Are AI enabled features worth a 300% increase in software price? Hashtag Trending for Wednesday, September 4, 2024
Governments are demanding information from tech firms at a growing rate, a study says that the Tik Tok algorithm is designed to make us more favourable towards China, the head of integration of RUST into the Linux kernel resigns and Canva raises its prices by as much as 300 percent claiming that its AI features […]
Facial recognition company fined for “illegallly creating a database of faces”
Clearview AI, a U.S.-based facial recognition company, has been fined €30.5 million ($33.7 million) by the Netherlands’ data protection authority for illegally creating a database of billions of faces scraped from social media and the internet. This fine follows multiple sanctions across Europe for violating privacy regulations, including the GDPR. The company’s practice of collecting […]
You’re not crazy – your smart phone could be listening to you
If you have every heard someone say that they’d just had a conversation on their smart phone only to find that an advertisement, you may have thought that that this was simply coincidence. After all, Facebook and social media advertisers couldn’t be listening in on your phone calls. Except, it turns out that maybe they […]
