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Meta Says Its AI Trains on Your Instagram Posts + More
Meta Says Its AI Trains on Your Instagram Posts
Meta admitted late last week that it has used mountains of public Facebook posts to train its AI models, per Reuters. Why it matters: As the AI boom continues, content creators are challenging tech companies’ use of their material in the development of advanced AI tools — and in Facebook’s case, “content creators” means a few billion people.
Details: After Meta unveiled its new AI assistants last week, its president of global affairs, Nick Clegg, told Reuters that the “vast majority” of the training data used to develop them came from publicly available posts, including on Facebook and Instagram.
The big picture: A massive legal battle is brewing between owners of copyrighted content, like books and professional media products, and AI companies that may have intentionally or inadvertently used their works to train their programs.
Meta has always claimed a variety of rights in the content its users post, so legally it’s in a different situation than companies that are using copyrighted texts. The company tells users “You own all of the content and information” you post. But if you make a post public, as many do by default, it becomes available for all sorts of purposes that you can’t control.
The Supreme Court Will Decide if State Laws Limiting Social Media Platforms Violate the Constitution
The Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide whether state laws that seek to regulate Facebook, TikTok, X and other social media platforms violate the Constitution.
The justices will review laws enacted by Republican-dominated legislatures and signed by Republican governors in Florida and Texas. While the details vary, both laws aim to prevent social media companies from censoring users based on their viewpoints.
The court’s announcement, three days before the start of its new term, comes as the justices continue to grapple with how laws written at the dawn of the digital age, or earlier, apply to the online world.
The new social media cases follow conflicting rulings by two appeals courts, one of which upheld the Texas law, while the other struck down Florida’s statute. By a 5-4 vote, the justices kept the Texas law on hold while litigation over it continues.
Google Faced With an AI Privacy Challenge: Do I Have the Right to Be Forgotten?
The Federal Court of Appeal in the USA has just ruled that Google is not covered by exemption for journalistic or artistic work. In a 2-1 court ruling, Google which drives more than 75% of internet searches in Canada, which opens the door for people to demand that their names in any articles are made unsearchable known as the right to be forgotten.
Valerie Lawton, a spokeswoman for the Office of the Canadian Privacy Commissioner, said it is pleased the court agreed with its position that Google’s search engine service is subject to federal privacy law. “This brings welcome clarification to this area of the law.”
More importantly, it signals the imperative for International Human Rights Laws to align to protect our privacy as we enter a world that is increasingly like the Minority Report, where everything one does is known and never forgotten.
Sounds Orwellian like and as Dr. Zuboff, in her seminal book, Surveillance Capitalism wrote, the technology giants like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, now OpenAI valued at close to $90B, have far too much control on shaping our society and our world.
Canada to Create Registry of Podcasters in Potential Censorship Initiative
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is taking Canada down a dangerous path of censorship to regulate streaming services and social media platforms. The next regulation phase comes as some podcasters will soon have to register with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission.
The Online Streaming Act, formerly Bill C-11, goes into effect on Nov. 28, meaning any online streaming service that operates in Canada and generates revenue of more than $10 million in a given year will have to register with CRTC.
So what’s with the government creating a database of prominent podcasters?
One potential reason could be for the Liberal government to censor unapproved government narratives quickly. Having a registry of podcasters and the type of content they create makes it much easier for those in the government’s censorship department.
Parents in Pakistan Could Face Prison Time for Not Vaccinating Their Kids Against Polio
Authorities in one Pakistan province are turning to a controversial new tactic in the decades-long initiative to wipe out polio: prison.
Last month, the government in Sindh introduced a bill that would imprison parents for up to one month if they fail to get their children immunized against polio or eight other common diseases.
Experts at the World Health Organization and elsewhere worry the unusual strategy could further undermine trust in the polio vaccines, particularly in a country where many believe false conspiracies about them and where dozens of vaccinators have been shot and killed.
WHO’s polio director in the Eastern Mediterranean warned the new law could backfire. “Coercion is counterproductive,” said Dr. Hamid Jafari.
New York Bans Facial Recognition in Schools After Report Finds Risks Outweigh Potential Benefits + More
New York Bans Facial Recognition in Schools After Report Finds Risks Outweigh Potential Benefits
New York State banned the use of facial recognition technology in schools Wednesday, following a report that concluded the risks to student privacy and civil rights outweigh potential security benefits. Education Commissioner Betty Rosa’s order leaves decisions on digital fingerprinting and other biometric technology up to local districts.
