Questions tagged [is-x-legal]
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What is the law regarding declaration of cryptology services and tools?
The French Prosecutor has released details of the investigation resulting in Pavel Durov's arrest, which ends with these three points:
Providing cryptology services aiming to ensure confidentiality ...
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Is there a law against biohacking your pet?
Biohacking, particularly the self administration of genetic modification tools such as CRISPR, has become somewhat popular in recent years with advancements in genetic engineering technology. While ...
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Using .pdf files of Copyrighted Works That Are Freely Available Online [closed]
I am a high school student and passionate about pure math.
I was able to procure my collection of pure mathematics books by purchasing them at a discount price at garage sales, bookstores, book sales, ...
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Is it a crime to use a scam driving licence as ID online?
There is a question on Travel.SE about an apparent "international driving permit" that is confirmed in an answer to be a very well known scam. However it does appear to provide a card that ...
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Is there anything illegal about dumping a wild animal carcass in Central Park?
Related to a certain confession, statute of limitations might have kicked in, but is anything illegal (such as littering, for example) about dumping a wild animal's carcass in Central Park?
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Is it illegal in the United States for televised political ads to contain subliminal messages?
I would like to know if it is illegal in the United States for televised political ads to contain subliminal messages, whether they are written subliminal messages, or audio subliminal messages, or ...
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Is it GDPR compliant to require registration to access a privacy policy?
There is currently an issue with Windows operating systems, reputed to be related to Falcon Sensor from CrowdStrike. From the description of their tool, the question of GDPR compliance can be asked ...
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Is it legal for employer to make getting paid for work contingent on completion of certain tasks?
I sometimes do part time work where I'm periodically required to provide proof of residency documents for tax reasons. Management said I need to do this to get paid, but someone else advised they can'...
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Is it illegal to share a recording of someone else's private conversation?
Can a private conversation that has been recorded without the knowledge of any involved in the conversation. Then shared in a text message amongst 20+ people be considered illegal? It was shared to ...
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Are social networks legally required to implement user banning/suspension funcionality?
So are social networks that don't allow users to be suspended/banned legal? Or they are required to implement this feature?
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Is it legal to remove the SIM from your car?
There is a youtube video about data collection by cars. They suggest the solution of removing the SIM card from your car. They address some technical problems, such as getting access to the SIM card,...
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Is it legal to discriminate on marital status for car insurance/pensions etc.?
In 2012 the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that gender is no longer allowed to be a factor when premiums are calculated for "everything from pensions to car and life insurance".
I ...
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Is it legal to photograph a nosy neighbour?
If I had an intimidating neighbour that frequently stood their side of our garden fence staring at me and my family whilst we were in the garden (or even at times in the house), would it be legal for ...
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Is genital "nullification" legal in Europe?
Is it legal for health professionals to perform these operations described
here, under the heading "genital nullification", in Europe, safely and to consenting adults.
Genital nullification,...
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Can I use AI to enhance my own Images?
I understand AI art isn't copyright material. However, I am curious if the creator generates AI versions of the creation are those AI versions the copyright of the creator? I'm not sure how else to ...
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To what extent can police officers intervene in a suicide?
Suicide is legal in the United States. Are police allowed to do things they would not have normally been able to do if not for the situation (e.g. tackling the attempter to prevent him from falling)? ...
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General legallity of selling advanced malicious software systems [duplicate]
Generally, within the United States, would it be legal to:
Develop an advanced network exploitation system that has capabilities like The NSO Group Pegesus Spyware.
Market that software to any US ...
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(UK) Employee signed off from work by a doctor - can we ask for equipment back?
If an employee is signed off from work by a doctor and is currently holding equipment owned by either his employer or one of his employer's customers, it seems perfectly reasonable to me to ask for ...
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Can 501(C)(3) sell items that were donated? [closed]
I am an employee of a nonprofit (501C3) museum that sells merchandise to help us expand our reach to the public.
My question is: If someone (an employee or guest) donates items for the museum to sell, ...
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Is paying a news publisher to not publish negative press about you legal?
Today, I saw on the news that the prosecution in the current criminal case against former President Trump brought in a tabloid publisher to testify that Trump paid him to not publish negative press ...
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Can copy-pasting a word definition from a dictionary site cause a copyright issue?
I just saw the following at the English language and usage stack exchange meta forum (ELU meta).
We should not be pasting definitions from online dictionaries into answers when their terms of service ...
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Is there a term for making something that is legal but could be used illegally?
I am wondering the legality of making something that is totally legal in itself but if misused by someone is illegal.
An example I found online is self-aiming and shooting paintball guns such as the ...
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In which US states are hush money payments illegal?
I was just reading something from the New Yorker magazine which stated:
“Paying hush money is not a crime under New York state law,” Mark
Pomerantz, a lawyer who worked in the D.A.’s office, wrote, ...
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Is it legal to send pressed flowers to the United States via mail?
Is it legal to send pressed flowers from my garden to the United States via mail. If it is legal, what rules are relevant?
The flowers are common snowdrop (Galanthus nivalis) and crocus vernus.
Crocus ...
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Can sexual consent be required to enter a building?
First off, and this should be assumed, but IDs are checked and all people entering are of age.
Now, there are technically two questions I'm asking.
The first: is it legal in the United States for ...
