Son auteur, qui se présente comme un salarié de Lyft, explique qu’un outil accessible à tous permet de consulter les données personnelles des clients, comme leur numéro de téléphone, leur historique de trajets et les avis laissés par les chauffeurs. Des employés l’auraient utilisé pour vérifier l’emploi du temps de leur conjoint, surveiller leur ex-petite amie ou traquer un passager ayant partagé le même trajet.

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“I think the current version of the app is a good start, but I hope to streamline it even more in the coming days and weeks,” the Redditor behind FakeApp tells Motherboard. “Eventually, I want to improve it to the point where prospective users can simply select a video on their computer, download a neural network correlated to a certain face from a publicly available library, and swap the video with a different face with the press of one button.”

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CAR insurer Admiral last night admitted hiking premiums for drivers applying via Hotmail. The Sun asked about policies using identical details but different mail accounts. Enquiries via Hotmail saw…

From the speech transcript [ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16237684 ]:

“Social media companies deceive their users by manipulating their attention and directing it towards their own commercial purposes. They deliberately engineer addiction to the services they provide. This can be very harmful, particularly for adolescents. There is a similarity between internet platforms and gambling companies.”

The University’s of Toronto’s Dr. Jordan B. Peterson turned to famous friends Tuesday after his YouTube account was locked “with no explanation.”

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Admiral car insurance has been accused of putting up premiums for people with Hotmail addresses, claiming that they are more likely to crash. It would be relatively easy for Hotmail users to get their premiums back down again by changing to a more respectable Gmail address, but unfortunately none of them will be able to, because they don’t know how to use the internet.