Consent

Is it really possible to keep anything hidden on the internet anymore? It seems very unlikely, with the latest example coming from Glassdoor, which published people's real names without their consent, ArsTechnica reports. That's right, the site specifically designed to allow anonymous, often unfiltered posts about users' employers is now tattling.Glassdoor's long-standing policy was that users could sign up with their name or anonymously. However, things changed when the company bought FishBowl in 2021 and later…

There’s been a lot of discussion in recent years about the practice of capitalizing on celebrities’ digital likenesses without their consent, whether after they die or while they’re still alive. Zelda Williams, for one — the Lisa Frankenstein director and daughter of Robin Williams — slammed the “disturbing” trend of people trying to recreate the voices and faces of the deceased last year, as striking actors fought for, among other things, better protections around studios’ potential use of AI clones. Yet despite the…

Experiencers and Forecasters estimated the percentage of participants who would comply with the search request. Experiencers' average guess (67.30%) significantly exceeded Forecasters' (43.79%), but both groups significantly underestimated compliance when compared to true compliance—the percentage of Experiencers in the experiment who ultimately complied (94.57%). Error bars represent bootstrapped 95% confidence intervals. Credit: Journal of Empirical…

The morning started with a message from a friend: “I used your photos to train my local version of Midjourney. I hope you don't mind”, followed up with generated pictures of me wearing a flirty steampunk costume.I did in fact mind. I felt violated. Wouldn't you? I bet Taylor Swift did when deepfakes of her hit the internet. But is the legal status of my face different from the face of a celebrity? Your facial information is a unique form of personal sensitive information. It can identify you. Intense profiling and mass…

ADVERTISEMENT Physical intimacy in a marriage matters. And while experts are wary to cite statistics on how frequently married couples have sex, research has found that an average couple in the U.S. does the deed once a week. The reality is that the frequency depends on a lot of factors. There’s age, the health of both partners, and day-to-day responsibilities. Not to mention that relationships naturally change over time. However, some changes can really surprise you. The author of this story heard a pretty shocking…

Recognising red, green and grey flags in relationships and navigating interactions with safety and respect are now part of a new online course on "consent" launched by the dating platform Tinder. Titled "Let's Talk Consent", the free 90-minute self-learning course is being offered on the online learning platform "Coursera". It has been developed as a first-of-its-kind resource to provide young adults in India guidance on interpersonal consent. "Our conversations with Tinder users and the survey with young adult daters in…

Meta’s controversial pay or be tracked ‘consent’ choice for users the European Union is facing questions from the European Commission. Today the bloc said it’s sent Facebook and Instagram’s owner a formal request for information (RFI) under the Digital Services Act (DSA), asking it to provide more detail on the “Subscription for no Ads options” it gives regional users of its two major social networks. “In particular, Meta should provide additional information on the measures it has taken to comply with its…

A controversial move by Meta last year, when it switched to charging users in the Europe Union for an ad-free subscription for access Facebook and/or Instagram unless they agreed to be tracked and profiled so it could keep running its attention-mining microtargeting ad business, has triggered a set of complaints from consumer rights groups. The complaints are being brought under the bloc’s data protection rules. Currently, Meta charges regional users €9.99/month on web (or €12.99/month on mobile) to opt out of seeing…

The International Publishers' Association (IPA) president Karine Pansa accused big technology companies of using copyrighted content "without permission" for AI-generated materials and urged publishers to raise their concerns. Pansa, who recently visited India for the ongoing New Delhi World Book Fair, said the IPA is holding discussions with its member countries, including India, on how to deal with the big tech companies for infringing publishers' copyrights by "reproducing their materials without permission" for AI…

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 17: President and CEO of Wells Fargo Charlie Scharf attends The Future of Everything presented by the Wall Street Journal at Spring Studios on May 17, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Steven Ferdman/Getty Images)Steven Ferdman | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty ImagesWells Fargo said Thursday one of its primary regulators has lifted a key penalty tied to its 2016 fake accounts scandal.The bank said in a release that the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency terminated a consent order that…