COVID-19 and Privacy
I apologize in advance for writing about COVID-19, as I’m sure we are all relatively sick of reading and talking about it, but I came across a topic which is relevant to many of the themes we have been exploring in this class. BBC has reported that South Korea, Singapore, and Israel have deployed apps […]
COVID-19 Based Cyber-Fraud On The Rise
According to CBC, the RCMP is saying fraudsters are beginning to take advantage of current COVID situation. People are starting to receive phone calls from fraudsters who are posing as the Public Health Agency of Canada in order to get credit card information by telling people they have COVID-19 and require a prescription. On the […]
The Costs of Connection: COVID-19 and its Socio-Economic Impacts
In the midst of the social isolation that everyone is hopefully practicing, I wanted to share some thoughts to serve as a reminder to take care of one another. As has been quite obvious, social networks have been serving their purpose in bearing a large burden as people attempt to combat the effects of social […]
Harvey Weinstein sentenced to 23 years in prison for rape, sexual assault
See CBC article: https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/weinstein-sentenced-1.5493573 In light of the panic and fear of Covid 19, it is understandable that other news has taken a back seat. That being said, I would like to draw attention to the important milestone that occurred this week for the #MeToo movement – Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in […]
Interesting Follow up – Clearview AI and Facial Recognition Technology
Hi Everyone, Further to our presentation on facial recognition technology yesterday and specifically, our focussed discussion on law enforcement’s use of Clearview AI, I just wanted to share the following article. Despite their insistence that Clearview AI is intended for the sole use of supporting law enforcement personnel and a few select private security companies, […]
Justin Bieber, US Copyright Litigation & Music Sampling Libraries
I listened to a super interesting podcast last week about sample libraries in popular music that I thought I would share as it is an interesting combination of issues to do with copyright and pop music – alongside a little twitter feud. In February 2020, Justin Bieber released his newest album “Changes” and shortly after […]
When online fundraising goes wrong…
Many of you would have heard about the devastating bushfires in Australia earlier this year, which sparked an influx of donations, including $150 million alone being donated to the Australian Red Cross. Many of these donations were collected through ‘Big Tech’ with companies like Apple, Google and even the Call of Duty game, providing ways […]
Group Presentation: Net Neutrality
Hello Class! Eunize, Steven, Tessa and myself will be presenting this week on “Net Neutrality.” Please find below brief summaries of the various parts of our presentation, as well as some links to background readings and videos. 1) What is Net Neutrality? Net neutrality is the idea that internet service providers (ISPs) should treat all […]
Ever thought of a career outside of Law? – How to Make Billions! (NO CLICKBAIT)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/02/18/magazine/esports-business.html If you ever thought that being a lawyer was going to pay well, you should drop out now and become a professional gamer (if you’re good a video games). All jokes aside, I learned a lot about Esports during Jon’s Video Game Law class (I wrote my 25 page paper on Esports). Esports is […]
Twitter puts ‘manipulated’ tag on faked Biden video retweeted by Trump
Following through with its promises to deliver on media manipulation, Twitter, for the first time, tagged a recent post by President Trump as manipulated. Twitter’s policies on manipulated media went into effect on March 5th and this instance is believed to be the first time the company has applied the “manipulated media” tag (see screenshot […]
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