sanitation@lemmy.radio to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 days agoGoogle Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane.www.thatprivacyguy.comexternal-linkmessage-square334linkfedilinkarrow-up11.03Karrow-down123cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.zipprivacy@programming.devtechnology@beehaw.orghackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
arrow-up11.01Karrow-down1external-linkGoogle Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane.www.thatprivacyguy.comsanitation@lemmy.radio to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 days agomessage-square334linkfedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.zipprivacy@programming.devtechnology@beehaw.orghackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
minus-squareAsafum@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23arrow-down1·10 days agoHey come on now, there’s no need to lie. We all know that when the C-suite does it it’s not a crime in America. It’s illegal to hold them accountable! /wrist :(
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·10 days agoThe sad thing is that Sony is multinational, and they weren’t prosecuted in Japan or anywhere else, either.
minus-squaredaggermoon@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·10 days agoI think the rootkit was only on CD’s sold in North America. I could be wrong though.
minus-squaretomiant@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 days agoYe it was fucked up, I can’t believe both how evil AND conceited they were to think they’d get away with it! Fuck Sony, nothing has improved since then.
minus-squareRampantParanoia2365@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 days ago…did you mean to say Korea?
minus-squaredaggermoon@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·10 days agoWhat do you mean? I don’t follow.
Hey come on now, there’s no need to lie. We all know that when the C-suite does it it’s not a crime in America. It’s illegal to hold them accountable!
/wrist :(
The sad thing is that Sony is multinational, and they weren’t prosecuted in Japan or anywhere else, either.
I think the rootkit was only on CD’s sold in North America. I could be wrong though.
Nope Europe too
major L
Ye it was fucked up, I can’t believe both how evil AND conceited they were to think they’d get away with it! Fuck Sony, nothing has improved since then.
…did you mean to say Korea?
What do you mean? I don’t follow.