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Meta's AI builds profiles of users' contacts without consent

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Meta has developed an AI system that creates detailed, hourly updated profiles of individuals, including those who have not consented to be part of its database. A researcher described this system as "pretty creepy," while Meta characterized it as "transparency." The AI's functionality allows for the collection of personal data without explicit user agreement, raising significant privacy concerns. AI

IMPACT Raises significant privacy concerns regarding data collection and user consent for AI-driven profiling.

RANK_REASON Article discusses privacy implications of a company's AI system, framed as commentary on Meta's data practices.

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Meta's AI builds profiles of users' contacts without consent

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COVERAGE [1]

  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · kenokabe ·

    Meta has built an AI that keeps hourly-updated profiles of the people in your life, none of whom agreed to be in your life’s database. The researcher who found

    Meta has built an AI that keeps hourly-updated profiles of the people in your life, none of whom agreed to be in your life’s database. The researcher who found the files called it “pretty creepy.” Meta calls it transparency. Both are correct, in the way a window is transparent to…

    LINKS wired.com/…/muse-creates-detailed-profile…

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