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- Meta Layoffs Included Employees Who Monitored Risks to User Privacy [nytimes.com]
Amid A.I. division layoffs at Meta, "the company laid off more than 100 people in its risk review organization, according to three people familiar with the move and internal memos viewed by The Times. That group is largely staffed by employees responsible for making sure Meta’s products abide by an agreement with the Federal Trade Commission as well as privacy rules set by regulatory bodies around the world, the people said."
"The risk organization is responsible for overseeing and auditing all new products for potential threats to user privacy or changes that could violate the F.T.C. consent order the company agreed to in 2019."
- Tinder Launches Mandatory Facial Verification to Weed Out Bots and Scammers [wired.com]
Tinder is rolling out mandatory facial verification to weed out "bad actors" — defined as "accounts that engage in deceptive behavior, including spamming, scamming, and bots."
"'We don’t store a picture of your face, it’s not photo recognition, it’s data points about the shape of your face that are turned into a mathematical hash,' says Yoel Roth, head of Trust and Safety for Match Group, which owns Tinder. Tinder then uses that 'hash' to check whether a new sign-up matches an account that already exists on Tinder." Roth says the new tech is "most effective in curbing 'the biggest issue that we're concerned with, which is the bulk creation of new accounts.'"
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