A poke in the eye with a sharp stick.

Connecting The Meta Privacy Dots
#Meta #AI #Privacy

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A plea in the eye with a sharp stick.

Connecting The Meta Privacy Dots
#Meta #AI #Privacy
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#Google will now disclose which ads are made with #AI - https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/google-will-now-disclose-which-ads-are-made-with-ai/ #adtech

CEOs are baffled at the high cost of moving to AI. Shockingly enough, sacking human workers isn't resulting in huge savings.

@TechRadar reports: https://flip.it/YHvH6L

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

A new beta feature allows users to reflect on their #usage of #Claude, providing insights into #howoften and #effectively they utilise the #AI. The #reflectiondashboard, accessible in Settings, offers a summary of usage patterns, prompts for self-reflection, and suggestions for improving AI fluency. This tool prioritises user privacy, excluding sensitive conversations and data from connected tools. https://www.anthropic.com/news/reflect-with-claude?eicker.news #tech #media #news

Domestic robots are becoming part of everyday life, but what happens when they start interpreting our homes rather than simply following commands?

Our latest opinion article explores the balance between usefulness, privacy, and trust in context‑aware robotics. Alberto's message is clear: intelligence in the home must be meaningful, respectful, and under human control.

A great read for anyone working at the intersection of #AI, #robotics, ethics, and design https://coresense.eu/if-a-domestic-robot-really-understood-your-home-would-you-trust-it/

#Coresense

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Coresense opinion article by Alberto Garcia (URJC)

Crossroads unifies Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana on one smart-contract layer

New arXiv preprint proposes representing assets from any blockchain as ERC-20 tokens on one backend chain, enabling cross-chain lending and privacy apps for dev

https://www.notatechguy.com/crossroads-unifies-bitcoin-ethereum-solana-on-one-smart-contract-layer/

#NotATechGuy #AI #Tech

Self-Host Weekly (10 July 2026)

Online reactions to #AI, software updates and launches, a spotlight on #TypeType - a privacy stack for #YouTube, and more in this week's #selfhosted recap!

https://selfh.st/weekly/2026-07-10/

#selfhost #selfhosting #opensource #foss #homelab #devops #sysadmin #privacy #newsletter #fediverse #homeassistant #smarthome #immich #photos #feed #app #apps #lemmy #hackernews

"As much as 41 percent of longform written content seen by users on LinkedIn is likely to be fully AI-generated and roughly a third of longer posts on X are AI-generated; roughly one-in-ten longer Reddit and Substack posts are AI, according to the data. "
#AI #KI #Fakenews
https://www.404media.co/linkedin-and-x-are-flooded-with-ai-spam-browsing-data-suggests/

Online dating: the multi-billion dollar swipe #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/online-dating-the-multi-billion-dollar-swipe/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

With a local AI box, your prompts never leave the machine. Privacy isn’t a setting — it’s the architecture.

#ClawBox #OpenClaw #AI #SelfHosted #Privacy #FOSS

https://clawbox.tech/go/masto?c=cadence_2026_w28&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=cadence_2026_w28

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Where your data actually goes

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. The 2026 FIFA World Cup is the largest sporting event in history. It’s also the most surveilled World Cup ever. If you’re visiting or traveling around host cities, then you and your face, behavior, movement and devices are being monitored by governments and private companies. The […]

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World Cup Propels Surveillance To New Heights

🤖 Alarm over launch of facial recognition in UK shops that instantly alerts police

Civil liberties groups say Facewatch system in stores such as Sainsbury’s and B&M is ‘dangerous escalation’Facial recognition technology in shops will soon alert police in real time to the presence...

📰 Source: AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian
🔗 Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/10/facewatch-facial-recognition-uk-shops-instantly-alerts-police-civil-liberties

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

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if you needed (no, you did't) more reasons to stop using Meta services 👇

Meta has enabled a setting that allows anyone to use your public Instagram photos to create AI-generated images of you unless you opt out.

To opt out, click your profile -> 3 bars in the top right -> scroll down to "Sharing and reuse" and toggle off for both Posts and for Reels.

Do you like posts like this one? this was first post in Debugging Memes channel, join here:
https://i.delta.chat/#B68D965B65A63BBE7EB32D56234652E2C899213F&v=3&x=ImcSr1dp4fEWrZreS4Emlb5u&j=eX6UqJEePp9y_i-225abLctf&s=NKEuhQYd9UlzXhnW7rCTHNbF&a=57cyvwkiidqqxnryms0q%40chat.in%2Dthe.eu&n=Debugging+Memes&b=Debugging+Memes

#ai #genai #meta #aislop

Reuters: Italy privacy watchdog fines Character.AI owner over age-check failures. “Italy’s data protection authority fined Character Technologies, the U.S.-based owner ​of generative AI platform Character.AI for ‌breaches of data protection rules, it said on Thursday in a statement. The service ​allows users, including minors, to chat ​with AI-generated virtual characters.”

Daily Digest | 10 July 2026

Your daily dose of Privacy, Data Protection, AI & Cybersecurity news.

5 stories you should not miss.

Read more: https://www.nicfab.eu/daily-digest/

#Privacy #AI #GDPR #Cybersecurity #TechLaw

Woman calls Ronald Reagan Space Station in the year 2027, from the BBC sci-fi show Star Cops (1987). They got so much right 😂 😭

#StarCops #Scifi #AI #television

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A woman sits in front of a vid screen. The American flag fades to a picture of three American astronauts before fading to the logo of Ronald Regan Space Station. Another person appears on the screen but they are stilted and heavily pixelated.

