#data-collection

#data-collection

Enter Tesla's secret lab at its engineering headquarters in Palo Alto, California, where according to a new scoop from Business Insider, its goal is to record practically every mundane human movement imaginable, performed hundreds of times each day by a tireless crew of dozens of workers. The AI industry is as much powered by armies of human grunts who work behind the scenes to make the tech appear seamless as it is by the actual gigawatts of energy consumed by its enormous data centers.

Inside a glass-walled lab at Tesla's engineering headquarters, dozens of workers act out the motions of everyday life: lifting a cup, wiping a table, pulling open a curtain. They repeat each action hundreds of times during eight-hour shifts, and their work is captured by five cameras attached to their helmet and a heavy backpack. CEO Elon Musk sometimes stops by to watch, and Tesla investors visit regularly for demos. It's like being a "lab rat under a microscope," one former worker told Business Insider. The goal is simple: Teach Optimus, the company's robot, how to move like a human.

"Users think they're getting a free VPN or SEO widget; in reality, their most private queries - health scares, finances, identity crises - are being slurped, anonymized, and resold," Dryburgh explained in an email. " Onavo and Jumpshot déjà vu, only worse: this time it's your inner dialogue." "We have access to 150+ million real user conversations. This is primarily clickstream data where a user has opted in to be tracked and automatically shared their ChatGPT conversations."

TikTok's efforts to stop children using the app and protect their personal data have been inadequate, a Canadian investigation has found. Hundreds of thousands of children in the country use TikTok each year despite the firm saying it is not intended for people under the age of 13, according to the findings. The investigation also found TikTok had collected sensitive personal information from "a large number" of Canadian children and used it for online marketing and content targeting.

The report argued that improved data is especially critical now that federal Pell Grants have been restored to incarcerated students. "Better data is essential to realizing the promise of higher education in prison," the report noted. "With reliable, accessible, and ethical data practices, programs can better support student success, identify and address disparities, and advocate for resources and reform ... At this turning point, data is not just a tool for accountability-it is a foundation for educational quality and meaningful opportunity."

Google has agreed to pay $30 million to settle a long-running lawsuit by parents and their children claiming its YouTube video app collected data from millions of U.S. kids under 13 so it could target them with ads. The Mountain View digital advertising and search giant manipulated children using their personal information into extending their time on YouTube, which in turn increased the number of targeted advertisements shown to them, and increased the revenue earned by Google,

Log rotation using copy truncate mode can cause log loss or duplicate collection because of non-atomic operations and new file creation. The copy action introduces risks of misidentification by collectors.

Many businesses lose potential customers simply because their sign-up forms are confusing, cluttered, or too long, or they cannot organize the queries and feedback efficiently.

The city has met two of the seven recommendations from the state audit regarding improvements in tracking and measuring effectiveness of homeless services.

This is damaging. I don't know that there's any grounds at all for this firing. And it really hurts the statistical system. It undermines credibility in BLS.

Repeated data collection through field campaigns, experiments, and high-performance computing significantly contributes to emissions, necessitating considerable funding and labor from researchers.

The technique used to achieve this was truly innovative, and akin to malware behaviour. It exploited protocols to break the isolation between apps and browsers, a fundamental security concept meant to protect users.

Tally is the best free tool for creating surveys, offering superior design and flexibility compared to Google Forms, allowing users to create surveys in just 60 seconds.

Having gone through multiple reporting cycles where the 'certified professional engineer' requirement has been waived, we now know a couple of important things about this rule.

The Internet of Things, which includes any object or device that automatically sends and receives data via the internet, reveals intimate details about our lives.

Ignoring the issues, not examining and exposing them to the light, allows the criminality and depravity of a minority of men to be used to marginalise whole communities.

The report highlights flaws in data collection, stating it is impossible to assess the scale of group-based child sexual exploitation due to under-reporting and inconsistent definitions.

Knowing what's going on inside a storm is crucial to knowing what's going to happen to people in its path, meteorologists said.

To ensure the seamless functioning of our web pages, limited information is collected and stored on your device, solely for necessary operational purposes.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics has announced a reduction in data collection methods for the Consumer Price Index, impacting certain cities and the estimate of inflation.

Counterspeech datasets are vital for studying hate speech, derived from social media platforms, often through keyword searches and responses from predefined counterspeech accounts.

Excel forms are a data collection tool that allows users to efficiently gather feedback without the limitations of scrolling through endless cells, making forms useful for surveys and client data collection.

The latest data demands are "absolutely alarming," said Jon Davisson from the Electronic Privacy Information Center, warning they could enable deportation and mass surveillance efforts.