"The dating website sample was provided by a popular dating website in 2017. It contains profile images uploaded by 977,777 users; their location (country); and self-reported political orientation, gender, and age."
It doesn't sound like people were consenting/aware that they'll endup on a facial recognition study.
But I'm not even surprised dating website would sell their such data
Ha. Hahaha. I wish. I'm sorry to laugh, but a ton of ML papers are based on illegally-scraped datasets of one form or another, unless they use strictly blessed datasets (Imagenet2012 being the gold standard mostly-useless-in-the-real-world dataset).
OpenAI's Jukebox is based on illegal large-scale gathering of copyrighted material, for example.
I've never encountered this term. I can see how scrapping might be a violation of some websites terms of use, but I've never seen "scrapped illegally" used. Do you have any examples?
- I have agreed with LinkedIn that they may use my personal information for a set of well-defined uses (basically things on the LinkedIn website/service, and some 3rd party services they use to run the website/service).
- LinkedIn promise that they will not share my identifiable personal information with 3rd parties for any use
- LinkedIn's terms of use state that nobody may scrape personal information from their website without their consent. This is how they enforce the previous promise to me
- Some business comes along and scrapes my personal information for their own business use.
- That business knows that LinkedIn prohibit this, and they know that I have only consented for my personal information to be used for LinkedIn itself.
- This is probably "unlawful" (as they're interfering in my contract with LinkedIn), and certainly violating my GDPR rights. Sadly, it's hard to point at a specific example as guidance doesn't have a section titled "Can I ignore individual's explicit opting out of my usage?".
Hence, illegal scraping, as willing violating the GDPR is illegal.
Just to head-off the very common response: Personal, individual, use is not covered by the GDPR. So there is nothing wrong with you going and using my LinkedIn data for any personal reasons. The moment you try to use it for business purposes though, that's illegal.
Well, pictures of faces could be considered personal data per GDPR. Scraping that data without each person's approval could be illegal regardless of any terms of use.
I believe Valve is working on Flatpak sandboxing for games. If this happen that would be one more reason to game on Linux instead of Windows.
It's not as good as open source but let's be real, you'll never get AAA open source games.
Games don't need to access personal data (such as contact, phone number, photos, files, private messages, etc.) so with strong sandboxing I guess it could be a okay solution privacy-wise
I already run Steam in Docker for this reason, with its own home directory mounted as a subdirectory of my real one. Even before games swiping my homedir I was worried about Steam wiping my homedir, as it's already done once in the past. [1]
Though ironically that means I can't use the new Proton runtime thing ("Soldier runtime" I think?) that sandboxes games via user namespaces, because my distro doesn't build the kernel with userns support so it would require me to give the Docker container more privileges.
> It's not as good as open source but let's be real, you'll never get AAA open source games.
Free software philosophy (the "F" in "FOSS") allows the art and data files (levels) of a game to be proprietary, while keeping the code open-source. Sell the game itself, code comes for free.
"Future plan"... it's been years and it's still "future plan".
I want to buy AMD because they are more open than Nvidia. But Nvidia supports CUDA day one for all their graphic cards and AMD still don't have rocm support on most of their product even years after their release [0]
Given AMD size & budget, the reason why they don't hire a few more employee full time on making rocm work with their own graphic card is beyond me.
The worst is how they keep people in waiting. It's always vague phrases like "not currently", "may be supported in the future", " "future plan", " we cannot comment on specific model support ", etc.
AMD doesn't want rocm on consumer card ? Then say it. Stop making me check rocm repos every week to get always more disappointed.
AMD plans to support it on consumer card ? Then say it and give a release date : "In May 2021 , the RX 6800 will get rocm support, thanks for your patience and your trust in our product".
I like AMD for their openness and support of standards, but they are so unprofessional when it comes to Compute
The reason is that it would take more than a few more employees to provide optimized support across all GPUs. If nothing else, it's a significant testing burden.
This is a professional open source game engine freely available to all thanks to a few dev that accept being totally underpaid when they could get the highest salaries of the industry at big companies.
I think we owe at least them the right to express themselves in a small paragraph. Anyone offended by that, is free to go back abusing their users addiction in another game engine that better fit their "view" of the world.
Open source has a societal/education/ethical role to play. Mozilla is not only making Firefox but also writing about privacy ethics. So It could totally make sense for Godot to do the same about game ethics
However, the status bar is no longer persistent, but only appears when hovering over a link. Also in the past you used to be able to control the text in the status bar via the window.status variable in JavaScript. This was disabled as it was used for malicious purposes (faking link destinations and misleading users by putting page-controlled content in the browser chrome), and after that there didn’t seem much point to wasting 20–30px of precious vertical space all the time.
I would also note that the address bar and search box got merged for a good reason, because their functionalities steadily converged over time as the address bar became more powerful and useful. You can still have them split if you really want, but it is unlikely to actually benefit most people.
And have it all reverted at random because well "there seems to be along time since you last used Firefox, do you want to lose all your configurations? Yes. Later."
It's hard to try to come up with another explanation, to be honest. When I try imagine how incompetence can explain everything that's happened with Firefox in the past several years, it feels like I'm going for the gold in the mental gymnastics world championship.
I dunno. Software often have very unintuitive features, like the problem of closing with CTRL-Q on Linux, that looks like a "damn, why did they put it there on the first place", but actually is something GTK does if you follow the guidelines (what goes to show that most software doesn't follow them).
My bet is that they were receiving complaints of Firefox breaking due to bad migration of settings between versions, so instead of fixing the migrations, they decided that this user-hostile anti-feature was good enough.
>My bet is that they were receiving complaints of Firefox breaking due to bad migration of settings between versions, so instead of fixing the migrations, they decided that this user-hostile anti-feature was good enough.
I think this is actually a good feature, one of the few introductions which I think if worthwhile, even if the implementation is a bit lacking.
You have to balance the user being able to see the message with not annoying them, and it's not difficult to achieve.
Configuration bloat is a real problem in most applications which allow third-party extensions, and I've seen some stunning examples of extensions bloat on some people's computers, Chrome users included. On the other hand, when I question it, they tell me, "I use all those!"
Hum... Keep in mind that there is no option to not erase your configurations. And that "configurations" has a very bread sense, including everything from about:config settings, themes, extensions, history, cache, cookies, saved passwords, and even for a short period including bookmarks (thankfully that one they stopped erasing). And, by the way, Firefox will revert from a backup if you are logged in into an account, what is probably the reason the devs didn't nuke this by themselves, but also leaves plenty of room for conspiracy theories and user enragement.
Having a button somewhere where the user can go and reset those things is ok. But keeping pestering them until they click on the button is really not.
Thank you for your reply. Your suggested solutions are not complete, however.
The status bar is not persistent.
Also, for whatever reason, the URLs displayed in the status bar are cut off with an ellipsis, even when they would fit inside the window.
The menu bar -- File, Edit, View, etc. -- is still not displayed. And when it is displayed, the keyboard accelerators are not. I do realize this is in part the window manager and OS's accomplishments.
By the way, most of the actions you described are not even possible without using the mouse. Firefox, and most desktop applications, used to be 100% accessible without using the mouse. (Mac has always been an exception, but it was covered 100% on Windows and close to complete on GNU.)
It doesn't sound like people were consenting/aware that they'll endup on a facial recognition study.
But I'm not even surprised dating website would sell their such data