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A British woman is learning a painful lesson about who actually owns your online memories. Meta deleted her Facebook and Instagram accounts without warning, taking two decades of photos and personal history with them. When she tried to appeal, there was no human to call — only AI chatbots standing between her and twenty years of her life.
That tension between people and AI systems runs through our next story differently. Wired is out with a sharp piece arguing that asking AI companies to self-regulate on safety is essentially theater — a way for governments to appear responsible without doing anything meaningful. The piece cuts to a real question: if the companies building these systems are also the ones judging whether they're safe, who exactly is watching?
And on the law enforcement front, a training video has surfaced suggesting police may have found new methods to access data on locked iPhones, potentially bypassing a key Apple security feature. Apple has built its reputation partly on the promise that even it cannot unlock your device — so if that wall is cracking, the implications for privacy are significant and worth watching closely.
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