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awwshit writes:
The Brussels Court of Appeal ruled Wednesday that the use of tracking by online advertisers relies on an inadequate consent model and is illegal in Europe.
The ruling, which is not available in English, makes clear that an existing standard, known as the Transparency and Consent Framework, is insufficient under Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), according to an Amnesty International summary of the decision.
Companies have long relied on that framework as a means of continuing to target advertising under the GDPR.
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awwshit writes:
OpenAI is hoping that Donald Trump's AI Action Plan, due out this July, will settle copyright debates by declaring AI training fair use—paving the way for AI companies' unfettered access to training data that OpenAI claims is critical to defeat China in the AI race.
So far, one landmark ruling favored rights holders, with a judge declaring AI training is not fair use, as AI outputs clearly threatened to replace Thomson-Reuters' legal research firm Westlaw in the market, Wired reported. But OpenAI now appears to be looking to Trump to avoid a similar outcome in its lawsuits, including a major suit brought by The New York Times.
"OpenAI’s models are trained to not replicate works for consumption by the public. Instead, they learn from the works and extract patterns, linguistic structures, and contextual insights," OpenAI claimed. "This means our AI model training aligns with the core objectives of copyright and the fair use doctrine, using existing works to create something wholly new and different without eroding the commercial value of those existing works."
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awwshit writes:
The new legislation creates an “opt-out preference signal” tool which would let citizens opt out of sharing their information by simply pushing a button to activate the signal on their internet browser, which would then send opt out requests to every website consumers visit by default.
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awwshit writes:
A cartel in the embattled central Mexico state of Michoacán set up its own makeshift internet antennas and told locals they had to pay to use its wifi service or they would be killed, according to prosecutors.
Dubbed “narco-antennas” by local media, the cartel’s system involved internet antennas set up in various towns built with stolen equipment.
The group charged approximately 5,000 people elevated prices between 400 and 500 pesos ($25 and $30) a month, the Michoacán state prosecutor’s office told the Associated Press. That meant the group could rake in about $150,000 a month.
