Honestly, I’m not surprised. Those LMS platforms have every byte of our activities as students and teachers from them. Still horrible. But, start asking more questions of what your school does with their LMS data…

TikTok deemed a threat to national security, but Musk is fine. Sure. Makes sense.

I used to work in corp retail & procurement. These things cost so much $$$. All to understaff & reduce payroll. If they just had a proper inventory team to detail receive goods & stock before/after hours, they’d have a better handle on shrink, not to mention more people available to help customers.

Happy belated Y2K everyone

It’s on purpose at this point. It is too obvious for someone to ask, hey, do our gov websites share sensitive data with the tech bros? We should check? Nah? Just ignore it all? Ok!

"If the Government wishes to withdraw a subsidy or a privilege, it must do so by means and on terms which do not endanger First Amendment rights."

Sigh. Is no place safe? What browser can I use that doesn’t want to force made up guessing on me? Because now Duck Duck Go is trying it. I already shut it off, but I just want the nonsense to end…

"...so the agency is permanently banning the company “from using any health information for most advertising purposes.”"

the fact it isn't completely illegal to ever use health info for targeted ads is just absurd.

“For the purposes of this study, the researchers narrowed the emotional states to six categories: joy, fear, neutral, anger, sadness, and disgust.”

Ah, yes, the sound of neutral emotion…

"“We’re not detecting folks,” Tawfik said. “We’re detecting encampments. So the interest is not identifying people because that will be a violation of privacy.”"

"Ellucian, an educational technology company, argues that “facial recognition can give students better service and security” by rendering the need to carry a student ID obsolete."

Eliminating carrying a single object is one of my fav arguments for why spending millions on surv tech is justifiable

Hypothetical deaths don't manage to stir empathy, nor do the actual deaths. But, let's try this Dicken's approach and send them a ghostly automaton to see if that moves the needle...

“CVS Health, Kroger and Rite Aid, with a combined 60,000 locations nationwide — said they allow pharmacy staff members to hand over customers’ medical records in the store.”

New: a tech conference is collapsing after its founder admitted to listing an auto-generated woman on the site as a speaker. Some (real) speakers have dropped out, we spoke to multiple people who were also supposed to go too 404media.co/devternity-f...

generative AI is not advancing science, it is destroying it https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03635-w

Why. Just why.

“The system will allow the UN to see how the virtual society would react to changes in economic prosperity, heightened security, changing political influences, and a range of other parameters.”

When you already have geofence warrants where companies provide location info history to law enforcement, it’s not that impossible to imagine a scenario where handprint data is handed over to “solve a crime.”

Whelp, I’m here!