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The Creepy New Digital Afterlife Industry

Cars That Think

What is the digital afterlife industry? T oday, a “digital afterlife industry” is already making it possible to create reconstructions of dead people based on the data they’ve left behind. Microsoft reportedly decided against turning this idea into a product, but the company didn’t stop because of legal or rights-based reasons.

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General Motors to Move from Long-Running Detroit HQ Into a New Location Across Town

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Automakers have an impact on industries that reach far beyond cars and drivers. Real estate is one area where the sector has a significant footprint, and one of the industry’s biggest names is making waves in Detroit’s downtown. That’s a significant reduction from RenCen’s 2.3 million square feet.

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AI Has Created a Battle Over Web Crawling

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Instead, they’re made up of public data that was created by all of us—anyone who’s ever written a blog post, posted a video, commented on a Reddit thread, or done basically anything else online. Longpre: The tragedy of this is that robots.txt is machine-readable but does not appear to be legally enforceable. Longpre: Exactly.

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Stellantis Investors Fume Over CEO Pay Amid Job Cuts, Plant Closures, Supplier Strife

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Investors, in particular European ones, are becoming increasingly sensitive to social aspects of corporates [sic],” Charles Pinel, CEO of Proxinvest, told Bloomberg in a recent interview. Legal challenges have also been raised on behalf of the manufacturer. It doesn’t appear to have made the automaker popular with its suppliers.

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Driving Dystopia: Eight Automakers Accused of Lying About Customer Data Protections

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While there are actually very few data protections on the federal level as they pertain to corporations, misrepresenting your business is something the FTC would be very interested in. Automakers and industry groups contest the claims. A total of 19 companies signed on to the privacy principles.

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Driving Dystopia: More Companies Found Covertly Sharing Driving Data, Raising Insurance Rates

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With corporate media finally aware of the perils of connected vehicles, we’ve seen a rash of articles exploring how insurance rates have spiked due to automakers sharing user data. The insurance industry is obsessive about analyzing risk. And it all became significantly more expensive this year.

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Cruise Outsources Review of Regulatory Response

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But the hiring of a legal team and technology experts makes it sound like it’s gearing up to defend itself. However, one wonders about how impartial outside companies tasked with doing an assessment actually are when they’re still on the corporate payroll. That’s understandable. But this will be a slow process.