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8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensions

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Post by throw310822 »

chmod775 wrote: post #18

The company behind this appears to be "real" and incorporated in Delaware. > Urban Cyber Security INC https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_de/5136044 https://www.urbancybersec.com/about-us/ I found two addresses: > 1007 North Orange Street 4th floor Wilmington, DE 19801 US > 510 5th Ave 3rd floor New York, NY 10036 United States and even a phone number: +1 917-690-8380 https://www.manhattan-nyc.com/businesses/urba…

> Urban VPN is operated by Urban Cyber Security Inc., which is affiliated with BiScience (B.I Science (2009) Ltd.), a data broker company.

BiScience is an Israeli company.

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Post by thayne »

chmod775 wrote: post #18

The company behind this appears to be "real" and incorporated in Delaware. > Urban Cyber Security INC https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_de/5136044 https://www.urbancybersec.com/about-us/ I found two addresses: > 1007 North Orange Street 4th floor Wilmington, DE 19801 US > 510 5th Ave 3rd floor New York, NY 10036 United States and even a phone number: +1 917-690-8380 https://www.manhattan-nyc.com/businesses/urba…

Being a real business doesn't necessarily mean they can be trusted. Real companies do shady stuff all the time.

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Post by matt3210 »

What would the fallout look like if too many people start to have horror stories about how much their life is destroyed by incriminating or down right nasty or wrong ai chat history. It'll suddenly become a tool where you can't be honest. If it's not already.

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Post by victorbjorklund »

azinman2 wrote: post #105
ch2026 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://www.manhattanvirtualoffice.com/ The NY address is a virtual office. https://themillspace.com/wilmington/ The DE address is a virtual office plus coworking facility.

Wow the virtual office concept is so beyond shady. I wonder if there are any legitimate uses of it?

That you don’t need an office if your company works remotely? Kind of overkill with a whole office for a company with 3 people working at it and everyone works remotely.

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Post by omnicognate »

XorNot wrote: post #111
omnicognate wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The apathy of the oppressed is a core theme of 1984.

Not really? In 1984 you were made an active participant of the oppression. The thought police and 5 minutes hate all required your active, enthusiastic participation. Brave New World was apathy: the system was comfortable, Soma was freely available and there was a whole system to give disruptive elements comfortable but non disruptive engagement. The protagonist in Brave New World spends a lot of time resenting the s…

1984 has coercive elements lacking from Brave New World, but the lack of any political awareness or desire to change things among the proles was critical to the mechanisms of oppression. They were generally content with their lot, and some of the ways of ensuring that have parallels to Brave New World. Violence and hate were used more than sex and drugs but still very much as opiates of the masses: encourage and satisfy base urges to quell any desire to rebel. And sex was used to some extent: although sex was officially for procreation only, prostitution was quietly encouraged among the proles.

You might even imagine 1984's society evolving into Brave New World's as the mechanisms of oppression are gradually refined. Indeed, Aldous Huxley himself suggested as much in a letter to Orwell [1].

[1] https://gizmodo.com/read-aldous-huxleys-review-of-1984-he-se...

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Post by dvratil »

GeekyBear wrote: post #67

I stick to extensions that Mozilla has manually vetted as part of the Firefox recommended extensions program. > Firefox is committed to helping protect you against third-party software that may inadvertently compromise your data – or worse – breach your privacy with malicious intent. Before an extension receives Recommended status, it undergoes rigorous technical review by staff security experts. https://support.mozi…

The question is, does Mozilla rigorously review every single update of every featured extension? Or did they just vet it once, and a malicious developer may now introduce data collection or similar "features" though a minor update of the extension and keep enjoying the "recommended" badge by Mozilla?

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Post by pacifika »

dvratil wrote: post #129
GeekyBear wrote: post #67

I stick to extensions that Mozilla has manually vetted as part of the Firefox recommended extensions program. > Firefox is committed to helping protect you against third-party software that may inadvertently compromise your data – or worse – breach your privacy with malicious intent. Before an extension receives Recommended status, it undergoes rigorous technical review by staff security experts. https://support.mozi…

The question is, does Mozilla rigorously review every single update of every featured extension? Or did they just vet it once, and a malicious developer may now introduce data collection or similar "features" though a minor update of the extension and keep enjoying the "recommended" badge by Mozilla?

This is just spreading FUD where an answer could have been provided.

> Before an extension receives Recommended status, it undergoes rigorous technical review by staff security experts.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recommended-extensions-...

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