Tag: privacy

Meta AI launches «incognito chat» on Meta and WhatsApp apps

No one can see these chats but you — but what about safety? (Picture: Zuckerberg/Facebook)
Raising more questions than answers, Mark Zuckerberg announced the feature as a means to a perfectly private conversation:

— A completely private way to interact with AI, similar to how end-to-end encryption means no one can read your conversations, even Meta or WhatsApp, he writes on Facebook.

There will be no logs of the conversation anywhere, he promises, and the chat itself disappears «when you exit the session.»

This can of course be handy for avoiding safeguards against self-harm or worse, which could otherwise trigger a human review. These guardrails, or lack thereof, have led to plenty of lawsuits against other AI labs, Mashable notes.

Meta says its chatbots won’t allow harmful prompts or dangerous requests, and that people who repeatedly submit them will be temporarily blocked.

— We’ll all need ways to discuss sensitive topics in ways that no one else can access, says Zuckerberg.

Read more: Zuckerberg on Facebook, Mashable, Reuters, and 9to5Mac.

Reddit announces new bot and privacy policy for AI age

«Reddit is for humans,» their CEO says, as they tighten ID requirements for suspected bad bots. (Picture: u/spez, Reddit)
Reddit is highly valued as a source of human expertise and knowhow, but bots are threatening to overrun it with AI slop, forcing a change in policy.

There are «good bots» and «bad bots,» Reddit CEO Steve Huffman explains, and they want to keep the good ones with a new [App]-label.

Accounts reported as «fishy» and suspected of automation will be required to verify that they are human. This is done through third party services to keep Reddit from knowing your identity — and uphold their highly valued anonymity.

— For better or worse, using AI to write is part of how people will communicate, Huffman writes, and they do not plan to root that out, leaving it to the rating system.

But, on Reddit, «you should assume that anyone you’re talking to is a human unless otherwise labeled,» he says.

Read more: Huffman’s Reddit post, Ars Technica, Engadget, and Mashable.

Datatilsynet truer Meta med én million kroner i dagbøter

Zuckerberg fra en konferanse under en uironisk ment overskrift. (Bilde: Meta.)
Tilsynet mener at Meta, som eier Facebook og Instagram, bryter mot EUs personvernlover når de samler inn detaljert informasjon og sporer brukerne, skriver de i dag.

Som det første personverntilsynet i EU infører de nå «midlertidig forbud» mot adferden, som å endres innen 4. august for å unngå saftige bøter.

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Metas nye Twitter-klone blir ikke tilgjengelig i Norge/EU

Soper opp for mye data; Threads bryter personvernlover i EU. (Bilde: Skjermdump, App Store.)
Den mye omtalte, og nesten perfekt betimelige “Threads”-appen blir blokkert i EU.

Appen dukker ikke opp i flere europeiske versjoner av App Store, i følge Bloomberg, og den vises heller ikke i Norge.

Gratisappen soper opp informasjon om livet ditt fra Instagram, om handlingsmønster og reklamer, og sveiper samtidig opp data fra mobilen din om helse, finanser, nettlesing, plassering, innkjøp, kontakter og søkehistorie — for å nevne noe, melder Independent.ie.

Det var ikke uventet at Meta ville bruke Threads til datainnsamling, i et så stort omfang at det blir en personvernsfelle av de helt store.

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