Your Privacy and how you have none

[Kalmado]

Have you tried reaching out to your companies IT group and seeing if they could add it?

Not sure if they would due to concerns of why do we need adblock to do our jobs since there aren't ads in our work systems. My corporate is that of extreme bureaucrats where you have to ask 10 people if you're aloud to fart. We can't even use wireless mice or keyboards due to it being a security threat in their words.

[dasva]

So basically you don't want them to tell them the reason is so you can shit post on bg easier!?!

[BaneTheBrawler]

I don't see any ads, because I've had noscript/ublock-origin/https-everywhere/ghostery/do not track, running for years.

Seriously, if you are not using those, start. Now.
"But my browser doesn't have those/has gimped versions." Get a better browser.
"But Firefox isn't sexy anymore. I just wanna use the browser Apple/Microsoft/Google tells me to." Well fine, but then you're probably in the wrong thread.

My internet looks like that glorious period before the punch the monkey ads started running, but prettier than the geocities style of that time.
Shit, now I kinda wanna see a website with those big old chunky frames, lets see if I can find one.

i should add that in addition to my school-of-fish defense, i also adopt passive defenses like what you've mentioned, plus antivirus software of course. i'm no dummy. i just like muh convenience.

[Clash Perez]

Welp.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/12/2...fter=t3_7mvl1g

(I'm sure there's a shorter link but I can't be arsed)

[Kalmado]

So basically you don't want them to tell them the reason is so you can shit post on bg easier!?!

Mothafucka

[6souls]

Third Party Apps Connected to Gmail Scan Private Emails, Some Read by Humans
Google Allows it because it's part of the User Agreement
Edison Software & eDataSource Inc have Humans Read Emails to "Improve Algorithms"
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44699263 | https://www.wsj.com/articles/techs-d...ail-1530544442

[kuronosan]

Um.

[6souls]

Rose Bowl Stadium Admits to Using a Photo Booth with Facial Recognition Software at a Taylor Swift Concert in an Attempt to Catch Stalkers
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46567125 | https://gizmodo.com/whats-up-with-th...tec-1831045717
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture...curity-760696/

[6souls]

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47893082
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...-reviews-audio

Amazon, Apple, & Google have human reviewers to monitor voice recordings. The claim is that it improves speech recognition.

All three companies say voice recordings are occasionally reviewed to improve speech recognition.

But the reaction to the Bloomberg article suggests many customers are unaware that humans may be listening.

Reviewers typically transcribed and annotated voice clips to help improve Amazon's speech recognition systems.

Amazon's voice recordings are associated with an account number, the customer's first name and the serial number of the Echo device used.

Some of the reviewers told Bloomberg that they shared amusing voice clips with one another in an internal chat room.

They also described hearing distressing clips such as a potential sexual assault. However, they were told by colleagues that it was not Amazon's job to intervene.

According to Apple's security policy, voice recordings lack personally identifiable information and are linked to a random ID number, which is reset every time Siri is switched off.

Any voice recordings kept after six months are stored without the random ID number.

Its human reviewers never receive personally identifiable information or the random ID.

Google said human reviewers could listen to audio clips from its Assistant, which is embedded in most Android phones and the Home speaker.

It said clips were not associated with personally identifiable information and the company also distorted the audio to disguise the customer's voice.

[Byrthnoth]

In order to improve the algorithm, you need labeled data (labeled by a human). The way you get that is to pay a human to label the data.

This shocks me not at all.

[6souls]

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47893082
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...-reviews-audio

Amazon, Apple, & Google have human reviewers to monitor voice recordings. The claim is that it improves speech recognition.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49343262
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...be-users-audio

Facebook had hundreds of paid staff to transcribe voice recordings to help train it's AI to automatically transcribe conversations.

Facebook is the latest company to confirm it has used third-party workers to do such work, following Google, Apple, Microsoft and Amazon.

The practice had been halted "more than a week ago", Facebook said.

