As tech firms take on the role of newsrooms, will they care about legal fights for public interest? — Tech News and Analysis

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Click on the story: As tech firms take on the role of newsrooms, will they care about legal fights for public interest? — Tech News and Analysis.

Hard to imagine an article more on point that goes to the core of our medias law course. Do tech companies understand journalism and will they fight the legal battles that journalists have traditionally had to? From my perspective would say there are some positive signs that tech firms understand privacy and fair use (copyright) quite well.  What about investing in investigative journalism? What about protecting sources and fight for access to documents? There are clearly more questions then answers in the brave new digital world. Thoughts?

jon

2 responses to “As tech firms take on the role of newsrooms, will they care about legal fights for public interest? — Tech News and Analysis”

  1. Frances Narvaez

    I think since time immemorial (at least, since the tech industry started seeing how the simple act of complicating technological developments to the normal user), tech firms have incessantly gone on the grey zone not only of basic human rights such as privacy and access to information, but of law and of users’ understanding of their rights within the law as well. From the perspective of parity and justice, why would tech firms have the privilege of keeping information that would be of public interest when they themselves gather information from their own users discreetly — or openly, with readers having to read 100 pages of consent before they finally understand that their information is actually being used to market these tech firms’ products? Where has justice (and our identity, perhaps) gone in this digital era?

  2. Jon Festinger

    There certainly must be obligations of privacy and transparency.

    jon

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