Daily Digest | 1 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

Let’s face the fact, #mastodon is same toxic place as other social platforms. Similar personal individuals without respect to others opinion. In some cases even worse, yes I am talking about you the anti #AI folks, that I am using AI, architecting enterprise AI systems (eg. for infosec industry), doesn’t mean I am enabling mass surveillance and genocide. I am using and implementing AI responsibly, my tools are in no way to replace humans, they are helping workers with their jobs, so they don’t need to focus on for example repetitive tasks, in no way human can investigate 500+ GB daily logs for patterns. So if you want to verbally attack me, don’t even go close to my private and public space bubble.

It strikes me as odd that I get impatient waiting 4 minutes for #Claude to do something. I would wait a week and spend maybe 2 hours explaining with a junior dev.

#AI

It’s big: We did the math on #AI’s energy footprint | MIT Tech Review

“ChatGPT is now estimated to be the fifth-most visited website in the world, just after Instagram and ahead of X.

In December, #OpenAI reported #ChatGPT receives 1 billion messages every day, and after the company launched a new image generator in March, it said that people were using it to generate 78 million images per day.”

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116327/ai-energy-usage-climate-footprint-big-tech/

Spotify is rolling out a new “Verified by Spotify” badge so listeners can more easily differentiate between human artists and AI-generated music. Should save us all the embarrassment of saying something like “Xania Monet has a better voice than Beyoncé” in public. @Techcrunch has more:

https://flip.it/Mnd.TX

#Tech #AI #Spotify #Music #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence

📰 Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves AI chatbot age verification

It's a rare moment of working across the aisle.

📰 Source: Engadget - Technology News & Expert Reviews
🔗 Link: https://www.engadget.com/2161370/senate-judiciary-committee-unanimously-approves-ai-chatbot-age-verification/

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

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#Ubuntu’s #AI plans have #Linux users looking for a ‘kill switch’

https://www.theverge.com/tech/920723/linux-ubuntu-ai-features-ai-kill-switch

#FOSS #privacy

Wow, #RadioClickbait #CBC "Today on #OntarioToday we want to hear from you concerning your experiences using #AI for #MentalHealth support!"

The hidden cost of Google's AI defaults and the illusion of choice

Google says it respects user privacy in AI, but the reality is not so black and white.
Many people are hoping—nay, praying—that the potential AI bubble will burst soon.

🫤 https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/googles-privacy-maze-how-gemini-traps-you-and-your-data/

#google #hiddencosts #aibubble #ai #it #illusionofchoice #illustration #choise #bubble #cost

📰 Google's privacy maze: How Gemini traps you and your data

Google says it respects user privacy in AI, but the reality is not so black and white.

📰 Source: Ars Technica
🔗 Link: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/googles-privacy-maze-how-gemini-traps-you-and-your-data/

#DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

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Daily Digest | 30 April 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

Automating erasure.

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/919028/canva-magic-layers-ai-replacing-palestine

#AI #Canva #Palestine #Gaza #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism

What's a good rule of thumb for differentiating on sight vibe coded bullshit from projects that simply leverage AI in some capacity? Discuss.

#askfedi #ai #vibecode #bullshit

#ai #llm #code #coding #programming

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"cost of writing code has gone to O" laughs in usage tokens

This came out already last year, but the points are still valid. Zuboff is one of my favorite thinkers.

"We rushed to the internet, thinking of the democratization of knowledge and communication. But what we ran to with open arms has actually become a surveillance prison with no bars or guards, but also no exit, no escape."

https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-12-15/shoshana-zuboff-philosopher-ai-is-surveillance-capitalism-continuing-to-evolve-and-expand.html

#ai #SurveillanceCapitalism

Axios spotlights research from the CCIA Research Center, showing that #AI is the fastest-growing product category in history. The SPICE report offers one of the most comprehensive snapshots to date of how U.S. adults are adopting and using #genAI across work and daily life. Read more: https://www.axios.com/2026/04/29/ai-models-speed-warning

The #GUARDAct Isn’t Targeting Dangerous #AI—It’s Blocking Everyday Internet Use

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/guard-act-isnt-targeting-dangerous-ai-its-blocking-everyday-internet-use

#privacy #IdentityVerification #AgeVerification #politics

The Department of War wanted to deploy Anthropic's Claude for "all lawful use." What begins as a policy dispute between a tech company and the Department of War quietly unfolds into something far more unsettling. Listen as Dean Ball and EconTalk's Russ Roberts trace the collision between Anthropic and the federal government over Claude's use in classified military operations, exploring thorny questions about autonomous weapons, domestic mass surveillance, and whether a private company can demand contractual red lines when it comes to national security. The conversation spirals outward through the erosion of constitutional norms, the decay of institutional trust, the blurred line between public and private power, and the frightening possibility that AI's most powerful capabilities may arrive just as the Republic is least equipped to govern it.

