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TikTok just changed its Terms of Service. What does that mean for your privacy?

mashable - TikTok users were prompted with new Terms of Service following the platform's shift in ownership. Here's what's new.

#dataprivacy #techpolicy #apps #tiktok #bytedance #updates #digitalprivacy

TikTok users are freaking out over a mention of "immigration status" data collection, but lawyers explain the disclosure is related to state privacy laws.

6 wks / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

Alte Geschäftsbedingungen bekommen neue Bedeutung. Kalifornien hatte durchgesetzt, dass Firmen informieren müssen, wenn Userdaten genutzt werden können, um beispielsweise Rückschlüsse auf den Immigrationsstatus zu ziehen. Und nun bemerken Leute, was das b

6 wks / bsky / @publictorsten.bsky.social / publictorsten.bsky.social

TikTok users freak out over app's 'immigration status' collection

6 wks / reddit / /u/FakeOkie

TikTok users freak out over app’s ‘immigration status’ collection — here’s what it means

6 wks / techcrunch / Sarah Perez

TikTok Is Now Collecting Even More Data About Its Users https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/01/23/236200/tiktok-is-now-collecting-even-more-data-about-its-users?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

6 wks / bsky / @slashdot.org / slashdot.org

www.wired.com/story/tiktok... WHEN TIKTOK USERS in the US opened the app today, they were greeted with a pop-up asking them to agree to the social media platform’s new terms of service and privacy policy before they could resume scrolling...

6 wks / bsky / @andrewlevesque.bsky.social / andrewlevesque.bsky.social

TikTok Is Now Collecting Even More Data About Its Users

6 wks / slashdot / BeauHD

TikTok just changed its Terms of Service. What does that mean for your privacy?

6 wks / mashable

TikTok Is Now Collecting More Data About Its Users

6 wks / ycombinator

TikTok Is Now Collecting Even More Data About Its Users. Here Are the 3 Biggest Changes

6 wks / reddit / /u/Well_Socialized

TikTok Is Now Collecting Even More Data About Its Users. Here Are the 3 Biggest Changes

6 wks / wired / Reece Rogers

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Senate Ag Committee’s sweeping crypto market structure bill faces ethics amendment ahead of next week’s hearing

Sarah Wynn / theblock - Ahead of a hearing next week to debate and vote on a sweeping crypto bill, members filed several changes to the legislation.

#blockchain #crypto #techpolicy #government #governance #agriculture #us #law #regulation #crypto

Days of our market structure bills: State of Crypto

5 wks / coindesk / Nikhilesh De

Senate Ag Committee’s sweeping crypto market structure bill faces ethics amendment ahead of next week’s hearing

6 wks / theblock / Sarah Wynn

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand 'optimistic' Senate Agriculture will advance crypto bill despite differences

6 wks / cnbc

Senate Agriculture's crypto market structure draft peppered with Democrat pitches

6 wks / coindesk / Jesse Hamilton

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AI Davos: Four Reflections From The World’s Most Exclusive Tech Conference

Alex Kantrowitz / bigtechnology - Bubble debate and AI devices dominate the World Economic Forum at Davos. Here's what happened during an eventful week.


AI Aiding Law and Order

AI is reshaping police detective work, starting with cold cases

5 wks / axios / Russell Contreras


AI Market Moves & Innovations

Anthropic Updates Claude's 'Constitution,' Just In Case Chatbot Has a Consciousness

5 wks / slashdot / EditorDavid

Why World Models Are AI's Next Big Thing

5 wks / cnet / Katelyn Chedraoui

Apple study reveals AI controllability is fragile and varies wildly by task and model

5 wks / the-decoder / Jonathan Kemper

Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms

5 wks / ycombinator

How an experienced developer teamed up with Claude to create Elo programming language

