Privacy

Apple made privacy its flag. One of his functions has resulted in a fine of 98 million euros in Europe

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Privacy has been one of Apple’s great arguments to explain why its ecosystem works differently. It is not just a technical issue, but a narrative built over years. Precisely for this reason it is surprising that a tool presented as an advance for the user is at the center of a fine of almost one hundred million euros. The Italian Competition Authority has imposed Apple fined 98.6 million euros for abuse of dominant position, considering that the implementation of App Tracking Transparency restricts competition. The focus is not on the idea of ​​​​protecting data, but on how those rules were applied to developers who distribute their apps on iOS. This is where the underlying shock lies. The origin of the function. Transparency Tracking App It does not arise in this regulatory context, but several years earlier, as part of a broader change in Apple’s privacy strategy. The feature was introduced in April 2021 with the release of iOS 14.5 and was presented as a direct way to return control over advertising tracking to the user. From then on, each app had to ask for explicit permission before tracking user activity on other apps and websites. It was a turn that reordered the mobile ecosystem from within. The logic behind App Tracking Transparency is based on a specific definition of what Apple considers tracking. It is not just about displaying ads, but about linking data collected in an app with information obtained from third-party services for targeted advertising or measurement. If the user chooses not to be tracked, the developer loses access to the IDFA and, according to system rulesnor may you use other personal identifiers for the same purpose. It is a technical cut that simplifies the user’s decision, but has direct consequences on how many applications are monetized. A position of strength in the iOS ecosystem. For the Italian authority, the key is not the subsequent opening of the system, but the situation that existed when ATT began to be applied. During that period, Apple concentrated control over the distribution of iOS apps and over the rules that govern advertising tracking at the system level. From that dominant position, the regulator concludes, the company was able to set conditions that had a competitive impact. All of this, beyond the stated objective of protecting user privacy. The App Tracking Transparency Notice The core of the reproach: “double consent.” The heart of the penalty is how ATT was applied to third-party developers. According to the Italian authorityApple’s screen required a first permit to be requested which, by itself, did not meet all the requirements of European data protection regulations. This forced developers to request a second additional consent for the same advertising purpose. That extra step, the regulator maintains, reduced the probability of acceptance and limited the collection and use of data necessary for personalized advertising. The economic impact is one of the pillars of the file. By increasing the friction of obtaining consent, ATT limited the collection and linking of data used to measure and personalize ads. For the Italian authority, this harmed developers whose business is based on the sale of advertising space and also affected advertisers and intermediation platforms. In the summary of the case, the regulator adds that this design could generate benefits for Apple, both through higher commissions associated with App Store services and the growth of its advertising business. Was there another way to do it? One of the keys to resolution is that the problem is not in the goal, but in the path. The Italian authority claims that Apple could have achieved the same level of privacy protection without requiring duplicate consent requests. Disagreement and notice of appeal. Apple has expressed its disagreement with the resolution of the Italian authority and considers that it does not adequately value the privacy protections provided by ATT. In a statement cited by Reutersthe company insists that the system was created to give users clear control over ad tracking and that its rules apply equally to all developers. The company has also confirmed that it will appeal the fine and that it will maintain its commitment to protecting user privacy. The fine is the result of a long and complex investigation. According to the case summarythe Italian authority opened the file in May 2023 and expanded its scope in October 2024, in coordination with the European Commission, other competition regulators and the national data protection authority. This joint approach underlines that ATT’s analysis was not limited to a single country or a single dimension. Rather, it was approached as a intersection between competition, privacy and the functioning of the digital market. Beyond the announced appeal, the resolution imposes immediate effects. The authority orders Apple to immediately cease the aforementioned conduct and refrain from repeating similar practices in the future. In addition, Apple has 90 days to inform the AGCM how it will comply with those demands. It is not clear, for now, whether this calendar also depends on the appeal process, but the case makes it clear that the debate is no longer just theoretical. Images | Georgiy Lyamin | Screenshot In Xataka | We believed that Microsoft had already put Copilot everywhere. LG shows us that we were very wrong

