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Brussels probes Google and Meta secret ads deal to target teens

10 décembre 2024 / noflux

A montage of a teenager using a phone with the logos of Google and Meta in the background

“During the ad campaign, first revealed in an FT investigation published in August, staff at Google were helping Meta bypass the search company’s policies on how online advertising can be directed to minors. While Google bans ad personalisation for teens, the campaign for Instagram on YouTube deliberately pushed messages to a group of users labelled as “unknown” in its system. Google employees told Meta that it had internal data that showed this group skewed towards under-18s and was a way of “hacking” the audience safeguards in their system.”

Source : Brussels probes Google and Meta secret ads deal to target teens

New intelligent, real-time protections on Android to keep you safe

15 novembre 2024 / noflux

“Real-time protection, built with your privacy in mind. Real-time defense, right on your device: Scam Detection uses powerful on-device AI to notify you of a potential scam call happening in real-time by detecting conversation patterns commonly associated with scams. For example, if a caller claims to be from your bank and asks you to urgently transfer funds due to an alleged account breach, Scam Detection will process the call to determine whether the call is likely spam and, if so, can provide an audio and haptic alert and visual warning that the call may be a scam. Private by design, you’re always in control: We’ve built Scam Detection to protect your privacy and ensure you’re always in control of your data. Scam Detection is off by default, and you can decide whether you want to activate it for future calls. At any time, you can turn it off for all calls in the Phone app Settings, or during a particular call. The AI detection model and processing are fully on-device, which means that no conversation audio or transcription is stored on the device, sent to Google servers or anywhere else, or retrievable after the call. Cutting-edge AI protection, now on more Pixel phones: Gemini Nano, our advanced on-device AI model, powers Scam Detection on Pixel 9 series devices. As part of our commitment to bring powerful AI features to even more devices, this AI-powered protection is available to Pixel 6+ users thanks to other robust Google on-device machine learning models.”

Source : Google Online Security Blog: Safer with Google: New intelligent, real-time protections on Android to keep you safe

Surveillance des notifications : un sénateur américain demande la fin du secret

8 décembre 2023 / noflux

Notifications iPhone

“Les pratiques de surveillance de l’oncle Sam ont été copieusement épluchées durant la dernière décennie, provoquant divers scandales et réactions, notamment du côté des entreprises de la tech. Chez les GAFAM en particulier et dans de nombreuses autres entreprises du domaine, on a ainsi vu apparaître des rapports de transparence.
Toutes les informations n’ont pourtant pas le droit d’être publiées, loin de là. Tout ce qui touche aux notifications n’est ainsi pas autorisé. Dans une lettre au ministère américain de la Justice, le sénateur Ron Wyden, également président du comité sénatorial des finances, a demandé à ce que soit levée cette interdiction pour Apple et Google, chez qui ces notifications transitent. Pourquoi ? Parce que des gouvernements étrangers (non nommés) font régulièrement des demandes de surveillance dans ce domaine, selon un « tuyau » reçu en 2022. Les États-Unis useraient également de cette méthode, selon Reuters.
« Les données que ces deux entreprises reçoivent comprennent des métadonnées, indiquant quelle application a reçu une notification et quand, ainsi que le téléphone et le compte Apple ou Google associé auquel cette notification était destinée. Dans certains cas, elles peuvent également recevoir du contenu non chiffré, qui peut aller des directives de l’application au texte affiché par l’utilisateur dans une notification d’application », explique Wyden.”

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Gemini – Google DeepMind

6 décembre 2023 / noflux

“Gemini is built from the ground up for multimodality — reasoning seamlessly across text, images, video, audio, and code.”

Source : Gemini – Google DeepMind

Gemini: All you need to know in 90 seconds

6 décembre 2023 / noflux

“In this short video, hear from Google leaders and AI experts as they introduce you to Gemini — Google’s largest and most capable AI model. It’s built from the ground up to be multimodal — meaning that it’s trained to recognize, understand and combine different types of information, including text, images, audio, video and code. And it’s optimized in three different sizes: Ultra, Pro and Nano. Welcome to the Gemini era.”

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Google Preps Public Preview of Gemini AI After Postponing In-Person Launch Events

4 décembre 2023 / noflux

“After Google quietly scrapped a set of in-person events to launch Gemini, its biggest artificial intelligence initiative in a decade, the company has planned a virtual preview of the new AI as soon as this week, said a person with knowledge of the situation. By giving journalists and software developers a first look at some of the technology’s capabilities, Google could relieve some pressure from investors to prove it can catch up to ChatGPT creator OpenAI. Google representatives for weeks have been giving private demonstrations of the technology to business partners but they have said that cloud customers wouldn’t get access to the primary version of Gemini until next year.”

Source : Google Preps Public Preview of Gemini AI After Postponing In-Person Launch Events — The Information

Google throws California $93M to make tracking suit go away

18 septembre 2023 / noflux

“As has been the case in similar lawsuits filed against Google, California alleges that Google designed its location tracking system to deceive users into allowing the collection of location data that could be sold to advertisers for Google’s benefit. Even when such collection was disabled, the California suit alleged, data was still collected through other sources; Google was also misleading about users’ ability to opt out of location-based ad targeting, California claims.
« Our investigation revealed that Google was telling its users one thing – that it would no longer track their location once they opted out – but doing the opposite and continuing to track its users’ movements for its own commercial gain. That’s unacceptable, and we’re holding Google accountable with today’s settlement, » said California AG Rob Bonta. ”

Source : Google throws California $93M to make tracking suit go away • The Register

Google forced to postpone Bard chatbot’s EU launch over privacy concerns

14 juin 2023 / noflux

“Google will have to postpone starting its artificial intelligence chatbot Bard in the European Union after its main data regulator in the bloc raised privacy concerns. The Irish Data Protection Commission said Tuesday that the tech giant had so far provided insufficient information about how its generative AI tool protects Europeans’ privacy to justify an EU launch. The Dublin-based authority is Google’s main European data supervisor under the bloc’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). « Google recently informed the Data Protection Commission of its intention to launch Bard in the EU this week, » said Deputy Commissioner Graham Doyle. The watchdog « had not had any detailed briefing nor sight of a data protection impact assessment or any supporting documentation at this point. »”

Source : Google forced to postpone Bard chatbot’s EU launch over privacy concerns – POLITICO

Google « We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI »

14 mai 2023 / noflux

“At the beginning of March the open source community got their hands on their first really capable foundation model, as Meta’s LLaMA was leaked to the public. It had no instruction or conversation tuning, and no RLHF. Nonetheless, the community immediately understood the significance of what they had been given. A tremendous outpouring of innovation followed, with just days between major developments (see The Timeline for the full breakdown). Here we are, barely a month later, and there are variants with instruction tuning, quantization, quality improvements, human evals, multimodality, RLHF, etc. etc. many of which build on each other. Most importantly, they have solved the scaling problem to the extent that anyone can tinker. Many of the new ideas are from ordinary people. The barrier to entry for training and experimentation has dropped from the total output of a major research organization to one person, an evening, and a beefy laptop.”

Source : Google « We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI »