#Meta will use #AI to analyze height and bone structure to identify if users are underage

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/05/meta-will-use-ai-to-analyze-height-and-bone-structure-to-identify-if-users-are-underage/

#privacy #AgeVerification #IdentityVerification

What Could Possibly Go Wrong with Germany’s Pivot Toward Automated Surveillance
Germany's New bill would let police use AI tools to upload a photo and automatically find matches online

Finish reading here:
➡️ medium.com/p/b4437acf2bf6

#PIVX #AI #Surveillance
https://medium.com/p/b4437acf2bf6

https://blog.cloudflare.com/agents-stripe-projects/

#ai #agents #agentic #cloudflare #domains

Mark Fuckerberg ‘Personally Authorized and Actively Encouraged’ Meta’s Massive Copyright Infringement to Train AI Systems, Publishers and Scott Turow Allege in Lawsuit

https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/meta-ai-mark-zuckerberg-copyright-infringement-lawsuit-publishers-scott-turow-1236738383/

#Meta #Llama #AI #piracy #copyright #enshittification #technology #socialmedia

Character.AI Is being sued by Pennsylvania over its AI chatbot that claimed to be a real doctor.

“The department’s investigation found that AI chatbot characters on Character.AI claimed to be licensed medical professionals, including psychiatrists, available to engage users in conversations about mental health symptoms,” Governor Josh Shapiro’s office said. “In one instance, a chatbot falsely stated it was licensed in Pennsylvania and provided an invalid license number.”

https://flip.it/SwR4P-

#AI #Health #Technology #News #CharacterAI

Daily Digest | 6 May 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

It'll just scan a user's face to recognize if they are a teen or not.

No big deal.

Meta AI will analyze faces of teen users 'but it's not face recognition'

https://9to5mac.com/2026/05/05/meta-ai-will-analyze-faces-of-teen-users-but-its-not-face-recognition/

#Meta #AI #Privacy #Surveillance #Tech

Author's notes for the short poem (cinquain) by me that appears immediately upthread of this message.

I think this is my first attempt at the cinquain form. I think I did not get the meter right. It's harder than it looks to do that right. But I have limited time today, so this will have to do for a first pass.

I should say that I had a discussion on duck.ai with GPT-5 mini about this poem as I wrote various drafts of what is attached above. I let it do critiques and give me some info on the general form requirements, but I refused to let it do any of the actual writing. I feel very strongly that I want to do my own writing and not have that outsourced to another entity.

I chose to use duck.ai because it promises some degree of privacy. Not that this was a super-private project. But I think even when getting advice, it's useful to think about this question.

However, "we" did usefully discuss word choice and it's pretty good at being able to assess whether the sense of a particular word choice lands in the way I intend, so that was helpful in working through some changes I was contemplating.

#Writing #Poetry #WritingCommunity #AI #NoAI #privacy #DuckAI #LLMs

⚠️ Human brain is the subject of much research and investigation, but we don't get a lot of information about the extent to which neurotechnological advances can/ has become a security threat for our mental privacy and autonomy.

🌏 Transparency and public disclosure about neurotechnological advances is a public service that ALL governments must undertake.

🦺 Time to start an open discussion about safety threats from neurotechnology.

#neurosecurity #neurotech #mentalprivacy #ai #biometrics

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Text describing EEG based brain monitoring and recording experiment carried out in 2015.

"...Google Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. The file is named weights.bin. It lives in OptGuideOnDeviceModel. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it."

https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/

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#ai #climatemergency #bloatware

Y’all remember a couple weeks ago when I shared Privacy Guy’s article about #Anthropic being sketchy?

#Google said, Hold my beer, and dropped a 4 gig #ai weights file on every #chrome user. You can’t delete it, it reinstalls unless you can wizard your way through some obscure settings. And, the browser doesn’t use it, it ships queries to google cloud. It exists only so they can say it’s “local”.

“An engineering team at a large AI vendor decided that the user's machine is a deployment surface to be optimised for the vendor's product roadmap, not a personal device whose owner is the legal authority on what runs there.

