Starlink updates privacy policy to allow consumer data to train (opens in new tab)

Given their inherit latency, and cost; the equation for running everything via Wireguard is surly worth it.

The objective of every technocracy is to ensconce the entire planet in a panopticon. SpaceX is not sending those internet satellites into space just for consumer internet applications. Those satellites are also going to maintain the control plane for the sensors & actuators in the future technocratic panopticon.

Is Grok listening to Starlink traffic?

i wonder what consumer data they even have to train? they explicitly disclaim using customers’ internet data:

> As a Starlink customer, you may share information with third parties (for example, when you send an email or communicate with a third-party website). In this context, we are not sharing personal information; you are using our Services to share data, and we are merely connecting you to the Internet.

edit: reading this again, i may have misinterpreted this as “we don’t share this data” instead of “this isn’t considered us sharing data”. although in Section 1 they say they only collect diagnostic data in relation to customers’ connection speed/duration etc

Sounds like loads of new VPN subscribers to me! I would certainly do it myself.

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46647716

I'd be surprised if they were really going to sniff traffic and dump that into training runs. 99% of traffic is going to be encrypted these days. Probably not very useful.

The most interesting data running through Starlink is Ukrainian and Russian military comms (including feeds from drones). I wonder if Musk actually plans to tap into that.