Privacy

In today’s world, where data security and privacy have become fundamental issues, with the increasing use of language models in both private and business sectors, it is essential to start questioning the security and privacy that these tools can provide. The risk is that we might end up providing private or confidential information to companies that will use that data for training their models and for their purposes. ChatGPT, for instance, uses all chats to train its models, even in the paid version ChatGPT Plus at 25 EUR per month. The ChatGPT Team plans (25 EUR per month per user, minimum 2 users) and the APIs available to developers are excluded from the training. ...

Snowflake is a system that allows users to circumvent web censorship by helping them access the Tor network through a network of volunteers who act as intermediaries by providing their own internet connection. It works by connecting the volunteer with the person in need, creating an entry connection to the Tor network disguised as a simple voice or video call using the WebRTC protocol. To assist, the volunteer only needs to install an extension on their Firefox or Chrome browser and activate it while browsing normally. ...