To train Firefly, its generative AI model, the company only uses content that it has rights to through its stock image platform Adobe Stock or that is in the public domain. ![]() Adobe starts paying out stock contributors for helping train AIĪt the time when Google claims it has the right to scrape everything you post online and use it for its AI training, Adobe is taking a different approach. By introducing Topics in Chrome anyway, Google has essentially embedded its user-tracking platform into the browser itself. However, cookies’ successor - Topics - is just as bad, as we and others like Apple and Mozilla have repeatedly pointed out. Google has been trying to rebrand itself as a champion of privacy, and its plan to phase out tracking cookies is supposed to become the icing on that cake. Hopefully there will be more interest in the matter from the Dutch court where the case has been filed. Last year, the EU’s top privacy watchdog was even sued by activists for failing to investigate “the largest data breach ever,” as they call Google’s ad auctions that allow it to trade people’s data in real time. Unlike fellow tech giant Meta, Google has escaped relatively unscathed from the claws of EU regulators. The lawsuit cites previous research into Google that has revealed that so-called “ad auctions,” in which the internet activity and locations of EU users are traded, take place “on average almost 380 times a day.” ![]() The plaintiffs argue that Google scoops up data about their online behavior and location with little transparency and without their explicit permission - all to then sell it to the highest bidder. Google has been accused of intrusive online surveillance by more than 82,000 people who have signed up to a class action lawsuit against the tech giant in the Netherlands. Google’s ‘ad auctions’ face a privacy challenge in the Netherlands In this edition of AdGuard’s digest: Google faces a privacy investigation in the Netherlands, Adobe is paying creators for having used their images to train AI, the UK delays killing E2E encryption, WhatsApp may be toying with an idea to introduce ads, X (formerly Twitter) wants subscribers to upload government IDs for verification.
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