This week, Apple removed several apps from its App Store relating to ICE enforcement. Meta announced that it will target ads in the US based on AI chats. Finally, Discord had a data breach that affects 70,000 of its users. Apple App Store and ICE Apps Meta – Targeted Ads Using AI Discord Data Breach
Category: Security
Links for Week of September 5, 2025
This week, Google got some good news in its antitrust case that they would not need to sell off its Chrome web browser. Security expert Bruce Schneier had a good series of posts about security risks of AI models, they are vulnerable to injection attacks. Finally, via GeekPress, a restaurant has an unusual AI hallucination…
Links for Week of August 8, 2025
This week, news of a prior hack of the US Court online systems was revealed. A jury in California found against Meta in a case involving data collected from the Flo period and pregnancy app. Finally, I liked Professor Goldman’s analysis and critique of the majority opinion in the Krasno v. UWM case, a free…
Links for Week of July 4, 2025
This week, I liked Corynne McSherry and Katharine Trendacosta’s article on the NO FAKES Act. Professor Goldman issued a post about the Supreme Court’s decision in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton. Finally, Cloudflare announced this week that it will begin charging AI crawlers. Posting will be light for the next two weeks due to external…
Links for Week of June 27, 2025
This week, Anthropic’s use of copyrighted works to train its Claude AI model was ruled a fair use. Further, the court documents revealed that they destroyed millions of books to do so. In another fair use case, this time with Meta, Llama’s use of copyrighted works was adjudged to be fair use. However, it may…
Links for Week of June 20, 2025
This week, President Trump extended the TikTok ban again, for the third time, despite not providing any legal justification for such an extension. Marty Schwimmer blogged about a Northern District of Illinois Judge who is reassessing all of his Schedule-A cases. Finally, a look at the Trump Administration’s recent executive order which dismantles many of…
Links for Week of April 25, 2025
This week, I liked the article by Geoff Huston giving the background on the current Internet Governance regime. Professor Goldman had a nice post about a recent 9th Circuit decision that turns our normal conceptions of internet jurisdiction on their head. Finally, an update on the Google antitrust case as it heads into the remedy…
Links for Week of April 4, 2025
This week, Bruce Schneier had several good posts on phishing, data integrity, and security at border crossings. I’m enjoying ABA Techshow, and got to hear Cory Doctorow speak about the current state of the Internet. Border Crossing Security Phishing Can Happen to Anyone Web 3.0 Requires Data Integrity
Links for Week of March 28, 2025
This week, there has been more movement and discussion about revising Section 230. The Trump administration is apparently using Signal for highly confidential and top secret discussions, and added a reporter to those discussions. Finally, I liked Professor Guadamuz’s post about the end of digital property. Section 230 Signal controversy Digital Property
Links for Week of February 7, 2025
Here’s a scary one – certain apps that had been approved to be on the Apple and Google Play app stores were found to have malware that used OCR on the device’s photo library to look for stored crypto passwords. New allegations were made that Meta torrented 81.7 terrabytes of pirated content to train its…