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Illinois Flood of Class Actions: Twitter, Snap, Tinder, Home Depot Collected, Stored, Used Biometric Data Without Users Consent

by rossitaUncategorized August 10, 2023No Comments

A proposed class action lawsuit claims X Corp., which owns and operates Twitter, has wrongfully captured, stored and used Illinois residents’ biometric data, including facial scans, without consent. The suit more specifically alleges that Twitter has run afoul of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act by capturing and storing users’ biometric information without notice or express consent …

How Meta Platforms Flopped The Metaverse

by rossitaMetaverse August 5, 2023Comments are Disabled

When changing it’s name to Meta Platforms (META) in 2021, Facebook was confident to gain significant market share in the metaverse and launched its Reality Labs division which focused the company’s vision of the metaverse on pricy VR goggles that provided half-body avatars and underwhelming immersive experiences cutting users off from their actual reality. Unsurprisingly …

Cybersecurity Threats Of Generative AI

by rossitaArtificial Intelligence, Cyber-Incidents, Intellectual Property July 26, 2023Comments are Disabled

Since April, Terence Jackson, chief security advisor for Microsoft, warned that the privacy policies of platforms like ChatGPT impose the collection of sensitive user data such as IP address, browser information, and browsing activities, which may be shared with third parties. I didn’t pay attention then due to misrepresentations as to the models being “open”. I …

Instagram Not Liable For Embedded Images

by rossitaIntellectual Property, Litigation July 19, 2023Comments are Disabled

It is about time users realize that everything they voluntarily post on public social media automatically comes with a license to embed. If you don’t want people to embed a post, take it down. Once it’s removed from the source, the license to embed is also revoked, the content will automatically disappear from all embeds. …

Protected: When “Learning” Means Copying and Storing Obscene Amounts Of Other People’s Stuff Without Asking

by rossitaArtificial Intelligence, Reform July 17, 2023Enter your password to view comments.

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Bill C-18: Compared To The Australian Model

by rossitaReform, Uncategorized June 30, 2023No Comments

I thought C-18 follows the Australian model, but the more I look at it, the less I know what this bill means for Canadians. I understand that the CRTC (a federal entity) now has a new jurisdiction to make up criteria for provincial businesses and local matters, which appears unconstitutional, or as Facebook has pointed …

Protected: EU’s New Law To Impose Copyright Disclosure in AI Training and Ban of Biometric Surveillance

by rossitaArtificial Intelligence, Intellectual Property, Litigation, Reform June 17, 2023Comments are Disabled

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Gonzales v Google Maintains Framework On Section 230 Communications Decency Act

by rossitaCyber-Incidents, Litigation, Reform May 30, 2023Comments are Disabled

In a disappointing turn of events, SCOTUS declined to look at section 230 in the case at hand that stems from the same ISIS attack in Paris as the one that gave rise to the Twitter v. Taamneh case. The family of a victim killed in the attack sued Google under 18 U. S. C. …

Twitter v Taamneh, SCOTUS Clarifies Aiding and Abetting in Antiterrorism Act Claims

by rossitaLitigation, Reform May 29, 2023Comments are Disabled

The Supreme Court of the United States unanimously ruled in favor of social media platforms in a lawsuit brought by the family of an ISIS attack victim who sought to hold Twitter, Google, and Facebook liable for aiding and abetting international terrorism by allowing ISIS to use their platforms. A unanimous Supreme Court held that …

GDPR: Meta Hit With Dissuasive Fine For Illegal Data Transfers From Europe To US Servers

by rossitaUncategorized May 22, 2023Comments are Disabled

This decision comes in the wake of Meta’s and 5000 other companies willful ignorance of EU data protection law and persistent illegal transfers of European users’ sensitive data, such as names, email and IP addresses, messages, viewing history, geolocation data and other information, to US servers. Meta will of course appeal the ruling, but if …