Horror Report

Tag: privacy

  • OpenAI might be really open.

    OpenAI might be really open.

    OpenAI says it’s forced to store deleted ChatGPT conversations “indefinitely” due to a court order issued as part of The New York Times’ copyright lawsuit against it. In a post on Thursday, OpenAI chief operating officer Brad Lightcap says the company is appealing the court’s decision, which he calls an “overreach” that “abandons long-standing privacy norms and weakens privacy protections.”

    https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjbaVx16/

    More..

    OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Thursday that the company plans to appeal a court decision in a copyright case brought by The New York Times.

    “Recently the NYT asked a court to force us to not delete any user chats. We think this was an inappropriate request that sets a bad precedent,” Altman wrote in a post on X, adding that the company is “appealing the decision.”

    Developing..

  • Elon Musk Says US Government Had Access To Private Twitter DMs!

    Elon Musk Says US Government Had Access To Private Twitter DMs!

    Elon Musk told Tucker Carlson during a segment which is set to air tonight that he was shocked as to the level of penetration the feds had with Twitter.

    “The degree to which government agencies effectively had full access to everything that was going on on Twitter blew my mind, I was not aware of that,” said Musk.

    “Would that include people’s DMs?” asked Carlson.

    “Yes,” responded Musk.
    — Read on www.zerohedge.com/political/elon-musk-says-us-government-had-access-private-twitter-dms

  • Apple to scan U.S. iPhones for images of child sexual abuse! Privacy experts alarmed at the possibilities of technology

    Apple to scan U.S. iPhones for images of child sexual abuse! Privacy experts alarmed at the possibilities of technology

    Apple unveiled plans to scan U.S. iPhones for images of child sexual abuse, drawing applause from child protection groups but raising concern among some security researchers that the system could be misused by governments looking to surveil their citizens.

    Apple said its messaging app will use on-device machine learning to warn about sensitive content without making private communications readable by the company. The tool Apple calls “neuralMatch” will detect known images of child sexual abuse without decrypting people’s messages. If it finds a match, the image will be reviewed by a human who can notify law enforcement if necessary.

    But researchers say the tool could be put to other purposes such as government surveillance of dissidents or protesters.
    — Read on apnews.com/article/technology-business-child-abuse-apple-inc-7fe2a09427d663cda8addfeeffc40196

  • Amazon Workers Are Listening to What You Tell AlexaThe listening team is comprised of part-time…

    Amazon Workers Are Listening to What You Tell AlexaThe listening team is comprised of part-time…

    Amazon Workers Are Listening to What You Tell Alexa

    The listening team is comprised of part-time contractors and full-time Amazon employees based all over the world; including India, Romania, Boston and Costa Rica.

    Listeners work nine hour shifts, with each reviewing as many as 1,000 audio clips per shift according to two employees from Amazon’s Bucharest office – located in the top three floors of the Romanian capital’s Globalworth building. The location “stands out amid the crumbling infrastructure” of the Pipera district and “bears no exterior sign advertising Amazon’s presence.”

    While much of the work is boring (one worker said his job was to mine for accumulated voice data for specific phrases such as “Taylor Swift” – letting the system know that the searcher was looking for the artist), reviewers are also listening on people’s most personal moments.

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  • Google feeling lucky: Secrets now coming out

    Google feeling lucky: Secrets now coming out

    GMAILed…

    BOMBSHELL REPORT on how the internet giant continues to let hundreds of outside software developers scan the inboxes of millions of Gmail users who signed up for email-based services offering shopping price comparisons, automated travel-itinerary planners or other tools. Google does little to police those developers, who train their computers—and, in some cases, employees—to read their users’ emails, a Wall Street Journal examination has found

    FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL:

    Letting employees read user emails has become “common practice” for companies that collect this type of data, says Thede Loder, the former chief technology officer at eDataSource Inc., a rival to Return Path. He says engineers at eDataSource occasionally reviewed emails when building and improving software algorithms.
    “Some people might consider that to be a dirty secret,” says Mr. Loder. “It’s kind of reality.”
    Neither Return Path nor Edison asked users specifically whether it could read their emails. Both companies say the practice is covered by their user agreements, and that they used strict protocols for the employees who read emails. eDataSource says it previously allowed employees to read some email data but recently ended that practice to better protect user privacy.

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  • Surprise surprise: Yahoo and AOL just gave themselves the right to read your emails

    Surprise surprise: Yahoo and AOL just gave themselves the right to read your emails

    ….and yes… Deja Vue. They already gave themselves the right previously. Just making sure you know ..

    😉

    Oath, the media division of Verizon that runs both AOL and Yahoo, is unifying the privacy policy of its two giant legacy Internet brands. 

    That means an updated set of privacy terms and policies for hundreds of millions of users. 
    Now that online privacy has become a major issue post Zuckerberg grilling on Capitol Hill, it is all the more meaningful to realize what you’re seeing…

    When logged in to a Yahoo Mail account Friday users report that Oath notes that it has the right to read your emails, instant messages, posts, photos and even look at your message attachments. And it might share that data with parent company Verizon, too.

    Emails related to your banking and financial transactions appear to be equally in the crosshairs of Oath’s ad targeting engine.

