The Librarian of Congress (“LoC“) granted DMCA exemptions for installing alternate firmwares on routers and for investigating copyleft compliance, and the exemption that Software Freedom Conservancy previously applied for and received on Smart TVs was also expanded.
While the formal request to extend the security research exemption to include privacy research was not granted, the Register clarified that privacy research is indeed included in security research. The SFC executive director, Karen Sandler, also participated as an individual in a request to expand the existing exemption for medical devices which was also successful.
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