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Want to delete your Threads profile? Be ready to sacrifice your Instagram account!

[ad_1] Threads has been the talk of the town since its big reveal on Thursday. It is Meta's “sane” answer to Elon Musk-owned Twitter. Threads claims to be an “open, civil place for people to have conversations”, and subscribers are already flocking to the platform in huge numbers. It had nearly 50 million users in just 24 hours. On the other hand, Twitter has been facing its own issues with outages and data scraping, which resulted in the microblogging platform temporarily limiting the number of tweets a user can view per day. While some of these limitations on the platform have since been lifted, it has still given many of its subscribers a reason to find alternative platforms to share their thoughts on.“Threads is perfectly capable of acquiring a large user base considering it's based...

Google changes privacy policy; everything you post will be used to boost its AI tools

[ad_1] It has already been known that artificial intelligence (AI) models are trained on data sets that allow them to analyze and respond to texts in several contexts as well as languages. For instance, ChatGPT has been trained on a massive text dataset that is available in the public domain. On the other hand, DarKBERT is an LLM that has been trained on a vast dataset of dark web pages, assimilating information from places such as hacker forums, scamming websites, and other criminal internet sources. Since AI tools' hunger for data is insatiable, everything posted online by anyone, is fair game. Making that clear was Google, which has updated its privacy policy, and everything that you post online, could now be used to train its AI tools and models.New privacy policiesGoogle announced ...

Should the US ban TikTok? Can it? A cybersecurity expert explains the risks the app poses and the challenges to blocking it

[ad_1] TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testified before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on March 23, 2023, amid a chorus of calls from members of Congress for the federal government to ban the Chinese-owned video social media app and reports that the Biden administration is pushing for the company's sale.The federal government, along with many state and foreign governments and some companies, has banned TikTok on work-provided phones. This type of ban can be effective for protecting data related to government work. But a full ban of the app is another matter, which raises a number of questions: What data privacy risk does TikTok pose? What could the Chinese government do with data collected by the app? Is its content recommendation algorithm dangerous? And is it even possible to ban an ...