PierceTheBubble

You're missing the point: that's where the autonomous driving comes in! People are now just sitting there watching the road, while they could be spending that time watching ads...

• Some BMW exec probably

ISBNdb has never purchased, scanned, or sold a book — for AI training or anything else

Nobody is accusing you of that, but instead of facilitating it (or at least trying to) as an intermediary. You got caught red-handed, and now you're trying to pass it off as a "marketing experiment", you weasel. But at least you didn't double down and take down the entire platform with it, so I'll give you that.

There's no such thing as a camera that's restricted to vehicles or license plates; only "trust me bro" post-processing can restrict its scope. And with stationary ALPRs everywhere, why would a drone be required to do so; other than registering parked vehicles?

If the 2027 AirPods and AI pin/pendant, both expected to come with cameras (or at least an optimally placed microphone bug), are anything to go by: "the cameras ... are not designed for taking photos and videos, and will instead send information about the wearer's surroundings [including any others in it] to Siri."

Phew... I'm soo relieved the data is just being fed straight to Siri.

Based on a facial recognition selfie, checked against your existing profile pics

They've been doing this for a long time, but supposedly for bot-detection; which are now just using LLMs to generate slop to game the platform and its users. But with human users now possibly considered unauthentic by others, because they haven't yet de-anonymized themselves.

It teasing a "reimagined experience" that will test full-screen videos for a section of users "the moment they open the app." is an interesting choice, when addictive design features for its platforms are under scrutiny. But I guess it only addresses the problem in relation to children; adults of course being fair game, which could be another reason to be extra cautious and use age-estimation in the verification process.

until we can get those data, privacy, security and sharing concerns ironed out through a contractual relationship

Trust me bro. These systems will never be abused by those managing the system: surely they couldn't give themselves access privileges, surely they couldn't remove data access records, surely individuals in positions of power would never modify, remove or share data out of self-protection, including their buddies' (assets)...

You're all just a little confused, you see: these video-capable cameras currently only record snapshots of vehicle identifiers, that happen to be registered to individuals, and might depict its driver and persons surrounding the vehicle. And don't give me any of that future hocus pocus of "video footage"; that doesn't exist actually, it cannot simply be enabled with a single over-the-air update...

These cameras, among the many others might, or might not keep a record of everything you do outside your home, and stack it on top of data harvested by other data aggregators; but we promise we won't look at it. Why aren't you smiling? It's by contract: we'll monitor compliance of both our self and our partner with a mutual interest. And uuuhp, no deliberate loopholes that we actively exploit.

Members are allowed only to forward tickets to other members, or sell them back to United ... the use of multiple devices to access club accounts includes being able to act for a group of friends or for elderly family members who struggle to use technology

So this is a result of forcing the use of an account for every visitor? It's also madness you cannot forward or resell tickets outside the "terms and conditions" dictated by United. Which sounds a lot more like a license to a ticket, than actual ownership over a ticket.

Am I the only one that finds it ridiculous, non-E2E encrypted cloud storage isn't protected from mass-scanning (against opaque cryptographic hashes)? Just because one technically could, and "nothing in the law prevents" a provider from doing so, or a legal basis is explicitly being provided (in case of the EU's Chat Control), doesn't mean one should. You're still preemptively scanning private content, and it should be irrelevant whether or not it's encrypted.

I've frequently criticized Apple in the past, but I can't do anything other than praising them for dodging this privacy-nightmare; unlike services provided by the likes of Google or Meta, that actively encourage the use of unencrypted options by default, while happily "volunteering" in case of the EU's Chat Control.

Spotlight, uh, moonlight, uh, eyesore get your fucking aim right 🎶

‘okay, this is David, remember this person.'

Well, that wouldn't be creepy for someone to say. And the “the cocktail party problem”, really? It's generally much more awkward if a person you hardly remember, greets you like you're their best friend. But I guess you should also start wearing these glasses, right? So we can all be pretentious douchebags, instead of just humbly asking if we've met before. And I can't wait for creeps to give slideshow presentations to these glasses, so they have an arsenal of women to hit on: pretending like they've met these women before...

... drones often alter natural behavior simply because people or animals notice them. The disruption can cause wildlife to scatter and people to behave differently.

Ah yes, humans in their natural habitat: blissfully unaware to the fact that their every move is being monitored, mocking the "tin foil hatter" trying to convince them otherwise.