5 wks / theregister / Thomas Claburn

OpenAI to add shopping cart and merchant tools to ChatGPT

5 wks / testingcatalog / Alexey Shabanov

OpenAI's GPT-5.2 Pro solves math problems that stumped every AI model before it

5 wks / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

Gemini with Personal Intelligence is awfully familiar

5 wks / theverge / Allison Johnson

New AI data center buildout being done in secret location to avoid backlash from local residents — ex-crypto mining company doesn’t want publicity for its latest project

5 wks / tomshardware

Google prepares Veograms and music creation tools on Gemini

5 wks / testingcatalog / Alexey Shabanov

Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic are competing to see whose AI can play Pokémon the best — Twitch streams of beloved RPG game test the models' true might

5 wks / tomshardware

OpenAI developer predicts programmers will soon "declare bankruptcy" on understanding their own AI-generated code

5 wks / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

Microsoft-Tsinghua team trains 7B coding model that beats 14B rivals using only synthetic data

5 wks / the-decoder / Jonathan Kemper

Baidu Unveils ERNIE 5.0 with 2.4 Trillion Parameters, Ushering in a New Era of Multimodal AI

5 wks / pandaily

Google Deepmind goes on acquisition spree with three AI deals in one week

5 wks / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis warns AI investment looks ‘bubble-like’

5 wks / ft

So that puts Claude Code at around $1.1 billion ARR ($91m a month) and that's after juicing it with a bunch of extra access. Puts them at similar range to Cursor ($1bn ARR/$83m/mo) in November and Github Copilot in December ($1.08bn/$90m/mo). Honestly sur

6 wks / bsky / @edzitron.com


Creative Shifts in AI Ads

Get ready for the AI ad-pocalypse

5 wks / theverge / Jess Weatherbed


Davos AI Turf War

Tech CEOs boast and bicker about AI at Davos

5 wks / techcrunch / Anthony Ha

AI Luminaries Clash At Davos Over How Close Human-Level Intelligence Really Is

5 wks / slashdot / EditorDavid

SAP-Chef Christian Klein: KI entscheidet Europas Zukunft

6 wks / politico / Gordon Repinski

How did Davos turn into a tech conference?

6 wks / techcrunch / Theresa Loconsolo

AI Davos: Four Reflections From The World’s Most Exclusive Tech Conference

6 wks / bigtechnology / Alex Kantrowitz

Davos kicks off the AI turf war

6 wks / sources / Alex Heath

AI labs wage a reputational knife fight at Davos

6 wks / theverge / Alex Heath


All Other Stories

DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis warns AI investment looks ‘bubble-like’ www.ft.com/content/a1f0...

5 wks / bsky / @martindbbrown.bsky.social / martindbbrown.bsky.social

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Microsoft Reportedly Turned Over BitLocker Encryption Keys to the FBI

Bruce Gil / gizmodo - Microsoft claims it receives about 20 requests for BitLocker keys a year.


Comparative Privacy Narratives

Microsoft Gave The FBI BitLocker Encryption Keys, Breaking from Apple Privacy Stance

6 wks / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff


Encryption Policy & Privacy Debate

MS confirms it will give the FBI your Windows PC data encryption key if asked

5 wks / ycombinator

Microsoft confirms it will give the FBI your Windows PC data encryption key if asked — you can thank Windows 11's forced online accounts for that

6 wks / reddit / /u/ZacB_

Surrender as a service: Microsoft unlocks BitLocker for feds

6 wks / theregister / Thomas Claburn

Microsoft Gave FBI Keys To Unlock Encrypted Data, Exposing Major Privacy Flaw

6 wks / reddit / /u/blixt141


FBI Key Releases

Microsoft gave customers' BitLocker encryption keys to the FBI — Redmond confirms that it provides recovery keys to government agencies with valid legal orders

5 wks / tomshardware

Microsoft Gave FBI a Set of BitLocker Encryption Keys To Unlock Suspects' Laptops