The Anthropic case put a pre-authorisation for browser automation on around three million Claude Desktop user devices [19]. The Google case puts 4 GB of AI weights on, by my mid-band estimate, around 500 million Chrome user devices, with proportionally larger ePrivacy, GDPR, and environmental exposure.”

https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install

🤖 New ways to buy ChatGPT ads

OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads with a beta self-serve Ads Manager, CPC bidding, and enhanced measurement tools—built to protect privacy and keep conversations separate from ads.

📰 Source: OpenAI News
🔗 Link: https://openai.com/index/new-ways-to-buy-chatgpt-ads

#ChatGPT #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

the #trump family has entered the #AI market with a $10,000 #WLFI #mac mini they're calling #WorldClaw / #WorldRouter
https://x.com/worldlibertyfi/status/2051659743513473486

#WorldLibertyFinancial #corruption #uspol #crypto #cryptocurrency #uspolitics

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This is the script of my national network radio report yesterday on increasing problems with robotaxis interfering with emergency first responders. As always there may have been minor wording variations from this script as I presented this report live on air.

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Well we've talked before about the concerns that the public in general and emergency first responders in particular have about robotaxis. And we've talked about the various stories of them freezing up, blocking intersections, invading law enforcement activities, slowing ambulances and paramedics from reaching injured persons, blowing past street stop signs and school bus stop signals and more. And the 800 pound robotaxi gorilla is Alphabet's Waymo. Alphabet as we know is also the parent company of Google.

Waymo is rapidly expanding into more and more cities. You might think that with these kinds of incidents and others, like Waymo depots keeping residents up all night with loud noises from robotaxis coming in and out, and many other Waymo-related problems, that Waymo would be bending over backwards to be good citizens in the communities that they want to serve.

But it's more apparent than ever now that at least when it come to Waymo, they've inherited the "move fast and break things" arrogance that was a hallmark of Google in its early days, before they grew up a bit and actually entered the period where they became world class when it came to user privacy and security. But it seems that we've now come full circle, and hubris is indeed the word for Alphabet and Waymo.

Some of this is undoubtedly being driven -- no pun intended of course -- by the related AI-hype. And AI-hype is being supercharged by the federal government pressing for "AI Everywhere". Massive, electricity and water hungry, often polluting data centers being pushed into unspoiled rural areas, federal pressure being exerted on states to try force them not to implement their own common-sense AI regulations. Those could help protect their citizens against AI Slop, deepfakes, and AI-powered spams, scams, and malware. And we know why this is the case, politicians in both parties know which side of their bread the butter is on, and Big Tech knows where to make campaign contributions.

Some states have begun to fight back a bit against the rampant risks from robotaxis. California for example has just declared some rules about giving emergency responders the ability to have some control over where robocars can go and when they have to immediately leave an area. And they've set a short time limit on how long Waymo robotaxi remote operators have to respond to calls from emergency responders.

But really this is only scratching the surface of what's needed. Because Waymo now clearly has no real interest in what the public thinks about the sometimes dangerous mess their robotaxis are creating. They're now actually refusing to attend scheduled public meetings to discuss these problems with the public, saying that they've already said all that they have to say. Total, absolute arrogance. They're Alphabet, they're Google, they're Waymo. They're going to do what they want to do. And they feel that nobody can stop them.

That's the view of Big Tech generally these days. And maybe they're right that nobody can stop them on their relentless march to further enrich their billionaire CEOs. Because so far, regulators and politicians by and large -- with a handful of exceptions -- have been letting them run wild over our communities when it comes to robocars, robotaxis, and AI more generally. It's clear that there seems to be a widespread feeling among these firms and their supporters that AI is at the top and ordinary people are at the bottom.

So we see what the reality looks like. It's not the AI systems themselves that we have to fear -- it's not evil machines plotting against us. They are, after all, just machines. It's the AI firms and the managements of these firms who need to be held responsible for what the AI push is doing, and it's up to us to care enough to elect leaders who can hopefully find ways to make that actually happen.

