(*29*)With that-was-that department
Five years ago
This week in late 2019 and early 2020, a brand new study make clear how racially biased facial recognition algorithms are, and we examined how tracking students on campus has turn into the brand new norm. A (*4*) appeals court struck down the state’s broadly worded revenge porn law, while a California court narrowly allowed a category motion lawsuit over Google’s location tracking. In the EU, the patent office rejected two patent applications that listed artificial intelligence because the inventor.
Ten years ago
This week, in 2014-2015, we checked out a few of the news that some people were hoping to bury on Christmas Eve, resembling details of the NSA’s illegal surveillance of Americans and France’s passage of a controversial surveillance law. We also checked out how the NSA tries to interrupt encryption in every way possible and the way the FBI uses NSLs to bypass FISA court denials. We also wrote about how copyright causes cultural decline and the way it forced a filmmaker to rewrite the words of Martin Luther King. We also responded to a very false stop-and-desist letter sent regarding our report on the infamous monkey selfie.
Fifteen years ago
This week in 2009-2010, we expressed disappointment with Zynga’s copyright attacks over its autoplay script, asked an interesting query about music licensing and international borders, and skim a UK government report showing the actual risks and high costs of the Digital Economy Bill . A court invoked Section 230 protections in dismissing a defamation lawsuit filed against a consumer grievance site, the Canadian government shut down 4,500 innocent sites over the Yes Men parody, and it was revealed that amongst those Viacom sued were 100 clips uploaded by the corporate Viacom The end of YouTube.
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