sacrifices privacy to not be left behind in AI

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Europe, which until now seemed one of the few champions of privacy, threatens to stop being so. The European Commission is preparing a “digital omnibus”, a package of measures that will theoretically be announced at the end of the month and that propose notable changes to current privacy regulations. Why is it important. Draft documents obtained by Politico They are worrying. European Commission officials say these measures are intended to simplify many of the laws that regulate the technological field. The executive, they claim in this medium, insists that it is only cutting certain excessive rules through “targeted” amendments, but those drafts show disturbing changes. A weak GDPR for a strong AI. The changes that, for example, will affect the General Data Protection Regulation (RGPD, or GDPR for its acronym in English) will be carried out with a singular objective: to benefit the developers of AI models. The pillars crumble. Jan Philipp Albrecht, former member of the European Parliament and one of the architects of the GDPR, this spells the end of data protection and privacy that were pillars of the EU strategy. “The Commission should be fully aware that this is drastically undermining European standards.” Is Europe left behind, so out of privacy? What is certain is that European economic power is losing relevance and that seems to have motivated these changes. Former Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi mentioned the General Data Protection Regulation as an obstacle to European innovation in artificial intelligence in its historic report on competitiveness from last year. But. The question, of course, is whether Europe really needs to sacrifice the privacy of its citizens in order not to be left behind in the technological field. When the EU released the first regulation on AI, the AI ​​Acthe stuck out his chest precisely for applying an (overly) cautious approach. This provoked criticism that for months has caused some steps to be taken back in those so rigid goals. Europe, technological pariah. The AI ​​Act, the DMA and the GDPR have certainly caused the deployment of AI models and functions in the old continent to be blocked or delayed. Passed with Apple Intelligence and with Copilotfor example, but while Europe restricted the arrival of AI to users, in the US and China the deployment has been dazzling, total and without restrictions… for better and for worse. In fact, in the United States the philosophy of laissez faire is extraordinary, and companies even advocate for forget copyright laws. Dangerous exceptions. These documents aim to create exceptions for AI companies that would allow them to process disturbing special categories of data such as religious or political beliefs, race or health data that could be used to train and operate their AI models. The definition of such types of data, which enjoy additional protections under privacy regulations, is expected to be redefined. Anonymized data. Another objective seems to be defining what constitutes personal data. Thus, pseudo-anonymized data—with personal details opaque to prevent identification of a person—may not be subject to GDPR protections. This type of change would occur after the precedent of a recent ruling in that sense by the EU Court. Cookie banners. Finally, the draft wants to reform annoying European rules about cookie banners by including a provision in the GDPR that would give website and app owners more legal grounds to justify tracking users beyond simply obtaining their consent. Once again, bad news for the privacy of European users. Total uncertainty. The European Commission is expected to reveal its plans on November 19. Changes to the current drafts may be proposed during these days, however. Once this package of measures is presented, both EU member countries and legislators will have to approve it, something that is not certain either due to the great divisions that exist in terms of privacy between them. We are living it for example with the controversial Chat Controland these measures also go in that direction. In Xataka | Europe dominates open source AI but loses the race: the paradox that 150 billion euros will try to solve

Privacy is dying since ChatGPT arrived. Now our obsession is for AI to know us as best as possible

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For years we have learned to distrust. Not to share too much, to be suspicious of each clickof each form, of each extra permission that the mobile phone or some app asked us for. To frown. Privacy was the last bastion of digital dignity, the ground we had to defend. But something has changed. And he has done it without resistance. Since ChatGPT and company arrived, and especially since the projects and expanded memorywe have crossed an invisible line. We no longer just agree to hand over our data, we offer it proactively. What’s more, we get frustrated when AI doesn’t remember enough, or when it’s not able to quickly process a report or analytics. Or when it doesn’t anticipate what we want. The paradox is brutal. We’ve gone from being outraged that Instagram showed us an overly personal and painfully targeted ad (shirts that camouflage lorzas, infertility treatments) to being impatient if ChatGPT doesn’t remember something we could use it to remember. Of the “I don’t want to be tracked” to “why the hell don’t you know me better by now?” The difference comes from the perception of immediate usefulness: social platforms monetized our data by selling their access to third parties to segment ads, AI uses it to give us more useful answers. Or so we think. The trick is in the illusion of reciprocity: When you provide information to a social network, you receive in return content that you did not ask for and advertisements that you do not want, no matter how accurate they may be. When you hand it over to an AI, you get personalized responses, assistance tailored to you, solutions that seem designed exclusively for your case. In the second case, the transaction feels fair. Symmetrical. Even generous on the part of the machine. But the architecture of power has not changed. She has only become more seductive. Now they don’t watch us, they understand us. And they don’t track us, but they remember us. Language matters, because it changes how we perceive what we are giving up. We have gone from being spied on to being cared for. And that makes a psychological difference, even though the end result is the same: handing over the entire map of who we are to entities we do not control. Privacy is not dead. He is giving up due to exhaustion. Because defending something that makes our lives more difficult, that deprives us of comfort and efficiency, is unsustainable when the alternative promises to know us so well that it frees us from explaining ourselves over and over again. In Xataka | OpenAI is making the tech industry unite its destiny with yours. For the sake of the global economy, it better work Featured image | Xataka

