In Brief: Tim Hortons gives tone deaf response to violating Canada’s privacy laws
Not a good press moment for the fast-food company which has offered its users a free coffee and donut to make up for their data being collected without consent.
Not a good press moment for the fast-food company which has offered its users a free coffee and donut to make up for their data being collected without consent.
The Colombian government, which provides journalists and other high-risk individuals bulletproof cars to ensure their safety while in the country, has been found to have installed GPS trackers on those same vehicles, so location can be reported on. Even more alarmingly, the system can also disable the cars’ engines.
Unfazed by terrestrial or historic boundaries, Amazon may be positioning to break with the 2,500+ year tradition of keeping patient data private because there may be good money to be made in doing so.
Unauthorized training data isn’t an existential threat to generative AI but it’s certainly a headache for users and developers alike. Most developers are trying to exclude materials that creators have explicitly labeled as unauthorized and citing “fair use” as justification for copying everything else. Getty Images has taken an opposite approach, building its gen AI tool only on materials that are explicitly licensed. It’s possible that tracing the provenance of training data will become a standard, similar to how organic food producers trace the origins of their ingredients.