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Fair Use Victory Advances a Future of Accessibility for All

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

HathiTrust, a unanimous three-judge panel concluded that digitizing books in order to enhance research and provide access to individuals with print disabilities is lawful on the grounds of fair use —that is, a limitation and exception to the exclusive rights granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work ( Section 107 of the U.S.

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Law enforcement arrests hundreds after compromising encrypted chat system

The Verge

The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has made 746 arrests and dismantled dozens of organized crime groups after intercepting millions of encrypted text messages, BBC reports. The NCA said in a press conference on Thursday that the operation has had “the biggest impact on organized crime gangs it has ever seen.”.

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My remarks just made at WIPO today

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We have been especially successful in receiving blanket agreements from major trade book publishers such as HarperCollins, Random House, Hachette, Simon & Schuster, Perseus, Scholastic, Encyclopaedia Britannica, as well as many university presses (including Cambridge U Press). . • Most publishers don’t say yes or no.

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Edward Snowden NFT sells for more than $5.4 million

The Verge

The NFT is of an artwork that shows an image of Snowden’s face made from pages of a US appeals court decision that ruled the mass surveillance program Snowden exposed had violated US law. Instead, the sale is meant to benefit the Freedom of the Press Foundation, where Snowden is the president. The image is called “Stay Free.”.

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Clearview AI ordered to delete all facial recognition data belonging to Australians

The Verge

Controversial facial recognition firm Clearview AI has been ordered to destroy all images and facial templates belonging to individuals living in Australia by the country’s national privacy regulator. The agency says it is “considering its next steps and any formal regulatory action that may be appropriate under the UK data protection laws.”.

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7 ways to fight back against spam phone calls

Fast Company Tech

The calls are a nuisance to many ordinary people, some of whom have complained to the Associated Press. Do not call Sign up for the national Do Not Call registry, which is a list of numbers that have opted out of most telemarketing calls. Kelvin Chan, Associated Press

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society - Untitled Article

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I've been in Boston this week, and had the opportunity to visit WGBH/NCAM (nation's leading captioning group for the disabled), National Braille Press, as well as folks at BU, MIT and Harvard. I did get the chance to give a talk to the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School.

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