It is a trap for privacy

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In 2022 Kenn Dahl car insurance raised him 21%. He had not had any incident with his Chevrolet Bolt, so he asked his insurance agent and he gave him a advice: look at your lexisnexis report. This company based in New York is a gigantic data broker that has a division that is responsible for Collect information about drivers and then supplies it to insurance companies. And that’s where Mr. Dahl decided Ask for your report to the company, which was obliged to give it to it due to the Fair Credit Reporting Act. Your car is cool When he received it, Mr. Dahl was amazed. That 258 -page report had more than 130 pages dedicated to each moment in which he or his wife had driven the car in the previous six months. Included details of 640 journeys with their start and end hours, the distance conducted or Even accelerons and brakes. The only thing that did not reveal was the specific places from and where it had gone. Kia Connect is a service that informs the driver of his “driver score” to (theoretically) offer custom automobile insurance. The system does not stop collecting data on your driving. As explained in The New York Times, more and more manufacturers make use of all kinds of sensors and systems that collect information about drivers, and do so without their express knowledge and, of course, without their consent. And modern cars can even have systems that “describe” the driving of who takes them, something that allows manufacturers to collect that data … and sell them. There are more users who have noticed this type of Massive collection of data in your cars. In those of General Motors the Smart Driver onstar system is used that users can deactivate, as several drivers who commented on the situation years ago In Reddit either In a forum Dedicated to “Chevy” Bolt. Other manufacturers make use of this type of systems and activate them by default, such as the Kia Connect system From the KIA aimed at obtaining a “score” that helps your car insurance to adjust to your way of driving and reward the most reliable drivers according to the data collected. In Peugeot support forums even There is talk of the “Private Mode” of driving that when activated “prevents data and/or the position of the vehicle.” But as they also point out in that information, if one deactivates it, it stops accessing functions such as connected navigation, remote control or Mirror Screen function. According to a study of 2023 of the Mozilla Foundation, 88% of the brands analyzed by them inferred additional data from the information they collected. And among those inferred data, something disturbing: they could confirm a profile of personal beliefs and even sexual activity. Not only that: in this study 19 of the companies analyzed (76%) They sold those personal data to other companies. The good thing about the Tesla is that they have cameras. The bad, too The suspicions that can emerge in this type of data collection can go even further, especially if we remember What happened to the Tesla. Between 2019 and 2022 groups of employees of Tesla They privately shared videos and images taken with the cameras of customer cars. In some of those videos, Tesla customers had been captured in pregnant situations. For example, an ex -employed from the company could see the video of a completely naked man approaching one of those cars. In others, even accidents such as a Tesla who ran over a bike child who was fired. That video, said one of the former employees in the Reuters reportspread through those internal networks “like gunpowder.” The Tesla are only One more example of that massive data collection. According to The Guardianthe sensors and cameras of the car get location data – although Tesla does not store them unless they are of an accident – habits and type of driving (speeds, brakes, accelerons), and other data. For example, diagnostic information and car use and data related to infotainment systems such as navigation history or voice commands used. It is possible despite disable the function that transfers part of that information to the Tesla servers, but in doing so we can also lose some functions of the vehicle. The European Data Protection Committee published in 2021 Their guidelines on the processing of personal data in this environment, and according to said regulations manufacturers must minimize data collection and prioritize their local treatment. In addition, control tools that allow you to exercise access, rectification and suppression rights are urged. The requirements are there, but at the moment its compliance seems as little erratic. In Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) they recently provided tips when consulting What data your car has and how to avoid That they are shared, but of course the situation could be aggravated, especially considering that the renewal of the mobile park causes that more and more users have cars with all these options … and voracity when it comes to collecting data. Image | Jonas Leupe

