Did Amazon Just Buy Your Medical Records?
This week in Privacy News, Most apps lie about their Nutrition Labels, VR can ID you by your movements, and the EU bans TikTok, but Bytedance is mad. Also, White Castle faces a $17 Billion dollar lawsuit and Amazon buys One Medical. We also look at AI news.
Will The Drive for AI Drive Up Prices for All?
This week in Business News, Google tests blocking news in Canada, Chrome will automatically discard background tabs, and FitBit drops some features. Also, Twitter kills SMS 2FA for pleb users and ChatGPT search may drive up costs for the Internet. We also visit SillyVille.
Another State to Ban Gas-powered Garden Tools
This week in Banned News, another Clinton associate offs himself, a refugee wants to go back to Ukraine, and Soylent enters the next phase of marketing. Also, Norway will switch to 100% EV and MN moves to ban gas-powered garden tools.
Articles
Privacy
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/mozilla-study-data-privacy-labels-for-most-top-apps-in-google-play-store-are-false-or-misleading/
https://www.techradar.com/news/in-the-metaverse-your-identity-can-be-revealed-just-by-moving
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/23/european-commission-bans-staff-from-using-tiktok-on-work-devices
https://www.natlawreview.com/article/17-billion-slider-illinois-supreme-court-decides-white-castle-bipa-case
https://www.engadget.com/amazon-completes-one-medical-acquisition-163431975.html
AI Overlords
http://neil-clarke.com/a-concerning-trend/
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/feb/19/woolworths-expands-self-checkout-ai-that-critics-say-treats-every-customer-as-a-suspect
https://www.techradar.com/news/this-fake-linkedin-ad-could-be-one-of-the-first-ai-generated-phishing-campaigns
https://notthebee.com/article/everyone-is-mad-at-vanderbilt-for-using-a-chatbot-to-write-a-dei-email-but-honestly-i-cannot-tell-the-difference-in-the-slightest-/
https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/22/samsung-bixby-feature-creates-ai-generated-copy-users-voice-answer-calls/
https://notthebee.com/article/so-chatgtp-is-now-apparently-just-making-stuff-up-and-trying-to-pass-it-off-as-factual/
Business
https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/23/google-rolls-out-tests-that-block-news-content-for-some-users-in-canada/
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/02/chrome-110-will-automatically-discard-background-tabs-heres-how-to-stop-it/
https://www.techradar.com/news/fitbit-owners-are-furious-as-google-axes-even-more-key-features
https://securityaffairs.com/142416/security/twitter-sms-based-2fa.html
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/02/chatgpt-style-search-represents-a-10x-cost-increase-for-google-microsoft/
Silly
https://notthebee.com/article/canadian-farmers-created-a-giant-super-pig-that-can-survive-brutal-winters-and-now-its-set-to-invade-the-united-states/
https://news.sky.com/story/microsoft-limits-new-bing-after-reports-of-bizarre-answers-with-journalist-compared-to-hitler-12813741
https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-york-teens-nabbed-running-through-fence-kool-aid-man-tiktok-challenge
https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/22/tiktok-is-coming-to-cars-starting-with-mercedes-benz/
Banned
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11759771/Mystery-Bill-Clinton-advisor-dead-gunshot-wound-no-gun.html
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/sfusd-middle-school-ukraine-war-teen-refugee-17775257.php
https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/21/soylent-acquired-starco-brands-nutrition/
https://notthebee.com/article/norway-wants-to-switch-to-100-electric-vehicles-in-just-2-years-theres-just-one-problem-norway-is-very-cold-and/
https://www.farm-equipment.com/articles/21137-minnesota-to-consider-ban-on-gas-powered-lawn-equipment