The state has had a moratorium on facial recognition since parents filed a court challenge to its adoption by an upstate district.
The ban was praised by the New York Civil Liberties Union, which sued the state Education Department on behalf of two Lockport parents in 2020.
“Schools should be safe places to learn and grow, not spaces where they are constantly scanned and monitored, with their most sensitive information at risk,” said Stefanie Coyle, deputy director of the NYCLU’s Education Policy Center.
A Key U.S. Government Surveillance Tool Should Face New Limits, a Divided Privacy Oversight Board Says
The FBI and other government agencies should be required to get court approval before reviewing the communications of U.S. citizens collected through a secretive foreign surveillance program, a sharply divided privacy oversight board recommended on Thursday.
The recommendation came in a report from a three-member Democratic majority of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Board, an independent agency within the executive branch, and was made despite the opposition of Biden administration officials who warn that such a requirement could snarl fast-moving terrorism and espionage investigations and weaken national security as a result.
The report comes as a White House push to secure the reauthorization of the program known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is encountering major bipartisan opposition in Congress and during a spate of revelations that FBI employees have periodically mishandled access to a repository of intelligence gathered under the law, violations that have spurred outrage from civil liberties advocates.
In a recommendation Thursday that critics say would impose a significant hurdle and mark a dramatic break from the status quo, three members of the board said executive branch agencies, with limited exceptions, should have to get permission from the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to read the results of their database queries on U.S. citizens.
DNA Drives Help Identify Missing People. It’s a Privacy Nightmare
Earlier this month, state police in Connecticut held a “DNA drive” in an effort to help identify human remains found in the state. Family members of missing people were invited to submit DNA samples to a government repository used to solve these types of cases, a commercial genetic database, or both if they chose to.
Public agencies in other states have held similar donation drives, billed as a way to solve missing persons cases and get answers for families. But the drives also raise concerns about how donors’ genetic information could be used.
Privacy and civil liberties experts warn that commercial DNA databases are used for purposes beyond identifying missing people and that family members may not realize the risks of contributing to them. In fact, one drive planned in Massachusetts this summer was postponed because of concerns raised by the American Civil Liberties Union.
Google Is Opening Up Its Generative AI Search Experience to Teenagers
Google is opening up its generative AI search experience to teenagers, the company announced on Thursday. The company is also introducing a new feature to add context to the content that users see, along with an update to help train the search experience’s AI model to better detect false or offensive queries.
The AI-powered search experience, also known as SGE (Search Generative Experience), introduces a conversational mode to Google Search where you can ask Google questions about a topic in a conversational manner.
Starting this week, teens ages 13-17 in the United States who are signed into a Google Account will be able to sign up for Search Labs to access the AI search experience through the Google app or Chrome desktop.
Here Are the Last 79 Colleges Still Mandating COVID Vaccines
No College Mandates, an advocacy group that argues against the COVID-19 vaccine for higher education, counts 79 colleges and universities that require their students to be vaccinated this fall semester.
“There are 79 colleges in the U.S. still mandating COVID vaccines when there should be zero just like the rest of the world. Do Not Comply!” No College Mandates posted on X.
The advocacy group said “COVID injections for one of the lowest risk populations” is “insanity.” They added higher education has “zero efficacy and safety data for the newly approved COVID injections. It is incomprehensible that this remains a reality.”
Will Amazon and Walmart Replace Our Hospitals?
The U.S. remains a bastion for healthcare innovation. We grow organs in labs, surgeons use augmented reality, and the Biden administration launched the Cancer Moonshot to reduce the death rate by 50%. So why are Americans getting sicker?
Today, the expected life span is the shortest it’s been in almost two decades. While our fractured health system was under the spotlight during the pandemic, we saw high rates of heart disease, obesity, and diabetes lead to more deaths than other industrialized nations.
An inscrutable maze, healthcare in America welds together the private and public, payors and policymakers, and a morass of regulation. But as consumers, we don’t need to understand the substrate of our system to know it’s broken. We feel the strain when trying to simply book a doctor’s appointment. And if we find a doctor, the average wait is 26 days. That’s unacceptable.
