It is becoming easier to surveil yourself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYiYhLNfc0I
Amazon’s flying indoor security camera (first look)
We got the first public demo of Amazon’s flying indoor security camera, the Always Home Cam, at CES 2023, plus some hands-on time with the autonomous drone designed for inside your home. The company says the $250 camera might ship in 2024
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Amazon’s New Car Cam Takes Personal Surveillance on the Road
Amazon on Thursday opened preorders for a long-awaited addition to its vast catalogue of Ring personal surveillance devices: the Car Cam. Starting at $200, the car cam includes front- and rear-facing cameras, motion alerts, GPS tracking, and voice communications. It is, as its name suggests, a Ring for cars — a comprehensive monitoring system for your vehicle and whoever might find themselves in or even near it.
The bad guys are clearly early adopters. Perhaps they will also use Chatgpt to ask for reduced sentences or early parole?
Armed With ChatGPT, Cybercriminals Build Malware And Plot Fake Girl Bots
Cybercriminals have started using OpenAI’s artificially intelligent chatbot ChatGPT to quickly build hacking tools, cybersecurity researchers warned on Friday. Scammers are also testing ChatGPT’s ability to build other chatbots designed to impersonate young females to ensnare targets, one expert monitoring criminal forums told Forbes.
Many early ChatGPT users had raised the alarm that the app, which went viral in the days after its launch in December, could code malicious software capable of spying on users’ keyboard strokes or create ransomware.
Privacy in the new year.
https://www.pogowasright.org/privacy-in-the-city-that-never-sleeps-the-new-york-privacy-bill/
Privacy in the City That Never Sleeps: The New York Privacy Bill
Odia Kagan of Fox Rothschild writes:
It’s six days into the new year and we already have four new comprehensive privacy bills from: New York, Kentucky, Tennessee and Oklahoma.
There are a lot of moving pieces here and you can go cross-eyed trying to comply with all the proposed rules. Still, here are some of the highlights from the New York bill.
The preamble to the New York bill reads: “Privacy is a fundamental right and an essential element of freedom; we need to do something about non transparency privacy notices and give NY consumers more control over their data and digital privacy.”
On the heels of the Data Protection Commission Ireland’s 390 million Euro Meta decision on the scope of contractual necessary, the New York bill says, “Targeted advertising and sale of personal data shall not be considered processing purposes that are necessary to provide services or goods requested by a consumer.”
Read more of the highlights at Privacy Compliance & Data Security
A very slow death…
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-surveillance-capitalism/
The Slow Death of Surveillance Capitalism Has Begun
SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM JUST got a kicking. In an ultimatum, the European Union has demanded that Meta reform its approach to personalized advertising—a seemingly unremarkable regulatory ruling that could have profound consequences for a company that has grown impressively rich by, as Mark Zuckerberg once put it, running ads.
The ruling, which comes with a €390 million ($414 million) fine attached, is targeted specifically at Facebook and Instagram, but it’s a huge blow to Big Tech as a whole. It’s also a sign that GDPR, Europe’s landmark privacy law that was introduced in 2018, actually has teeth. More than 1,400 fines have been introduced since it took effect, but this time the bloc’s regulators have shown they are willing to take on the very business model that makes surveillance capitalism, a term coined by American scholar Shoshana Zuboff, tick. “It is the beginning of the end of the data free-for-all,” says Johnny Ryan, a privacy activist and senior fellow at the Irish Council for Civil Liberties.
The current generation is unable to write (or read?) cursive. Is the next generation doomed to be unable to read? Why bother learning to read if Apple will read it for you?
Apple rolls out AI-narrated audiobooks, and it’s probably the start of a trend
Apple's digital storefronts now offer audiobooks recorded by artificial narrators instead of humans in a sound booth. The audiobooks are listed in the Books app as "Narrated by Apple Books."
Clicking on the information icon next to that line brings up a text box that clarifies the book is narrated by "a digital voice based on a human narrator." There are multiple digital voices across the Apple Books library, with names like "Madison" or "Jackson"—but each book is offered with just one of them.
Tools & Techniques.
https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-transfer-books-from-libby-to-ereader/
How to Transfer Books From Libby to Your eReader
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