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Amazon is buying rare and out-of-print books in bulk, using their text to train artificial intelligence systems, and then permanently deleting them. According to 404 Media, the company has systematized this practice as part of its AI development process. The books being targeted are often unavailable anywhere else, held in few physical copies or long

Your smartphone knows everywhere you go. That information is being collected, packaged, and sold to advertisers in a largely hidden process that neither app users nor many app developers fully understand. The Electronic Frontier Foundation released a report showing how ad libraries, the pieces of code that apps use to display advertisements and earn money,

A former engineering director at Meta has testified that Instagram deliberately ignored safety concerns for children under 13 by following what she described as a ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ approach. According to Mint, the ex-director said the company chose profits and engagement metrics over building protections for underage users on the platform. The testimony reveals