If you own part of a corporation, say through stocks and shares, CEOs and board act on your behalf and commit crimes (e.g. corruption, tax fraud, environmental damages etc.) you should be liable for those, at least until the sum of the worth of your shares, past paid dividends and profits by share price increases.
If you feel, you have been lied by the board and are innocent, you have the right to sue them for compensation.
"California could soon deploy generative artificial intelligence tools to help REDUCE TRAFFIC JAMS, make ROADS SAFER and PROVIDE TAX GUIDANCE, among other things"
yeah... that'll end well 🙄
Google & Microsoft will be paid $1 for the services but handed a fuckton of personal information linked to taxes and car ownership. that in itself is worth billions to the corrupt techbros running this new AI-is-labor-without-people scam.
Hugh Grant has been priced out of his ‘phone hacking’ lawsuit against The Sun, after learning it would cost him more money to win than it would cost Rupert Murdoch.
The AL #legislature voted Thurs to #protect#doctors doing IVF from #criminal or #civil#liability if #embryos they help to create are subsequently damaged or destroyed.
The fast action by both the House & Senate on bills to shield IVF came >2 wks after the state’s Supreme Court ruled that #FrozenEmbryos are people & that individuals could be liable for destroying them.
> "Air Canada argues it cannot be held liable for information provided by one of its agents, servants, or representatives—including a chatbot," Rivers wrote. "It does not explain why it believes that is the case" or "why the webpage titled 'Bereavement travel' was inherently more trustworthy than its chatbot."> Further, Rivers found that Moffatt had "no reason" to believe that one part of Air Canada's website would be accurate and another would not.
In a post on social media last night, Trump went after #JudgeKaplan:
“The Federal Judge in this Second Biden Political Opponent ‘Trial’ is extraordinarily hostile to me — Sadly, & I don’t know why, a 100% Trump Hater. He knows I did nothing wrong, but is looking to do a number on me. Only in America!”
In one tough moment for #Trump, who was present but did not speak, Judge Karen Henderson, the sole #Republican appointee on the panel, pushed back on an argument made by his #lawyer, D. John Sauer, that for >200 yrs, American courts had never sat in judgment over ofcl actions a president had taken while in office.
When Pearce addressed the court on behalf of the #SpecialCounsel’s office, he seized on Judge Pan’s example. Pearce said it was a terrifying prospect that a #president could use the #military to #murder a rival & then escape #criminal#liability by simply resigning before he could be #impeached.
via @histoftech
“a #virus that’s incredibly contagious. It kills some people immediately. For everyone else, it damages your brain. It damages your heart & blood vessels. It damages your immune system ... It shortens your #telomeres. It ages you.
Instead of warning the public, our leaders have worked on behalf of corporations to shield them from #liability. They've manipulated and distorted #data to present an illusion of normalcy” https://www.okdoomer.io/its-that-bad/#covid#publichealth
Logging practices:
"It's basically dead" AI reveals the legacy of decades of logging in Victoria
"An AI-based analysis of 20 years of VicForests’ logging, researchers say, shows the scale of failed regeneration in Victoria’s state forests.The data, which has been shared exclusively with the ABC, suggests that 20 per cent of Victoria’s state forests have not regenerated after logging.... That’s almost 13,000 hectares of state forest the analysis found to be standing in a state of ruin."
"Now the state is shutting its native logging industry in a matter of weeks, and the forests that were once given to Victoria’s state-run logging agency, VicForests, are being returned to the public."
"By law, the logging agency is required to regenerate the areas it has logged and hand them back to the public in a healthy state. But until now, how much that has actually happened has largely been a mystery."
I imagine a lot of current CISOs will be looking into cashing out and taking early retirement in the near future. Good news for Info Risk Management types who've grown weary of banging their heads on the wall.
Trump continued to #attack#James, #Engoron & the trial itself in posts to his social media platform this morning.
He again suggested that the trial is an attempt to interfere w/ his presidential campaign & complained about the lack of a jury in the trial.
(It is long established that either are issues)
Trump won’t be in court today. He had no legal obligation to attend, & left yesterday, noticeably angry.
#McConney, who's also a #defendant in the #Trump#fraud case, was then shown letters he sent to a lender to disclose the statements of #financial condition to Royal Bank America. That letter & others like it are part of how the AG will attempt to establish McConney’s #liability for #false financial statements, in addition to his involvement in preparing the statements themselves.
The trial adjourned for lunch.
McConney is scheduled to resume testifying at 2:15 PM ET.
“Is that… a rabbit that just went hopping by??” asked the man bringing the sewer line camera up. He loves rabbits, but was so shocked to see a free range hopper go by from her space station on her rug over the hardwood lava😂.
Unfortunately more bad news today- another sag by the house, a cracked pipe in another spot, nothing house insurance covers..😓We will talk to project mgr tomorrow but we financed the first project and don’t have anything left, so we will see! Our house is 15 years old..
One of the problems with trying to hold the builders responsible is that the terrible ones you would actually need to sue tend to "recycle" their business every year or two. They may still be operating, maybe even the same name, but it's a different corporation, and the old one is kaput with no assets to make a claim against.
Lots happening in government #regulation around the world. Anything for masto and other #fediverse designers, developers, and operators to get ahead of?
I got an email warning from this server - after posting in Irish a number of times over the lifetime of my account here and other folks telling me that it is welcome - that my posts in Irish are NOT welcome on Fosstodon.
Irish is a minority language not heard often, it is extremely important to me, and so this decision means this server is not a place for me. Sadly, despite my long career in FOSS.
I might abandon this account and use mastodon.ie. TBD
To give them the benefit of the doubt, many #instances have English-only (or other single-language-only) #rules because they fear #legal#liability because of their inability to effectively #moderate or respond to complaints about #content posted in a language they cannot understand.
Sony Music Entertainment v. Cox Communications, Incorporated: US Court of Appeals reverses vicarious liability verdict and remand for a new trial on damages (20 February 2024) (storage.courtlistener.com)
Court docket: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63148084/sony-music-entertainment-v-cox-communications-incorporated/...