Telegram has just starred in a surprising script turn. One in which privacy loses

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Telegram announced these days that predictably will integrate Grok in its application This summer. We will have the ability to use a chatbot of AI inside the messaging app, which is precisely the same as the goal has driven to Integrate goal AI In WhatsApp recently. The strategic alliance is striking, but also worrying. A juicy agreement. After the announcement of Pavel Durov, CEO of Telegram, Elon Musk I clarified that the agreement was not yet signed. Durov replied that only some formalities remained. If it is finally confirmed, XAI will pay 300 million dollars to Telegram in cash and shares. Telegram will also take 50% of the revenues of Grok subscriptions that are sold via the messaging app. Everything seems fantastic for Telegram, but what will Musk win? Data are a treasure. This agreement allows Grok to immediate access to a massive user base, part of which can become payment subscribers of the XAI IA service. But above all, it will allow Elon Musk’s company to obtain access to a massive data collection that can be used to train their AI models, for example. The same happens with goal and the inclusion of goal AI in WhatsApp: the conversations we have with the chatbot are not encrypted, and can serve among other things to train the company’s models. Musk already did something similar with x. Just two months ago Elon Musk made a strategic play and fused X with Xai. The operation was logical, especially after Grok’s initial integration in X, but that strengthened even more a forceful reality: that the data of X users could be used to Train XAI AI models. Taking into account that Musk had been Looking for a plan B For data scarcity, that operation and the agreement with Telegram demonstrate that voracious hunger of data. Hardov’s promises. In a tweet after the ad, Durov expressed his Commitment to privacy. “The user’s privacy is essential,” he said, adding that “to be clear, XAI will only access the data that Telegram users explicitly share with Grok through direct interactions. It’s expected: you can’t send messages to anyone (not even a chatbot) without sharing what you write.” That last sentence showed again that by default Telegram does not figure the messages. If users are concerned about their privacy, they must be attentive to this circumstance. As a security expert explained in a 2016 study, “Telegram is not safe“ Telegram and privacy. For years Telegram grew precisely because of its theoretical focus on the privacy of its users. It was one of the first to announce the use of extreme-a-extreme encryption (E2E, end-to-end). However, even that option He had small print. Not many users realized that in reality E2E encryption only applied in secret chats to, according to those responsible, that they would not raise suspicions. Yielding data to governments. Things worsened in September 2024. That was when Telegram CEO, Pavel Durov, announced that would provide users with governments to be asked, although in reality the service conditions They already opened that door long before. Changes in these policies were produced After the controversial detention that Durov had suffered in France a few days before. The measure was especially surprising, especially considering that Telegram had become famous for Resist those same interference by the government of Russia. In January 2025 it was revealed how Telegram had yielded data from thousands of users to the United States authorities. We have just known that then they have continued yielding many more. Changing headquarters. An analysis of the security and privacy of Telegram carried out by ESET He revealed the deficiencies in these areas and in the protection of anonymity, but also pointed out another important detail: Telegram has changed several times of jurisdiction and its headquarters has been traveling from Berlin to London, then to Singapore and finally Dubai. The objective was to maintain its independence, but that leaves an ambiguous legal framework on data management. Bad news for privacy. All this makes the suspicions about the privacy guarantees offered by Telegram to its users are harmed. XAI is an American company, and the already revealed data assignments to that government by Telegram only reinforce a worrying trend. Image | Steve Jurvetson In Xataka | Telegram is much more than a messaging app. It has become the new Deep Web

WhatsApp the privacy seemed pump proof. Until a state prosecutor tried to erase incriminating messages