As healthcare reels, technology giants enter. Amazon has been shouldering its way into healthcare for years. The retail giant acquired primary-care practice One Medical for $3.9 billion, and recently, unveiled its virtual clinics, offering around-the-clock access to providers. Amazon‘s chief medical officer touted that “by creating a healthcare experience that is transparent and simple, we hope to make healthcare more accessible for all.”
Propelled during the lockdowns, virtual care became the modern-day “house call.”
Musk Ousts X Team Curbing Election Disinformation
Elon Musk, the owner of X (formerly Twitter) said overnight that a global team working on curbing disinformation during elections had been dismissed — a mere two days after being singled out by the EU’s digital chief as the online platform with the most falsehoods.
Responding to reports about cuts, the tech mogul said on X, “Oh you mean the ‘Election Integrity’ Team that was undermining election integrity? Yeah, they’re gone.”
Vice President Vera Jourová this week warned that EU-supported research showed that X had become the platform with the largest ratio of posts containing misinformation or disinformation. The company under Musk left the European Commission’s anti-disinformation charter in late May after failing its first test.
X must comply with the EU’s content rules, the Digital Services Act (DSA), which requires large tech platforms with over 45 million EU users to mitigate the risks of disinformation campaigns. Failure to follow the rulebook could lead to sweeping fines of up to 6 percent of companies’ global annual revenue.
Norway Seeks to Extend Ban on Meta’s Consentless Tracking Ads Across the EU
Norway’s data protection authority has asked a European Union regulator to take a binding decision on whether its emergency sanction on Facebook and Instagram tracking and profiling users for ad targeting without their consent should be made permanent and applied across the EU single market, not just locally.
The move could lead to a blanket ban on Meta running tracking ads without consent across the EU single market if the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) agrees the action is merited. Meta may also switch to asking users for their permission to run “personalized ads” before any Board action, as it has claimed it intends to.
Elon Musk’s COVID Vaccine Comment Goes Viral + More
Elon Musk’s COVID Vaccine Comment Goes Viral
A tweet by Elon Musk about the COVID-19 vaccine has gone viral after he posted about “disinformation.” The Tesla CEO took to X, formerly Twitter, which he also owns, to share a montage of news headlines that said the various vaccines for the virus were “100% effective.”
“Have you heard dis information?” Musk captioned the tweet on Tuesday. But political journalist Ed Krassenstein questioned the billionaire. “I think efficacy changes are a result of new strains and the vaccine immunity wearing off. It’s stupid anyone ever claimed it was 100% effective. No vaccine is 100% foolproof,” Krassenstein replied.
Then Musk’s tweet to Krassenstein’s comment went viral racking up 3.2 million views. “My concern was more the outrageous demand that people *must* take the vaccine and multiple boosters to do anything at all. That was messed up,” Musk wrote.
“We cannot ascribe everything to the vaccine, but, by the same token, we cannot ascribe nothing,” Musk tweeted. “Myocarditis is a known side-effect. The only question is whether it is rare or common.”
LAUSD Ends COVID Vaccine Mandate for Staff. Displaced Workers Can Apply for Openings
Two years ago, the L.A. Unified School District set a high bar for COVID safety, telling employees: Get vaccinated or lose your job. That vaccine mandate — which achieved a 99% compliance rate among teachers — ended Tuesday following a 6-1 vote by the Board of Education.
The nation’s second-largest school system — widely viewed as a national pacesetter in strong COVID-19 safety measures early in the pandemic emergency — had been among the last public school systems to continue a mandate. LAUSD, however, has been under pressure to change course because of ongoing litigation. Officials stressed that their actions were based on evolving science. And no one made any apologies.
The district on Tuesday did not provide the number of employees who declined to be vaccinated or lost jobs. Hundreds of unvaccinated teachers were initially accommodated by allowing them to transfer to online academies that were set up after most students returned to in-person instruction in the fall of 2021.
Officials said unvaccinated former employees would not automatically reclaim jobs but could be considered for open positions.
Creepy ChatGPT ‘Voice Conversation’ Mimics a Human With a Convincing Personality and Knows Almost Everything
Alexa and Siri are about to get really jealous. The voice technology smart speakers are being taken on by a full-fledged humanoid AI robot being rolled out on the ChatGPT app for Plus paying customers.
Starting this week, a new feature will be available on the iOS and Google Play ChatGPT apps that could potentially eliminate the need for keyboards. Let’s dive in and see exactly what is going to be at our fingertips.
