Photobucket Is Using Biometrics To Sell Your Photos to train AI and opting you IN by default

https://peertube.gravitywell.xyz/w/esQFgTw1uE7Ln5fgb1qY8e

Photobucket Is Using Biometrics To Sell Your Photos to train AI and opting you IN by default

PeerTube

Christ (Unholy)

Photobucket triple-dog-dares me that they're really truly going to delete the account this time!

#photobucket #email #spam

Photobucket opted inactive users into privacy nightmare, lawsuit says

Class action could foil Photobucket’s plan to turn old photos into AI goldmine.

Ars Technica
From 11 Dec: Photobucket opted inactive users into privacy nightmare, lawsuit says - Photobucket was sued Wednesday after a recent privacy policy update revealed plans to sell users’ ph... https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/12/photobucket-sold-users-biometric-data-without-consent-lawsuit-says/ #biometric-data #biometric-information-privacy-act #generative-ai #illinois #myspace #photobucket #policy
Photobucket opted inactive users into privacy nightmare, lawsuit says

Class action could foil Photobucket’s plan to turn old photos into AI goldmine.

Ars Technica
Photobucket Sued for Licensing Billions of Users' Images to Train AI

Photobucket users allegedly have no way to opt out of their images being licensed.

PetaPixel

Courthouse News: Photobucket users and subjects sue to stop images from being sold as deep fake fodder . “Photobucket users filed a federal class action against the image cloud company on Wednesday to prevent the sale of their pictures to biometric and generative AI companies — technologies that were the stuff of science fiction when many first signed up for accounts more than a decade […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2024/12/12/courthouse-news-photobucket-users-and-subjects-sue-to-stop-images-from-being-sold-as-deep-fake-fodder/

Courthouse News: Photobucket users and subjects sue to stop images from being sold as deep fake fodder | ResearchBuzz: Firehose

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"#Photobucket was sued Wednesday after a recent #privacy policy update revealed plans to sell users' photos—including #biometric identifiers like face and iris scans—to companies training generative #AI models."

What a great reason to be litigated into oblivion. What absolute morons.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/12/photobucket-sold-users-biometric-data-without-consent-lawsuit-says/

Photobucket opted inactive users into privacy nightmare, lawsuit says

Class action could foil Photobucket’s plan to turn old photos into AI goldmine.

Ars Technica

#Photobucket opted inactive users into #privacy nightmare, lawsuit says

Photobucket was sued Wednesday after a recent privacy policy update revealed plans to sell users' photos—including #biometric identifiers like face and iris scans—to companies training #generativeAI models.
#ai #tos

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/12/photobucket-sold-users-biometric-data-without-consent-lawsuit-says/

Photobucket opted inactive users into privacy nightmare, lawsuit says

Class action could foil Photobucket’s plan to turn old photos into AI goldmine.

Ars Technica
I scheduled my #Photobucket account for deletion but looking around some folks had their account deleted and they still get emails what the heck are we supposed to do
First, #Photobucket was spamming me to log in, or they were going to delete everything! Now, after deleting it, it’s spamming me to log in and restore it. So it’s a liar too.