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For a world where technology will empower and enable us, not exploit our data for profit and power.

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Investors, customers, and people everywhere deserve to know how these companies are selling, building, and deploying their technologies - including when that technology is being used against people. https://t.co/XW4e8lJuDD

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AI can reveal your location from a single photo. Vision‑Language Models can determine where any photo is from without using GPS data. What does that means for your privacy? It can lead to covert surveillance, doxxing, discriminatory policing, and profiling https://t.co/RmWV4QTodN

[Privacy International @privacyint]

Investors, customers, and people everywhere deserve to know how these companies are selling, building, and deploying their technologies - including when that technology is being used against people.

https://t.co/XW4e8lJuDD

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Around the world, technology is increasingly being used to stifle dissent, assert control and diminish human rights.

Our new Global Report on the Authoritarian Use of Technology documents how states are deploying surveillance technologies

https://t.co/qpfQZoEWXZ

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China, European countries, Israel, the US, and Russia are providing surveillance tools to entrench political control, and used to spy on activists, journalists, dissidents and opposition https://t.co/2DaWKT7UwK

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AI can reveal your location from a single photo. Vision‑Language Models (VLMs) can now determine where in the world any given photo is taken, without using any GPS data.

What does that means for your privacy? Covert surveillance, doxxing, and profiling

https://t.co/RmWV4QTodN

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Claude's user base has nearly doubled to 30 million this year, as more people turn to it for everyday tasks.

But popular doesn't mean risk-free. Like with every LLM, Claude comes with privacy risks worth knowing about.

Here are 4 settings worth changing now

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Intelligence agencies around the world are adopting AI in the shadows.

Our new report examines the UK’s intelligence agencies and finds a troubling combination of expanding technological power, weak safeguards and secrecy.

https://t.co/y4fiEhfFHh

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Health data class actions provide the means to litigate against abuses of health data and push back against companies’ profit-driven collection of health data.

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Meta is in the headlines again, this time over allegations of tracking and collecting patients' sensitive medical information, including appointment and prescription details, as well as health conditions, from healthcare websites and apps. https://t.co/lvWtW0V1h6

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We previously wrote about this emerging trend of pushback within the US against companies via the use of class actions as a legal route to seek redress for the exploitation of health data. https://t.co/LPDHx4mEYi

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@DESCA_CIDH Find out more about our work on algorithmic management and workplace surveillance https://t.co/PzqU27ZBAM

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AI and automated systems are increasingly used to decide how people are monitored, scheduled, rated, paid and fired at work, often with no explanation and no way to challenge the outcome.

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@DESCA_CIDH Workers and their representatives need access to information, safeguards against disproportionate surveillance and algorithmic discrimination, and a real right to explanation, human intervention and appeal.

https://t.co/ftrdDPzOBC

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Intelligence agencies around the world are adopting AI in the shadows.

Our new report examines the UK’s intelligence agencies and finds a troubling combination of expanding technological power, weak safeguards and secrecy.

https://t.co/y4fiEhfFHh

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Transparency, oversight, auditing, record-keeping, explainability and meaningful redress are essential.

Some uses of AI by intelligence agencies are simply incompatible with fundamental rights and should never be permitted.

https://t.co/Im3XUBWdFt

[Privacy International @privacyint]

Intelligence agencies around the world are adopting AI in the shadows.

Our new report examines the UK’s intelligence agencies and finds a troubling combination of expanding technological power, weak safeguards and secrecy.

https://t.co/y4fiEhfFHh

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Yet, as this is done in secret, the public knows remarkably little.

AI is inadequately regulated and intelligence agencies are often exempt from the few legal constraints that do exist.

Regulation must catch up.