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> [access to use customer data...] *to provide the Services and perform its obligations under this Agreement.*

"Services" – which you'll note is capitalized... lawyers do that for a reason – has a very specific meaning that very obviously does not include "whatever the fuck Google wants to do with it", nor "training general purpose AI models" in particular.

Why are you intentionally and blatantly misinterpreting Wiz's policies? Or are you just that good at ignoring/missing details in order to weave the story you've already decided to believe?

We can pretty easily call micro aggressions casual [race/sex/class/etc]ism.

Sound good?

> Psychologists declare whole races of people or countries as doomed to poverty because they've got "low IQ"

Who the hell have you been talking to? This is obvious bullshit.

I have heard very little in the way of hard sciences finding more robust ways to diagnose or treat mental illnesses. Source?

Some of this is definitely good. Requiring companies to use plain and truthful language when describing privacy-affecting settings is a great step, and apps/services shouldn't try to hide the "continue without enabling" button.

With that said, requiring different rules for children seriously increases barriers to entry for new services hoping to attract users in areas where these rules take effect, and kids will ALWAYS find ways around it. Nudges like snap streaks and the Like button encourage daily active use, but they also encourage actual social interaction between people to some degree.

Additionally, nudges like the Like button or Snapstreaks, though they do encourage a potentially unhealthy relationship with technology, also encourage social interaction with peers. It's certainly more complicated than "these are bad!"

Everyone will just sneak their parents' cards. I know I would have.

Any time Alexa is lit up, it may be listening to you. Any time Alexa is not lit up, your conversations can't be overheard. The tin foil hat aspect comes in when people say it's listening ALL THE TIME, which it isn't.

None of my VERY non-technical family think that their assistant devices aren't transmitting recordings of their voices to some remote server somewhere, because it's obvious enough. Even my 71 year old grandfather understands this.

Fundamentally for a voice assistant to assist you it needs to listen to you. I don't see how this could possibly be surprising to anyone.

Am I supposed to be surprised? This is just logical. Of course they employ people to grade the quality of assistants' voice recognition and responses.

On an iPhone, you can tap the power button five times consecutively to disable biometric access. However, I think the only way to do this on a MacBook with TouchID is turning it off.

The fact that this happens at all should be constantly in the news. This is unconstitutional treatment of a US citizen and CBP clearly needs oversight.

Unique with Grindr is that it's a safe bet that the majority of users have sent and received explicit photos. So if you want to find a congressman's dick pics that his wife doesn't know he's been sending to men..... grindr is probably a good place to do it.

Yes, they already have it, and that is the concern. If someone in Chinese intelligence wanted high quality extortion material, Chinese ownership of Grindr means they could probably get it with relative ease.

trying to read this damn article without e's and r's.

Has an employment lawyer vetted this approach? I suspect that's not really effective...

> If a company needs someone focused internally on product for 8-10 hours a day

Then they need two people, not one.

>I have yet to meet a senior who is anything less than highly competent.

Where is this mythical land? Are you hiring?

Not OP, but my stab: programmers are the ones actually building something. A technical leader can craft a vision for the technical future of a product, but the engineers need to buy into that vision and will, by necessity, quickly form refined opinions on the implementation details as they build things.

The implication is reduction of bad intent due to in-group/out-group discrimination (i.e. racism, classism, other -isms)

You can option-click on the volume icon in your toolbar to select AirPods without having to go into bluetooth settings.

Point me to a truly wireless, charging-from-case set of earbuds released before AirPods.

I'll wait.

I'd be surprised if AirPower isn't coming within the month. The latest iOS 12.2 beta includes references to AirPower.