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Google employees are eavesdropping, even in Flemish living rooms, VRT NWS has discovered
5 min · · VRT NWS has discovered that Google employees listen to audio picked up by smart speakers and Google Assistant, even when it was never intended for Google. · Shared by 13, including Luca Like, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Chintan Shah
The Atlantic
People Are Starting to Realize How Voice Assistants Actually Work
2 min · · The secrecy surrounding AI products makes even basic information about them a scandal. · Shared by 19, including Thomas Power, hiten.eth, Sebastien Meunier, Andreas Staub
TechCrunch
Behavioural advertising is out of control, warns UK watchdog
8 min · · The online behavioural advertising industry is illegally profiling internet users. That’s the damning assessment of the U.K.’s data protection regulator in an update report published today, in which… · Shared by 14, including adrianoesch, Builtvisible
TechCrunch
Mona Lisa frown: Machine learning brings old paintings and photos to life
2 min · · Machine learning researchers have produced a system that can recreate lifelike motion from just a single frame of a person's face, opening up the possibility of animating not just photos but also of… · Shared by 150, including Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Andreas Klinger 🏝, Claudio Perez Gamayo, Bjorn Larsen, Mike Ivars, Florian Hanke 🍎, Jose Luis Calvo, tektology, Chris Messina, Ronald van Loon, luis antónio santos, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, 瑞拿頭, Chintan Shah, Builtvisible