    There appears to be another big change for Yahoo users, too: Oath’s previous mutual arbitration clause and class-action waiver has been updated and extended across the company’s services to include Yahoo as well

  • NOW YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ALREADY KNEW: FACEBOOK IS READING YOUR PRIVATE MESSAGES

    NOW YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ALREADY KNEW: FACEBOOK IS READING YOUR PRIVATE MESSAGES

    No surprise here.. anyone who acts like this is the first time they heard it needs their heads, or private messages, examined. Oh wait.. Facebook already examined them.

    Facebook Inc. scans the links and images that people send each other on Facebook Messenger, and reads chats when they’re flagged to moderators, making sure the content abides by the company’s rules. If it doesn’t, it gets blocked or taken down.

    The company confirmed the practice after an interview published earlier this week with Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg raised questions about Messenger’s practices and privacy. Zuckerberg told Vox’s Ezra Klein a story about receiving a phone call related to ethnic cleansing in Myanmar. Facebook had detected people trying to send sensational messages through the Messenger app, he said.

    “In that case, our systems detect what’s going on,” Zuckerberg said. “We stop those messages from going through.”

    The current debate has shifted from the private message links and photos to the bigger question: What ISN’T Facebook reading? … 
    You can most likely deduct the answer using reasoning and common sense.
  • Would you unlock your iPhone for Mark Dice?

    Would you unlock your iPhone for Mark Dice?

    A warrant was issued in February ordering Paytsar Bkhchadzhyan to unlock an iPhone seized from a Glendale, California, residence. She later pleaded no contest to a felony count of identity theft, according to the Los Angeles Times.

    Paytsar Bkhchadzhyan

    The debate centers around whether unlocking on iPhone or the smart device for police is the same thing as testifying without speaking a word.. talking without having a lawyer.. giving up the right or privacy that should not have been trampled..

    These are big questions and a big future ahead..

    The entire story which centers on one woman has huge implications. Police want your fingerprints to unlock your phone. And should that be allowed?

    There is one person asking people to unlock their iPhones for him to see a reaction. Mark Dice, the famed conspiracy researcher, took to the streets to demand passersby unlock their phones. And why would they refuse, after all!? If they have nothing to hide there’s nothing to fear… right?

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    When put into the context of someone asking them to unlock their phones they refused. But if the person wore a uniform and had a badge, they’d obey?

    What would you do?

     

  • Little did you know the rainbow Facebook profile picture fad would create such controversy

    Little did you know the rainbow Facebook profile picture fad would create such controversy

    By now if you’re on Facebook, WordPress, Tumblr, or any other social med service, your header or banner image was already made into a rainbow..perhaps you went one step further and did it yourself, all in the celebration of the 5-4 Supreme Court ruling allowing gay marriage to take place in all 50 states. But a group called the Radical Faeries has a problem with it. 

    Rory Carroll in San Francisco and Amanda Holpuch in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the UK GUARDIAN report this about the rainbow colored social media trend: 

    Within hours of the supreme court’s Friday decision on same-sex marriage, people with a certain number of progressively minded friends found their Facebook news feeds dominated by rainbow-colored profile pictures created by a special link on the website.

    The gambit successfully put Facebook’s equality credentials in the spotlight. But it was challenged on Saturday at San Francisco Pride, an event the company sponsored.

    The Radical Faeries, one of the more idiosyncratic groups at San Francisco’s Pride, said the festival should dump Facebook as a sponsor because of the company’s ban on adopted names.

    The policy was unfair to LGBT people who use adopted names to avoid homophobia or to express their true identity, they said.

    “I don’t like anybody telling me who I am or have to be,” said Storm Arcana, 42, seated on a rug in the Faerie Freedom Village, a colourful camp near city hall.

    People paying attention to things of this sort may recall this argument brewing for some time–this has been a long standing issue some have had with Facebook. 

    I don’t hold any overall anti or pro opinion on this matter. A  part of me believes that Facebook as a private company that steals everyone’s information, invades their personal lives, tracks their every move, and sells every piece of information to the lowest bidder–not to mention being the easiest and free-est way for law enforcement to track down virtually any person they want–can do what it wants. And people clamoring for the right to have Facebook abuse them even more? They need to probably think twice.

    There are other social media services out there.. 
    I get the point, believe me. But I also think those making the point are missing the point.. There aren’t many nice things about Facebook.. It’s ease of use is one of the few, along with the ability people have to connect. Minus those two things, the policies and privacy issues with the social media service are a little more than atrocious. 
    So..
    That being said, if a person wants an entire life to be monitored, tracked, and traced, I suppose the nicest thing the violating party could do is at least call the person the name the person wishes to be called..

  • My Way News – FBI behind mysterious surveillance aircraft over US cities

    My Way News – FBI behind mysterious surveillance aircraft over US cities

    My Way News – FBI behind mysterious surveillance aircraft over US cities

    The AP REPORTING THIS AT THE HOUR

    “ The FBI is operating a small air force with scores of low-flying planes across the country carrying video and, at times, cellphone surveillance technology — all hidden behind fictitious companies that are fronts for the government, The Associated Press has learned.

    The planes’ surveillance equipment is generally used without a judge’s approval, and the FBI said the flights are used for specific, ongoing investigations. In a recent 30-day period, the agency flew above more than 30 cities in 11 states across the country, an AP review found.”