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#google #alphabet #AI #waymo #robotaxis #robocars

We've all seen those obvious deepfakes online picturing Trump or Musk getting arrested by the FBI. The latest AI tools are now so advanced that looking for the usual signs like extra digits on hands is no longer helpful when trying to spot them. The Atlantic's Lila Shroff experiments with photorealistic images of bank alerts, passports and tax forms and explains how deepfakes are coming for our bank accounts.

https://flip.it/Kv7S1A

#AI #Deepfakes #Cybersecurity #PersonalFinance #Scams

@hdv wrote about discussions at the recent Advisory Committee meeting: "Open web vs AI: what can W3C do?"

Suggestions included:
Ensure AI companies are engaged in our standards work and community ...
Take threats to the open web into account in work on WebMCP and the “agentic web”, making it an “open agentic web”, built on open standards and technologies (rather than proprietary) and based on open principles (rather than walled gardens)
Read more at:
https://hidde.blog/web-ai-breakout/
#AI

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Daily Digest | 5 May 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

NicFab Newsletter #19 is out.

This week:
→ EDPB marks 10 years of GDPR
→ AI Act trilogue stalls — high-risk rules still set for 2 August 2026
→ EU Age Verification App found vulnerable hours after launch
→ First European standard on trusted data transactions (EN 18235-1:2026)
→ CopyFail (CVE-2026-31431) added to CISA KEV
→ Minnesota first US state to ban nudification apps

https://www.nicfab.eu/en/newsletter-issues/2026-05-05-issue-19/

#Privacy #DataProtection #AIAct #Cybersecurity #AI

⚖️ Shut Down Turnkey Totalitarianism

William Binney, the NSA surveillance architect-turned-whistleblower, called it the "turnkey totalitarian state." Whoever sits in power gains access to a boundless surveillance empire that scorns pr...

📰 Source: Deeplinks
🔗 Link: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/claw-back

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

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🤖 Tuesday briefing: How AI facial recognition in policing works – and how it can go wrong

In today’s newsletter: With the use of facial recognition skyrocketing, there are calls for the rapid development of safeguardsGood morning. Over the last couple of days, the Guardian has been repo...

📰 Source: AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian
🔗 Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/05/tuesday-briefing-how-ai-facial-recognition-in-policing-works-and-how-it-can-go-wrong

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

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#Python #cryptography library (yes, the one that criticizes everything and everyone) is now vibecoded. Our future is truly bright!

Noticed because apparently "Claude" wrote a test that OOM-ed my system. But hey, #RustLang protects against memory errors, so it's fine to vibecode your security critical components.

https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/pull/14782

#security #AI #LLM #NoAI #NoLLM

FYI: Ad platforms rebuild, earnings diverge, and AI rewrites the supply chain: Alphabet posts $109.9B in Q1, X replaces its entire ad stack, Omnicom runs live agentic buys, and OpenAI formalizes advertiser data-sharing in one dense week. https://ppc.land/ad-platforms-rebuild-earnings-diverge-and-ai-rewrites-the-supply-chain/ #DigitalMarketing #Advertising #AI #AdTech #EarningsReport

The courtroom battle between Elon Musk and Sam Altman heated up Monday when Musk’s AI expert Stuart Russell, a Cal-Berkeley computer science professor, took the stand. Russell co-signed an open letter in 2023 calling for a six-month pause in AI research. Here's more from @Techcrunch, including what Russell told jurors and Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rodgers about the risks associated with AI:

https://flip.it/28x0Q5

#Tech #AI #ElonMusk #SamAltman #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence

Is it a 'boom' if you need to protect yourself from it?

#AI #LLMs #TechBros #AIBubble #ToxicDebt

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Banks seek to offload risk to avoid ‘choking’ on data centre debt Global lenders explore private deals and risk transfers to cut exposure fo Al boom

States across the wildfire-prone Western U.S. are using AI for early detection.

@AssociatedPress reports: "In Arizona, California and beyond, the technology is mostly used in high-risk areas that are sparsely populated, rural or remote, where a blaze might not be quickly spotted by human eyes."

https://flip.it/S539W9

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Tech #Wildfires #Technology

Daily Digest | 4 May 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