DataHarvesting

Lonely on Valentine’s Day? AI can help. At least, that’s what a number of companies hawking “romantic” chatbots will tell you. But as your robot love story unfolds, there’s a tradeoff you may not realize you’re making. According to a new study from Mozilla’s *Privacy Not Included project, AI girlfriends and boyfriends harvest shockingly personal information, and almost all of them sell or share the data they collect. Like It or Not, Your Doctor Will Use AI | AI Unlocked“To be perfectly blunt, AI girlfriends and boyfriends…

How free is “free” in today’s modern age of mass data collection, data brokers, and targeted ads? The new television startup Telly is trying to stretch the very idea of “free” as much as it can with its first batch of half a million large televisions for the first 500,000 people who want them. The entire product’s explicit purpose is to blast users with ads, and based on both the company’s policies and its founder, Telly is likely to get very tubby with your data.Little Mermaid Director Rob Marshall on Handling the Music…