The ordinance demands developers of affordable housing to include a burdensome amount of information in every written communication to the public about a given project.
A New York Times lawsuit challenges the AI practice of copying scores of articles for use in training a chatbot to converse on any topic. Copying Times stories and posting them on a website would violate copyright, but is it also a copyright violation to use the training of chatbot? (The Washington Post, January 4, 2024. by Will Oremus and Elahe Izadi) OpenAI is negotiating with media outlets offering paltry sums, between $1 to 5
FAC submitted a letter to the California Supreme Court in support of The Bakersfield Californian’s request to depublish the Court of Appeal’s decision in Bakersfield Californian v. Superior Court, which rejected the newspaper’s objections to a subpoena issued by a criminal defendant for a reporter’s notes of an interview with a co-defendant.
A UC Davis firearms research center won a victory in state appeals court when the court ruled that the center could use personal information California had gathered on gun owners. (Association of Health Care Journalists, December 21, 2023, by Kaitlin Washburn) A 2021 law allowed the state to share gun information so long as the identities of gun owners remained private. Gun owners sued arguing that the sharing of the information violated their privacy rights.
X, formerly Twitter, lost an appeal to the Supreme Court who refused to take up the constitutionality of the federal government’s ban on disclosing the exact numbers of receipts of national security surveillance of users. (CNBC, January 8, 2024 by Dan Mangan) Current law only allows generalized statistics on federal information requests, but X held that government censorship should only occur when there is an imminent risk to national security from sharing exact data. (Ars