Content: Recent Recalls, AI News, Be careful out there with what you sign, Immersive conversations are coming your way, More Google fines, this time in Turkey, LinkedIn changes its targeting policy in Europe & Hackers news update.
Welcome to this weeks ‘What’s New’ in tech. A roundup of key subjects you should probably know about listed below for your ease of access. If you think we’ve missed a story please email us on queries@ringingtreeit.co.uk and we’ll endeavour to add it.
Recent Recalls:
Microsoft ‘recalls’ screenshot feature after outcry
“The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK’s data watchdog, had told the BBC it was “making enquiries” with Microsoft about the tool after concerns were raised.”
AI News:
Be careful what you post on social media, once it is out in the public domain it may be absorbed into an AI datafeed.
Plans to use Facebook and Instagram posts to train AI criticised
Be careful out there with what you sign:
As you may have seen online there has been a huge controversy with the latest changes in Adobe’s Terms of use. The question is, will people believe this latest release from Adobe despite them not changing the Terms of Service language to match this latest
A clarification on Adobe Terms of Use
“Adobe will never assume ownership of a customer’s work. Adobe hosts content to enable customers to use our applications and services. Customers own their content and Adobe does not assume any ownership of customer work.”
A reminder of what was previously released:
Immersive conversations are coming your way
Nokia CEO makes world’s first ‘immersive’ phone call
“We have demonstrated the future of voice calls,” said Lundmark, who was also present in the room when the first 2G call was made, opens new tab in 1991.”
More Google fines, this time in Turkey
Turkey competition board fines Google 482 million lira over hotel searches
“The authority said the fine was imposed over Google’s failure to address the competition board’s concerns over fair competition with other local search engines.”
I wonder if this will now lead to changes in Google’s practices or if they will just absorb this as an overhead and continue as they have been doing.
LinkedIn changes its targeting policy in Europe
LinkedIn disables tool for targeted ads to comply with EU tech rules
“LinkedIn has discontinued a tool that allows it to use sensitive personal data for targeted advertising in order to comply with EU online content rules, the social media platform said on Friday.”
Hackers news update
Frontier hackers threaten to release private data for at least 750,000 customers
“Frontier Communications has revealed that information for over 750,000 customers — including full names and Social Security numbers — was exposed in a data breach following a cyberattack on April 14th. Hackers claim to have even more and will release it unless Frontier pays a ransom.”
