U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is using an artificial intelligence (AI) data collection tool to collect information from social media activity that can in some cases be linked to individuals’ social security or driver’s license numbers, according to a CBP document describing the software tool. The document was obtained by Vice magazine’s tech site…
CBP Is Using Sophisticated AI Tool to Monitor Americans’ Social Media Activity
May 19, 2023
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Social Media Startup Seeks to Protect User Data
A New York-based social media startup is seeking to set itself apart from mainstream tech practices by taking a strict stance on data privacy. The company is a minimalist when it comes to data collection, according to Nick Janicki, director of media relations at Gan Jing World, an entertainment platform established in the United States…
Twitter Blames Microsoft For Data Misuse in Potential Future Conflict Over AI
May 19, 2023
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Twitter is accusing Microsoft of misusing its API data access in a move that could foreshadow a potential conflict over the data access of AI systems. In a May 18 letter (pdf) to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Twitter said that Microsoft “may have been in violation” of multiple provisions of the Twitter Developer Agreement for…
Google May Delete Your Gmail Account: Here’s How to Stop It
Tech giant Google announced that it will delete any accounts that have been inactive for at least two years—including Gmail and YouTube accounts. Google’s policy of deleting accounts will start in December 2023, and it will include Google accounts including YouTube, Google Docs, Google Meet, Google Calendar, Google Photos, and Gmail. The company said it will…
TikTok Pushing ‘Dumbed Down’ Content to Western Teens Warns Peer
TikTok is feeding Western teens “dumbed down” content while providing Chinese youth with educational and motivational videos, the president of the British Chambers of Commerce has claimed. Baroness Martha Lane Fox—a former Twitter board member—said the video sharing app was “eroding ambition and motivation” by bombarding Western young people with addictive content. According to the…
Mastermind Behind iSpoof Scam Site Jailed for 13 Years
SOUTHWARK—A cyber criminal who ran a website which enabled fraudsters to trick 200,000 people around the world—many of them elderly—out of £100 million has been jailed for 13 years and four months. Tejay Fletcher, 35, was the co-founder and administrator of iSpoof, a website which became a “fraud shop” for scammers who defrauded around £43 million…
BT to Cut up to 55,000 Jobs by 2030 Amid Shift to AI
The UK’s largest broadband and mobile provider will cut up to 55,000 jobs—more than 40 percent of its workforce—by the end of the decade amid plans to shift to artificial intelligence (AI) and automated services. Telecoms giant BT Group has around 130,000 employees but said it plans to reduce that number to between 75,000 and…
Montana Becomes First US State to Completely Ban TikTok
Montana has become the first U.S. state to impose a complete ban on TikTok, a Chinese-owned video-sharing platform that’s popular among both youth and adults in the United States. Gov. Greg Gianforte signed Senate Bill 419 on Wednesday. The ban on TikTok goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2024—unless Congress passes a national law overriding it,…
Musk Warns There’s a Chance AI ‘Goes Wrong and Destroys Humanity’
May 17, 2023
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has issued yet another warning about the potential dangers of artificial intelligence (AI)—namely, that it could destroy humanity. In a May 16 interview with CNBC anchor David Faber, the tech tycoon noted that the future of AI could go one of two ways. “There’s a strong probability that it will make…
Musk Calls George Soros ‘Magneto,’ Sparks Criticism From Israeli Official
Elon Musk compared controversial billionaire Democratic donor George Soros to “X-Men” supervillain “Magneto” in a series of tweets on May 15, just days after Soros’s firm disclosed having sold off its stake in Tesla. “Soros reminds me of Magneto,” the Twitter owner wrote, referring to the Marvel comic villain who is a Jewish Holocaust survivor. He added that Hungarian-born…
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