https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/feb/18/facebook-blocks-health-departments-charities-and-its-own-pages-in-botched-australia-news-ban
Blog Tips
Simply click on the URL (http:// ...) link in each article to visit the article's page
To search this blog, try the Search Box on the right, or click on the Labels following each post entry
To search this blog, try the Search Box on the right, or click on the Labels following each post entry
Showing posts with label Intellectual Property. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Intellectual Property. Show all posts
22 February, 2021
18 November, 2019
Tale of the tape: Why film fans are dropping Netflix for physical media. "[Streaming services] like to present the image of having a comprehensive library, but the irony is there's like ten of them now and they all want to be the only game in town, and even between all of them combined they still don't cover even a fraction of film history."
Labels:
History,
Intellectual Property
01 August, 2018
28 November, 2017
01 November, 2017
Nvidia’s artificial intelligence can produce images of fake celebrities that look scarily real. As this technology improves, there are obvious potential benefits for companies in the creative industries. For example advertising, movies and video games could be seriously aided by the use of AI image production. Soon it might not be so clear if the pretty woman selling you shampoo is actually real or not. But on the flip side, it does raise questions about how such technology could be used in the era of fake news.
22 September, 2017
21 August, 2017
The Federal Court ruled in favour of film distributor Village Roadshow which brought legal proceedings against telco services to force them to block domain names for services used to illegally download movies and other programs. Federal Court Justice John Nicholas on Friday ordered internet providers, including Telstra, Optus, TPG and Vocus, to take "reasonable steps" to disable access to 42 websites that breach copyright laws, such as Pirate Bay, within 15 days.
Labels:
Ethical,
ICT Capability,
Intellectual Property,
Sustainability
11 August, 2017
The new copycats: How Facebook squashes competition from start-ups
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/wall-street-journal/the-new-copycats-how-facebook-squashes-competition-from-startups/news-story/3095f438b5880566c65b73c84453c79f
Labels:
Ethical,
ICT Capability,
Intellectual Property,
Social
26 June, 2017
Google says its computers will soon stop reading the emails of its Gmail users to personalise their ads, a move that addresses a longstanding privacy concern about a product that is central to its growing corporate services business. The core unit of Alphabet has mined users’ emails for personal data to serve them more relevant ads since it launched Gmail in 2004, which almost immediately sparked privacy concerns.
10 April, 2017
05 April, 2017
A VIDEO game portraying the streets of Adelaide has drawn criticism from police, who say any representation of stations or officers could be breaking the law. But the young designer has said the game had been “misrepresented”. The game, called P Platers, is in the development stage. The open-world game give players to freedom to do what they want, which could include violence and is based on the hugely successful Grand Theft Auto series.
13 February, 2017
The sale of so-called "fully loaded Kodi boxes" has been called a "top priority" by the Federation Against Copyright Theft (Fact). The five traders were arrested in early morning raids. Fact said it believed the suspects had made in the region of £250,000 selling the devices online. Kodi is free software built by volunteers to bring videos, music, games and photographs together in one easy-to-use application.
Labels:
ICT Capability,
Intellectual Property
25 January, 2017
It’s not often that civil liberties advocates—along with other advocacy groups like the Sierra Club and Doctors Without Borders—find themselves on the same side of an issue as President Trump. But digital privacy and rights groups roundly criticized the TPP for restricting the freedom of information and lambasted what they say was the lack of transparency in the drafting of the deal. “The TPP would have been a bad deal for digital rights, so we welcome its demise,” says Jeremy Malcolm, senior global policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
27 December, 2016
The US Government has listed some of the largest piracy websites and other copyright-infringing venues. The USTR calls on foreign countries to take action against popular piracy sites such as The Pirate Bay, which has important "symbolic value," according to the authorities. In addition, stream-ripping is mentioned as an emerging threat.
Australians could have their private phone and email records used against them in civil litigation cases, with the federal government considering relaxing data retention laws. Critics say it would pave the way for phone and email records to be mined for material to be used in legal action following marriage breakdowns and business disputes.
Labels:
Cybersafety,
Ethical,
Intellectual Property,
Privacy
18 December, 2016
09 November, 2016
In a scathing critique, the Free Software Foundation is urging the U.S. Government to drop the DMCA's anti-circumvention provisions which protect DRM. The foundation argues that DRM is a violation of users' rights, which under the guise of copyright protection is used to harm, control and spy on people.
03 October, 2016
In a paper they released earlier this month titled “Stealing Machine Learning Models via Prediction APIs,” a team of computer scientists at Cornell Tech, the Swiss institute EPFL in Lausanne, and the University of North Carolina detail how they were able to reverse engineer machine learning-trained AIs based only on sending them queries and analyzing the responses. By training their own AI with the target AI’s output, they found they could produce software that was able to predict with near-100% accuracy the responses of the AI they’d cloned, sometimes after a few thousand or even just hundreds of queries.
11 May, 2016
13 April, 2016
A question yet to be addressed is whether the march of technology, under the guise of making our lives easier, freer, more connected, is actually beginning to wipe out secure livelihoods for the masses, and concentrating wealth in a new tech elite. It would not need to be this way, Rushkoff argues. His answer is to shift the digital economy away from extractive models to distributive ones. The cycle couriers could own the takeaway food despatch platform, say. "I'm all for disruption. Let's disrupt Facebook's monopoly of social networks, or Google's monopoly on search. Let's disrupt Uber's extractive monopoly platform with a driver-owned app that does the same thing." That really would be a sharing economy.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)