Topic: terms of service
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Arduino's New Terms of Service Spark Hobbyist Concerns Before Qualcomm Deal
Arduino's updated terms of service have sparked community concern, particularly around restrictions on reverse-engineering and new AI monitoring provisions as the company faces acquisition by Qualcomm. The company clarified that open source hardware and software remain unaffected, with restrictio...
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Doki Doki Literature Club Removed From Google Play Store
Google has removed the psychological horror game "Doki Doki Literature Club" from its Play Store, citing violations of its Terms of Service related to sensitive subject matter, just months after its official mobile port launched in December 2025. The developers are contesting the removal, noting ...
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Microsoft Terms: Copilot for Entertainment Only
AI companies legally define their tools as for entertainment and information only, creating a gap between marketing and contractual terms. This classification limits company liability, placing the responsibility on users to verify AI-generated advice, especially for critical decisions. A paradox ...
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Rednote Marks Clear Divide Between China and the World
Rednote is implementing a deliberate separation between its domestic (Xiaohongshu) and international (Rednote) user bases, including separate websites, terms of service, and a Singapore-based corporate entity with local servers for international data storage. The company registered Rednote Techno...
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HubSpot’s AI customer data plan sparked revolt in 4 days
HubSpot reversed its policy on July 5 after a July 1 update automatically opted customers into sharing their data for a new AI lead generation tool, sparking widespread backlash over invasive practices. The default opt-in policy required users to manually exclude their data, which critics condemn...
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TikTok's New Owners: How Your Feed Will Change
A consortium including Silver Lake, Oracle, and Abu Dhabi's MGX has finalized a deal to create a new U.S.-based corporate entity for TikTok, installing a fresh team of American executives to lead it. For users, the app experience will remain seamless, but a key technical change involves retrainin...
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Subnautica 2 Gets First Early Access Hotfix
Subnautica 2's first Early Access hotfix addresses community feedback with fixes for AMD/DirectX 12 crash errors, a Ping feature crash, and adjusted analytics settings. Analytics are now enabled only after accepting Terms of Service, and data volume sent to backend services has been reduced; play...
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AI giants discover the internet's harsh realities
AI companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google are now complaining that competitors are using "distillation" to replicate their models, mirroring the same fair-use arguments they used to justify scraping content from websites without permission. The industry's logic is contradictory: they consid...
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eBay Bans AI Shopping Bots Amid Rising Automation
eBay is banning the use of unauthorized third-party "buy for me" agents and AI chatbots on its platform, a policy targeting "agentic commerce" that will be enforced starting in early 2026. The new rules specifically prohibit AI-driven tools that autonomously place orders without human review, clo...
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Microsoft Halts Cloud Services for Israeli Unit Over Palestinian Spying
Microsoft terminated cloud services for an Israeli defense unit after an internal review found the technology was used to store surveillance data from monitoring Palestinian civilians. The decision, based on terms of service prohibiting mass surveillance, was prompted by investigative journalism ...
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Google Chrome Silently Downloads 4GB AI Model, Researcher Says
Google Chrome has been quietly downloading approximately 4GB of AI model files for Gemini Nano onto users' computers without explicit consent, storing them in a folder called OptGuideOnDeviceModel. The AI model automatically redownloads after manual deletion, but Google has begun rolling out a se...
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Your Intent Data May Be Sold to Competitors
Marketing software vendors are secretly harvesting far more customer data than needed, repurposing it into commercial products sold to competitors, according to forensic analysis by Clark Barron of Blackout. Some vendors embed "defeat devices" in their code that disable tracking when compliance a...
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Older Kindles Lose Support: What Still Works This Week
Amazon has ended support for legacy Kindle models (pre-2013) as of May 20, meaning these devices can no longer purchase, borrow, or download new content from the Kindle Store, though existing books remain readable. Affected users can still read books already stored on their device, and options in...
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Meta Ray-Bans Share 'Sensitive' Videos with Human Reviewers
A report reveals Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses send video feeds, including highly sensitive personal content, to human reviewers in Kenya, highlighting a gap between user expectations and corporate data handling. There is a significant lack of transparency, as it's unclear when manually recorded v...
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Elon Musk's Ex Sues Over AI Chatbot's Privacy Violation
The lawsuit alleges xAI's Grok chatbot created a non-consensual deepfake of Ashley St. Clair, framing it as a dangerous product liability issue to bypass Section 230 legal protections. xAI countersued St. Clair in Texas, claiming she violated its terms of service by filing her complaint in New Yo...
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Artisan AI Returns to LinkedIn After Brief Ban
Artisan AI was temporarily banned from LinkedIn due to unauthorized use of LinkedIn's name on its website and issues with third-party data scraping, which violates the platform's terms of service. The ban, which lasted two weeks, generated significant publicity and unexpectedly improved the compa...
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Law Firm Probes Coupang Over Data Breach Security Lapses
Investors harmed by a major 2025 cyber-attack on Coupang are joining a class action lawsuit alleging security failures led to substantial financial losses. The breach potentially exposed personal data of 33.7 million customers, triggering a police raid, the CEO's resignation, and regulatory actio...
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Oura CEO Responds to Backlash, Envisions 'Cloud of Wearables'
Oura CEO Tom Hale denies any data-sharing with the Department of Defense or Palantir, asserting that user health data remains private and is not shared without explicit consent. The company's involvement with the DoD is limited to a secure enterprise solution, and its terms of service strictly pr...
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23andMe to Pay $18 Million in Genetics Data Breach Settlement
23andMe (now Chrome Holding Co.) agreed to pay $18 million to settle a multistate investigation by 43 attorneys general for failing to protect customers' genetic data, leading to a 2023 breach that exposed 6.9 million customers' records. The investigation found the company lacked fundamental cybe...
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Anthropic Reverses Policy That Could Penalize AI Researchers
Anthropic reversed its controversial policy of secretly degrading Claude Fable 5's performance for researchers developing competing AI systems, following backlash from the AI community for undermining transparency and collaboration. The company will now make these safeguards visible to users, eit...
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