Thanks to 2016's trade secret law and algorithmic justice, America's courts have become AI-Kafka nightmares
by Cory Doctorow from on (#3SP1B)
In 2014, the Alice decision made it much harder to patent software in the USA; in 2016, Congress passed the Defend Trade Secrets Act, creating the first federal trade secrets statute: the result of these two developments is that software companies aggressively switched from patents to trade secrets as a means of controlling competition and limiting inspection and criticism of their products. (more")