New framework unifies privacy and adversarial defense in distributed AI

A July 2026 arXiv preprint introduces GPBACC, a coded-computing technique that tackles privacy leakage and malicious workers simultaneously across federated and

https://www.notatechguy.com/new-framework-unifies-privacy-and-adversarial-defense-in-distributed-ai/

#NotATechGuy #AI #Tech

Why so many scams go unreported #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/why-so-many-scams-go-unreported/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

No wonder the case against #openai and #microsoft for copyright theft are taking soooo long. The publishers say OpenAI refused to provide information showing how the company’s #ai systems are trained and used. OpenAI claims they protect their users’ privacy. BS. They’ve learned to lie with such false arguments from #facebook who claimed the same many years ago.

https://lnkd.in/ed2WbMjk

I share my core philosophical positions on Substack.

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/a-provisional-map-of-my-philosophical?r=pvxh5

See map and hashtags for content guidance.

#philosophy #metaphilosophy #ontology #objectivity #selfhood #ontologicalgrammar #language #languageinsufficiency #minds #ai #artificialintelligence #ethics #agency #substack #blog #podcast #video #subjectivity #institutions #law #map #history #politics #governance

Organized cybercrime: the Crime-as-a-Service model #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/organized-cybercrime-the-crime-as-a-service-model/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

🤖 Instagram’s AI image generator alarms privacy experts

Instagram users should check privacy settings after rollout of new Meta AI image generator, advocates warnMeta has sparked blowback from privacy advocates for allowing its new AI image maker to gen...

📰 Source: AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian
🔗 Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/09/instagram-ai-image-generator-privacy

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

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🤖 Meta's Muse Image Defaults to Public Instagram Photos, Sparking Privacy Backlash

Meta's Muse Image AI uses public Instagram photos by default, prompting privacy concerns. Learn how to opt-out now.

https://www.byte-pulse.net/article/meta-s-muse-image-defaults-to-public-instagram-photos-sparking-privacy-backlash

#meta #instagram #ai #privacy

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Meta's Muse Image Defaults to Public Instagram Photos, Sparking Privacy Backlash

Your public Instagram photo is now raw material for anyone's AI. Meta's Muse Image remixes public profiles into new images with no consent and no notice. Public Citizen calls it an egregious invasion of privacy and wants Congress to require opt-in first.

#Meta #Instagram #AI #indigoprivacy

Your public Instagram photo is now raw material for anyone's AI. Meta's Muse Image remixes public profiles into new images with no consent and no notice. Public Citizen calls it an egregious invasion of privacy and wants Congress to require opt-in first.

#Meta #Instagram #AI #indigoprivacy

"Users can also pick from 17 main characters, including strong female lead, cute kid, underdog, ultra-rich tycoon, switched-at-birth heiress, female emperor, doppelgänger love interest, enemies-to-lovers."

Lavender Au for The Dial: https://www.thedial.world/articles/news/chinese-micro-dramas

#Longreads #China #Drama #Video #Storytelling #Content #AI #Media

Artificial intelligence has been built by robbing the collective work of humanity.

The public built AI — we should own it, not a handful of billionaires.

https://jacobin.com/2026/07/ai-policy-nationalization-commons-work

#ai #Artificailintelligence

Meta's new Muse Image lets anyone tag a public Instagram account and turn its photos into AI images, no notice to you, opted in by default. Opting out only stops future ones. Block it: Instagram > Sharing and reuse > turn off AI content, or go private.

#Meta #Instagram #AI #indigoprivacy

If you use Google, you’re training its AI. Here’s how to opt out.

Consider this a belated PSA: A recent change to Google’s privacy settings is allowing the company to store more of your data, including media such as “images, files, and audio and ...

#ai #google #google-search #psa
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/06/if-you-use-google-youre-training-its-ai-heres-how-to-opt-out/

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The crypto industry set the playbook. Now the AI industry is spending big on the US midterms to buy support.

On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke with @molly0xfff to discuss the money flooding into US elections to ensure favorable regulation for AI and data centers.

Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/336_the_ai_industry_is_spending_big_on_the_us_midterms_w_molly_white

#tech #ai #politics #midterms #elections #generativeai #openai

Instagram is expanding its AI features.

Users can now generate AI images using public Instagram profiles by tagging accounts in their prompts.

The feature only works with public photos, raising new conversations about AI, creativity, and online privacy.

What do you think about this change?

#Instagram #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #TechNews

How do AI companies make money? @McSweeneysFlip break it down. "All you really need to know is that everything is totally working and everyone is making a lot of money, and you should just stop asking questions, luddite." It's satire but... is it?

https://flip.it/8inekL
#AI #Economics #Satire

Online dating: demographics, bias, and discrimination #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/online-dating-demographics-bias-and-discrimination/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

OpenAI's new chatbots can listen and speak at the same time, offering quicker answers and letting you interrupt them when they inevitably drone on.

https://flip.it/5Dsxwk
#OpenAI #GPT #AI

#CISA orders feds to prioritize patching #Langflow auth bypass flaw

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-orders-feds-to-prioritize-patching-langflow-auth-bypass-flaw/

#cybersecurity #AI

The forced labour behind fraud operations #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/the-forced-labour-behind-fraud-operations/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog