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https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/19/1065306/roomba-irobot-robot-vacuums-artificial-intelligence-training-data-privacy/

Robot vacuum companies say your images are safe, but a sprawling global supply chain for data from our devices creates risk.

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The images were not taken by a person, but by development versions of iRobot’s Roomba J7 series robot vacuum. They were then sent to Scale AI, a startup that contracts workers around the world to label audio, photo, and video data used to train artificial intelligence.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jan/04/meta-dealt-blow-eu-ruling-data-opt-in-facebook-instagram-ads

“This is a huge blow to Meta’s profits in the EU,” he said. “People now need to be asked if they want their data to be used for ads or not. They must have a ‘yes or no’ option and can change their mind at any time.

https://krausefx.com/blog/ios-privacy-instagram-and-facebook-can-track-anything-you-do-on-any-website-in-their-in-app-browser

https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/16/22981806/facebook-removes-deepfake-ukraine-zelenskyy-meta-instagram

In the fake video, Zelenskyy surrenders to Russian invasion

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The deepfake appears to have been first broadcasted on a Ukrainian news website for TV24 after an alleged hack

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/rohingya-refugees-sue-facebook-150-billion-over-myanmar-violence-2021-12-07/

over allegations that the social media company did not take action against anti-Rohingya hate speech that contributed to violence.

In 2018, U.N. human rights investigators said the use of Facebook had played a key role in spreading hate speech that fueled the violence.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/nov/03/thought-experiment-facebook-betrayal-privacy

Imagine if the postman read your mail and then sold your information to extremists who want to target you

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-drug-cartels-human-traffickers-response-is-weak-documents-11631812953

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-vaccinated-11631880296

Company documents show antivaccine activists undermined the CEO’s ambition to support the rollout by flooding the site and using Facebook’s own tools to sow doubt about the Covid-19 vaccine

https://pxlnv.com/linklog/oculus-ads/

Facebook is an advertising company. From the moment it bought Oculus in 2014, there were questions about whether it was going to be used as yet another place where we cannot escape from companies trying to sell us crap — so much so that Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey promised in a Reddit Q&A that the headsets would not be used for advertising. Imagine my surprise when, under its creepy ad company ownership, that is turning out to be untrue.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/12/22226792/whatsapp-privacy-policy-response-signal-telegram-controversy-clarification

The company is trying to contain fallout over a privacy policy update

the change is designed to outline how businesses who use WhatsApp for customer service may store logs of its chats on Facebook servers.