6 wks / slashdot / BeauHD

Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops

6 wks / reddit / /u/rkhunter_

Microsoft Reportedly Turned Over BitLocker Encryption Keys to the FBI

6 wks / gizmodo / Bruce Gil

Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops

6 wks / ycombinator


Other Developments

DOGE May Have Misused Social Security Data, DOJ Admits

5 wks / wired / Maddy Varner, Andy Greenberg, Andrew Couts


All Other Stories

Microsoft has confirmed it will hand over BitLocker encryption recovery keys to the FBI. You definitely should not be accepting Microsoft’s default of storing BitLocker keys in the cloud when signing into Windows with an MS account www.theverge.com/news/8

5 wks / bsky / @tomwarren.co.uk / tomwarren.co.uk

Microsoft handed the government encryption keys for customer data

5 wks / theverge / Terrence O’Brien

Microsoft Reportedly Turned Over BitLocker Encryption Keys to the FBI

6 wks / bsky / @gizmodo.com / gizmodo.com

Foreign governments should be wary of U.S. technology companies. gizmodo.com/microsoft-re...

6 wks / bsky / @grumpyintrovert.bsky.social / grumpyintrovert.bsky.social

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Meta is stopping teens from chatting with its AI characters

Jay Peters / theverge - Meta is "temporarily pausing" the ability for teens to chat with its AI characters as it develops a "new version" of the characters that will offer a "better experience." The company made the announcement in an update to a blog post from October where the…

#ai #dataprivacy #techpolicy #meta #aiethics #genai #assistant #contentmoderation #safety

Meta shuts down AI character access for minors following reports of problematic chats

5 wks / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

Meta pauses teen access to AI characters

5 wks / techxplore

Meta hits pause on its AI characters for teens

6 wks / mashable

Meta Platforms (META) Stock: Company Halts Teen AI Access Ahead of High-Stakes Court Battles

6 wks / parameter / Yasmin Werner

Meta is stopping teens from chatting with its AI characters

6 wks / theverge / Jay Peters

Meta is temporarily pulling teens' access from its AI chatbot characters

6 wks / engadget / Karissa Bell

Meta pauses teen access to AI characters ahead of new version

6 wks / techcrunch / Ivan Mehta

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Binance Files for MiCA License in Greece Ahead of July 1 EU Deadline

Simon Chandler / decrypt - Binance’s application for MiCA is reportedly being fast-tracked, after the exchange established a holding company in Greece in December.

#crypto #techpolicy #government #finance #europe #payments #law #eu #crypto

USD1 Surpasses PayPal’s PYUSD; Binance Announces $40M Incentive

6 wks / parameter / Maxwell Mutuma

Binance Plans to Relaunch Tokenized Stock Trading After 2021 Pause

6 wks / parameter / Maxwell Mutuma

Binance plans to bring back tokenized stock trading after 2021 retreat

6 wks / coindesk / Helene Braun

Binance Files for MiCA License in Greece Ahead of July 1 EU Deadline

6 wks / decrypt / Simon Chandler

Binance applies for EU crypto license in Greece under MiCA framework

6 wks / coindesk / Olivier Acuna

Binance applies for EU crypto license in Greece under MiCA framework

6 wks / theblock / Naga Avan-Nomayo

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Revolut Drops US Bank Buyout Plan, Eyes Standalone OCC Charter

PYMNTS / pymnts - Revolut is shifting its U.S. playbook again. The U.K.-headquartered FinTech has dropped plans to buy an American bank and is now preparing to pursue a standalone U.S. banking license, a move that would give it a clearer path to scale lending and other cor…

#startups #fintech #techpolicy #banking #business #uk #us #payments #acquisitions #law

Revolut abandons US merger plans to pursue own de novo banking licence: FT

6 wks / theblock / Brian Danga

Revolut Drops US Bank Buyout Plan, Eyes Standalone OCC Charter

6 wks / pymnts / PYMNTS

Revolut scraps US bank acquisition in push for standalone licence, reports say

6 wks / sifted

Revolut drops U.S. bank merger plan to seek standalone license: FT

6 wks / coindesk / Francisco Rodrigues

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