02 Aug 2024
a new browser feature?
The Web’s hottest new feature is Privacy-Preserving Corporate Information Sharing (PPCIS).
When a corporate employee uses a PPCIS browser to log in to any of their employer’s web applications, such as
shared document editor
webmail
bug tracker
Slack
PPCIS automatically uses its built-in AI to make a totally privacy-preserving summary of the employee’s work activity, then posts the summary to a PPCIS server using really cool math that makes it possible to identify the employer but not the individual.
The PPCIS server then aggregates all PPCIS summaries from all the users at a company to make a report that is shared with any customer or prospective customer who visits the company’s public web site.
PPCIS is not a real feature, but do you think that,
if it existed, corporate IT departments would leave it turned on? If the
answer is no, why would people want privacy-preserving
tracking
of their personal web activity? More: PET projects or
real privacy?
Bonus links
San Francisco to ban
software that “enables price collusion” by landlords (oh, no!
somebody think of the innovation
!)
Using
the term ‘AI’ in product descriptions reduces purchase intentions
Researchers also discovered that negative response to AI disclosure
was even stronger for
high-risk
products and services, those
which people commonly feel more uncertain or anxious about buying, such
as expensive electronics, medical devices or financial services. Because
failure carries more potential risk, which may include monetary loss or
danger to physical safety, mentioning AI for these types of descriptions
may make consumers more wary and less likely to purchase…
Amazon forced to recall
400K products that could kill, electrocute people An Amazon
spokesperson told Ars that Amazon plans to appeal the ruling.