RTÉ reports: Donald Trump’s data protection case against a British private investigations firm over a dossier which alleged ties between Mr Trump’s campaign and Russia has been thrown out by London’s High Court. Mr Trump, the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, had sued Orbis Business Intelligence about claims in a dossier written by…
Film Companies Counter Reddit: “An IP Address is Not a Person”
Ernesto Van der Sar writes: Over the past decade and a half, hundreds of thousands of alleged BitTorrent pirates were taken to court for sharing mostly video content without permission from rightsholders. While this activity is still ongoing, at least to a degree, not all courts have welcomed this type of lawsuit. On several occasions,…
FCC Adopts EPIC Recommendations to Safeguard 911 Location-Based Routing Data
From EPIC.org: On January 25, the Federal Communications Commission adopted its Report and Order on Location-Based Routing (LBR) for 911 calls. Rather than directing a 911 call to an emergency assistance call center based on the area code of the phone (e.g., directing a 202 area code number to DC), or based on what cell tower is…
Senators Demand Justice Department Halt Funding to Predictive Policing Programs
The Markup’s investigations have shown how a predictive policing algorithm was both discriminatory and inaccurate By: Aaron Sankin A group of seven Democratic members of Congress has issued a public letter demanding the Department of Justice stop issuing grants to fund predictive policing projects, unless the agency “can ensure that grant recipients will not use…