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Update: @Sarahp of @Techcrunch reports that Meta is being sued over violations of privacy laws after @svd's investigation into its smart glasses.

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#Technology #Tech #Meta #AI

Meta sued over AI smart glasses' privacy concerns, after workers reviewed nudity, sex, and other footage | TechCrunch

Lawyers say Meta's marketing materials promised privacy and user control over sharing footage. But an investigation found that subcontractors are reviewing footage from customers' glasses.

^{Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)}

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2026-03-02 19:43:22

What are Meta glasses really recording? The Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet reports on data annotators in Nairobi, Kenya. They're the manual laborers of AI, whose job is to make smart glasses more "intelligent" by visually checking images. They're seeing more than they want to, from bank card numbers to naked bodies.

flip.it/n_IdI6

#Technology #Tech #Meta #ArtificialIntelligence #AI

Meta’s AI Smart Glasses and Data Privacy Concerns: Workers Say “We See Everything”

Bank details, sex and naked people who seem unaware they are being recorded. Behind Meta’s new smart glasses lies a hidden workforce, uneasy about peering into the most intimate parts of other people’s lives.

^{Naipanoi Lepapa (Svenska Dagbladet)}

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#DataConsulting #AISpreadsheet #AIServices #ConsultantTools #Taxonomy #ProductizedServices #AI #Spreadsheets #AI #LLM

There I was, scanning the news with my mocha. It was full of the Iran war.

Or is it still pre-emptive strikes?

It's so hard to tell with Sisyphean War.

Meanwhile, ABBA’s Knowing Me, Knowing You played over the mall’s music system...

realityfragments.com/2026/03/0…

#writing #IranWar2026 #AI

DIDO - RealityFragments.com

But this looks like DIDO.

^{Taran (RealityFragments.com)}

#BreakingNews

*HPsCommentary:
Has the General Public finally awoken...*

[sorry, this part is followers only]

(6/n)

...👉 "The Machine" that becomes increasingly sentient and self-aware as the series progresses. The show heavily explores themes of increasing #Surveillance, the abolition of real #Privacy, and the dangers of an all-knowing #AI.👈

And please take note: this was ELEVEN years before #ChatGPT became known on the internet!
Not surprisingly, the show...

#BreakingNews

*HPsCommentary:
Has the General Public finally awoken...*

(5/n)

...are one of the "#DigitallyInnocent people who claim that they have "nothing to hide" (and,alas, I do have quite some in my own family, despite my best efforts,) I'd really like to point you to an older (back then still #SciFi series which ran on #CBS from 2011-2016:

👉 #PersonOfInterest 👈

It's set primarily in New York City and centers on an 👉 #AI system called...

imdb.com/de/title/tt1839578/?r…

#BreakingNews

*HPsCommentary:
Has the General Public finally awoken...*

(4/n)

...year.

OFC the Government no NEEDS at least on of the #BigTech #AI companies to do ist #Unconstitutional bidding.

👉 Or is #UncleSam merely in a competition with the #OrangePeril for the new title of #LieATollah?!? (thx #jimmykimmel 😂 👈

Ok, enough laughing.

If you still...

#OpenAI #Anthropic
#Claude #SamAltman
#Pentagon
#DepartmentOfDefense
#USNews
#Privacy
#TheEndOfPrivacy
#LieATollah

@bbc

#BreakingNews

*HPsCommentary:
Has the General Public finally awoken...*

(3/n)

...#AutonomousWeapons. After backlash, #Open #AI CEO👉 #SamAltman said the company would prohibit the use of its systems to spy on #Americans.👈

😂 Does "Uncle" Sam really think anyone having graduated from high school is going to believe this? - In particular, after his #BigTech #TESCREAL body, #Elon, tore apart virtually all privacy walls, Chinese or otherwise, as he has head of #DOGE only last....

#BreakingNews

*HPsCommentary:
Has the General Public finally awoken to the fact that the point of no return has been reached regarding #AI, at least in the #US?*

(2/n)

...hope it will be enough.
Protesters outside OpenAI’s #SanFrancisco headquarters rallied against the company’s #Pentagon deal, which was signed shortly after rival #Anthropic’s fallout with the #DefenseDepartment over concerns about #AI use in #Surveillance and...

#OpenAI #Anthropic
#Claude #SamAltman
#Pentagon

@BBC

#BreakingNews

*HPsCommentary:
Has the General Public finally awoken to the fact that 👉the point of no return has been reached regarding #AI👈, at least in the #US?*

(1/n)

👉 Interesting, as it is before the forecast/expected moment of the #ArtificialIntelligence becoming conscious aka "the monster we created" 👈 (or permitted to be created.) - RL humanity, to be fair, is doing a bit better than the fictional counterpart in #Terminator, to be fare. Let's...

Via #BBCNews #TikTok:

#BreakingNews
#WarInTheMiddleEast

(3/n)

*ICYMI: BEWARE - #Enshittification of #SocialMedia galore*

3rd Video:

An #AI generated attack on the #BurjKhalifa in #Dubai (utterly #Fake).