What new development is coming to ChatGPT? The new development, Voice Conversation, allows you to have a direct conversation with ChatGPT. I’m not talking about the typed-out conversations that you can already have with the platform. I’m talking about real conversations like you would have with a friend on the phone.
You will be able to ask this feature anything you would normally type, except this time you can use your voice. The craziest part about it? It sounds nearly indistinguishable from a real human being. It’s almost like having a robot friend on your phone, and it’s more advanced than Alexa and Siri.
Shameless Biden Will Double Down in His Fight to Censor Americans
President Joe Biden is pitching himself as democracy’s savior: “I will always defend, protect and fight for our democracy.” He’s been saying it for four years. It’s a blatant lie. He’s the king of censorship, silencing his critics like a despot and even trying to defend his censorship regime before the U.S. Supreme Court.
He and his staff have masterminded a vast censorship scheme, coercing media platforms such as X (Twitter), Instagram, Facebook and YouTube to take down views that challenge the administration on everything from vaccine safety and gas prices to Biden family mischief.
This month, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the Biden White House to stop threatening and coercing social media executives to do what the federal government is constitutionally barred from doing on its own: censoring the public. Undeterred, Team Biden has gone to the Supreme Court to fight this limit on censorship.
The evidence shows Biden threatened the social media platforms with punitive regulations, such as repealing liability immunity under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act and enforcing antitrust rules if the companies didn’t do his bidding.
Kids and Teens Are Inundated With Phone Prompts Day and Night
A new report about kids and their smartphone use may offer other parents a warning: Children like fourteen-year-old Armita Mojazza of White Plains, New York, are inundated with hundreds of pings and prompts on their phones all day and all night — even when they should be paying attention in class or getting a good night’s rest.
New research Common Sense Media released Tuesday finds about half of 11- to 17-year-olds get at least 237 notifications on their phones every day. About 25% of them pop up during the school day, and 5% show up at night. In some cases, they get nearly 5,000 notifications in 24 hours. The pop-ups are almost always linked to alerts from friends on social media.
Dr. Benjamin Maxwell, the interim director of child and adolescent psychiatry at Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego, said he is “immensely concerned” by the findings.
Such a “highly stimulating environment” may affect kids’ “cognitive ability, attention span and memory during a time when their brains are still developing,” Maxwell said. “What are the long-term consequences? I don’t think we know.” Maxwell was not involved with the Common Sense report.
CIA Creating AI Tool to Sort Through Public Information: Report
The CIA is planning to unleash an artificial intelligence tool to give analysts better access to sort through vast amounts of public information, according to a Bloomberg report.
Randy Nixon, director of the CIA’s Open-Source Enterprise division, told the outlet that the ChatGPT-style tool will likely be used by all 18 U.S. intelligence agencies, like the National Security Agency (NSA), FBI, and various military agencies to find clues through primary information sources.
Mass gathering of information from U.S. agencies comes as China has pledged to become the global leader in artificial intelligence by 2030, which has raised concerns over its use of AI in several surveillance systems to track civilians within the nation and worldwide.
FBI Director Christopher Wray accused China in July of stealing “more of our personal and corporate data than every nation big or small, combined,” warning that the Chinese government poses a “double” threat regarding AI, according to The Register.
Earlier this year, Bloomberg reported that NSA Research Director Gil Herrera said the intelligence community needs to “find a way to take benefit of these large models without violating privacy.”
The Government’s New Attack on Amazon Could Completely Restructure the Giant
The U.S. government is launching its most consequential attack on the dominance of Big Tech in Americans’ daily lives: a sweeping antitrust lawsuit targeting retail giant Amazon Inc.
The legal challenge, filed in a federal court in Washington State Tuesday, will be a defining cornerstone of the Biden administration’s pledge to curb the power of the nation’s largest tech companies, including Google, Facebook and Apple, which have been accused of running modern monopolies that don’t fit within the confines of antiquated antitrust laws.
The suit could have far-reaching implications for the way Americans shop, run their households, sell products, and run small and large businesses.
J&J, IBM Face Class-Action Lawsuit Over Patient Data Breach
As if the talc product liability lawsuits weren’t enough headache for Johnson & Johnson, the New Jersey pharma is now facing another lawsuit from patients, this time about a recent data breach.
J&J and IBM were hit with a proposed class action over a recent data breach at J&J’s patient assistance program, Janssen CarePath, which is managed by IBM.
