This week, there were several articles revolving around the liability of chatbot operators for teen suicides linked thereto. Apple is facing a lawsuit saying they did not do enough to remove CSAM from their services. Chatbot Operator Liability for Teen Suicide Apple CSAM Lawsuit
Category: Security
Links for Week of October 4, 2024
This week, I liked the article which Bruce Schneier linked to about NIST’s updated password guidelines. I also liked the case discussion over the recent Alexander v. Take Two case, where there was infringement of the copyright, but the tattoo artist got zero damages. Finally, I should have linked to this last week, but my…
Links for Week of September 27, 2024
This week, Professor Guadamuz had another post on the Copyright Wars, this time “Copyright for Dummies.” Courtesy of BeSpacific, The Verge had a nice reminder to never give your phone to the police. As more states get Digital IDs, keep this advice in mind. Finally, I liked a summary of the forthcoming EU Cyber Resilience…
Links for Week of August 30, 2024
This week, David Colarusso posted the syllabus for his course on “Artificial Intelligence and the Law” to LLRX. Well worth reading. If art contains an NFT, is it now a security that must be regulated by the SEC? A new lawsuit is challenging that. Finally, Bruce Schneier has posted links to a long-lost lecture from…
Links for Week of July 19, 2024
As I write this, there is a huge outage affecting much of the Internet caused by a faulty software update from cloud provider CloudStrike. We also learned this week that AT&T had a massive data breach in 2022 that affected nearly every customer. Internet Outage AT&T Data Breach
Links for Week of June 21, 2024
This week, I liked Bruce Schneier’s article on Democracy and AI. I also thought it was interesting how Apple’s Private Cloud Compute, introduced during WWDC earlier this month, actually works. AI and Democracy Apple – Private Cloud Compute
Links for Week of May 3, 2024
May I be the first to say for tomorrow, May the 4th Be With You! (Seriously, though, it was a fun little joke which got commercialized.) This week, I liked an article by Daly Barnett on the current state of digital threats to reproductive rights. The UK implemented a law banning default passwords on smart…
Links for Week of February 2, 2024
This week, LLRX had a nice article on just how many companies can track an individual Facebook user. Legal blogger and author of Solo By Choice, Carolyn Elefant, recently published her free best practices guide to AI implementation within law firms. And, TechDirt had a nice article on the fact that Ring will no longer…
Links for Week of December 8, 2023
This week, news broke that Apple and Google were giving US government sources information from push notifications on smartphones. These companies had been under orders not to reveal the program’s existence, but now that the news of the program was out there the companies could notify users appropriately if future requests were made. I also…
Links for Week of November 24, 2023
This Thanksgiving week, the AI news was dominated with the leadership of OpenAI. Sam Altman was ousted, and then restored to CEO status with a new Board of Directors. I’m sure this will make a good movie someday. I liked Professor Guadamuz’s article on Creative Commons and AI training. Further, news broke of a secretive…