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

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

Christ (Unholy)
Photobucket triple-dog-dares me that they're really truly going to delete the account this time!
#Photobucket opted #inactiveusers into #privacy nightmare, lawsuit says
#Classaction could foil Photobucket’s plan to turn old photos into #AI goldmine.
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 […]
"#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.
#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