Excited that the final version of my article "TikTok v. Garland and the First Amendment Anticanon" has been published. It argues that the case is a shameful example of the all-too-common tradition betraying 1A principles in the name of national security
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
I made a Firefox add-on that lets you find the federal court opinion/docket mentioned in a news story in one click. Using @free.law's CourtListener and RECAP of course. addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo... (this is a personal project)
Download The Missing Link for Firefox. Find the case the article didn't link. Claude identifies the U.S. court case discussed on the page and links you straight to it on CourtListener. Bring your own ...
A federal judge in Rhode Island referred DOJ lawyers for potential discipline based on statements they made while trying to convince her not to quash a subpoena forcing a hospital to hand over records regarding its provision of gender-affirming care to transgender youth reut.rs/4x9bHbk
honestly this is nuts, they're establishing an 8-hour security perimeter around the most used transportation hub in North America, so one guy can attend a basketball game
NEW: Days after WIRED revealed that Meta had embedded an unreleased facial-recognition system in software distributed to more than 50 million users, the company appears to have removed it.
www.wired.com/story/meta-r...
Yessssss this is what I had hoped they'd do with that big damages award! (not sure if that's where the money's coming from but still, hell yeah)
anyway, the more important question than "did you ship the orphan-crushing feature on purpose or accidentally" is "why did you have an internal orphan-crushing feature at all" (as well as "...especially when you are still under an FTC consent decree concerning your treatment of orphans")
laying off 10% of your work force amidst a shift to "AI writes the code that humans then have to review" has some interesting effects, anyway
The code WIRED identified is gone from the latest version of Meta AI, the companion app for the company’s smart glasses. Meta won’t say why or whether it’s coming back.
In my mind is a Family Feud board with options like "Shipped on purpose hoping we wouldn't notice," "Shipped on purpose bc some engineer wanted data for testing; no coworkers spotted it," "Got included truly by error but nobody noticed," etc.
Anyway how's that FTC privacy compliance program going
doing the Lord's work here 🫡
Reuters Legal
Rodger Sherman
Dhruv Mehrotra
Incredible headline: No walking allowed in heart of Midtown for Monday's Knicks game
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Sorry, Knicks fans: No Madison Square Garden watch party tonight. You won’t even be able to walk close. The NYPD and U.S. Secret Service announced another spate of street closures and security measure...
