Topic: data retention policies
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Privacy Experts Warn Over YouTube's AI Selfie Age Checks
YouTube is testing an AI-powered age verification system that estimates users' ages by analyzing behavior patterns like search history and watch habits, raising privacy concerns. Flagged minors will face restrictions like disabled personalized ads, but critics highlight risks in the appeals proce...
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Meta AI Wants Access to Your Unshared Camera Roll Photos
Meta is testing an AI feature that requests access to users' entire camera rolls to generate AI-enhanced content, analyzing unshared photos based on timestamps, locations, and objects. Critics raise concerns about privacy, as Meta's terms allow facial recognition, image modification, and potentia...
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Waymo's Approach to Handling Protest Footage in LA
Recent protests in Los Angeles saw five Waymo self-driving vehicles vandalized, leading the company to suspend operations and sparking debates about surveillance and autonomous vehicle data in law enforcement. Waymo’s vehicles have extensive camera systems, raising privacy concerns, but the compa...
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Data Hoarding Risks: Financial & Security Dangers Exposed
Businesses face significant financial and security risks from data hoarding, as cybercriminals exploit vulnerabilities created by retaining unnecessary data. Nearly half of enterprises store unneeded data, leading to breaches and leaks, with 86% of organizations experiencing breaches in the past ...
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Facebook Using Private Photos to Train AI Without Consent
Facebook is accessing users' private, unpublished photos through a "cloud processing" feature, expanding its AI training practices beyond public images, with opt-in prompts that may be easily overlooked. The feature grants Meta broad rights to analyze personal details in private photos, but the c...
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