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What they're doing is processing data that is publicly available online. Revenge porn law is something else completely - it's about releasing data to the world.
by golergka 9y ago
What they're doing is processing data that is publicly available online. Revenge porn law is something else completely - it's about releasing data to the world.
So, if such a law would be implemented, it would be much closer to DRM laws, which allows data authors and content right owners to dictate how you can process their data, even if they give it to you. In one case, it's copying the data to another format, or may be running a decompiler on it; in another, it's using it in deep learning. Either way, it's processing.
- gamblor956 9y agoIf you want to be super technical about it, processing data and releasing revenge porn are both still a matter of copying bits. Releasing new bits would be invasion of privacy and defamation. "Processing" existing bits would be defamation, appropriation, and possibly invasion of privacy based on the resulting images, though the IOP claims would likely be add-on claims to a defamation or appropriation action. Either way, it's a tort.