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TikTok: how the west has turned on gen Z's favourite app | TikTok | The Guardian - 0 views

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    "US and European fears about China exploiting TikTok's data harvest and promoting Beijing's worldview look set to inspire an urgent overhaul in data privacy laws"
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TikTok unveils European data security plan amid calls for US ban | TikTok | The Guardian - 0 views

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      To what extent will a policy ensure the security of data for social media, in a globalised economy?
  • “The Chinese government have never asked us for data,
  • TikTok’s data controls and transfer of data outside of the continent will be monitored by a third-party European cybersecurity firm,
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  • Oracle will also monitor TikTok’s algorithms and source code
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A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook? | MIT ... - 0 views

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    "In the fall of 2020, gig workers in Venezuela posted a series of images to online forums where they gathered to talk shop. The photos were mundane, if sometimes intimate, household scenes captured from low angles-including some you really wouldn't want shared on the Internet. In one particularly revealing shot, a young woman in a lavender T-shirt sits on the toilet, her shorts pulled down to mid-thigh. 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."
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