Questions tagged [computer]
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Can the Cyber Resilience Act make it illegal to retire?
Suppose Alice develops some software and releases it under an open source licence. She receives just enough money to be counted as "commercial". This may be donations from users, it may be tokens for contributing to a cryptocurrency project, and…
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Can a virus scanner be sued by the makers of a program they label as spyware for recommending its removal?
Ages ago, when dinosaurs roamed the earth and I was in college, I went to a recruiting event for a company that collected and sold statistical data. They explained that they got the information by installing programs on people's computer 'in…
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What rights does an employee retain, if any, who does not consent to being monitored on a work IT system?
I am interested in privacy at the interface between one's personal and professional lives. This question is adjacent, but not identical to others related to IT system use (1, 2). Given a workplace IT system which is necessary to complete one's job…
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Could it be illegal to intentionally "poison" AI crawling?
There is a youtube about generating images with features designed to "poison" generative AI trained on those images.
This technique could potentially be used by anyone who was worried about their content being harvested by AI's. On any website…
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Legal Rule that computers are presumed to be operating correctly
I was reading the following academic paper. At the very beginning, it mentions that under the Law in England & Wales, a computer is presumed to be operating correctly.
This is the line I am interested in:
"In England and Wales, courts consider…
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Is it legal to sell security vulnerabilities you found while working with a company to that company?
Suppose you were working at a company for a few years, and during your time there you found a few computer security vulnerabilities that could be used by potential attackers. If you were to compile them into a report, would it be legal to sell it to…
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Chat AI is reproducing unlicensed code from a website verbatim: what can the original author do about it?
Let's presume that a chat-based AI, for certain queries/prompts involving specific phrases, is reproducing, verbatim, code that was placed on a publicly accessible website. The code on the website had no explicit licence attached to it.
Presumably…
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What IP law would apply to trained weights of an AI model?
In simple terms, any AI system will consist of three elements:
Code, written by humans, that defines the mathematical model
The mathematical model itself, as it exists within the computer
The model weights, millions or billions of parameters that…
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Could open source software illegally provide legal advice?
There is a company called DoNotPay. It bills itself as "The World's First Robot Lawyer", and at least in January was providing services such as "Defamation Demand Letter", "Divorce Settlement Agreement", and "Sue Anyone in Small Claims Court", and…
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Would it be legal for an American to hack Russian military infrastructure to aid Ukraine?
I am an American citizen located in the US. Suppose I wanted to hack Russian military infrastructure and disable it in order to aid Ukraine. Would this be legal?
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Can a new device owner compel a previous owner to un-register it from their account with the manufacturer?
Say I become the owner of an electronic device, like a Chromebook or iPhone, that can be locked to the current owner's account with the manufacturer (this may not be completely realistic, but take it as an assumption for this hypothetical).
Say I…
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What is the situation when a contract is altered during transmission?
Suppose Alice the Individual visits the web site of Bob the Business for a particular service. She clicks to view the contract, is presented by a web site showing contract terms, but because of some technical issue outside of Alice's control this…
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How do Wi-Fi Positioning Systems interact with the GDPR?
There is a paper (described in the news) that details how to use Apple's Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS) facilitates mass surveillance, even of those not using Apple devices. The system is described so:
Mobile devices that have used GPS to obtain…
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What does "Household Exception" to the GDPR mean?
GDPR Section 2 Recital 18 (?) reads:
Not Applicable to Personal or Household Activities
This Regulation does not apply to the processing of personal data by a natural person in the course of a purely personal or household activity and thus with no…
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Is Rep. Raskin's proposal of a class action lawsuit against Elon Musk under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act legally viable?
Rep Jamie Raskin said in a media report that he was looking into the possibility of a class action lawsuit against Elon Musk for his allegedly illegal access of Treasury Department data. Raskin says that his legal basis are violations of the…
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