Topic: user privacy concerns
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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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OpenAI Faces Backlash Over ChatGPT Log Retention Order
OpenAI is appealing a court order to retain ChatGPT user logs indefinitely, including deleted conversations, due to a legal dispute over alleged copyright violations in generated content. The mandate affects ChatGPT Free, Plus, and Pro users, but excludes Enterprise, Edu, and Zero Data Retention ...
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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Facebook is accessing users' private, unpublished photos through a "cloud processing" feature, expanding its AI training practices beyond public images, with opt-in prompts that may be easily overlooked.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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Signal Blocks Windows Recall Over Microsoft's Lack of Options
Signal blocks Windows 11's Recall feature from capturing its desktop app by default, citing privacy risks to sensitive conversations despite Microsoft's revisions. Windows users must manually adjust settings to allow Recall captures, as Signal claims Microsoft failed to provide adequate safeguard...
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Sam Altman Advocates 'AI Privilege' Amid OpenAI Court Order
ChatGPT users found their deleted conversations were retained due to a court order in a copyright lawsuit, raising privacy and transparency concerns. OpenAI quietly preserved chat logs since mid-May 2025 without immediate user notification, sparking backlash and debates over AI data retention pol...
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OpenAI Fights Court Order to Preserve All ChatGPT Logs
OpenAI is contesting a court order to preserve all ChatGPT user interactions, arguing it violates privacy and stems from speculative copyright infringement claims by media outlets. The company claims the preservation mandate was issued hastily, unfairly restricting its ability to honor user priva...
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