On Wednesday, EU Member States approved a change to the GDPR that would put the profit-making interests of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and SpaceX over European's fundamental right to data protection. According to the approved text, processing personal data “in the context of AI” should automatically be lawful. In particular, Big Tech would be able to use all personal data collected over the past decades with virtually no restrictions, as long as this happens “in the context” of AI. Schrems: “Under the agreed text, the profits of AI companies would typically trump European’s fundamental right to privacy. This is nothing but a digital expropriation of Europeans.” All this is happening despite the key figures of AI corporations actively warning about the enormous risks associated with their own products.

Sguros was part of a team sent to check on a Lauderhill resident, Dennis West, in July 2022, after the department received a call from a worried neighbor, a press release from the Broward sheriff’s office (BSO) said. West was found deceased in the home of natural causes.

Within weeks, the officer embarked on what BSO said was “a complex scheme to take control of the individual’s home” by involving himself in West’s post-death affairs.

“Sguros represented himself to the Broward county medical examiner’s office as West’s friend, although there is no indication he knew West, and stated that West had no living family, which was untrue,” the press release said.

“The investigation also revealed that Sguros paid the taxes and utilities at the home in West’s name and used West’s identification to make it appear that West was still alive to get the city of Lauderhill to issue a permit to facilitate repairs.”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/72704482

Maybe the company should rebrand as "YellowFresh," or maybe "HelloFlush?"

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/77308642

It’s totally just a coincidence that this is being done just under two weeks from the midterms. This is definitely not intended to put his finger on the scales for getting new parents, especially poor ones, to vote for him as a quid pro quo, more or less. 🫩

I don’t have a terribly high opinion on the intelligence or critical thinking capabilities of my countrymen in a statistical sense, so I would not be surprised if this actually moved the needle.

Well, no, it wasn't even a "nighttime" disturbance—it was the afternoon. Some kids had set up a speaker—an amplified sound system—and so on. It was making a lot of noise. Some neighbors complained.

So, we went to check it out. And, as it turned out, the intervention didn't go well. One of the police officers started lecturing the kids—they were just hanging out in front of their building with their friends—and things went south. The officer grabbed one of them and started hitting him—first in front of his friends, and then inside the patrol car. And I was standing right there, having to figure out what my role should be—how to compose myself.

And so, well, I assist—very half-heartedly, but I do assist—the police officer who is striking him; that is to say, I hold the teenager’s hands, which means that, well he can’t defend himself. But, the thing is, I have to do something. If I’m working undercover, I have to, you know, play the part.

INFILTRÉ 6 mois dans la POLICE (La face cachée)

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with David S. Cohen, former deputy director of the CIA, about his piece in Foreign Affairs entitled "The Case for Economic Espionage."

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20261015124253/https://www.npr.org/2026/10/14/nx-s1-5996830/why-should-the-cia-should-spy-on-companies-abroad

Foreign Affairs article archived at https://archive.ph/OH9Ev

An FCC policy, known as the ‘Fairness Doctrine’ once required broadcasters to present balanced viewpoints on controversial issues, but its 1987 repeal paved the way for the rise of ideological programming and figures like Rush Limbaugh and networks such as Fox News and MSNBC to capitalize on this deregulation to prioritize audience engagement through outrage and identity politics.

cross-posted from: https://leminal.space/post/40796648

Police in Leicester arrested at least five journalists under the Terrorism Act while they were reporting on a protest outside a drone factory owned by an Israeli arms company.

The journalists were detained for two hours last Thursday at a UAV Tactical Systems factory owned by Elbit Systems, which makes weapons that are used in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.