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Everything you should know about … warrant canaries

Dec 8, 2014

Guest post by Naomi Gilens, J.D. Candidate, Harvard Law School [I’m pleased to feature on the blog some of the best work undertaken by HLS students on Internet-related topics. –JZ] In 2002, the FBI used the newly-passed Patriot Act to demand that libraries secretly turn over records of patrons’ reading materials and Internet use. The […]

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@jodansmif I read them a long time ago. My recollection is that they were admirably different in tone and plot from the original - so, new! - and generally geared around storytelling as a way to explore philosophical questions that OSC wanted to take up.

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@andrewamonti It’s surely an appropriation of some kind, though I’m still thinking through if it’s a misappropriation. Wage theft, as I understand it, is a term of art for work that’s already agreed to be compensated but people aren’t compensated anyway.

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@danielmhinkle Yea, the question I’m meaning to ask is a systemic one. And - with it framed, it might be incumbent on randos in the know to pressure companies more to find out how their work is being used. E.g. use of one’s tax dollars, or if Ender were asked to play his game a second time.

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CAPTCHAs are a brilliant way to tell people and bots apart. And reCAPTCHA, harnessing people’s work to help scan texts or improve maps, is brilliant x2. But I wonder what Ender’s Game-like responsibility people bear for the ethical valence of the work they’re unknowingly doing. twitter.com/voxdotcom/stat…

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