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The State Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz, thought he had eliminated messages that could help incriminate him in a crime of revelation of the secrets. It really wasn’t like that, because It doesn’t matter if you delete your messages on WhatsApp: Google keeps them the same. Now we have known that these messages seem to have been successfully recovered, and the question is: how have you managed to read those messages? Metadata to compare other data. During the investigation, the UCO also registered the electronic devices of the provincial chief prosecutor of Madrid, Pilar Rodríguez, they point out In 20 minutes. The content of the Zip folder held by the magistrate could also have been sent by goal/WhatsApp, which would not have sent the messages – it can not theoretically have no access to them – but the metadata of those conversations of García Ortiz. These metadata could serve to compare and contrast Rodríguez’s messages – which did retain those conversations – thus providing evidence for the attribution of the Attorney General. Of deleted, nothing. As they point out in the confidentialthe magistrate of the Supreme Court, Ángel Luis Hurtado, has indicated that the effort to try to recover the messages deleted by the State Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz, seems to have been “successful.” The latter It is charged for an alleged crime of revelation of secrets. Google and WhatsApp lend their help. The Central Operating Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard will be responsible for making an expert report on the messages. The Supreme Court indicated In the country In January, he made a request to the Irish delegations of Google and WhatsApp (Meta) through Eurojustan agency for judicial cooperation in criminal cases. It is not specified which has responded, but the magistrate has received documentation in a Zip folder that seems to contain the messages deleted by García Ortiz in October 2024. How have you managed to read? The essential question is, of course, how it is possible that justice has ended up having access to those messages. The UCO already proved that García Ortiz erased his WhatsApp messages not one if not twice on October 16, 2024, when he was charged. He even changed telephone and reached the factory that he had been using until that moment. The alleged reason was to prevent such messages from incriminating him, but it turned out that this was not enough. The theory of metadata is a strong option, but there are others. End -to -end encryption is there. To begin with, we must clarify that WhatsApp has been using a protocol for years end -to -end encryption For all conversations. Only who sends the message and who (or who receives it can read them, but no other person or entity can decipher those messages. Not even goalthrough whose servers they send and forward texts, images, video or any other type of content. The key was not there, and there are other ways to access those messages. Option 1: physical access to the device. The most obvious way to access a user’s WhatsApp messages is to have physical access to your mobile device. In that case, forensic experts can, with the appropriate tools, obtain the key to decipher the messages from the WhatsApp database, even if they have been deleted. Here García Ortiz erased the messages and restored the terminal to his factory status, which probably made it impossible to recover them from the device even having physically access. But there was another way. Option 2: Surely Backing Copies. This is probably the key to the success of having recovered the messages of the Attorney General. In WhatsApp users can back up their messages in cloud services such as Google Drive or Apple Iloud, but attention: by default those backup copies are not encrypted. It is the users who must proactively enable encryption in backupsand maybe García Ortiz did not. That would have caused Google, to which help was requested, could access that data to send them to the case magistrate. If you want to delete your messages, be careful with backups. WhatsApp users cannot do anything with metadata, which does keep a finish line, but with the messages if they want to erase them effectively. As this case teaches us, it is not enough to delete them from our phone: if we make backup copies of our messages, it is important to activate the encryption of said backup copies. But special notice about backup copies. Special care with the encryption of backup copies, because it does not work as extreme encryption. The copies are encrypted with a password/password that you only know, and therefore it is convenient that it is strong not to be broken with brute force attacks, for example. WhatsApp in fact gives the option to create a 64 -digit key, but … she does it. Here are suspicions about how they manage that encryption password in Google/Apple/Meta, and if they can decipher it in some way for potential judicial requests. Be that as it may, the other solution, of course, is not to back up the messages of the messages unless you consider it absolutely essential. Image | State Council | Brett Jordan In Xataka | If the question is whether your company can add you to a WhatsApp group of work, the law leaves no doubt: it depends on who pays

How to use and configure chatgpt to maximize your privacy with artificial intelligence

