- Private, Useful, and Optional AI: DuckDuckGo Offers Free Access to Popular AI Chatbots and Expands AI-Assisted Answers [spreadprivacy.com]
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Our approach to AI is simple: provide private, useful, and optional AI features to people who want to get the benefits of AI without the privacy risks. Our AI features don't track your prompts, and your data is not used to train the AI models. To give our AI features a try, look for the "Assist" box at the top of your traditional search results, and head to Duck.ai for free, anonymized access to popular chatbots. Not interested? Just head to your search settings and turn them off.
In the news...
- Google Ad-Tech Users Can Target National Security ‘Decision Makers’ and People With Chronic Diseases [wired.com]
"A Wired investigation into the inner workings of Google’s advertising ecosystem reveals that a wealth of sensitive information on Americans is being openly served up to some of the world’s largest brands despite the company’s own rules against it." Demographic groups include "people with serious illnesses and crushing debt," and even "the makers of classified defense technology." Experts say that "when combined with other data, this information could be used to identify and target specific individuals."
- Hey, Parents: Advertisers Could Be Using Mobile Games to Build Profiles About Your Kids [cbc.ca]
"A Marketplace investigation has pulled back the curtain on how some mobile games, which seem to attract children, use loopholes in rules protecting kids' data — allowing marketers to build advertising profiles tailored to them, which can then be more effective at influencing their behavior... Not only that, but some games also collect the device's location, which some companies buy, sell and use for targeted advertising." One company even sent a massive "free sample of data without requiring the undercover journalists to sign a contract."
- Florida Seeks Drug Prescription Data With Names of Patients and Doctors [nytimes.com]
"Florida’s insurance regulator has demanded an unusually intrusive trove of data on millions of prescription drugs filled in the state last year, including the names of patients taking the medications, their dates of birth and doctors they’ve seen," raising privacy concerns.
Pharmacy benefit managers "often field requests from government regulators asking for slices of data to conduct audits or investigations. Such requests typically ask benefit managers to strip out patient names, and other identifying details... By comparison, Florida’s data request was 'pretty expansive and unprecedented,' said Joseph Shields, the president of a group of smaller benefit managers, Transparency-Rx." At the time of publication, "it remained unclear why the state was ordering the submission of so much data."
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