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You don't read privacy policies. And of course, that's because they're not actually written for you, or any of the other billions of people who click to agree to their inscrutable legalese. Instead, like bad poetry and teenagers' diaries, those millions upon millions of words are produced for the benefit of their authors, not readers—the lawyers who wrote those get-out clauses to protect their Silicon Valley employers.
But one group of academics has proposed a way to make those virtually illegible privacy policies into the actual tool of consumer protection they pretend to be: an artificial intelligence that's fluent in fine print. Today, researchers at Switzerland's Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne (EPFL), the University of Wisconsin and the University of Michigan announced the release of Polisis—short for "privacy policy analysis"—a new website and browser extension that uses their machine-learning-trained app to automatically read and make sense of any online service's privacy policy, so you don't have to.
Details at Wired
(Score: 4, Informative) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday February 10 2018, @11:27PM
What's sad and/or funny is that formerly "alpha" professions like medicine and law are now an exhausting and unprofitable drag and will be less relevant from a human perspective.
Soon the skilled trades and other technicians will be the most valuable for a long while, because servers, robots, plumbing, wiring, and construction can't physically fix themselves. Even in high-tech industry humans are preferable to modern machines for low-volume, high-profit work. If you've ever worked with microwave or millimeter-wave circuits (or, as another example, optical transceivers) you know this well because the pick-n-place mentality is not yet accurate enough to produce consistent results. This is why in the microwave/mm-wave world you still see weird shit like tuning filters by positioning coils and proximity caps with toothpicks or cactus needles, cutting traces with X-acto blades and a microscope on soft-substrate, zero-turn inductors (they look like a horseshoe), etc.
Blue-collar for life, bitches. Suck it.