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A proposed bill in the Vermont Senate is intended to ban big tech companies from collecting kids’ data and from causing physical or emotional harms. According to Senator Kesha Ram Hinsdale, one of the bill’s co-sponsors, it is sensibly modeled on legislation in the European Union and United Kingdom that has proven successful.
NewsGuard, the platform that ranks news and information sites for reliability, has launched an Election Misinformation Tracking Center that will combine the expertise of its journalist/analyst team with AI-powered media monitoring tools. The tools will enable the tracking of misinformation on 963 websites and 793 social media accounts and video channels. These sources have already been flagged for repeatedly publishing false claims about elections.
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.