Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: The FCC rejects ISPs’ requests to eliminate an upcoming requirement that they list all their monthly fees, saying “every consumer needs transparent information” — Comcast and other ISPs asked FCC to ditch listing-every-fee rule. FCC says “no.” Lees verder op Tech Meme
Emilia David / The Verge: The US Copyright Office seeks public input on AI and copyright issues, including the use of copyrighted works to train AI; written comments are due October 18 — The US Copyright Office is opening a public comment period around AI and copyright issues beginning August 30th as the agency figures out how to approach the subject. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Meta lets users submit requests to access, alter, or delete some of their third-party information that Meta uses for generative AI training — – Meta updated its help resource center with a form that gives users some control over what personal data is used to train generative artificial intelligence models. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Josh Taylor / The Guardian: Australia abandons its plans to mandate age verification tech for porn sites, citing privacy and security concerns, and will instead focus on educating parents — The eSafety commissioner is to work with industry on a new code to educate parents about how to access filtering software and limit children’s access Lees verder op Tech Meme
Aisha Counts / Bloomberg: X updates its privacy policy to include biometric information as data it plans to collect for safety and security, along with data on users’ jobs and education — – In policy shift, X will use the data for safety, security — Employment, education history will be used to recommend jobs Lees verder op Tech Meme
Financial Times: Document: the UK plans to increase use of AI-based facial recognition tech by the police, potentially deploying new biometric systems over the next 12-18 months — Move comes after privacy campaigners and independent academics criticised technology for being inaccurate Lees verder op Tech Meme
Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: Sources: Apple plans to eliminate social media support adviser roles across X, YouTube, and the Apple Support Community website starting later this year — Apple is planning to eliminate social media support advisor roles across Twitter, YouTube, and the Apple Support Community website starting later … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google launches its Search Generative Experience in India and Japan via Search Labs opt-in, following the US launch of the AI search feature in May 2023 — Following the May launch in the US, Google is giving the Search Generative Experience (SGE) an international launch in India and Japan … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Amazon announces the Buy with Prime app for Shopify, which will let US-based Shopify merchants natively integrate Amazon’s program into their Shopify stores — In-depth Amazon coverage from the tech giant’s hometown, including e-commerce, AWS, Amazon Prime, Alexa, logistics, devices, and more. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Ben Strack / Blockworks: Robinhood Wallet adds support for bitcoin and dogecoin six months after public launch, and is rolling out in-app Ethereum swaps to all users in the coming weeks — Six months after its public launch, the self-custody offering has begun enabling in-app swaps on the Ethereum network Lees verder op Tech Meme