#SXSW Used #AI-Powered Trademark Tool To Censor Dissent on #Instagram

https://www.404media.co/sxsw-used-ai-powered-trademark-tool-to-censor-dissent-on-instagram/

#censorship #privacy #FreeSpeech #BrandShield

📰 Europol Warns of AI-Powered 'Industrialized Cybercrime' in IOCTA 2026 Report

Europol's IOCTA 2026 report is out: AI is fueling 'industrialized' cybercrime. 🤖 Ransomware is shifting from encryption to data theft & extortion, and the line between criminals and state actors is blurring. #Cybercrime #AI #Ransomware #Europol

🔗 https://cyber.netsecops.io

@EUCommission

While you're busy with spreading even more of the planet burners called "#AI" to each and every corner, #Alphabet is attacking the very right to develop and deploy #Android software freely, without their gatekeeping.

What you should actually be worried about:

https://keepandroidopen.org/

While we discuss #ageverification and try to fight it, there is another invasion on privacy coming.
More and more tools, online service, shops, everything you can imagine, will ask you to prove you are human and not an AI.
These proves will be invasive, because they will most likely be biometric, e.g. iris scans. Forget cookies and fingerprinting in your browser.
@heiseonline wrote about World and the iris scan already in 2024. Companies seem to adapt this technology.
Look at the case of #Perplexity and #Amazon. #AI #agents #agenticai buying for you? Nope, not with amazon. They want to sell ads. Imagine you have to get your iris scanned going to your preferred search engine, or using facebook, or YouTube, or shopify.

https://www.heise.de/news/Mit-Irisscanner-Worldcoin-heisst-jetzt-World-und-will-gegen-Deepfakes-helfen-9985506.html

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/zoom-will-now-check-if-you-are-a-human-or-an-ai-imposter-during-video-meetings/

#RedHat’s #OpenClaw maintainer just made enterprise Claw deployments a lot safer

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/28/red-hats-openclaw-maintainer-just-made-enterprise-claw-deployments-a-lot-safer/

#TankOS #cybersecurity #AI

One of the most valuable AI companies in the world might be experiencing a bit of a money problem. Despite OpenAI being valued at an impressive $852 billion, it's still reportedly struggling to meet its revenue targets as rumours spread of its plans to go public. Futurism has more:

https://flip.it/tRrkkj

#AI #OpenAI #SamAltman #Technology

"It’s a testing method as old as Socrates and making a comeback in the AI age. A growing number of college professors say they are turning to oral exams, and combining a variety of old-fashioned and cutting-edge techniques, to help address a crisis in higher education."
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2026-04-28/colleges-are-turning-to-oral-exams-to-combat-ai

#OralExams #AI #HigherEducation

#ai #artificialintelligence

Opinion: The ability to remember you and your preferences is rapidly becoming a big selling point for AI chatbots and agents. That creates the potential for unprecedented privacy breaches that expose not only isolated data points, but the entire mosaic of people’s lives.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/28/1131835/what-ai-remembers-about-you-is-privacys-next-frontier/

The Race Is on to Keep #AI Agents From Running Wild With Your Credit Cards

https://www.wired.com/story/the-race-is-on-to-keep-ai-agents-from-running-wild-with-your-credit-cards/

#AgenticAI #cybersecurity #shopping #finance #Google #Mastercard #FIDO

“One phenomenon we are seeing is a lot of complaints and requests for review that have been generated by and possibly suggested by AI.”

People get a response to their FOI request, plug it into AI to ask how to handle it, and are told to appeal to the information and privacy commissioner, he said.

“So it’s reasonable to think that the next prompt will be: ‘OK. Well, please generate me a complaint.’ ”

The issues with AI hallucinating, exaggerating or extrapolating can complicate those complaints, he said. The term in use by front-line reviewers is “AI slop,” he said.

#AI #LLMs #BCGov
https://www.timescolonist.com/opinion/les-leyne-complaints-about-foi-surge-and-ai-might-be-to-blame-12206821

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news...it turns out those who believe in the "Dead Internet Theory", the idea that the internet is driven mostly by bot activity, might be onto something. According to a new study, 35.3 percent of websites were created with the help of AI.

https://flip.it/YBNecB

#AI #DeadInternetTheory #Internet #Web

What #Anthropic’s #Mythos Means for the Future of #Cybersecurity

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/04/what-anthropics-mythos-means-for-the-future-of-cybersecurity.html

#AI

https://apnews.com/article/stock-markets-trump-oil-iran-war-1901470c64a6055c80656fad64f863e5

As #oil stocks rise, #AI stocks sink.

All of Modernity is still soaked in oil, an ancient kind of #energy.

All of Universe is but conserved energy in various guises.

All of Life is mere squabble over means of energy conversion.

Intellistake og Singularity Compute har netop lanceret et strategisk samarbejde om en suveræn AI-infrastruktur i Sverige.
Det er så vigtigt!
* baseret på 100 % grøn energi
* Uden for rækkevidde af US CLOUD Act
* Fuld kontrol over europæiske data
Det er et væsentligt skridt mod teknologisk uafhængighed og sikkerhed for europæiske virksomheder. Fremtiden er her, og den er suveræn.
Læs mere her:
https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/intellistake-scales-enterprise-ai-with-dedicated-sovereign-ai-data-center-partnership-with-singularity-compute-834024259.html
#AI #Datasuverænitet #TechNews #Sverige #GreenTech #Intellistake