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April 4 · Issue #10 · View online
Legal news everyone should know
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Hello from the newest associate at Lydecker Diaz. These may not keep coming twice weekly (I gots to hit those billables people…), but they’ll keep coming! A little introductory note: if there are only three links in an issue, they are all worth reading in their entirety. #justsayin
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Facial recognition database used by FBI is out of control, House committee hears
Database contains photos of half of US adults without consent, and algorithm is wrong nearly 15% of time and is more likely to misidentify black people If it was never wrong, I wouldn’t mind so much. But it’s wrong 15 out of 100 times. That’s just not good enough. Close it down and stop collecting imagery until the error rate can at least be reduced to decimal places. And no, I don’t want to hear “But terrorism! Criminals! Bad hombres!” I’m all for taking down bad guys, but anything that may result in wrongful surveillance, prosecution or imprisonment is unamerican.
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Trump has officially ended federal online privacy rules
This isn’t about Trump, he just signed the abomination. It’s about the hundreds of Congresspersons who sold you out. Internet providers will not have to ask permission before sharing sensitive data with advertisers. “Sharing” is not a clear enough word: they can sell your browsing history, and anything else you do without HTTPS and VPN software. Why do this? Cash. Money. If you don’t educate yourself about HTTPS and VPNs you might as well buy a projector and display your web browsing on the front of your house or something. At least then you’d know who was seeing it.
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Google claims Levandowski launched competing projects long before Otto
This is the kind of litigation that happens during the infancy of world changing technologies. Here’s a cool example regarding the light bulb. |
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