"In a statement about the “precautionary measure”, the #AEPD wrote it has ordered #Meta to suspend implementation of #ElectionDay Information & Voter Info Unit features in #Spain.
The AEPD is using emergency powers contained in Europe’s GDPR—the pan-EU regulation empowers any data protection authority to act where they see urgent risks to users in their own territory."
“Providing this data as input for Lavender undermines their claim that #WhatsApp is a private messaging app,” he wrote. “It is beyond obscene and makes #Meta complicit in Israel’s killings of ‘pre-crime’ targets and their families, in violation of international humanitarian law and Meta’s publicly stated commitment to human rights.
At work today we got the mail #Meta sent about their #AI use of our content on their services.
I filled in the form to opt out (commenting that this should be opt-in, not opt-out to begin with).
The confirmation arrived pretty instantly.
I bet it was penned by an AI.
Ok, so I got the Facebook email today about the sneaky change in their TOS to steal more user data. This time for "AI".
That's it. I deleted my account. I wasn't using it anyway, but I kept it to keep Messenger working. I created a new Messenger account instead for the handful of cases where I still need it.
I had not yet accepted the changed TOS from last year, and had to "consent" to those outrageous terms too just to get to the delete button. Clearly illegal.
A beautiful #email informing that they will update their privacy #policy for the 100th time?
Thank you #Meta for your amazing #Ai and for completely ignoring peoples #privacy over and over again 😂
Please please go ahead use all our #data as you want:
"...on the legal basis called legitimate interests for using your information to develop and improve AI at Meta."
#Slack slipping out their "We're taking everything you post, upload, message about" etc. to feed their #AI (which you could only opt out of via email?)
It feels like this is just spiralling out of control with tech companies racing one another because they CAN with no-one thinking about if they SHOULD. 😖
It's a bit ranty towards the end, but there's some fascinating insights here into shifting sands of the ZuckerBorg's metrics, FarceBook enshittification, and so on: