Category Archives: Society

New profile picture generated by AI

A few weeks ago I decided to replace my profile picture. I use the same picture across almost all the social media sites. Now a part of the new profile picture is also the header image in this blog’s design. Here is this new profile picture:

My new profile picture. A description follows inline in the post.

It looks very stylish on the first glance, but if you look closer you will notice that it contains imperfections. The reason for this is that it was generated by AI without any further editing. While I did some basic design work in the past, I am not an illustrator and would never be able to come up with something like this myself. I do not even know how which tools to use these days.

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Google’s Privacy Policy over the Years

Google’s Privacy Policy is going to change this March in order to unify up to 60 different policies across all the services Google has to offer. While reading through the new terms, I compared what did change exactly to see if the coverage in other blogs and media is correct.

As older versions are still available, I noticed that the beginning of this Privacy Policy has changed over the years. There used to be a first sentence explaining the general approach Google takes towards your data. But read yourself:

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