A Florida resident alleged that the companies failed to properly protect personal identity and health information up to industry standards or as required by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, according to a complaint filed with the federal court in the Southern District of New York.
Besides a class-action designation and a jury trial, the lawsuit is seeking an award of damages, among several other demands for J&J and IBM to purge existing personal information and improve their data security.
Amazon Will Use Real User Conversations to Train Alexa’s AI Model + More
Amazon Will Use Real User Conversations to Train Alexa’s AI Model
Amazon announced new AI capabilities for its Alexa products last week, based on a model it’s calling AlexaLLM (LLM refers to the “large language model”). The technology will make Alexa “more personalized to your family” and allow it to remember relevant context throughout conversations like a human, Amazon said.
But along with those new capabilities, said Amazon’s senior vice president of devices and services, Dave Limp, Amazon would use some user voice interactions with Alexa to train its AI model.
John Davisson, the director of litigation and senior counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, said consumers should question Amazon’s interest in keeping and using voice data.
“I don’t think we should accept that Amazon needs to retain those data for product improvement, and consumers often don’t understand what that means. They need affirmative opt-in confirmation to join these programs instead of being set at default,” he said.
Davisson stressed that both audio and video are important and sensitive forms of biometric data. Moreover, Amazon has a recent track record of data privacy issues involving minors and Alexa devices. In May, the Federal Trade Commission charged Amazon with illegally preventing parents from requesting the deletion of records relating to their children.
Signal’s Meredith Whittaker: AI Is Fundamentally ‘a Surveillance Technology’
Why is it that so many companies that rely on monetizing the data of their users seem to be extremely hot on AI? If you ask Signal president Meredith Whittaker (and I did), she’ll tell you it’s simply because “AI is a surveillance technology.”
Onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023, Whittaker explained her perspective that AI is largely inseparable from the big data and targeting industry perpetuated by the likes of Google and Meta, as well as less consumer-focused but equally prominent enterprise and defense companies. (Her remarks were lightly edited for clarity.)
“It requires the surveillance business model; it’s an exacerbation of what we’ve seen since the late ’90s and the development of surveillance advertising. AI is a way, I think, to entrench and expand the surveillance business model,” she said. “The Venn diagram is a circle.”
“And the use of AI is also surveillant, right?” she continued. “You know, you walk past a facial recognition camera that’s instrumented with pseudo-scientific emotion recognition, and it produces data about you, right or wrong, that says ‘you are happy, you are sad, you have a bad character, you’re a liar, whatever.’ These are ultimately surveillance systems that are being marketed to those who have power over us generally: our employers, governments, border control, etc., to make determinations and predictions that will shape our access to resources and opportunities.”
Judge Dismisses Suit Against New York Fed Over COVID Firings
A judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit accusing the Federal Reserve Bank of New York of illegally firing two longtime employees who claimed religious objections in refusing to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman in Manhattan ruled against Lori Gardner-Alfred and Jeanette Diaz, who spent a respective 35 years and 27 years at the New York Fed and had been senior executive specialists before their March 2022 dismissals.
In a 52-page decision, Liman said the plaintiffs did not prove they had sincere religious objections to being vaccinated and instead offered only their “say-so” on the issue.
‘Jeopardy!’ Fans Accuse Show of Promoting ‘COVID Vaccine Propaganda’
Jeopardy! fans have accused the popular quiz show of promoting COVID-19 “vaccine propaganda,” with pharmaceutical giant Moderna as a sponsor.
The long-running syndicated show, which is hosted by Ken Jennings and Mayim Bialik, returned to screens for its 40th season on September 11 following its summer break.
And while corporate sponsors for TV shows have long been commonplace, a faction of fans took to X, formerly Twitter, to voice their objections to Moderna’s COVID vaccine messaging being a part of the new season.
After the credits rolled, a message was shown regarding the ongoing dangers of the novel coronavirus. It was also recommended that viewers stay up to date with “the latest COVID-19 vaccines this fall.”
A Tricky New Way to Sneak Past Repressive Internet Censorship
All over the world, walls are going up around the internet.
For years, autocratic regimes have been in a race to heighten those walls, as their citizens develop taller and taller ladders. The more they filter and block, the more their citizens come up with clever technical solutions to access the uncensored truth. There is mounting evidence, however, that repressive regimes are opting to just shut down access to the open internet entirely — and that such blackouts could become permanent.
