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How Machines Learn: Where Do Companies Get Data For Machine Learning And What Licenses Do They Need?, Rachel Wilka, Rachel Landy, Scott A. Mckinney
How Machines Learn: Where Do Companies Get Data For Machine Learning And What Licenses Do They Need?, Rachel Wilka, Rachel Landy, Scott A. Mckinney
Washington Journal of Law, Technology & Arts
Machine learning services ingest customer data in order to provide refined, customized services. Machine learning algorithms are increasingly prominent in multiple sectors within the software-as-a-service industry including online advertising, health diagnostics, and travel. However, very little has been written on the rights a company utilizing machine learning needs to obtain in order to use customer data to improve its own products or services. Machine learning encompasses multiple types of data use and analysis, including (a) supervised machine learning algorithms, which take specific data provided in a tagged and classified format to deliver specific predictable output; and (b) unsupervised machine learning …
Robots Welcome? Ethical And Legal Considerations For Web Crawling And Scraping, Zachary Gold, Mark Latonero
Robots Welcome? Ethical And Legal Considerations For Web Crawling And Scraping, Zachary Gold, Mark Latonero
Washington Journal of Law, Technology & Arts
Web crawlers are widely used software programs designed to automatically search the online universe to find and collect information. The data that crawlers provide help make sense of the vast and often chaotic nature of the Web. Crawlers find websites and content that power search engines and online marketplaces. As people and organizations put an ever-increasing amount of information online, tech companies and researchers deploy more advanced algorithms that feed on that data. Even governments and law enforcement now use crawlers to carry out their missions. Despite the ubiquity of crawlers, their use is ambiguously regulated largely by online social …