Clearview AI hit with its largest GDPR fine yet as Dutch regulator considers holding execs personally liable | TechCrunch
The Netherlands' data protection authority has imposed a penalty of €30.5M on Clearview AI for GDPR violations.
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Meta reignites plans to train AI using UK users' public Facebook and Instagram posts | TechCrunch
Meta has confirmed that it's restarting efforts to train its AI systems using public Facebook and Instagram posts from its U.K. userbase.
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Meta fed its AI on almost everything you’ve posted publicly since 2007
Making Facebook and Instagram private won’t delete that data.
AI companies train language models on YouTube’s archive − making family-and-friends videos a privacy risk
Many videos people upload to YouTube aren’t really meant for public consumption, but they’re available for AI companies to vacuum up. Many of these personal videos are posted by children.
Software Released to Make Your Original Art Poison AI Models That Scrape It
The tool, Nightshade, introduces subtle alterations into an image to confuse AI models and "poison" their training data.
*Privacy Not Included: A Buyer’s Guide for Connected Products
All 25 car brands we researched earned our *Privacy Not Included warning label – making cars the worst category of products that we have ever reviewed