Most services have privacy policies that boil down to:
- we promise not to share PII (defined as narrowly as possible)
- we promise not to share payment information except with our payment system
- if you pay us, we promise not to train LLMs on your data
- you agree that everything else can be used for any business purpose, including marketing, intelligence gathering, and "sharing with our 1735 trusted partners".
They care, but realize that there is no such thing as privacy anymore. The amount of obsession required to maybe maintain some degree of privacy is not something most people are willing to do.
When the average person thinks about "online privacy" they think about keeping things private from other people. They don't think about keeping their data private from the companies hosting/processing their data.
That research study also concludes that “59% of people have no understanding of what companies do with the data they collect”
To me, that says the average person doesn’t care enough (they care, just not enough) to do anything about it.
They might care enough to spend 5 seconds signing a petition, but not enough to spend 5 minutes installing an ad blocker, and definitely not enough to spend 5 hours doing anything more extreme like de-googling their life.
If you are in a trusted industry like finance or healthcare, the popular ones generally have industry wide privacy certification like HIPAA compliant, SOC 2 Type 2 etc.
That seems more of an issue with the school, though, rather than the actual web request. In this case, there IS a prior agreement between the school and MS, so there can be additional expectations about how that works.
I didn't know the browser made an agreement between myself and it. Here I am thinking that I am forced to use monopolistic tech because I a US citizen have zero say in the direction of technology in the country, that's decided by undemocratic financiers gambling with pension funds in SF. Silly me.
Spain here. Most of our public Universities have their IT stack on MS... I cannot fathom how much of our national budget goes to their pockets.
Thankfully, I store my teaching materials on my personal non-uni webpage, and the student's marks in my office's computer (apart from the MS-based Uni system).
Whenever something happens with MS, chaos ensues throughout the whose Uni and the students end up paying the consequences.
I do agree that the companies could do a better job telling about the dangers, but let's be real here. It's hardly a secret that LLMs can be erratic. It's not news.
Other companies also tell me their product is the best thing since sliced bread. I still try to find the flaws. That's part of my job. But suddenly with LLMs we just blindly trust the companies? I don't think you.
I don't blindly give up my brain and my agency and no one else should. It's fun and educational to play around with LLMs. Find the what they are good at. But always remember that you can't predict what it will do. So maybe don't blindly trust it.
Built for Gemini?? No thanks.
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