Zoom’s Terms of Service update is staking a claim to user data and “customer content” to train its AI models. The company says this is necessary to provide its services to customers, but what it really wants is to profit from user data. https://www.popsci.com/technology/zoom-data-privacy/
Zoom has a history of misleading its customers. Last year, we called it out for plans to use creepy emotion-analyzing AI. Now, Zoom is hiding significant privacy concerns under confusing legalese and conflicting statements.
Zoom’s Terms of Service update is staking a claim to user data and “customer content” to train its AI models. The company says this is necessary to provide its services to customers, but what it really wants is to profit from user data. https://www.popsci.com/technology/zoom-data-privacy/
New Substack post is up :D It's about Pee-wee's Playhouse, obscenity, and the bad internet bills: https://fightforthefuture.substack.com/p/policing-the-playhouse
Can I get that on a t-shirt?
We launched a Substack this week! We’re calling it Touch Grass because its central focus will be connecting digital issues to the real world. We're thinking about it as an idea laboratory where we can expand on things—like Amazon worker towns, health tech, and algorithmic music taste—that might not have full campaigns yet. The goal is to make it fun to write and definitely fun to read.
This week's post (by @anna) is about our Bad Internet Bills week of action: https://fightforthefuture.substack.com/p/think-of-the-children-bills-will
I can't seem to delete this. But for future reference: the syntax for the noscl help command is not "noscl publish help".
We're hoping to hear Senators on the committee express concerns about KOSA. That would be a huge victory. The only reason that would happen is bc of the thunder we all are bringing to DC.
Lately, lots of bills are getting passed out of committee only to die sad pathetic deaths.
Everyone is doing a fantastic job driving the opposition to KOSA. There’s no need to panic based on today’s vote, just take calm persistent-ass action every day, and take good care of yourselves too.
The best place for updates & action will keep being https://badinternetbills.com
Also, for what it’s worth, there’s way less support for KOSA in the House of Representatives, which hasn’t voted on it at all yet, than there is in the Senate. TL;DR we have lots of ways to win!
If we want to kill KOSA, we do have to keep that activist pressure up in order to keep it from passing the full Senate. If KOSA passes out of committee today, we need to redouble our efforts and call our representatives every day telling them to vote NO on KOSA.
The next step is a Senate floor vote. That’s VERY different than a vote out of a committee. The work we are doing right now is setting the stage to make KOSA very controversial, as it should be.
There is still a very good chance that it can die because of activist pressure.
Inside intel + expectations on the #KOSA committee vote today: they’re probably going to pass it out of committee. But! They’re shaking in their boots thanks to the thousands of people who are calling them out. What we’re doing is WORKING, and the fight is far from over.
We sent more than 100,000 emails and 6,000 calls from citizens opposing #KOSA through https://badinternetbills.com and https://stopkosa.com today.
Think Congress will get the message? Tune in for the KOSA vote tomorrow at 10 ET to find out: https://badinternetbills.com#livestream
Join us Monday as we dig into what #humanrights activists should know about the future of #AI and social media in our Emerging Tech for Activists Salon series with Amnesty International.
Want more strong voices on what's real in AI? Join ❤️Fight and Amnesty International this Monday for a chat on the future of #GenerativeAI and social media.
Meet panelists + learn more: http://emergingtechforactivists.com
ALL OUT #NYC: #Amazon workers and community will lead a direct action at the #AWS summit in New York City on July 26 @ 12:30 PM to demand an end to Amazon’s contract with the Israeli military and government! RSVP: https://notechforapartheid.com/NYCAWS
RSVP Now: we're talking #AI & the future of #socialmedia with our friends at #Amnesty US on July 31. Join salon panelists from #OpenMedia, #Mozilla Fdtn, and more.
Details + previous conversations at http://emergingtechforactivists.com
Congress is trying to push through a swarm of harmful internet bills that would severely impact human rights, expand surveillance, and censor the internet.
Today we’re launching a week of action to show our opposition to legislation like KOSA and EARN IT and demand that Congress focus on passing privacy legislation to actually protect us from big tech companies and data brokers, instead of pushing through misguided legislation before the August recess.
Take action at https://badinternetbills.com!
