Privacy News Round-Up #62
- LinkedIn’s Privacy Policy: Is Your Data Fueling AI?: The microblogging and networking site acquired by Microsoft has now updated its privacy policy to allow using users’ data to train AI models.
- UK’s privacy watchdog takes credit for rise of ‘consent or pay’: The U.K.’s data protection watchdog claims a crackdown on websites that don’t ask for consent from visitors to track and profile their activity for ad targeting is bearing fruit.
- Discord launches end-to-end encrypted voice and video chats: Discord announced on Tuesday that audio and video calls inside the platform will now be end-to-end encrypted (E2EE), meaning even Discord won’t know what users in those conversations talk about.
- Snapchat Reserves the Right to Use AI-Generated Images of Your Face in Ads: Snapchat’s “My Selfie” by default reserves the right to use your likeness in ads. [paywalled]
- Apple Vision Pro’s Eye Tracking Exposed What People Type: The Vision Pro uses 3D avatars on calls and for streaming. These researchers used eye tracking to work out the passwords and PINs people typed with their avatars.