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An AI firm harvested billions of photos without consent. Britain is powerless to act
(www.politico.eu)
this post was submitted on 01 Nov 2023
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But not to be harvested by third parties to be used for God knows what. Sure the occasional meme is one thing (and can have an impact) but this impacts everyone, everywhere, all the time. It's not just that one photo, it's all photos of everyone and also other info like metadata, text posts etc. The fact we don't even know how what and where the data is collected we don't even know what they have combined into profiles.
And this does not even speak to potential harm that could come from incorrectly associated info in your profile.