Leo Kelion calls himself an Amazon super-user, since 1999 he has been an Amazon customer, and uses Echo speakers, Ring cameras, a Fire TV set top box and a Kindle e-reader. The data files returned as part of his data subject request included 31,082 Alexa conversations with audio clips, late night music requests from the …
There is a large ecosystem of four key players that is trading our data and our attention for revenues, at least in the West. As Apple vies for the position of trusted service and hardware provider, Google is ring-fencing the cookie game into its own proprietary stack. IMHO Facebook has screwed its customers and hopefully …
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It is inevitable that Artificial Intelligence gets embedded into pretty much every machine and system we interact with. The benefits of systems that use every bit of available data and that learn from experience are as significant as electrically powered devices were in the last century. Yet the impacts and risks of A.I. on individuals …
How long would it take to read the Terms of Service Agreements of popular online services See the full infographic at VisualCapitalist
“Lots of the companies that have gotten wealthy from selling us data-collecting devices — or from collecting our data — have learned to talk the talk on privacy. But they’re very often defining privacy in ways that serve their own interests first.” iPhone apps were beaming my personal information to all sorts of tracking companies …
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