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Alexa, How Do I Protect My Organization’s Data From You?

LawTechnologyToday

Smart speakers initially handle simple tasks, making it easy for a user to check the calendar and add meetings, create and track to-do lists, read and send emails and instant messages, and ask general-knowledge questions. For example, Amazon Alexa data and recordings were used in murder cases in Arkansas and New Hampshire.

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January Regulatory Dates for Broadcasters: Issues/Programs Lists; Digital LPTV Deadline; Audio Description Expansion; Children’s Programming, Webcasting Royalties; NCE FM Settlement Window; and More

Broadcast Law Blog

The Copyright Office held a public roundtable on December 9 to discuss how to change copyright law to offer greater protections to publishers, particularly news publishers (see the transcript of the roundtable discussion, here , and our summary of the proceeding, here ). See the Federal Register notice, here.

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Court declines to hear death-row inmate’s claim of juror’s racial bias, prompting dissent from liberal justices

SCOTUSBlog

The justices had agreed in December 2020 to review the legality of Medicaid work requirements in Arkansas and New Hampshire, and they set the cases for oral argument in March 2021, but they took the cases off their argument calendar after the Biden administration notified them in February 2021 that it planned to scrap the policy.

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