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3 months ago

LinkedIn Has Been Using Your Data To Train Its AI System: Here’s How You Can Stop It

News 18

LinkedIn is a platform that helps network professionally and make connections that can even get you a job someday. Yes, that’s right, LinkedIn has without permission sought your data to train its AI models, and the data is even available to its affiliates who can use your personal data for that purpose. Even our account had the data scraping option …

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3 months, 1 week ago

This Morning fans rage 'are you trying to make us hate the show even more?!' as ITV slammed for 'scraping the barrel' with controversial guest

Daily Mail

This Morning fans were left outraged and asked the ITV programme if they were 'trying to make them hate the show even more' after Monday's episode. The show also invited music legend Lulu for an interview on the show's iconic blue couch - a decision which also didn't appear to please viewers. Viewers slammed Monday's This Morning episode for 'scraping …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Facebook admits to scraping every Australian adult user's public photos and posts to train AI, with no opt-out option

ABC

Facebook has admitted that it scrapes the public photos, posts and other data of Australian adult users to train its AI models and provides no opt-out option, even though it allows people in the European Union to refuse consent. Meta's global privacy director Melinda Claybaugh was pressed at an inquiry as to whether the social media giant was hoovering up …

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5 months ago

Team USA survives scare in Olympic warmup, scraping past South Sudan 101-100

CNN

London, England CNN — The US men’s basketball team fought back from a double-digit deficit to edge past South Sudan 101-100 in a dramatic pre-Olympic friendly in London, England on Saturday. “The whole team was embarrassed at halftime, to be down 14 and outplayed.” Ivey, South Sudan head coach, said that there were “no moral victories” after his team came …

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5 months, 4 weeks ago

Reddit to update web standard to block automated website scraping

The Hindu

Social media platform Reddit said on Tuesday it will update a web standard used by the platform to block automated data scraping from its website, following reports that AI startups were bypassing the rule to gather content for their systems. The move comes at a time when artificial intelligence firms have been accused of plagiarising content from publishers to create …

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7 months, 1 week ago

Walmart is scraping hundreds of corporate staff, restricts remote work: Report

Hindustan Times

Walmart is cutting hundreds of corporate jobs and asking most remote workers to move to offices, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. Photographer: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg Meanwhile, workers at the U.S. retail giant's smaller offices in Dallas, Atlanta and Toronto are being asked to move to other central hubs such as Walmart's corporate headquarters …

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7 months, 4 weeks ago

Fact Check: Amit Shah did NOT talk about scraping ST/SC/OBC reservation, viral clip is doctored

India Today

Addressing a rally in Telangana’s Siddipet on April 25, in support of BJP's Lok Sabha Poll candidate M Raghunandan Rao, Union Home Minister Amit Shah accused the Congress party of corruption and raised questions on the reservation policy of the state. Amid this, a video of the Home Minister's speech started making the rounds on social media, in which he …

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9 months ago

'You guys are scraping': MSNBC's Mika mocks Don Jr begging for 'just $5' to save Trump

Raw Story

After spending a considerable amount of time documenting the multiple Donald Trump properties that will be at risk of seizure if the former president doesn't come up with $462 million for an appeals bond in New York, MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski noted the desperation of the Trump campaign to rake in every dollar it can. With New York Attorney General …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Twitter announces monetisation plan for verified users

The Hindu

Twitter on Friday announced its revenue sharing programme to allow verified users to earn revenue from ads posted in replies to users’ posts. Twitter owner Elon Musk had promised months earlier that verified users would be able to make money from the ads in the replies to their posts. During a Twitter Spaces interaction on Friday, Musk also discussed his …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Google sued in the U.S. over data scraping for AI

The Hindu

Google is facing a class action lawsuit filed by eight plaintiffs in the U.S., who accused the search engine giant of stealing the creations of “hundreds of millions of Americans” to build products like the AI-powered chatbot Bard. According to the court filing dated July 11, the plaintiffs claimed that Google stole their data such as personal and professional content, …

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1 year, 5 months ago

If data scraping is no secret, why does it rattle Elon Musk?

The Hindu

How much do your personal opinions and insights mean to you? On July 1, Twitter owner Elon Musk said he was limiting the number of tweets that could be read per day for various accounts, blaming the decision on “extreme levels” of data scraping and system manipulation. In a tweet posted few days back, Musk stated, “Per my earlier post, …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Twitter: What does Elon Musk’s ‘rate limit exceeded’ restriction mean

The Independent

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Thousands of Twitter users reported problems with the social media platform this weekend, …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Mastodon And BlueSky Get A Boost As Elon Musk's Twitter Imposes Post Reading Limits

ABP News

Twitter's German alternative Mastodon as well as BlueSky have gotten a big push in the wake of the new Twitter "mess" that was a result of Twitter boss Elon Musk's announcement to restrict the number of tweets for users on the platform they can see in a day. Musk, earlier on Sunday, temporarily enforced limits on post readings to prevent …

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1 year, 5 months ago

TweetDeck down? Users complain Twitter's reading limit affects the valuable tool

Hindustan Times

TweetDeck, a Twitter client used by many professionals to monitor several Twitter accounts concurrently, appears to have been affected by the social media platform's recently implemented reading limit restriction, which limits the number of tweets a user may view in a day. The official Twitter page of TweetDeck, which has the last post around a year ago, since then it …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Elon Musk caps Twitter post views to combat web data scraping

The Hindu

Elon Musk said on Saturday Twitter is changing its policies that will directly affect the number of tweets users will be able to read in one day. As per Musk’s initial tweet, verified accounts would be limited to reading 6,000 posts per day, while unverified accounts would face a cap of 600 posts per day. New unverified accounts would have …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Amid ‘RIP Twitter’ trend, Jack Dorsey reacts as Elon Musk limits tweet reading

Hindustan Times

Jack Dorsey, Twitter co-founder and former CEO, reacted after Elon Musk announced on Saturday that Twitter would temporarily restrict how many tweets users could read per day, in a move meant to tamp down on the use of the site's data by artificial intelligence companies. Good for all, and critical to preserve the open internet.” Read 10,000 tweets a day …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Elon Musk changes 'Twitter Rate Limit': Know why you're limited to 1,000 tweets per day?