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Is it legal to sell expired food in the United States?
Is it legal for grocery stores to sell expired food in the United States?
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Using an asset from a game as logo [closed]
I am part of a relatively small FIRST Tech Challenge robotics team. For the past few years we have used the Redstone icon from Minecraft as our logo, but we have now decided to put a little more ...
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Is it legal in United States to record your computer screen while you do employment/computer work if you're the only person recorded and you're alone?
Is it legal in United States to record your computer screen while you do work on a computer if you're the only person recorded and you're alone?
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Is it legal for a company to make products specifically designed to fail immediately after the warranty expires? [duplicate]
Suppose that Bob's Electronics Company makes a smartphone with a one-year warranty. The phone's firmware has code which checks whether or not the warranty is current when booting, and if the warranty ...
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Is it legal to bring someone to the attention of a large mob, knowing they are likely to be injured?
Say I'm a famous person with a large and particularly unsavory following.
I point at random private person Ash Zeweski and say "boy, I hate this person who is my enemy, they have poor moral fiber ...
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Is it legal to sell emails?
Recently a client offered to buy the emails I had received prior to a specific date: not just addresses, but the actual messages.
The client did not specifically ask for private or business ...
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Are people's face/voice copyrighted by default?
As you may know there are some AI apps that can clone anybody's voice (turn your voice to their voice), or there are some face swap apps you can replace your face with somebody else's face and make a ...
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Is it legal to give someone money when you know they might spend it on bribes?
I've heard that, to escape dangerous regions, refugees sometimes find themselves needing to bribe border officials. This could be because they are legally not supposed to be allowed to leave the state ...
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Can another adult give my 14 year old daughter a cellphone without my knowledge
Is it legal for another adult to give my 14 year old a cellphone without my knowledge?
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Must a for-profit corporation use share-based ownership?
Generally, corporations are structured so that ownership is represented by shares, and a person can own any number of shares.
Is this structure required by law? Or can corporations be created that use ...
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Is it illegal to tell others to commit crimes?
There's "conspiracy", which seems to involve cooperating on a crime, and "solicitation", which at least in some jurisdictions is written to require that specific actions ...
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It is illegal for an underage person to learn about sexual intercourse?
Can a underage person (under 18 years old) learn about sexual intercourse and activity legally?
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Is it legal for a bank to trap you in an ATM vestibule?
In an episode of Friends, Chandler is in an ATM vestibule when a power blackout happens. The door to the vestibule automatically locks and he (and a supermodel) are trapped inside until the power ...
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Would xkcd's lawn care business stimulus proposal be legal?
The xkcd comic from February 17, 2024, titled "Treasure Chests," jokingly presents a proposal to increase a lawn care firm's business:
Assume that one had permission to bury the three ...
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Is it legal to put a lock on your mailbox?
I'm asking about the advice to "just buy a lock for your mailbox" from Neighbor examines (but does not take) mail in my mailbox. (Note: The question and my own experiences are about the US, ...
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Is there any chance I could get in legal trouble if I respond to a job rejection email like this?
“Good morning,
Thank you for your application for our Entry Level Sales Position. We appreciate your interest in joining our company (NO YOU DON'T, OR YOU WOULD HAVE HIRED ME), and we are pleased that ...
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Are "Plex servers" as they seem to be commonly used actually illegal?
There's a piece of software called "Plex" that basically lets you operate your own private streaming service. You load it up with music and video files, and then you can connect to it from ...
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Is it legal for the landlord to order me to provide the keys to them, if I am to go to abroad?
I am renting a room in the house of an old lady. She told me that, if I am to leave more than seven days from the place where I live, then I must hand her down the keys. Is this legal?
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Does memorizing a copyrighted work create a copy?
There's a lot of hubub recently about ML models memorizing their training data, and the copyright implications of that.
How did this used to work before fancy technology was brought into it? If I buy ...
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Legality of "stealing" assets from Debtors
Yesterday, I watched an episode of a TV show where debt collectors stole valuable assets because their owners didn't pay the monthly rates or when they entered bankruptcy.
The show was recorded in the ...
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Is it legal to leave signs falsely indicating that one's property has been booby-trapped?
I understand that in most jurisdictions, it is illegal to place booby traps, even on one's own property. What about leaving signs indicating that booby traps have been placed, without any actual traps?...
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Is sitting in a shop and reading an entire newspaper an intellectual property violation?
Bob goes into a shop, sits down at one of the tables in its seating area, and reads an entire newspaper that is for sale which he then puts back onto the shelf without paying for.
What is the legal ...
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Is it legal in England to publicly proclaim that oneself “hate[s] the Jews”?
Most likely if anything this could be a public order offence (one would think none other than under section 5), but I recently heard someone warned by police that they could be arrested for saying ...
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Is it legal to drop misdelivered mail on the ground? [duplicate]
Sometimes I get first class mail addressed to other people's names, at my address. I know I can't legally open it, or deliberately destroy it by putting it in the trash or shredding it. I know I could ...
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Microsoft's Bing Chat says 'Ask me anything...'. Is it legal then for Americans to ask Bing Chat for classified information?
Microsoft's Bing Chat is an artificial intelligence web application, and it has a dialog box for users to ask it questions and there is a text message displayed in that dialog box that says, "Ask ...
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