Tag: Consent
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Hacker News: Apple auto-opts everyone into having their photos analyzed by AI for landmarks
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/03/apple_enhanced_visual_search/ Source: Hacker News Title: Apple auto-opts everyone into having their photos analyzed by AI for landmarks Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Apple’s new feature, Enhanced Visual Search, which processes users’ photos to identify landmarks without explicit consent. Although it employs homomorphic encryption and claims to…
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The Register: Apple auto-opts everyone into having their photos analyzed by AI for landmarks
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/03/apple_enhanced_visual_search/ Source: The Register Title: Apple auto-opts everyone into having their photos analyzed by AI for landmarks Feedly Summary: Homomorphic-based Enhanced Visual Search is so privacy-preserving, iPhone giant activated it without asking Apple last year deployed a mechanism for identifying landmarks and places of interest in images stored in the Photos application on…
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Hacker News: UK ISO response to Google’s policy change on device fingerprinting
Source URL: https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/media-centre/news-and-blogs/2024/12/our-response-to-google-s-policy-change-on-fingerprinting/ Source: Hacker News Title: UK ISO response to Google’s policy change on device fingerprinting Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the ICO’s response to Google’s announcement allowing the use of fingerprinting in advertising from February 2025. It highlights concerns about privacy and the compliance obligations businesses…
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Slashdot: Siri ‘Unintentionally’ Recorded Private Convos; Apple Agrees To Pay $95 Million
Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/01/02/2134211/siri-unintentionally-recorded-private-convos-apple-agrees-to-pay-95-million?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Siri ‘Unintentionally’ Recorded Private Convos; Apple Agrees To Pay $95 Million Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** This text discusses Apple’s $95 million settlement related to Siri’s purported unauthorized recording of private conversations. The case highlights significant privacy concerns associated with voice assistants, an area of increasing…
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The Register: Apple agrees to settle Siri-snooping lawsuit for $95M
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/02/apple_siri_lawsuit/ Source: The Register Title: Apple agrees to settle Siri-snooping lawsuit for $95M Feedly Summary: Even the sound of a zip could be enough to start the recordings, according to claims Apple has filed a proposed settlement in California suggesting it will pay $95 million to settle claims that Siri recorded owners’ conversations…
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Hacker News: Privacy of Photos.app’s Enhanced Visual Search
Source URL: https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/01/01/privacy-of-photos-apps-enhanced-visual-search/ Source: Hacker News Title: Privacy of Photos.app’s Enhanced Visual Search Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights privacy concerns surrounding Apple’s Enhanced Visual Search feature, which enables photo searching using landmarks but automatically uploads photo data to Apple’s servers. Critics argue that the lack of clear communication…
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Hacker News: Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15
Source URL: https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2024/12/3.html Source: Hacker News Title: Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15 Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text explores concerns regarding Apple’s new feature, Enhanced Visual Search, which allows the company to perform searches on users’ photos by utilizing a global index. The concerns highlighted…
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Slashdot: Microsoft Is Forcing Its AI Assistant on People – And Making Them Pay
Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/24/12/26/140236/microsoft-is-forcing-its-ai-assistant-on-people—and-making-them-pay?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft Is Forcing Its AI Assistant on People – And Making Them Pay Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Microsoft has launched its AI assistant Copilot in Microsoft 365 subscriptions in Australia and Southeast Asia, increasing prices for users. This decision has been met with complaints about…
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The Register: Fining Big Tech isn’t working. Make them give away illegally trained LLMs as public domain
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/22/ai_poisoned_tree/ Source: The Register Title: Fining Big Tech isn’t working. Make them give away illegally trained LLMs as public domain Feedly Summary: It’s all made from our data, anyway, so it should be ours to use as we want Opinion Last year, I wrote a piece here on El Reg about being murdered…
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Hacker News: Google starts tracking all your devices in 8 weeks
Source URL: https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2024/12/19/forget-chrome-google-will-start-tracking-you-and-all-your-smart-devices-in-8-weeks/ Source: Hacker News Title: Google starts tracking all your devices in 8 weeks Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Google’s controversial return to digital fingerprinting as a tracking method, contrasting it with the fading role of cookies. It emphasizes regulatory concerns regarding user privacy and consent,…