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Google Tests Blocking Canadians from Online News

Other Google news is less positive. The company has not-very-subtly registered its opposition to a Canadian law requiring that it pay news outlets for using their materials by running a “test” that blocks some users’ access to Canadian news sites. Meta tried something similar in Australia last year with predictably poor results.

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80% of Google Play Store Data Safety Labels Contain Errors: Mozilla Study

February 24, 2023

While we’re beating up on Google, let’s mention this Mozilla study that found almost 80% of 40 popular Google Play Store apps showed a discrepancy between their Google Data Safety Form and actual privacy policy. The differences were serious in 40% of the apps tested. The study also criticizes Google policies including reliance on self-reporting by app developers and loopholes such as failing to require reports of sharing data with “service providers”.

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Landmark ‘Fair Use’ Ruling in Thompson Reuters AI Copyright Case

February 13, 2025

A district judge has ruled that, as a matter of law, Ross Intelligence’s use of Thompson Reuters’ Westlaw content to train its own legal research model is not “fair use” but copyright infringement. This is a revision of a 2023 ruling and leaves issues for a jury to decide. It might, however, shut down one line of defense when it comes to AI scraping of copyright material.

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