating their terms to use our data for their AI models. What a can of bum worms openAI opened (pardon the pun) when they scraped everyone's copyrighted material across the web.
Time to pack those bags and move services
#privacy #ai #dataharvesting
Dear third-party vendors,
If your cookies are "legitimate interest" why can I reject/refuse them?
