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Everything about privacy (the confidentiality pillar of security) -- but not restricted to infosec. Offline privacy is also relevant here.

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My oh my. From ABC News Australia: "Facebook admits to scraping every Australian adult user's public photos and posts to train AI, with no opt-out option."

A summary:

"The company does not offer Australians an opt out option like it does in the EU, because it has not been required to do so under privacy law."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-11/facebook-scraping-photos-data-no-opt-out/104336170

BTW the ABC News website has links to Facebook, Instagram and X but no Fediverse profiles. So their posts are used to train #Llama

#BigTech #AI #privacy #Meta

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@_[email protected] I haven't had a facebook account for ten years but I'm about to create one to acquire IT work (hopefully) on a freelance basis
I'll be making sure its not on my phone. Thanks

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

@[email protected] yeah I keep Threads and Instagram on a separate phone (an old iPhone SE) that has a different Apple ID, washi tape over the cameras, a dongle to physically block microphone access, an empty address book and empty camera roll. I don't trust them one bit!

And I rarely post on those apps anyways... just to Threads to tell people to migrate to the (real) Fediverse 🤗

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@_[email protected] ja, too many (media) outlets, platforms and public institutions are not yet on Mastodon and/or in the Fediverse. I don’t understand, it’s easier than anything and you get an educated audience 🤷🏻…
Forces of inertia 😔…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

@[email protected] yes and it makes ZERO sense to me. They would own all their content and followers and wouldn't have to wrestle with opaque algorithms to get their content seen