Anna Baydakova

Crypto, cybercrime and human rights.
Newsletter on digital censorship and surveillance.
Past: @TheBlock__, @CoinDesk, @novaya_gazeta.
Alumna of @columbiajourn.

[Anna Baydakova @baidakova]

This week in digital censorship and surveillance:

- What AI chatbots can infer about you from your prompts;

- Google Maps deleted reviews of ICE prisons;

- Anti-facial recognition glasses, anyone?..

... and more.

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@colemnanhrs The blockchain/decentralized community, at least part of it, has been building an infrastructure that prioritizes local custody of funds/data for a while, but that's exactly what makes such tech harder to use and not nearly as convenient, pleasant and addictive as regular apps.

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This week in digital censorship and surveillance:
- OpenAI is working on a smart speaker that will connect with users “on a humanlike level”;
- Period tracking app Stardust is sharing users’ health data with a data analytics company,
and more.

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This week in digital censorship and surveillance around the world:

- Meta patented a system that would analyse users’ emotions to recommend workout routines;
- Waymo reported drunk teens riding in a self-driving car to the police,
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This is low key terrifying, guys

[mrinank @MrinankSharma]

Today is my last day at Anthropic. I resigned.

Here is the letter I shared with my colleagues, explaining my decision.

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.@AnthropicAI has no business making Claude that cute – I can't afford building an emotionally involved relationship with a chat bot, come on, guys, there is a male loneliness epidemic out there!

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This week in digital censorship and surveillance:

- UK police has been working on predictive policing algorithms;
- Meta puts AI workplace surveillance program on pause;
- FBI used Cellebrite to extract phones of anti-ICE protesters,
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This week in digital censorship and surveillance:

- ICE is buying taxpayers’ data from a private broker;
- How the FBI got into Minnesota activists’ chats;
- Europe is reconsidering its relationship with Palantir,

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This week in digital censorship and surveillance:

- Pokemon Go geolocation data may be used by military drones;
- Meta deletes facial recognition code from its AI app;
- UK wants tech giants to automatically scan devices for nudity;

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@lilia_yapparova @JohnLechner1 А как может книга с таким же названием и на ту же тему выйти после уже вышедшей книги Барабанова и Короткова?.. Не мог же автор не знать о её существовании?

[Anna Baydakova @baidakova]

Have I had a single day of certainty and security on the past 1,5 years? No.
Have I been stressed out of my mind? Yes.
Have I been bored though? No.
A win is a win.

[Anna Baydakova @baidakova]

This week in digital surveillance and censorship:

- Meta has deployed code for its smart glasses’ future facial recognition feature, although it’s not live yet;
- China is building an AI mechanism to predict online dissent;

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This week in digital censorship and surveillance:

- Thousands school buses in the U.S. may turn into automated license plater readers;

- Workplace surveillance at the New York Times;

- Inside China’s emerging predictive policing tech;

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ChatGPT after giving made-up links to nonexistent articles: ah, you want me to find _actual_ articles on the topic?.. Sounds good!

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Do you ever crave something that you’ve never had but it sounds so good in your mind

[Anna Baydakova @baidakova]

@elonmusk … which, in your book, is a good thing, right?

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Listening about the future of journalism in the era of AI at @columbiajourn
Many things I’m hearing make my blood curdle. Or boil, not sure yet.

[Anna Baydakova @baidakova]

This week in digital censorship and surveillance:

- Meta might be able to read users' WhatsApp messages;
- Chicago activists are suing the DHS for unwarranted DNA gathering;
- DHS wants location data of a Canadian who criticised ICE,
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