Tuesday we released the first video of a new five-part online training series we’re producing this fall: Driver’s Training for the Online World.
🎙️ It’s a comprehensive overview of the online world and outlines five future-proof guiding principles for making decisions on what technologies we adopt and how we use them. Look for the other four segments dropping soon!
This week we saw a pop-up in our Facebook app asking for permission to scan our camera roll. It’s a new feature to access images and videos to suggest posts.
🎙️ Intrusive. That’s the only word that comes to mind. At least the feature requires opt-in. If you accidentally approved it, you can turn it off in settings.
OpenAI released ChatGPT Atlas, an AI-powered browser described as a step toward a “true super-assistant that understands your world and helps you achieve your goals.”
🎙️ In May we covered OpenAI hiring Fidji Simo from Instacart as the new CEO of Applications. On her Substack, Simo said, “We see ChatGPT evolving to become the operating system for your life.” This is a step towards profitability and a leap away from privacy. We don’t recommend early adoption.
Last month Roblox announced new age verification tools and “new systems designed to limit communication between adults and minors unless they know each other in the real world.”
🎙️ Since the UK Online Safety Act went into effect in July, many popular platforms have introduced multiple layers of age verification including facial recognition and uploading images of physical IDs. It may also be indirectly laying the ground work for broad acceptance of digital IDs.
In a press release yesterday, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer attempted to make the case for digital IDs saying they will make “everyday life easier for millions, cutting red tape and putting power back in people’s hands.”
🎙️While Starmer says digital IDs will streamline housing applications and protect against fraud, he left out any mention of social media or messaging platforms, which is an important factor in a nation that arrests 12,000 people every year for social media posts. The BBC says Starmer “denied that digital ID would ever be used as a surveillance tool.”
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