AI rights and treatment vary quite a bit 'daneside, depending on which country, or even part of a country, you're visiting. Certain Islamic countries, for instance, consider them an affront, and any AI visiting such a country is advised to keep a very low profile, lest they find themselves running from a lynch mob. On the other hand, Australia (cautiously) provides them with full rights like any person. Many countries are in the middle. Typically it's 'easier' for androids to get around, versus an AI in a desktop computer or car, if only because they can blend in with the 'danes with some effort.
Occasionally groups with interest in acquiring 'wavetech, or merely being excessively wavephobic, will push for legislation that declares them to be little more than property. The worst of these was an early attempt, which some more militantly anti-dane fen tend to automatically attribute to TSAB, to declare anything that had been created or altered by Handwavium to basically be a piece of property, subject to immediate seizure if it entered the United States. Thankfully for both the United States, and Fenspace, that attempt died in committee.
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"You know how parents tell you everything's going to fine, but you know they're lying to make you feel better? Everything's going to be fine." - The Doctor
Occasionally groups with interest in acquiring 'wavetech, or merely being excessively wavephobic, will push for legislation that declares them to be little more than property. The worst of these was an early attempt, which some more militantly anti-dane fen tend to automatically attribute to TSAB, to declare anything that had been created or altered by Handwavium to basically be a piece of property, subject to immediate seizure if it entered the United States. Thankfully for both the United States, and Fenspace, that attempt died in committee.
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"You know how parents tell you everything's going to fine, but you know they're lying to make you feel better? Everything's going to be fine." - The Doctor