The FTC bans GM from selling driver behavior and geolocation data to consumer reporting agencies for five years, after finding GM didn't properly inform drivers
GM must now obtain explicit user consent and offer an option to delete data, ensuring greater transparency and privacy for customers. Lilian Edwards / @lilianedwards : Even as she leaves office Lina K...
OpenAI releases o1, the first of its rumored reasoning-focused Strawberry models, in preview, alongside a smaller o1-mini, for ChatGPT Plus and Team subscribers
Advancing cost-efficient reasoning. — Contributions Sabrina Ortiz / ZDNET : OpenAI trained its new o1 AI models to think before they speak - how to access them Ethan Mollick / One Useful Thing : Som...
Twitter drops the “Government-funded” and “state-affiliated” labels from accounts of media outlets and journalists, including NPR, BBC, CBC, RT, and Xinhua
Tesla, Twitter and SpaceX Matt Novak / Forbes : Russia's RT Editor-In-Chief Thanks Elon Musk For Scrapping ‘State-Affiliated Media’ Label On Twitter ChinaTechNews.com : Elon Musk Drops All Media Label...
Uber's slow response to law enforcement requests and a complex request process are leaving drivers vulnerable to repeated attacks by riders using fake accounts
An investigation by The Markup found that Uber is slow to respond to law enforcement requests, leaving drivers vulnerable to repeated attacks Tweets: @andyjayhawk , @sisiwei , @jonkeegan , @themarkup ...
A look at data brokers selling “comprehensive” profiles of potential voters to campaigns, including phone geolocation data gleaned from real-time auctions
Jon Keegan / The Markup : See also Mediagazer
A look at the $12B location data industry, including how collectors, aggregators, and marketplaces monetize user data
Companies collect and aggregate location data from millions of people's phones. Tweets: Dani Homados / @homados : Most people I talk to don't realize they live in a surveillance economy. “There is vir...
A look at the $12B location data industry, including how collectors, aggregators, and marketplaces monetize user data
A huge but little-known industry has cropped up around monetizing people's movements — Companies that you likely have never heard of are hawking access to the location history on your mobile phone. ...
Citizen Browser project's Split Screen tool shows Facebook's different News Feeds for Trump and Biden voters, based on data from 2,500+ users across the US
a tool that lets you see other people's feeds, based on our national panel of Facebook users. Brought to you by @suryamattu and @sammorrisdesign: https://themarkup.org/... Dan Froomkin / @froomkin : T...
Facebook says it is globally rolling out a notification screen warning users if they try to share content that's more than 90 days old
pop-ups, notifications, warnings — work to fight fake news, new evidence shows Julio Cachila / International Business Times : Facebook To Notify Users If They Are About To Share Old News Michael Allis...
Investigation finds many tenant screening services, relying on algorithms to find infractions and widely used by landlords, often produce flawed reports
and the people they hurt. Superb reporting. https://themarkup.org/... Matthew Goldstein / @mattgoldstein26 : Denied an apartment because of a mistake in a background check report? It's more common tha...