CMG’s website addresses this with a section that starts “We know what you are thinking…”
“Is this legal? YES- it is totally legal for phones and devices to listen to you. That's because consumers usually give consent when accepting terms and conditions of software updates or app downloads,” the website says.
Well, yes, but actually no. No idea how this might play out in other parts of the world than the US. But in most places, you'd usually need consent of all parties, that are involved. If my neighbor were to install an (infected) app like this, then carries his phone around and talks to me, I did not consent and it would be illegal to record me, even if he were not tricked into consenting, but did knowingly accept it. Worse yet, in the last scenario, he might be on the hook for legal consequences, too...
Besides that legal minefield, I thinks it's a bluff. The tech is either way less accurate than they claim, or quite ressource intensive by either eating through your data plan on a mobile phone or draining your battery. My bet is on a PR stunt.
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They won't hand out fines every few weeks easily. And usually you cannot get fined twice for the same thing. BUT it was a (albeit able bit exaggerated) projection what could happen, if you constantly ignore the court orders and continue breaking the law. At first, you might get some time to change your processes, get compliant, ... but when it won't stop, you get fined again. And it won't be lenient the further you stress it. Also that's just the fine for the GDPR violation itself. Ignoring court orders, violating the law continuously,... will get you other fines - assuming you don't change you behavior.
It will take a while to get there, sure and I think Meta will try to continue processing this data as mich as they can, but the EU doesn't look like they're joking too much.
Depends. It's up to 4% of the yearly revenue per court ruling. And not necessarily once per year. If you were to continue to ignore these rulings and continue abusing the data, that can rack up fast. Pay once - that may or may not be a problem. Pay monthly - there goes up to 48% of your yearly revenue.
Dubai isn’t necessarily a bad place per se. Like… “do you like it here outside w/o air conditioning? That’s your average winter in the Antarctic in a few years, if you don’t act.”
Because of the GDPR, Google offers a download of all collected data about you. When you have your location history enabled, this should be part of it. If that's in a useful data format to parse, one could program this with the actual data of one's movement
Same. I read the title as Russia <> Crimea, then the excerpt that you posted. In the end I was like wtf how does China play a role in the connection between Russia and... oh... oooohhhh....!
These are just screenshots of the data privacy section from the Apple AppStore of each of the apps. Afaik those are mandatory & self reported by the devs of the app.
Ok, so they're not targeting "day to day command-line use", but development in general and want to offer a way to explain error messages, generate code, etc. If done right, and the model is trained in a good way, that might work. All the problems surrounding code gen models and copyright/license issues from the generated code still apply, though.
Especially the mention of WinDBG support and probably a way to guide you through might be a really nice feature.
Skimming through the MS blog post, that your link mentiones, I don't really believe in the hype of "now everyone can be a developer" it offers - I've seen that too often with low-code, no-code, RPA,... tools to know that it won't really scale. There's more to development than just to generate code...
Wait what? I thought, they'd integrate it in the OS like they did with cortana - or Bing search in the start menu...
I'm from the EU, so I'm lucky and won't see this anytime soon, but what does it do and how does it work in the Terminal? Is it a new tab complete, but with AI hallucinations instead of real commands/filenames?
...who usually require you to download their app, too - sadly