Workers were given audio of people's conversations but were not told how it was obtained, according to Bloomberg, which was first to report the news.

It added this had been done only when users had opted in to transcription services and given permission for microphone access.

"Much like Apple and Google, we paused human review of audio more than a week ago," a spokeswoman said.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-49263260
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/x...to-skype-calls

Microsoft has also admitted to having employees listen to Skype conversations.

The fact that humans may listen in to calls is not explicitly stated in Skype's terms and conditions.

Microsoft said it had users' permission to collect and process their data.

Motherboard said it obtained audio from translated Skype conversations in which users "spoke intimately to loved ones" and discussed personal matters, including weight loss and relationship problems.

The tech site also said it had evidence that human contractors could hear voice commands spoken to Cortana, Microsoft's virtual voice-activated assistant.

[6souls]

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49829391

Amazon has introduced wearable tech to integrate with Alexa and is always listening, but you can now download an app to erase everything heard.

• Echo Frames - a pair of titanium-framed glasses that vibrate to provide notifications, and have built-in microphones and speakers to use Alexa, but no display
• Echo Buds - a pair of wireless Bluetooth earbuds that feature noise-reduction tech, giving them an edge over Apple's Airpods, and which can activate the firm's virtual assistant by voice alone, unlike other Alexa-enabled headphones
• Echo Loop - a ring that features two microphones and a "tap-on" button, which allows owners to record messages and send them to an Echo smart speaker
• Fetch - a pet tracker designed to attach to a dog collar

In addition, the firm said its smart assistant would be built into General Motors' vehicles from next year, and that some existing models could be upgraded to include the feature.

"This avalanche of new products underlines Amazon's desire to extend Alexa's reach to every part of people's lives - be that in the home, or on the move via new Echo Buds or in the car through the deal with General Motors," commented Geoff Blaber, an analyst at CCS Insight.

Amazon's devices chief Dave Limp addressed users' privacy concerns early on during the launch event at the firm's Seattle headquarters, even showing a tweet it had received complaining about one of its speakers activating without the trigger word "Alexa" being uttered.

He highlighted the fact that users can now command a device to delete everything they have said that day. In addition, the firm recently added an option to its Alexa app to let users opt out of having their voices transcribed by humans to improve the service's accuracy.

[Byrthnoth]

Fuck off, Alexa

[6souls]

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51054901
https://blog.malwarebytes.com/androi...vable-malware/

Phones provided to low-income families via a US government assistance program come preloaded with Chinese malware.

Malwarebytes said it had received several complaints that pre-installed apps on the phone were malicious.

It had bought one to verify the claims and informed the company selling them, Assurance Wireless, of its findings but had not received a response, it said.

The Android-based phone - UMX U686CL - is made by a Chinese company.

One of the pre-installed apps, which looks and operates as a wireless update program, automatically installs more apps without user consent, according to Malwarebytes.

And it appears to be a variant of Adups, malware previously traced to China, which transmits text, call-location and app data to a Chinese server every 72 hours.

A second app containing malware, on the UMX U686CL phone, used code containing Chinese characters, Malwarebytes said.

And neither of the apps were removable.

Assurance Wireless is a subsidiary of Virgin Mobile. The FCC is in charge of the Lifeline Assistance Program which offers 3G-capable phones for $10/mo.

[Anoat]

China is gonna know what kind of porn all the poors are into.

[6souls]

China is gonna know what kind of porn all the poors are into.

It's just girls shaking their booty on TikTok.

[Shenrien]

China is gonna know what kind of porn all the poors are into.

Oh no, I would be devistated if someone learned of my vore guro bisectional brain fucking fetishes. At least they'll never know I'm into feet.

[Byrthnoth]

I don't think those come with data, iirc. They should be the obamaphones

[Draylo]

Alexa needs some hearing aids, she is so deaf.

[Salodin]

Alexa needs some hearing aids, she is so deaf.

Bruh alexa has had such a hard time understanding me lately lol

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