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We will explain everything you should Configure to maximize your privacy In ChatGPT, Openai’s artificial intelligence chat. One of the methods with which the company trains its AI is using conversations to learn, and this may not be good for your privacy, but there are some things that you can take into account to improve it. Starting from the basis that total privacy hardly exists in a tool that collects your conversations, there are some things you can do to improve it. In addition, we will also tell you other tips that you must take into account Beyond the configurations. We are going to base these tips using the Chatgpt web version, and with captures of it. However, All adjustments are available in other versionsincluding mobile and desktop applications. Use temporary chats The first resource that you must take into account is Use temporary chats for sensitive conversations or have data you want to keep private. By pressing the Temporary chat You will generate something similar to the private windows of a browser. These chats are not going to be included in the Chatgpt conversations history. Besides, Its content will not be used to train The company’s GPT models, nor will the internal memory of Chatgpt. Come on, they are chats that will be as if they had not happened. Do not regal your data to improve chatgpt By default, what you write in chatgpt will be used to train other models, also your voice recordings or videos. However, you can configure the application so that What you write is used to train artificial intelligenceand that your data is not used. To do this, you have to enter the configuration of the chatgpt app or website that you use. There you must enter the section Data controls within Accountand deactivate the option of Improve model for all. When deactivating it, OpenAi will no longer use your content. Prevent you from using other chats Chatgpt stores by default some key data from your past chats, and these sometimes They can appear in new conversations. For example, yesterday I went to draw and put me a shirt of a music band on which I asked him a month ago. If you like avoid using past chats In your new conversations, you have to enter the configuration, go to the section of Personalizationand Disable the option Refer to stored memories which will appear activated by default. Manage saving memories Within the options of Personalization where deactive the use of memories, you have An option to manage your saved memoirs. This will allow you to review all those key data that Chatgpt has stored to use a little later. On this screen to manage the Chatgpt memoriesyou will be able to delete key data that you do not want to take into account in the other chats or directly Delete all stored memories that have been collected so far. Manage your chat history Chatgpt has a history column where you can See all the conversations you have had So far with artificial intelligence. These can be useful to recover concrete chats of specific issues, especially if you put identifiable names and just ask about one thing in them. However, if you do not want them to appear there or if you do not want other people with access to your chatgpt to see what you have written, you have the option of Eliminate or file them. If the archives will remain to recover them whenever you want without appearing in the history, but if you eliminate the conversation it will disappear forever. Delete your whole history If what you want is to erase all the history Of conversations with chatgpt, you don’t need to go one by one. Go to the configuration and enter the section of Data controls. Here you will have the option to erase the complete history of all the conversations you have had. Manage your shared links Chatgpt allows you to create a link to a conversation and share it with other people. But I advise you that efforts from time to time your shared links so that these conversations do not end up reaching people with whom you do not want them to have them. To do this you have to enter the chatgpt configuration. Once inside, go to the section of Data controlsand inside click on the button Manage of Shared links. Here you can see the assets and delete them. Take care of the files you say and what you do Another advisable thing when using chatgpt is Do not mention personal data In your chats, as well as addresses or passwords. Openai takes technical precautions so that what you write is temporarily stored only, but it never hurts to maximize your precautions to prevent something more than it should reach. Also Be careful with the photos you upload and the metadata that they may have. I even recommend that if you are going to use chatgpt for work issues, you have separate accounts for projects or separate the personal and professional and thus isolate risks. Care with extensions and accounts linked And finally, remember Avoid linking apps or plugins that are not necessary To your Chatgpt account to avoid extracting data from what you do. Equal to the reverse. Also be careful to link other cloud services to Chatgpt, on all those that have work or sensitive data. Xataka Basics | How to improve chatgpt responses: 9 steps to guarantee higher quality and better sources

It is a nightmare for privacy

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On the Internet everything is shared with incredible ease, we often do it without stopping to think about the possible consequences. Therefore, for years, privacy experts insist on the same thing: we should not publish anything that we are not willing to see publicly exposed. Although it may seem evident, the warning also applies to private accounts. Because what is “only for friends” today, tomorrow can be exposed without prior notice. That risk has just acquired a new dimension. It no longer depends only on what we show, but also on what technology can deduce on their own. The images we publish can hide valuable information, such as the place where they were taken. And with the arrival of artificial intelligence models capable of analyzing and reasoning with photographs, the exhibition is even greater. OpenAi’s AI can know where you took a photo. The new OpenAI models, known as O3 and O4-miniThey have brought visual reasoning to a new level. They are able to analyze images with surprising precision, and combine that ability with tools such as web search and image editing to further refine their answers. This allows them, for example, to give you better explanations than those of a manual or help you understand a complex plane. But it also opens the door to uses that should make us reflect. New viral trend. One of the latest fashions in networks like X has nothing to do with creating Ghibli -style images or Lego -style compositions. Now, many users are using these models to identify the exact place where a photograph was taken, even when it does not include metadata. Just tell the model that they are playing Geoguesr to start analyzing the image, cutting details, looking for coincidences and reaching a conclusion. In one of our tests, the system managed to identify a concrete street in Madrid from a simple screenshot. It took about 15 minutes, but hit the nail. A feature that should make us think. In an environment as hyperconnected as the current one, where the photos are constantly shared, we must keep in mind that it is not necessary to explicitly geolocate an image so that others can find out where it was taken. Artificial intelligence has raised the level of exposure without many realizing. And although this capacity has interesting applications, it also raises important risks. Privacy, more and more, depends not only on what we share, but what others can deduce from it. Images | Screen capture In Xataka | O4-mini is much more than another model of AI. It is the Tesla Model 3 of OpenAI

