Friends don’t let friends feed their data to AI agents | The Verge

“Meta says Muse only remembers what you choose to share. But the idea that people are making an informed choice in this case is laughable,” said Whittaker. “There is no way to assume with a straight face that the majority of people installing this system understand the consequences of using it, or the creepy dossiers that are being compiled about those they know and communicate with.”

In this way, AI assistants like Muse are creating a new spin on a classic privacy problem that has been around since the creation of Gmail and social media platforms writ large: Even if you avoid using AI agents, there’s no guarantee someone you know won’t share your private conversations, address, personal history, and other sensitive data with Meta’s virtual assistant, or one of its competitors.

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October 17, 2026 by Privacy Technology 0

While their numbers decline, some say school librarians are more important than ever – The Lansing Journal

Illinois currently ranks 7th out of 48 states and Washington D.C. for the total number of full-time-equivalent school librarians, according to the academic research group SLIDE, which monitors school library employment at the national, state, and district levels. (Tennessee and South Carolina don’t share their data with Slide.)

Only SOME think that??

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October 16, 2026 by School Libraries 0

AI Policy for Public Libraries: 2026 Library Futures Survey Results

In this post, we share key findings from our Spring 2026 survey of public library workers about their experiences with and perspectives on the need for and usefulness of AI policies in public libraries. The findings show a low rate of AI policy adoption despite high demand for one, specific areas of policy needs, and underlying tensions related to AI adoption in public libraries. The findings are based on responses from a total of 327 participants. We removed survey responses that did not meet Qualtrics quality filters (e.g., completeness, cache checks, and bot detection) for quality purposes. Although this sample cannot capture the perspectives of all public library workers, it provides a starting point to hear directly from them about their concerns, areas of need, and preferences for AI policy guidelines and resources.

Read entire article at libraryfutures.net

October 16, 2026 by AI Public Libraries 0

Meta’s new commercial terms will allow the scraping of news sites, legal experts say | Nieman Journalism Lab

“This is a remarkable provision to bury in [the] terms of service, given that this would give Meta access to material that would likely cost many millions of dollars in a licensing market,” said Matt Topic, a media and intellectual property attorney at Loevy & Loevy. “It’s not clear whether a court would enforce this, but publishers should assume that it would be enforceable.”

Seen on niemanlab.org

October 16, 2026 by Internet Legal Issues 0

Utah launches $60,000 review of school library book selection process

The State Board decided to look deeper into how library materials arrive in schools after members said they felt they lacked a full understanding of the process. Board member Emily Green said at a May meeting, “So we don't have to continue to be reactive to an industry that has full access to a minority population." She hopes the review will help align library practices with Utah’s sensitive materials law, which requires a book’s removal if at least three school districts or two districts and five charter schools independently find it meets the state’s definition of sensitive material.

Article at kjzz.com

October 15, 2026 by School Libraries 0

Zuckerberg’s new toy is a parasite. Please don’t fall for it.

“The true end users of Facebook are the marketers who want to reach and influence us,” media theorist and CNN columnist Douglas Rushkoff wrote in 2013. “They are Facebook’s paying customers; we are the product. And we are its workers.” Instead of paying firms to conduct research on consumers, by constantly engaging with Meta’s products, we provide it for them, he argued. More than a decade later, this sentiment couldn’t feel more true. Ultimately, Muse isn’t really a personal assistant — it’s a digital panopticon disguised as an imp.

Read the story at sfgate.com

October 14, 2026 by AI 0

Your browser is suspiciously without a Sec-Fetch-Mode header

It's not news that "AI" crawlers are an ongoing plague and that broadly the plague is getting worse. There seem to be more and more crawlers, and they're getting past more precautions. One possible future for the web in the face of this is websites with less features, at least for the general public, because fewer features means less to crawl and less crawler impact. Another possible web future is one of pervasive gatekeepers that must be satisfied to allow you access to many or most websites.

From utcc.utoronto.ca

October 13, 2026 by AI Internet Technology 0

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