Airbnb has apologised to a woman after an apartment host falsely claimed she had caused thousands of pounds’ worth of damage and used images she says were digitally manipulated to back up his allegations.
The London-based academic was refunded almost £4,300, and an internal review of how the case was dealt with has been launched at the short-term accommodation rental company.
The incident highlights how cheap and easily available artificial intelligence software is now being used to manipulate images to give false evidence of what has happened in consumer complaints, according to one security expert.
the guardian have a cookie wall which is against GDPR, you probably have blockers to stop seeing it.
I have raised a case to the ICO (uk authority in charge if upholding GDPR) but that will take up to 16 weeks to be actioned.
Eventually the cookie wall will go away because it’s clearly against GDPR but not quickly