Michael Geist

MAY 16, 2024

For those new to the bill, the government has called it “fundamentally flawed” since it contemplates measures that raise privacy concerns through mandated age verification technologies, website blocking, and extends far beyond pornography sites to include search and social media.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Back in 1991, Phill Zimmermann released an encryption program named Pretty Good Privacy or PGP. Online chats, social media, forums and other means of communication rose in popularity and all dealt with impersonation in various ways. To be clear, this isn’t a new problem, news reports about it go back to at least 2011.

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IPilogue

JULY 16, 2021

Reports of racial bias and Canadian privacy law violations weaken the argument for implementing FRT. On June 10, 2021, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner (“OPC”) issued a 29-page report on FRT and Royal Canadian Mounted Police (“RCMP”) -related surveillance as it pertains to the Canadian public. What is Clearview?

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

In August, Apple made headlines by introducing new privacy features in their upcoming software updates. Over the years, Apple has cultivated a strong reputation as a protector of consumer privacy. One of their core values and popular marketing point s is that “privacy is a fundamental human right.”

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IPilogue

AUGUST 27, 2021

Privacy has been a reoccurring issue debated across the world as virtual communication is no longer seen as an option but essential to working remotely during a pandemic. While the platform introduced additional security measures , such as end-to-end encryption, this past year, its user activity reports prompted many questions.

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Michael Geist

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The policies it should have prioritized such as stronger privacy and competition rules were largely left to languish with Bill C-27 still in committee and now subject to mounting opposition over the decision fold AI regulation with minimal consultation into the bill.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

of global trade; and in a recent EU IPO report, it was found that as many as 1 in 3 people have been misled into buying counterfeits. Privacy concerns might, it was said, be a barrier to market for such traders and suppliers. There were some startling facts: trade of fake merchandise has risen such that it makes up 3.3%

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Clearview’s AI crawls the internet and can access, download, and store any image uploaded to social media. Many social media companies, including Google, Facebook, and Twitter, have accused Clearview of utilizing user images without authorization. Regulations and Restrictions.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 7, 2021

This prompted Dorland to first report the alleged plagiarism to a wide variety of groups and worked on getting the story pulled while working through lawyers to demand financial compensation. However, as details of the case unfolded, Dorland learned that a donor’s letter she had written appeared in The Kindest , at least in part.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently released data showing that more than 95,000 consumers reported losses totaling $770 million from fraud schemes that started on social media. That is a staggering amount of money lost by consumers and is a significant increase from losses of $258 million reported in 2020.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 23, 2023

Italian authorities are reporting that officers of the Special Privacy Protection and Technological Fraud Unit of the Guardia di Finanza of Rome have carried out a new operation against pirate IPTV.

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IPilogue

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

muddies the waters again, challenging orders from privacy authorities in British Columbia and testing current Canadian privacy law. In February 2021, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (“the Commissioner”) released a report on Clearview AI, Inc. Facial recognition software company Clearview AI, Inc. Accountability.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Social Links is our ongoing series here at Socially Aware that rounds up current developments at the intersection of social media, policy, research, and the law. Embedding social media posts can be considered copyright infringement.but is it?

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IP Tech Blog

MARCH 20, 2023

“[N]o legacy is so rich as honesty” 1 might fairly summarize the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)’s theme to the advertising industry for 2023, as gleaned from the National Advertising Division (NAD) 2022 Annual Report. What Privacy-Related Claims Does Your Company Make? Nothing less will do.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 2, 2022

Today I’m blogging about one of those bills, California AB 2408 , “Social media platform: child users: addiction.” This bill assumes that social media platforms are intentionally addicting kids, so it creates business-ending liability to thwart those alleged addictions. What the Bill Says.

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Michael Geist

AUGUST 17, 2021

There is the usual Conservative questions for the CBC and a plan to end media support through the labour tax credit and local journalism initiatives that some will jump on, but the digital policy similarities outweigh the differences. User generated content and social media sites would be exempt.

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Michael Geist

AUGUST 23, 2021

Those plans include the creation of a bureaucratic super-structure that featuring a new Digital Safety Commission, a digital tribunal to rule on content removal, and a social media regulation advisory board. Cynthia Khoo is an Associate at the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law in Washington.

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Michael Geist

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

That online harms consultation envisioned measures such as takedowns without due process, automated reporting to law enforcement, and website blocking. The services must also make their data available to researchers, which can be valuable but also raises potential privacy and security risks. Now to the bill with a mini FAQ.

