Over 170,000 Pirated Works Used to Train Meta’s LLama and Bloomberg AI Models

As AI subsidies continue to flow to big data giants, The Atlantic revealed that that Zadie Smith, Stephen King, Rachel Cusk and Elena Ferrante are among thousands of authors whose pirated works have been used to train artificial intelligence tools. According to an analysis of “Books3” – the dataset harnessed by the firms to build …

Gonzales v Google Maintains Framework On Section 230 Communications Decency Act

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

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 …

A TikTok Ban? How Dancing Became a Danger To National Security

DanceByte, the company that brought us TikTok is currently under fire for (1) hosting government officials and (2) being in China. Literally two things outside of DanceByte’s control. This is what our dysfunctional world has come to. The completely unconstitutional ban that couldn’t happen under the previous US administration, seems to be gaining “bipartisan” traction …

Galaxy Report On NFT Rights; What About Web3 to Web2 User Generated Content

For some reason, many people still believe that buying an NFT gives them ownership over intellectual property in original works. The Galaxy Report may have found the culprit of this widespread misconception: intentional misrepresentation. As if you didn\’t know that buying an mp3 doesn\’t give you IP rights to the song encoded in it. You …

EU: Privacy Policies Defy User Understanding

A large-scale, longitudinal comparison of privacy policies in the EU pre- and postGDPR found that privacy policies increased in lengthwithout demonstrating improvements in sentence structure complexity. Defining Privacy: How Users Interpret Technical Terms in Privacy Policies, Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies ; 2021 (3):70–94 This study shows the difficulty in drafting privacy and data reforms …