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Your Friends Could Be Sharing Your Phone Number with ChatGPT

"ChatGPT is getting more social," reports PC Magazine, "with a new feature that allows you to sync your contacts to see if any of your friends are using the chatbot or any other OpenAI product..."


It's "completely optional," [OpenAI] says. However, even if you don't opt in, anyone with your number who syncs their contacts are giving OpenAI your digits. "OpenAI may process your phone number if someone you know has your phone number saved in their device's address book and chooses to upload their contacts," the company says...

But why would you follow someone on ChatGPT? It lines up with reports, dating back to April, that OpenAI is building a social network. We haven't seen much since then, save for the Sora generative video app, which exists outside of ChatGPT and is more of a novelty. Contact sharing might be the first step toward a much bigger evolution for the world's most popular chatbot.
ChatGPT also supports group chats that let up to 20 people discuss and research something using the chatbot. Contact syncing could make it easier to invite people to these chats...

[OpenAI] claims it will not store the full data that might appear in your contact list, such as names or email addresses — just phone numbers. However, the company does store the phone numbers in its servers in a coded (or hashed) format. You can also revoke access in your device's settings. 09

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Obama vergelijkt optreden ICE met handelwijze in dictaturen

WASHINGTON (ANP/AFP) - De Amerikaanse voormalige president Barack Obama heeft het optreden van de immigratiedienst ICE in Minnesota vergeleken met de handelwijze in dictaturen. Dat deed hij in een interview met de progressieve youtuber Brian Tyler Cohen.

Vorige maand omschreef Obama het optreden van ICE als onwettig, maar deze keer ging hij verder. "Het schurkengedrag van de agenten van de federale regering is zeer zorgwekkend en gevaarlijk", zei hij.

Duizenden agenten van ICE hebben de afgelopen weken acties tegen migranten uitgevoerd. Volgens de regering-Trump waren die gericht tegen criminelen, maar er werden ook mensen zonder crimineel verleden opgepakt. Er was veel burgerverzet tegen de handelwijze van ICE. Obama noemde dit hoopgevend.

De voormalige president liet zich ook verontwaardigd uit over een post van president Trump op Truth Social, waarop Obama en zijn vrouw Michelle als apen werden afgebeeld. Obama sprak van "gebrek aan schaamte en fatsoen".


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