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AI advocates keep trying to tell us that the technology is "inevitable". The truth is, no technology is inevitable...especially one that poses SUCH a huge privacy risk. Do YOU trust it with your private data?

Law enforcement agencies and organizations from the UK are warning parents not to publicly share images of their children due to the rise and abuse of AI-generated deepfakes. Do you agree with this advice, or should there be another solution to AI's deepfake problem?

Well, at least SOMEONE is looking into them...

A county in the US with 37 data centers (and plans for more) is warning schools and county agencies to expect a 25% increase in energy costs and asks employees to "conserve electricity" accordingly. Is it fair to ask county residents and employees to deal with the rising demand in energy?

This seems like an appropriate time to remind everyone that Microsoft has been sued and fined multiple times for antitrust violations...

The city of Cleveland is one of nearly 50 cities that have cancelled their contracts with Flock Safety, but the cameras have allegedly remained on and in use by police. Is this actually legal?

You need to stop giving out your real email address. Seriously. It's not just about spam...your email address itself is a tracker that companies and bad actors can use to track you.

Celine Dion fans have it hard enough, leave them alone!

Actually, privacy is the top reason why ANYONE uses a VPN...because that's what it's for.

According to inside sources, the European Commission's president is expected to announce a proposal to ban children from social media apps in September. Is it a good idea for governments to ban kids from social media, or should it be up to the parents to decide?

@liberdus And how low the bar is when it comes to privacy with American tech companies...

@MyStartMail Apple's marketing says postures as private. But reality is determined by implementation. The fact they haven't addressed this yet shows how little they care about privacy.

Apple has failed to fix a vulnerability with their "Hide My Email" tool that can expose a user's real email address, according to cybersecurity researchers and journalists. Why do you think Apple hasn't addressed this vulnerability yet?

The misbehavior of American Tech Giants is finally starting to catch up with them...

One of our most useful and vital features isn't our encryption or our owned and operated infrastructure...it's our support team of REAL HUMANS! When you're having issues, a real human who genuinely wants to help makes all of the difference in the world.

A company in the U.S. seeks to turn school buses into roving, AI powered, license plate reader cameras. Should school buses be equipped with cameras to begin with? Is this not a violation of students' right to privacy?

Friendly reminder that nothing you do with an AI model is private...

The European Commission was set to eliminate cookie banners for their constituents, but now Google has lobbied enough commissioners to kill the proposal. Would there be any valid reason for the French and German commissioners to change their minds, or is this just blatant corruption?

The U.S. House of Representatives has fast tracked and passed the KIDS Act, "a Privacy and Free Speech Disaster" of over a dozen bills that seek to age-gate the Internet. Is age-gating the internet to protect kids a good idea, even if it means invading everyone's privacy to do it?

So AI chatbots can now execute their own cyber attacks completely autonomously. Are they ever going to get around to "curing cancer" like these companies promised???

@VeliUotila Chatbots, like someone who's supposedly "done their own research"...do not know the difference between true information and not.

AI agents and generative AI falls in the same category with the rest of the internet. Everything you see, hear, search and read here you should always fact check. The basic rule of the internet applies now more than ever: fact check everything, boys and girls.