{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Triangulating Apple","description":"Returning from winter break, this episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast covers a lot of ground. The story I think we\u2019ll hear the most about in 2024 is the remarkable exploit used to compromise several generations of Apple iPhone. The question I think we\u2019ll be asking for the next year is simple: How could an attack like this be introduced without Apple\u2019s knowledge and support? We don\u2019t get to this question until near the end of the episode, and I don\u2019t claim great expertise in exploit design, but it\u2019s very hard to see how such an elaborate compromise could be slipped past Apple\u2019s security team. The second question is which government created the exploit. It might be a scandal if it were done by the U.S. But it would be far more of a scandal if done by any other nation.  Jeffery Atik and I lead off the episode by covering recent AI legal developments that simply underscore the obvious: AI engines can\u2019t get patents as \u201cinventors.\u201d But it\u2019s quite possible that they\u2019ll make a whole lot of technology \u201cobvious\u201d and thus unpatentable. Paul Stephan joins us to note that National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has come up with some good questions about standards for AI safety. Jeffery notes that U.S. lawmakers have finally woken up to the EU\u2019s misuse of tech regulation to protect the continent\u2019s failing tech sector. Even the continent\u2019s tech sector seems unhappy with the EU\u2019s AI Act, which was rushed to market in order to beat the competition and is therefore flawed and likely to yield unintended and disastrous consequences.  A problem that inspires this week\u2019s Cybertoonz. Paul covers a lawsuit blaming AI for the wrongful denial of medical insurance claims. As he points out, insurers have been able to wrongfully deny claims for decades without needing AI. Justin Sherman and I dig deep into a NYTimes article claiming to have found a privacy problem in AI. We conclude that AI may have a privacy problem, but extracting a few email addresses from ChatGPT doesn\u2019t prove the case.  Finally, Jeffery notes an SEC \u201csweep\u201d examining the industry\u2019s AI use. Paul explains the competition law issues raised by app stores \u2013 and the peculiar outcome of litigation against Apple and Google. Apple skated in a case tried before a judge, but Google lost before a jury and entered into an expensive settlement with other app makers. Yet it\u2019s hard to say that Google\u2019s handling of its app store monopoly is more egregiously anticompetitive than Apple\u2019s. We do our own research in real time in addressing an FTC complaint against Rite Aid for using facial recognition to identify repeat shoplifters.  The FTC has clearly learned Paul\u2019s dictum, \u201cThe best time to kick someone is when they\u2019re down.\u201d And its complaint shows a lack of care consistent with that posture.  I criticize the FTC for claiming without citation that Rite Aid ignored racial bias in its facial recognition software.  Justin and I dig into the bias data; in my view, if FTC documents could be reviewed for unfair and deceptive marketing, this one would lead to sanctions. The FTC fares a little better in our review of its effort to toughen the internet rules on child privacy, though Paul isn\u2019t on board with the whole package. We move from government regulation of Silicon Valley to Silicon Valley regulation of government. Apple has decided that it will now require a judicial order to give government\u2019s access to customers\u2019 \u201cpush notifications.\u201d And, giving the back of its hand to crime victims, Google decides to make geofence warrants impossible by blinding itself to the necessary location data. Finally, Apple decides to regulate India\u2019s hacking of opposition politicians and runs into a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) buzzsaw.  Paul and Jeffery decode the EU\u2019s decision to open a DSA content moderation investigation into X.  We also dig into the welcome failure of an X effort to block California\u2019s content moderation law. Justin takes us through the latest developments in Cold War 2.0. China is hacking our ports and utilities with intent to disrupt (as opposed to spy on) them. The U.S. is discovering that derisking our semiconductor supply chain is going to take hard, grinding work. Justin looks at a recent report presenting actual evidence on the question of TikTok\u2019s standards for boosting content of interest to the Chinese government.  And in quick takes,  I celebrate the end of the Reign of Mickey Mouse in copyright law Paul explains why Madison Square Garden is still able to ban lawyers who have sued the Garden I note the new short-term FISA 702 extension Paul predicts that the Supreme Court will soon decide whether police can require suspects  to provide police with phone passcodes And Paul and I quickly debate Daphne Keller\u2019s amicus brief for Frances Fukuyama in the Supreme Court\u2019s content moderation cases Download 486th Episode (mp3) You can subscribe to The Cyberlaw Podcast using iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Pocket Casts, or our RSS feed. 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