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Sen. Wyden Exposes Data Brokers Selling Location Data to Anti-Abortion Groups That Target Abortion Seekers
This post was written by Jack Beck, an EFF legal intern In a recent letter to the FTC and SEC, Sen. Ron Wyden (OR) details new information on data broker Near, which sold the location data of people seeking reproductive healthcare to anti-abortion groups. Near enabled these groups to send targeted ads promoting anti-abortion content …
Nightshade, the tool that ‘poisons’ data, gives artists a fighting chance against AI
Intentionally poisoning someone else is never morally right. But if someone in the office keeps swiping your lunch, wouldn’t you resort to petty vengeance? For artists, protecting work from being used to train AI models without consent is an uphill battle. Opt-out requests and do-not-scrape codes rely on AI companies to engage in good faith, …
Revealed: data from UK anti-radicalisation scheme Prevent being shared with ports and airports | Prevent strategy
Details of thousands of individuals referred to the government’s controversial anti-radicalisation Prevent programme are being shared far more widely than was previously known, with data secretly sent to airports, ports and immigration services, as well as officials at the Home Office and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). Critics believe the widespread sharing of …
GeoDesk for Python: Analyze & Visualize OpenStreetMap Data – General talk
Hi all, We’re pleased to announce that GeoDesk is now available for Python.GeoDesk is an open-source toolkit for geographic object libraries, which store OpenStreetMap data in a compact format and allow fast queries. You may already know about our Java-based toolkit and the GOL tool that we’ve shipped last year. Feedback has been very positive …
The EU–US Data Protection Framework: Balancing Economic, Security and Privacy Considerations
The rapid evolution of digital technology has ushered in a data-centric economy, where data accessibility drives marketplace efficiency and economic growth across various industries. However, this shift, while offering numerous benefits, introduces significant privacy and data security challenges, particularly in the context of transatlantic data transfers. Considering the vast economic ties between the EU and …
Geospatial Data Science with Julia
Geospatial Data Science with Julia presents a fresh approach to data science with geospatial data and the programming language. It contains best practices for writing clean, readable and performant code in geoscientific applications involving sophisticated representations of the (sub)surface of the Earth such as unstructured meshes made of 2D and 3D geometries. By reading this …
Jane Street Tech Blog – Oxidizing OCaml: Data Race Freedom
OCaml with Jane Street extensions is available from our public opam repo. Only a slice of the features described in this series are currently implemented. In part one, we discussed how OCaml’s locality mode enables safe stack allocation. In part two, we explored how the uniqueness and linearity modes represent ownership. In this (final) post, …
Apps still leaking data in 2023
It’s 2023 people and I’m staggered how many apps / sites I use that leak personal data. Yesterday, someone asked my to try an AI coaching platform. It felt buggy so I started looking at the requests. Mins later I was able to view customer emails, DoBs, photos and location. Thousands of them. Fortunately I …
Introducing Azure OpenAI Service On Your Data in Public Preview
We are excited to announce the launch of Azure OpenAI Service on your data in public preview, a groundbreaking new feature that allows you to harness the power of OpenAI models, such as ChatGPT and GPT-4, with your own data. This new and highly requested customer capability revolutionizes the way you interact with and analyze your …