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YouTube Orders ‘Invidious’ Privacy Software to Shut Down in 7 Days

TorrentFreak

Invidious: A Privacy Front-End For YouTube Invidious describes itself as an open source alternative front-end to YouTube. A Public Invidious Instance The software is licensed under AGPL-3.0 and, for those with nominal technical skills, Invidious can be self-hosted on relatively modest hardware using Docker.

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Chegg Is Likely to Prevail on Its Anti-Scraping CFAA Claim…But Doesn’t Get an Injunction–Chegg v. Doe (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Chegg sent a cease-and-desist letter to Homeworkify’s domain registrar, Namecheap, its proxy server, Cloudflare, and the email address associated with domain registration, but they have found nothing. (for When doing so, defendant had to agree to the Terms and Privacy Policy. Those terms and privacy policies were hyperlinked.

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Are Your Publicity Rights Protected for the AI Surge?

Traverse Legal Blog

This isn’t just a concern for celebrities and influencers but signals a broader threat to the privacy and rights of everyday individuals as well. Licensing Publicity Rights: A Lucrative Yet Risky Venture Many have sought to get ahead of the curve and capitalize on their publicity rights with AI.

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BREIN Won’t Take Piracy Warning Dispute to The Supreme Court

TorrentFreak

According to Ziggo, linking IP addresses to specific subscribers raises serious privacy concerns, even if personal information isn’t shared with BREIN. In addition, the ISP lacks a license to link IP-addresses to personal information. Aside from the technical investments, BREIN was also required to obtain a data processing license.

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Are Your Publicity Rights Protected for the AI Surge?

LexBlog IP

This isn’t just a concern for celebrities and influencers but signals a broader threat to the privacy and rights of everyday individuals as well. Licensing Publicity Rights: A Lucrative Yet Risky Venture Many have sought to get ahead of the curve and capitalize on their publicity rights with AI.

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TOS Supports Injunction Against Web Scraping–Southwest Airlines v. Kiwi

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

It sent Kiwi cease and desist letters and has implemented security measures, but “Kiwi has continued to hack the Southwest website and sell Southwest flights without permission.”. In addition, Southwest sent Kiwi several cease and desist letters. The terms are presented next to the purchase button.

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Once Again, LinkedIn Can’t Use CFAA To Stop Unwanted Scraping–hiQ v. LinkedIn

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The court remains skeptical of LinkedIn’s privacy-based arguments: LinkedIn has no protected property interest in the data contributed by its users, as the users retain ownership over their profiles. Are robots.txt, IP address blocks, or cease-and-desist letters still relevant to the CFAA at all?