| Message-ID: <0EFFF859-AE91-44B4-9D6C-313D36E7633C@roscom.com>
Date: 15 Jan 2023 16:28:56 -0500
From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: How ChatGPT Hijacks Democracy
How ChatGPT Hijacks Democracy
... for all the consternation over the potential for humans to be
replaced by machines in formats like poetry and sitcom scripts, a far
greater threat looms: artificial intelligence replacing humans in the
democratic processes — not through voting, but through lobbying.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/15/opinion/ai-chatgpt-lobbying-democracy.html
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| Message-ID: <20230113010043.GA1261187@telecomdigest.us>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2023 01:00:43 +0000
From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com>
Subject: CWA Organizing Update: RaterLabs/Google
After months of mobilization efforts demanding fair pay and working
conditions, thousands of Alphabet contract workers won the first ever
raises in the history of RaterLabs, a vendor whose only known client
is Google. Workers, known as raters, are responsible for training,
testing, and evaluating Google’s search algorithms. The workers were
previously paid as little as $10/hour, directly contradicting the
standard minimum pay and benefits Google had announced for its
extended workforce workers in 2019. In May of 2022, the workers
launched a petition on behalf of Alphabet Workers Union-CWA (AWU-CWA)
and met with management in October of 2022 to demand that all of
Alphabet’s extended workforce were included in Alphabet’s standards,
and that these standards themselves are just.
https://cwa-union.org/news/e-newsletter/2023-01-12#:~:text=RaterLabs%2FGoogle,only%20known%20client%20is%20Google.
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| Message-ID: <64A34E05-697A-457A-AA2C-FA4949C3C16F@roscom.com>
Date: 15 Jan 2023 22:48:43 -0500
From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Meta sues “scraping-for-hire” service that sells user data
to law enforcement
Meta said it’s suing “scraping-for-hire” service Voyager Labs for
allegedly using fake accounts, proprietary software, and a sprawling
network of IP addresses to surreptitiously collect massive amounts of
personal data from users of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and other
social networking sites.
“Defendant created and used over 38,000 fake Facebook user accounts
and its Surveillance Software to scrape more than 600,000 Facebook
users’ viewable profile information, including posts, likes, friends
lists, photos, and comments, and information from Facebook Groups and
Pages,” lawyers wrote in Meta’s complaint. “Defendant designed the
Surveillance Software to conceal its presence and activity from Meta
and others, and sold and licensed for profit the data it scraped.”
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1910046
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| Message-ID: <A4E81537-2458-4E81-8DCE-34AD0E34CC90@roscom.com>
Date: 15 Jan 2023 22:10:05 -0500
From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Identity Thieves Bypassed Experian Security to View Credit
Reports
Identity thieves have been exploiting a glaring security weakness in
the website of Experian, one of the big three consumer credit
reporting bureaus. Normally, Experian requires that those seeking a
copy of their credit report successfully answer several multiple
choice questions about their financial history. But until the end of
2022, Experian’s website allowed anyone to bypass these questions and
go straight to the consumer’s report. All that was needed was the
person’s name, address, birthday and Social Security number.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/01/identity-thieves-bypassed-experian-secur=ity-to-view-credit-reports/ |
