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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 Trump, seems to be gaining “bipartisan” traction in the US all of a sudden, which means Canada will follow. Big sigh! So, let’s brace for a ban in Canada. As many users put it, the world will be a very strange place on the day we wake up without TikTok. Indeed, there is an anti-trust element in this ban that cannot be overseen in a…
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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 know it full well, because when you post the song on Twitch, someone will come and take it down, even though you bought the game that included the song. Right! Why would an NFT be any different? Because it is more expensive? Since when buying an expensive painting gives you the right to reproduce that…
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Protected: Bill 64; Survol de la Loi modernisant des dispositions législatives en matière de protection des renseignements personnels
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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 in such a way as to achieve the desired effects. It appears that in spite of the GDPR providing that information about data collection and use be communicated “in a concise, transparent, intelligible and easily accessible form, using clear and plain language”, the attempt by attorneys to do so results in an increased use of…
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Future Worlds 2050 by UK Law Society
The main regulator of the legal profession has issued its predictive report on where the practice of law is headed by 2030. Not surprisingly, the future of the legal profession will be dominated by Data, AI, Tech, and Climate Change. https://www.lawsociety.org.uk/en/topics/research/future-worlds-2050-images-of-the-future-worlds-facing-the-legal-profession-2020-2030 These areas of expertise are almost entirely outside the scope of law societies’ exclusivity and practice of the law is already escaping their monopoly according to the report. The trend is visible right now as firms are scrambling to find lawyers with engineering degrees for example. Lawyers have not been providing the services that clients want to buy” “The best way to prepare themselves is probably to stop thinking…
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India Ends Twitter’s Immunity For 3rd Party Content
Section 79 of India’s IT Act appears to be the equivalent of s.230, Communications Decency Act. The provision protects online service providers from liability flowing from unlawful content posted on their platforms. Twitter is so far the only American platform to have lost this safe-harbor in India. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/twitter-loses-legal-shield-in-india-for-3rd-party-content
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Biden v. Knight, Twitter Is Not a “Protected Public Forum”
In 2017 the Court of Appeal of the 2nd circuit ruled that the president of the United States Twitter account is a constitutionally protected public forum limiting the President’s power to block users who criticize him on the platform. In 2021 Twitter proved the Court of Appeal 100% wrong by asserting absolute control over several government accounts, including the former president’s, and completely blocking over 89 million users from interacting with these accounts. Yesterday, Biden won the case for Trump (sort of). The 2nd Circuit judgment was vacated by SCOTUS and remanded to the court of appeal with instructions to dismiss the case. A concurrent judgment by Justice Thomas sheds…
