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Tech Company Patent Applications Threaten Inmate Privacy

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Patent applications from companies that provide communication services to prisons give an indication of where a company is looking to expand and hint at implementation ideas that could be very dangerous for inmates and their privacy, warns Beryl Lipton, an investigative researcher with the EFF Electronic Frontier Foundation, i n an interview for Marketplace. (..)

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Digital rights groups say Apple’s new child protection policy weakens end-to-end encryption and user privacy

JURIST

On Thursday, Apple announced a new policy for child-safety measures on its devices leading to several digital rights organisations such as the European Digital Rights network (EDRi) and Electronic Frontier Foundation raising concerns over the privacy and security of the company’s large global customer base.

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Ring Camera Footage Given to Police Without Warrants or Permission

The Crime Report

Ed Markey (D-MA) concerning Amazon Ring’s ever-expanding collaboration with American police, the company stated that it had provided police with user footage 11 times this year alone with neither the owner’s express permission nor a court order, The Intercept reports. In response to recent questions from Sen.

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Maryland Authorities Granted Access to Digital and Social Media Apps

The Crime Report

Experts say authorities — despite attempts to force companies to allow them to do so — cannot listen in over encrypted phone calls using the wiretap warrant, while other messaging services carry an option of encryption that exposes the communications if not enabled. “I ”

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Copyrightability of a Programming Language

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However, the company has now positioned its case before the intellectual property friendly Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. New briefs in support of the accused infringer WPL: Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) : The law treats copyrightability of software differently than other literary works (as it should).

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Federal Circuit Narrows Scope for Copyrighting Software Function

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by Dennis Crouch The copyright lawsuit between the data-software company SAS Institute and its scrappy copycat World Programming has been interesting to follow over the past several years, and the Federal Circuit has now issued a controversial opinion in the case. World Programming Ltd., — F.4th 4th — (Fed.

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On the Road at the 2016 ABA Annual Meeting

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The sessions featured an amazing array of leaders and speakers whose voices carry great weight in the legal profession as well as our nation — FBI Director James Comey, GCs for Fortune 500 companies, U.S. Marc Rotenberg: President and Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. Judge James P.