#digital-rights

#digital-rights

The EFF found that the tech "seems designed to stymie any attempts at auditing, transparency, and accountability." Cops don't have to disclose when AI is used in every department.

YouTube has informed more than two dozen critics of the Pakistani government that it is reviewing a court directive seeking to block their channels for allegedly being anti-state.

The copies used to train specific LLMs were justified as fair use. Every factor but the nature of the copyrighted work favors this result. The technology at issue was among the most transformative many of us will see in our lifetimes.

Anthropic purchased millions of print books and pirated millions of digital books for its central library, claiming entitlement to all works worldwide without further accounting.

This is really one of the issues at the heart of our digital freedoms for the future. We live our lives on our smartphones. We're connected constantly to people.

"The famously anti-piracy campaign from the early 2000s may itself have been rooted in piracy, as its iconic font was discovered to be pirated."

Adobe writes, "One thing we've heard consistently in our conversations with creators is that they struggle to secure proper attribution for their work online."

Ola Bini, initially detained as a 'Russian hacker', has faced ongoing prosecution in Ecuador despite being acquitted in 2023, illuminating deep flaws in the legal approach to digital security.

This edition of the newsletter covers our tongue-in-cheek 'awards' for some of the worst data breaches in 2024, The Breachies; an explanation of 'real-time bidding,' the most privacy-invasive surveillance system you may have never heard of.