Amazon to pay over $30 million for Alexa, Ring privacy violations https://www.axios.com/2023/05/31/ftc-ring-employees-illegally-accessed-user-private-videos

The massive scope of this breach of our #privacy and #security is, truly, breathtaking. #amazon is being it’s most Amazon-ish.

And for that massive misuse of our #privatedata AND for not protecting it, the #FTC has fined them $30 million.

That’s. Fucking. NOTHING to Amazon. It’s barely a slap on the wrist. What in the ever loving FUCK is going on here?!?

I’ll be following this story. You should too.

@davidoclubb
Ditching any/all of their products has to be a sound decision, particularly for browsing the web.
#cybersecurity #personalsecurity
#privatedata
I'm done with tech companies using people as products.

@TindrasGrove

Not just ethics but law.

Even just using public data, it's a copyright lawsuit waiting to happen. But dipping into private data must surely create even better opportunities to disassemble such unscrupulous endeavors to the last brick.

It's questionable whether AI is good for society even if used in the ways one can narrowly suggest are good. I think our unemployment levels will skyrocket and we don't have a good enough understanding of the need for UBI.

But the idea of turning such tech to "hacking" raises the threat stakes and brings liability into sharp focus. We need a good strong liability suit, if not a criminal trial, to set the deep pockets makers of these things to pondering why they want to go down this rathole at all.

I think it was generally a bad thing that the DMCA moved toward criminalizing copyright violation. It should have remained a civil matter. It was all about slinging power around. But if there are going to be criminal laws against using works you don't have permission for, this would be a great place to see those teeth exercised for some social good.

#AI #Hacking #Liability #Law #Ethics #Data #PrivateData #PublicData #Privacy #DataMining #Trespassing #BreakingAndEntering #Theft #DataTheft #Society #DMCA

Improvement for the privacy of http://www.wikimedia.ch visitors: Google Analytics has been replaced by 👉 Matomo.
https://wikimedia.ch/en/privacy/
#wmch #wikimediach #privateData #privatedataprotection #matomo #opensourcesoftware

This is bad news. Private companies should never have access to personal information especially biological information. It's like people paying companies to take their DNA, which defines your physical person! What really makes me angry is relatives essentially surrendering your DNA to the public out of selfish curiosity. No, that information will never be misused! #DNA #PrivateData #BiologicalInformation https://www.propublica.org/article/google-human-tissue-jpc-military