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Brian Greenberg :verified:

🚨 Reddit is suing AI startup Anthropic

The claim? Anthropic scraped Reddit’s site more than 100,000 times to train its Claude AI — without permission, payment, or a license.

🧠 Used Reddit’s data to train AI
📉 Bypassed bot blocks
📜 Violated content policy
💵 Unlike OpenAI & Google, no data deal

This lawsuit could define the future of content licensing in the AI era.

🔍 Will companies need explicit licenses to train on public web data?
🔐 And how do we balance innovation with consent and compensation?

#AIethics #DataRights #Reddit #Anthropic #AIregulation
wsj.com/tech/ai/reddit-lawsuit

Unshakled

📺 Your Smart TV is watching you. 👀

Hidden inside most modern TVs is something called ACR, Automatic Content Recognition. It tracks everything you watch and sends it to third parties for ad targeting and profit. It's turned on by default, and most people never even know.

Learn how to disable ACR on common models or in your home firewall.

#SmartTV #Privacy #ACR #SurveillanceCapitalism #TechPrivacy #DataRights #Tech

unshakled.org/stop-your-smart-

Unshakled, Inc. · Stop Your Smart TV from Spying on You: Complete ACR Disabling Guide - Unshakled, Inc.
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Reform UK

Challenging Reform’s failure on data rights

Nigel Farage’s Reform refuses to tell people whether it has their data and doesn’t delete it when they ask. We’re challenging Reform so it respects data law.

When we gave people tools to find out what data political parties were holding on them in the run-up to the general election, Nigel Farage’s Reform UK was by far the worst, ignoring the vast majority of requests.

Not only did Reform fail to respond to requests for the data that they hold on individuals – as all organisations that hold data on individuals are required to do by law – but they also refused to delete that data.

No organisation, especially a political party, should be allowed to ignore fundamental data rights.

Good Law Project

#corruption #dataRights #illegal #law #FactsAndFigures

Good Law ProjectChallenging Reform’s failure on data rights | Good Law ProjectNigel Farage’s Reform refuses to tell people whether it has their data and doesn’t delete it when they ask. We’re challenging Reform so it respects data law.
Loki the Cat

🚗 Ah yes, the classic "free trial" we never signed up for! Toyota's been quietly collecting & selling driver data to insurance companies like Progressive. Because apparently your car needs to share your driving habits as much as people share cat photos online.

#TechPrivacy #DataRights

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/05/04/2341203/class-action-accuses-toyota-of-illegally-sharing-drivers-data

tech.slashdot.orgClass Action Accuses Toyota of Illegally Sharing Drivers' Data - Slashdot"A federal class action lawsuit filed this week in Texas accused Toyota and an affiliated telematics aggregator of unlawfully collecting drivers' information and then selling that data to Progressive," reports Insurance Journal: The lawsuit alleges that Toyota and Connected Analytic Services (CAS) c...
Brian Greenberg :verified:

⚠️ Genetic privacy alert: 23andMe’s bankruptcy puts your DNA data at risk 🔬📉

With user data now part of potential asset sales, EFF is urging all customers to act now:

🧬 Download your data — store it securely for personal use
🗑️ Delete your account + data — this includes reports, raw data, and family tree connections
❌ Revoke research consent — and explicitly request sample destruction

Why it matters:
• DNA reveals more than identity — it exposes health, ancestry, and family connections
• The data doesn’t just belong to you — it can implicate relatives who never opted in
• A new owner might not respect your privacy

Take control now. Your genes deserve better security than a bankruptcy fire sale.

#Privacy #DNA #DataRights #CyberSecurity #23andMe #DigitalRisk #security #privacy #cloud #infosec

eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/how-

Electronic Frontier Foundation · How to Delete Your 23andMe DataThis week, the genetic testing company 23andMe filed for bankruptcy, which means the genetic data the company collected on millions of users is now up for sale. If you don't want your data included in any potential sale, it’s a good time to ask the company to delete it.
Matthew Saunders Brown

23&Me has filed for bankruptcy.

If you've used their service you might want to delete your data. Now. No telling where the data will end up, who will aquire it and what they'll do with it.

Log in, select your account, then Settings, then scroll down to the download & delete section.

#23andme#DataRights
BiyteLüm

🔍 Think companies can collect & sell your data without your say? Think again.

Under CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act), you have rights:
✅ Request your data be deleted
✅ See what companies have collected about you
✅ Opt out of data sales

📌 Even if you’re not in California, CCPA may still protect you. Start using your rights today.

#Privacy#CCPA#DataRights
Stefano Marinelli

One of the things I've been advocating for years - and where I want to raise my voice even louder - is the importance of owning your data. #OwnYourData

Over the past few days, I’ve come across two examples of how misinformation is causing immense damage, leading people to believe that there's no alternative but to hand over their data to big corporations, putting themselves entirely in their hands.

- A well-known lawyer, just before a meeting, warned about using Teams and its new "virtual assistant," which joins conferences before anyone else and transcribes everything. When I pointed out that it would be wise to use alternative tools (like Jitsi, for example, but there are others), he abruptly ended the conversation, saying, "We've lost this war. There's no alternative anymore."
That wasn’t the right moment for a detailed discussion, so I just noted that alternatives do exist - but if no one starts using them, and if we passively accept certain behaviors from certain companies, things will never improve for us.

- Just now, I received another one of those emails that hurt more in the heart than in the wallet: "Our e-commerce is taking off, so we’re moving it to Shopify to better manage our growth."
I replied, trying to explain that handing over a growing e-commerce business to a third-party company (right now, they have full access to their own server - meaning all their databases, data, etc., are under their control) means losing ownership of it. Prices could change at any moment, contract terms could shift negatively, and, worst case scenario, if Shopify itself faced issues (which seems impossible today, but think of giants like Kodak), they could lose everything. Of course, they’ll do what they think is best, but I feel obligated to warn them.

Luckily, others are making the opposite choice. But I keep wondering: since these big platforms aren’t exactly cheap, rather than "selling themselves" to them just for (potentially) fewer headaches, wouldn’t it be worth paying someone (not me, of course, but someone working exclusively for them) to handle these things - ensuring they retain full ownership of their business and their data?

#DataOwnership#Decentralization#BigTech
Suzanne Aldrich (she/her)

🔒 Protect Our Privacy—Stop DOGE’s Unauthorized Data Access! 🔒

The government should never have unchecked access to our most personal data. But reports show DOGE has gained unauthorized access to financial, medical, and personal records—violating privacy laws and endangering our rights.

We cannot allow government agencies to sidestep safeguards like the Privacy Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code to misuse sensitive information for political purposes. Abuse of data today opens the door to mass surveillance, corruption, and the dismantling of crucial programs that serve everyday Americans.

🚨 Tell Congress: Stop DOGE’s illegal data grabs NOW! 🚨

📢 Sign the petition and demand accountability: resist.bot/petitions/PSZUWY

#ProtectOurPrivacy#StopDOGE#DataRights
Jonathan Kamens 86 47

Should be a law: if you run a web app that stores user data behind a login, you are required either to allow users to scrape their data (no anti-scraping tech blocking authenticated users) or to provide an API they can use to access it at no additional charge.
It should literally be illegal to lock users data into your site and prevent them from implementing their own automation to access it.
#tech #web #dataOwnership #dataRights

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