Saturday, December 24, 2022

Is this even a material number to a company with 2021 revenue of about $118 Billion?

https://www.reuters.com/legal/facebook-parent-meta-pay-725-mln-settle-lawsuit-relating-cambridge-analytica-2022-12-23/

Facebook parent Meta to settle Cambridge Analytica scandal case for $725 million

Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc has agreed to pay $725 million to resolve a class-action lawsuit accusing the social media giant of allowing third parties, including Cambridge Analytica, to access users' personal information.

The proposed settlement, which was disclosed in a court filing late on Thursday, would resolve a long-running lawsuit prompted by revelations in 2018 that Facebook had allowed the British political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica to access data of as many as 87 million users.

Lawyers for the plaintiffs called the proposed settlement the largest to ever be achieved in a U.S. data privacy class action and the most that Meta has ever paid to resolve a class action lawsuit.





Everyone should have a good laugh at Trump’s (non-deductable) expense.

https://www.bespacific.com/document-report-on-trumps-tax-returns/

Document: Report on Trump’s Tax Returns





Tools & Techniques.

https://www.bespacific.com/google-is-making-its-internal-video-blurring-privacy-tool-open-source/

Google is making its internal video-blurring privacy tool open source

engadget: “Google has announced that two of its latest privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs), including one that blurs objects in a video, will be provided to anyone for free via open source. The new tools are part of Google’s Protected Computing initiative designed to transform “how, when and where data is processed to technically ensure its privacy and safety,” the company said. The first is an internal project called Magritte, now out on Github, which uses machine learning to detect objects and apply a blur as soon as they appear on screen. It can disguise arbitrary objects like license plates, tattoos and more. “This code is especially useful for video journalists who want to provide increased privacy assurances,” Google wrote in the blog. “By using this open-source code, videographers can save time in blurring objects from a video, while knowing that the underlying ML algorithm can perform detection across a video with high-accuracy.”





For my students.

https://www.makeuseof.com/cheat-sh-access-best-linux-programming-cheatsheets/

cheat.sh Gives You Access to the Best Linux and Programming Cheat Sheets



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