How to improve Chatgpt’s privacy preventing what you write is used to train artificial intelligence

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Let’s explain How to improve Chatgpt’s privacydeactivating the option with which you allow OpenAi to use all the content you write or believe to continue training its artificial intelligence models. It is an option that is activated by default in your profile, but it is easy to disconnect. When you are using chatgpt, if you don’t change anything you are giving the company permission to collect your interactions. Then, these questions that you have asked the AI ​​and the answers generated for you will be used in the future to continue training and improving the models. But if you don’t want this information to be used because it is private, we will tell you how to deactivate it. Disable data sending to chatgpt The first thing you have to do is enter the configuration of Chatgpt. For that, on the mobile click on the side options button and click on your username. In the web version click your profile image and choose the option of Configuration which will appear in the window that opens. If you are on the mobile, what you have to do once you enter the configuration is click on the option Data controls that will appear in the section of Accountwhich is the first to see above all. Once inside, deactivate the option Improve the model for all That will appear in the first place. With this, your content will no longer be used to continue training OpenAi’s models. In the desktop versionwithin the configuration click on the section of Data controls. Once inside, click on Model improvementwhere you will be able Disable the option Improve the model for all That will appear in the first place.

The EU wants to corner the privacy of WhatsApp and Signal with rear doors. In France the play has gone wrong

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The National Assembly of France vote On March 20, a fundamental issue for the privacy of its citizens. One that put into play the confidentiality of their conversations in messaging applications such as WhatsApp or Signal. Rear doors. As they point out In EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation), the French proposal was disturbing. The objective was to force messaging platforms such as WhatsApp or Signal to create “rear doors” that allow hidden access to private conversations. The proposal is part of measures with the argument of avoiding child pornography (sexual Child abuse material, CSAM). We are waiting for you in territory s Do you like Samsung? We have a new specialized medium in Samsung and its products with tricks, offers, tutorials and all news about the brand. Go to territory A for mass surveillance. The law proposal raised a spectacular tool for mass surveillance. One who already tried adopt in the United Kingdom in 2019 and that would allow security agencies to join encrypted chats without their participants getting tale. Terrible for privacy, but also for security. The threat not only affected our privacy, but the security of these applications. The experts They criticized Already in 2019 the proposal and They warned that it could serve to introduce systemic vulnerabilities or create tools that many would end up abusing. The French organization La Quadrature du Net (LQDN), which defends the fundamental freedoms of the digital world, He urged a mobilization Against this “drug law” that among its options included this theoretical creation of rear doors. Of that, nothing. Fortunately for privacy defenders, French legislators voted against said proposal, allowing these platforms to continue to continue operating with end -to -end encryption that protects the confidentiality of these communications. A difficult victory. As indicated in the EFF, this victory was not easy, and only came after popular pressure, expert comments “and the support of civil society.” Even so, they warn, the pressures will follow to try to activate measures that mining the privacy of our communications, “perhaps repaired, or put in full speed through quieter legislative moments.” That is also the danger: that these laws end up being approved in a deceptive way and as part of broader and more generic laws. Blissful chat control. Last September the Presidency of Hungary of the European Union Council recovered the proposal of the so -called Chat Control, that is, the end -to -end encryption elimination. There was a first attempt that was rejected, but during the summer the threads began to be moved for review, the called chat control 2.0 that is in development. The new proposal relaxes the terms. Chat Control 2.0 is still worrying. The proposal Published by the Presidency of Poland of the Council would make the scan of these “voluntary” conversations and would be classified as preventive. The experts They believe That this proposal is a step in the right direction to protect the right of European citizens to maintain their private digital correspondence. The Government of Spain wants rear doors. Fernando Grande-Marlaska, Spanish Interior Minister, is one of the great defenders of the rear doors. In a 2023 document he presented how it is “imperative that we have access to the data.” There are many other European countries in favor of this type of measures, and as explained in the activist organization ChatControl.EU “Created by Patrick Breyer, of the German Pirate Party,” the risks to privacy are important. Image | Nathan Dumlao In Xataka | A rear door 30 years ago has compromised all US safety. Europe wants to make the same mistake

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