Starlink updated its Global Privacy Policy on January 15, according to the Starlink website. The policy includes new details stating that unless a user opts out, Starlink data may be used “to train our machine learning or artificial intelligence models” and could be shared with the company’s service providers and “third-party collaborators,” without providing further details.

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[–] 8 points 9 months ago

Concerning.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    So fucking glad I canceled starlink after the nazi did the nazi salute

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (3 children)

    Yeah, the privacy part is a huge factor too. Yes the speed and performance was very good for me, especially since I am rural. I wouldn't go for starlink unless it paid me enough to pay for a different ISP

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    what the fuck data are they trying to use to train LLMs? DNS? basically everything else these days is encrypted and unreadable by them (for the time being), and DNS is easily masked as well (DoH, DoT, etc). maybe i just answered my own question, they want to train a model that can surreptitiously spy on encrypted traffic.

    edit: here's some info on the "traditional" method of monitoring encrypted traffic, but this is typically done in organizations and requires having special certificates on every customer device

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    But like most traffic is SSL encrypted, how is he going to read any of it?

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Fyi. T-Mobile uses starlink and so does the Walmart mobile since it's through t mobile.

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