News

A class action lawsuit was filed against Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI alleging large-scale copyright violations in the companies’ GitHub Copilot AI-powered coding assistant.

Australia’s Labor Party introduced a privacy bill including significantly increased penalties for data breaches and an amendment to the Privacy Act extending jurisdiction to foreign organizations doing business in Australia.

The Markup published an investigative piece covering the use of tracking data by political campaigns. 

new report by independent researchers found that Apple’s own iPhone apps, like the App Store and Apple Music, continue to collect detailed user data even when users turn off tracking settings.

Companies across the tech industry, including Meta, Twitter, Lyft, and Stripe, laid off thousands of workers in the face of an expected recession.

Events

USC Gould professor Erin Miller is giving a talk at Cornell Tech this Thursday, 11/10 about the application of the First Amendment to private actors.

(Compiled by Student Fellow Stephanie Chen)