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Traverse Legal Blog

MAY 1, 2022

Included in a standard AUP are clauses specifying the purpose and scope of the policy, the user’s rights and responsibilities, acceptable uses, prohibited uses, and privacy standards. Report any suspicious behavior you may see on the network. Some websites that companies tend to restrict are : Social media. Pornography.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 24, 2024

While study of social media and online platform private ordering is a very well-established way to find out how providers deal with copyright, data protection and consumer protection, studies of generative AI T&C have been slower to get going. You can find the full report here. This seems the essence of an unfair term.

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Michael Geist

JULY 30, 2021

When combined with plans for a new data commissioner, privacy tribunal, and the expanded CRTC under Bill C-10, the sheer amount of new Internet governance is dizzying. The government envisions pro-active monitoring and reporting requirements that could have significant implications.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Back in August we reported how Google had received requests to remove one billion allegedly-infringing links from its search results. A few days before we published that report, Google had just processed its seven billionth removal request, having reached six billion less than a year earlier. But that’s only the beginning.

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Michael Geist

JUNE 20, 2024

The government’s most controversial digital-related bills including online harms (Bill C-63) and privacy and AI regulation (Bill C-27) barely moved during the session, a function of badly bloated legislation that create at least as many problems as they solve. The bill was introduced two years ago, but just now cleared the House.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 11, 2023

These contract law provisions, totally alien to the Irish legal tradition, are designed to apply in negotiations and contractual relationships between artists and commercial exploiters of their works, including social media platforms and streaming services.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

“All stakeholders in the internet ecosystem, including hosting providers, DNS providers, cloud services, advertising networks, payment processors, social media platforms, and search engines, should proactively work towards reducing support for well-known infringing sites,” BREIN writes in its submission.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 20, 2023

“[N]o legacy is so rich as honesty” 1 might fairly summarize the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)’s theme to the advertising industry for 2023, as gleaned from the National Advertising Division (NAD) 2022 Annual Report. What Privacy-Related Claims Does Your Company Make? Nothing less will do.

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IPilogue

JUNE 27, 2022

Facebook) was liable under several provincial privacy statutes for using class members’ likenesses without their consent. . Through Sponsored Stories, advertisers pay Facebook to associate their mark on Facebook’s social media website with users that performed certain social actions in connection with the advertiser (e.g.

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IPilogue

JANUARY 11, 2023

The Globe and Mail is Canada’s foremost news media company, a nationally-distributed newspaper with one of the largest circulations in Canada. The newspaper’s print and digital formats reach over 6 million readers every week, with Report on Business magazine reaching over 2.5 million readers every issue in print and digital.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Friendly tabloids and other publications known for their considerable social media reach, have taken a real interest in the campaign; not just by amplifying the message but presenting it as a preparatory hors d’oeuvre before the main course apocalypse.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 7, 2024

Looking back over the past five years, it seems clear that the adoption and implementation of Article 17 has not led to more widespread use of automated content detection systems by social media platforms, and that while there continues to be anecdotal evidence of , it is not a very widespread problem. So was it worth it?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

To create its product, Clearview scraped billions of publicly available photos from websites and social media platforms. Such class actions can be considered part of the evolution of the regulatory landscape dedicated to Generative AI. 4th 1149 (9th Cir. 3d 723, 743 (9th Cir. 2019); Worldwide Church of God vs Phila.

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Michael Geist

MAY 25, 2022

As Peter Grant, a member of the Yale Report panel and longtime advocate for Internet regulation recently noted, certified Cancon “doesn’t have to look Canadian or be about a Canadian story.” When Minister Rodriguez introduced this bill, he stated “we listened to concerns around social media and we fixed it.” While the Section 4.1

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IP Tech Blog

MARCH 8, 2024

On September 18, 2023, NetChoice, LLC — a national trade association with members from the tech and social media industry — obtained a preliminary injunction from the District Court for the Northern District of California preventing the State of California from enforcing the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (“AADC” or the “Act”).

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TorrentFreak

JULY 9, 2023

Some information is redacted for privacy reasons, often when the notice includes the name of a private individual, for example. Taking Content Down – Send $20 The listings reveal that a disproportionate number of takedown agents report being based in Pakistan. One listing offers to remove up to 10 links for $20.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) keeps track of scams that are reported to it and summarizes those scams in a report outlining the most successful scams of the prior year. Old scams are continuing to be profitable for fraudsters, as the amount of money scammers obtained from victims last year was the most reported to the FTC ever.

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Michael Geist

JULY 18, 2023

The Meta ad boycott from some governments and media companies unsurprisingly does not seem to be having much effect, given that the amount at stake is small relative to the cost of global liability for linking.

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Corsearch

JULY 18, 2023

Millions across the globe have flocked to Instagram Threads – the newest social media platform on the block. As with Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and other social media platforms, businesses must be wary of bad actors targeting their brands and consumers with fake products and scams.

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