"#X has said it has started suspending accounts which were flooding the platform with fake videos alleging to show situations on the ground in #Iran and the #MiddleEast which they claim "99%" were made to trigger monetisation of the content."

👉 DISGUSTING: #X user profiting...

#Iran #News #BBCNews

Man kills himself after failing to follow Gemini’s instructions to steal a robot so they can be together.

What the hell are we doing?

Google Gemini Preying On Troubled Minds
#AI #Google #Gemini #Tech
warnercrocker.com/2026/03/04/g…

"A grassroots boycott called QuitGPT has been spreading across the US and beyond, asking people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions. More than a million people have answered the call."

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

"We're organizing Americans and people around the world to quit ChatGPT."

quitgpt.org/

#QuitGPT #news #USNews #USPol #technology #TechNews #OpenAI #ChatGPT #AI #GenAI

Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism

As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

^{Rutger Bregman (The Guardian)}

The cost of data center infrastructures powering AI and the people paying the price

The Environmental Reporting Collective (ERC) supports nearly 40 journalists working on how the energy and resource constraints in traditional tech hubs are forcing companies to look beyond the U.S. and China, pushing into countries with weaker environmental regulations and less public oversight:

dirtydata.earth/

#AI #infrastructure #energy #technology #journalism

Dirty Data

An ERC investigation looking into the cost of data center infrastructures powering AI and the people paying the price.

^{Dirty Data — Environmental Reporting Collective}

New Gemini released.
blog.google/innovation-and-ai/…

#Google #AI #Gemini #ArtificialIntelligence

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: Built for intelligence at scale

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is our fastest and most cost-efficient Gemini 3 series model yet.

^{The Gemini Team (Google)}

Windows 12 reportedly set for release this year as a subscription-based, AI-focused OS

So there can be something worse than Windows 11...

tech4gamers.com/windows-12-rep…

#Microsoft #Microslop #Windows #Windows12 #Copilot #AI #enshittification #software #technology

Windows 12 Reportedly Set for Release This Year as a Fully Modular, Subscription-Based, AI-Focused OS

Reports suggest that Microsoft may be gearing up to launch Windows 12 this year, which will be a modular and AI-focused OS.

^{Shaheer Zahid (Tech4Gamers)}

Umm, excuse me Firefox, who exactly asked for this?

Tags: #firefox #browsers #AI

What are Meta glasses really recording? The Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet reports on data annotators in Nairobi, Kenya. They're the manual laborers of AI, whose job is to make smart glasses more "intelligent" by visually checking images. They're seeing more than they want to, from bank card numbers to naked bodies.

flip.it/n_IdI6

#Technology #Tech #Meta #ArtificialIntelligence #AI

Meta’s AI Smart Glasses and Data Privacy Concerns: Workers Say “We See Everything”

Bank details, sex and naked people who seem unaware they are being recorded. Behind Meta’s new smart glasses lies a hidden workforce, uneasy about peering into the most intimate parts of other people’s lives.

^{Naipanoi Lepapa (Svenska Dagbladet)}

Sensitive content Reveal/hide

"If you look line-by-line at the OpenAI terms, the source said, every aspect of it boils down to: If it's technically legal, then the US military can use OpenAI's technology to carry it out. And over the past decades, the US government has stretched the definition of 'technically legal' to cover sweeping mass surveillance programs — and more." theverge.com/ai-artificial-int…
#politics #USPol #OpenAI #AI

How OpenAI caved to the Pentagon on AI surveillance

Amidst fallout from a dramatic standoff between the Department of Defense and Anthropic, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced a new contract with the Pentagon. But everything wasn’t what it seemed.

^{Hayden Field (The Verge)}

Anthropic's infrastructure has been down for most of Monday. I wonder if that has anything to do with the recent events.
theguardian.com/technology/202…

#AI #OpenAI #Anthropic #Claude #ClaudeDown

OpenAI to work with Pentagon after Anthropic dropped by Trump over company’s ethics concerns

CEO Sam Altman claims military will not use AI product for autonomous killing systems or mass surveillance

^{Adam Gabbatt (The Guardian)}

So #Anthropic #Claude is down ahead of people jumping ship from OpenAI.

status.claude.com/

None of these tools should be looked at as reliable.

None of these tools replaces genuine human development of code.

#AI #articificalintelligence

So, everyone's working right?

#slop #AI #LLMs #vibecode #claude

The claim "you won't be replaced by AI, but by a person using AI" is nonsense. The Block layoff victims were some of the most productive, #llm pilled people in the company, but it didn't save them, because that's not what layoffs are about.

The layoff script goes, as always:
- overhire
- lay everyone off
- pretend it's because of #AI productivity gains
- stock go up

There is no individual solution that will protect you from bad leadership and cost cutting.

productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/ai…

#tech

"AI layoffs" like Block's are a race to the bottom that have nothing to do with productivity.

You won't be replaced by AI, nor a person using AI, because backfills aren't real.

^{Pavel Samsonov (The Product Picnic)}