A team of cybersecurity researchers believe they have come up with a clever new way to fight back: a trojan horse. Specifically, a satellite feed designed to look like a television station, which actually carries a payload of uncensored news and information. It’s a particularly retro solution to a very modern problem.
“Internet shutdowns remain a favored tactic of governments to push back against mass demonstrations, entrench military coups, or cut off conflict areas from the rest of the world,” writes Steven Feldstein, a senior fellow with the Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. China’s so-called “Great Firewall,” Iran’s “filternet,” and Russia’s “sovereign internet” all signal a growing shift toward state control of the internet. Governments in Belarus, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkmenistan, Thailand, Myanmar, Gabon, and elsewhere are heading in the same direction.
Even as these shutdowns become more frequent — and sophisticated — “democracies are increasingly frustrated about their seeming inability to help citizens overcome internet controls,” Feldstein writes.
FBI Agents Are Using Face Recognition Without Proper Training
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has done tens of thousands of face recognition searches using software from outside providers in recent years. Yet only 5% of the 200 agents with access to the technology have taken the bureau’s three-day training course on how to use it, a report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) this month reveals. The bureau has no policy for face recognition use in place to protect privacy, civil rights, or civil liberties.
Lawmakers and others concerned about face recognition have said that adequate training on the technology and how to interpret its output is needed to reduce improper use or errors, although some experts say training can lull law enforcement and the public into thinking face recognition is low risk.
The lack of face recognition training at the FBI came to light in a GAO report examining the protections in place when federal law enforcement uses the technology. The report was compiled at the request of seven Democratic members of Congress.
On Vaccines, Where’s the Line Between Advising and Censoring?
Since 2020, officials from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and other federal agencies have been in frequent contact with social media companies about stopping public health misinformation on their platforms. This kind of dialogue is not uncommon, but it also raises questions. Chief among them: at what point does government communication veer into government censorship, thereby violating the First Amendment?
An ongoing court battle has been grappling with that question with little clarity, bringing things all the way to the Supreme Court. For context, a website owner, four social media users and the Missouri and Louisiana state attorneys general sued the agencies in question, alleging their First Amendment rights were violated when posts on topics like vaccine side effects and pandemic lockdowns were removed or downgraded by some of the platforms.
For the Supreme Court, the answer will hinge on the exact nature of the government’s communication with the platforms. Consider the CDC example. We know the CDC issued advisories to platforms warning them about misinformation “hot topics.” It also instructed platforms to label disfavored posts with “contextual information,” and asked for “amplification” of approved content. Eventually, the platforms began reaching out to the CDC to find out whether specific health and vaccine claims were accurate. The CDC’s answers to these questions impacted the platforms’ content moderation decisions.
Watch Out — These Popular Finance and Budgeting Apps Might Be Sharing Your Personal Information With Others
New Forbes Advisor research (via Incogni) suggests that some apps designed to help consumers manage their budgets and finances are actually collecting and sharing highly sensitive data.
More alarmingly, some of the most popular apps are responsible for collecting the most amount of data, which can end up in the hands of third parties.
These apps could be collecting other personal information too, with many requesting system permissions to get access to things like contacts and wireless connections.
Understanding precisely how our data is used can be incredibly challenging, and while Google’s Play Store and Apple’s App Store go some of the way to helping consumers by flagging the sorts of information collected, we can’t be sure what happens to this information.
Tomi Lahren Taylor Swift Remark Goes Viral After Travis Kelce Pfizer Uproar
Tomi Lahren has hit out at Travis Kelce over the football star’s COVID-19 vaccine ad, using rumored girlfriend Taylor Swift in the social media put down. The Kansas City Chiefs tight end is currently starring in a commercial for pharmaceutical company Pfizer, advising people to get their flu shot alongside their next coronavirus booster.
Kelce announced the paid partnership on Instagram on Saturday by sharing a clip of the ad, which shows the 33-year-old doing a series of “two things at once” — such as barbecuing while riding a lawnmower, bench-pressing a reporter at the gym, and hosting a podcast while flying in a hot-air balloon.
“With my schedule, saving time is key,” he wrote alongside the footage. “The CDC says you can get this season’s updated COVID-19 shot when you get your flu shot if you’re due for both. That’s why I got two shots in one stop!”
Seemingly predicting the controversy the campaign could cause, Kelce turned off the comments on the post. However, that didn’t stop social media users from sharing their thoughts on the commercial, including Lahren.