India TV News

In a series of tweets, Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter, announced that the "rate limits" on the micro-blogging platform would soon increase. Currently, verified accounts can read up to 6,000 posts per day, unverified accounts are limited to 600 posts per day, and new unverified accounts can only access 300 posts per day. However, in a subsequent update, Musk …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Japan mulls scraping daily overseas arrival cap by October

Hindustan Times

Japan is making arrangements to end its daily limit on arrivals from overseas by October, and will consider removing other remaining barriers to foreign tourism at the same time, the Nikkei reported without saying where it obtained the information. Japan mulls scraping daily overseas arrival cap by October The removal of the 50,000 people-per-day cap alone won’t return Japan’s border …

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2 years, 5 months ago

Meta sues certain firms for allegedly scraping data of over 3,50,000 Instagram users

The Hindu

Meta Platforms Inc. said on Tuesday that it filed separate actions in federal court against a company and an individual for scraping data from its social media platforms Facebook and Instagram. The company called Octopus is a U.S. subsidiary of a Chinese national high-tech enterprise that offers scraping services, and the individual Ekrem Ateş, used automated Instagram accounts to scrape …

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2 years, 5 months ago

Who was stealing data from Facebook, Instagram?

India TV News

Meta has reportedly sued Octopus, a US subsidiary of a Chinese high-tech enterprise, and a Turkish individual for scraping data from Instagram, Facebook and other big tech platforms from the company. "Octopus offers to scrape data from Amazon, eBay, Twitter, Yelp, Google, Target, Walmart, Indeed, LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram," Meta said in a statement late on Tuesday. It included data …

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2 years, 10 months ago

Tongue Scraping: What Is It And Should I Be Doing It?

Huff Post

Science Photo Library via Getty Images The pandemic has boosted many people's interest in health and wellness, and that includes oral hygiene. “Tongue scraping is an oral hygiene process done to clean the bumpy surface of the tongue,” Dr. Erin Issac, a board-certified pediatric dentist, told HuffPost. Tongue scraping started to pick up during this time when we had to …

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2 years, 11 months ago

Sick staff. Endless COVID patients. Doctors ‘just scraping by’ as Omicron sweeps hospitals

LA Times

On a single day this week, 616 staffers called out sick with COVID-19 at Tufts Medical Center in Boston. Now, we’re essentially numb.” Registered nurse Giyun Kim, left, works with patient Marcus Miller, 44, of Carson in the COVID-19 unit at Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center on Jan. 11, 2022, in Torrance. “Delta and Omicron come along and …

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2 years, 11 months ago

Column: Scraping bottom, Kevin McCarthy manages to sink even lower

LA Times

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has a history of spewing anti-vaccine, anti-mask, anti-science claptrap. If Republicans take control of Congress in November’s midterm election, he said, they would respond by “shutting down the business model you rely on today.” “Twitter, if you shut down constitutionally protected speech you should lose 230 protection,” McCarthy tweeted, referring to the provision in the 1996 …

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3 years ago

Meta, formerly Facebook, will now pay hackers for finding data scraping bugs

India Today

Meta, which is the new name for Facebook, has expanded its bug bounty programme to reward researchers for finding vulnerabilities and bugs in scraped data. Data scraping is how Meta mass-collects personal information from users’ profiles, such as profile photos, email addresses, and phone numbers, through automated tools. Researchers who can find bugs in already scraped data as well as …

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LinkedIn Has Been Using Your Data To Train Its AI System: Here’s How You Can Stop It

This Morning fans rage 'are you trying to make us hate the show even more?!' as ITV slammed for 'scraping the barrel' with controversial guest

Facebook admits to scraping every Australian adult user's public photos and posts to train AI, with no opt-out option

Team USA survives scare in Olympic warmup, scraping past South Sudan 101-100

Reddit to update web standard to block automated website scraping

Walmart is scraping hundreds of corporate staff, restricts remote work: Report

Fact Check: Amit Shah did NOT talk about scraping ST/SC/OBC reservation, viral clip is doctored

'You guys are scraping': MSNBC's Mika mocks Don Jr begging for 'just $5' to save Trump

Twitter announces monetisation plan for verified users

Google sued in the U.S. over data scraping for AI

If data scraping is no secret, why does it rattle Elon Musk?

Twitter: What does Elon Musk’s ‘rate limit exceeded’ restriction mean

Mastodon And BlueSky Get A Boost As Elon Musk's Twitter Imposes Post Reading Limits

TweetDeck down? Users complain Twitter's reading limit affects the valuable tool

Elon Musk caps Twitter post views to combat web data scraping

Amid ‘RIP Twitter’ trend, Jack Dorsey reacts as Elon Musk limits tweet reading

Elon Musk changes 'Twitter Rate Limit': Know why you're limited to 1,000 tweets per day?

Japan mulls scraping daily overseas arrival cap by October

Meta sues certain firms for allegedly scraping data of over 3,50,000 Instagram users

Who was stealing data from Facebook, Instagram?

Tongue Scraping: What Is It And Should I Be Doing It?

Sick staff. Endless COVID patients. Doctors ‘just scraping by’ as Omicron sweeps hospitals

Column: Scraping bottom, Kevin McCarthy manages to sink even lower

Meta, formerly Facebook, will now pay hackers for finding data scraping bugs