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Comment · 1 year ago
> [access to use customer data...] *to provide the Services and perform its obligations under this Agreement.*

"Services" – which you'll note is capitalized... lawyers do that for a reason – has a very specific meaning that very obviously does not include "whatever the fuck Google wants to do with it", nor "training general purpose AI models" in particular.

Why are you intentionally and blatantly misinterpreting Wiz's policies? Or are you just that good at ignoring/missing details in order to weave the story you've already decided to believe?

Comment · 7 years ago
We can pretty easily call micro aggressions casual [race/sex/class/etc]ism.

Sound good?

Comment · 7 years ago
> Psychologists declare whole races of people or countries as doomed to poverty because they've got "low IQ"

Who the hell have you been talking to? This is obvious bullshit.

Comment · 7 years ago
I have heard very little in the way of hard sciences finding more robust ways to diagnose or treat mental illnesses. Source?
Comment · 7 years ago
Some of this is definitely good. Requiring companies to use plain and truthful language when describing privacy-affecting settings is a great step, and apps/services shouldn't try to hide the "continue without enabling" button.

With that said, requiring different rules for children seriously increases barriers to entry for new services hoping to attract users in areas where these rules take effect, and kids will ALWAYS find ways around it. Nudges like snap streaks and the Like button encourage daily active use, but they also encourage actual social interaction between people to some degree.

Additionally, nudges like the Like button or Snapstreaks, though they do encourage a potentially unhealthy relationship with technology, also encourage social interaction with peers. It's certainly more complicated than "these are bad!"

Comment · 7 years ago
Everyone will just sneak their parents' cards. I know I would have.
Comment · 7 years ago
Any time Alexa is lit up, it may be listening to you. Any time Alexa is not lit up, your conversations can't be overheard. The tin foil hat aspect comes in when people say it's listening ALL THE TIME, which it isn't.

None of my VERY non-technical family think that their assistant devices aren't transmitting recordings of their voices to some remote server somewhere, because it's obvious enough. Even my 71 year old grandfather understands this.

Comment · 7 years ago
Fundamentally for a voice assistant to assist you it needs to listen to you. I don't see how this could possibly be surprising to anyone.
Comment · 7 years ago
Am I supposed to be surprised? This is just logical. Of course they employ people to grade the quality of assistants' voice recognition and responses.
Comment · 7 years ago
On an iPhone, you can tap the power button five times consecutively to disable biometric access. However, I think the only way to do this on a MacBook with TouchID is turning it off.
Comment · 7 years ago
The fact that this happens at all should be constantly in the news. This is unconstitutional treatment of a US citizen and CBP clearly needs oversight.
Comment · 7 years ago
Unique with Grindr is that it's a safe bet that the majority of users have sent and received explicit photos. So if you want to find a congressman's dick pics that his wife doesn't know he's been sending to men..... grindr is probably a good place to do it.
Comment · 7 years ago
Yes, they already have it, and that is the concern. If someone in Chinese intelligence wanted high quality extortion material, Chinese ownership of Grindr means they could probably get it with relative ease.
Comment · 7 years ago
trying to read this damn article without e's and r's.

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