MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY
- Government to name industry veteran Ian Scott as new head of the CRTC: The government will name Ian Scott as chairman and Caroline Simard as vice-chair of broadcasting
- White House gives thumbs up to overturning net neutrality rules: Congress should replace the FCC’s Title II rules, Trump spokesperson says.
- FCC refuses to release text of more than 40,000 net neutrality complaints: Ajit Pai says there’s no net neutrality problem—but keeps complaints under wraps.
- Ajit Pai not concerned about number of pro-net neutrality comments: Two million new pro-net neutrality comments claimed by “Day of Action” organizers.
- Senator Wyden To FCC Chair Pai: Hey, Stop Lying About What I Said To Undermine Net Neutrality
- Our Net Neutrality Comments To The FCC: We Changed Our Mind, You Can Too
- Comcast says net neutrality supporters “create hysteria”: Comcast, Verizon, and CenturyLink counter pro-net neutrality “Day of Action.”
- Comcast accuses net neutrality advocates of not “living in the real world”: Anyone who denies harm from Title II rules is denying reality, Comcast says.
- Comcast: We Must Kill Net Neutrality To Help The Sick And Disabled
- A Comcast billing nightmare affects woman caring for her sick father: “People with sick or dying family members should never have to go through this.”
- Comcast/NBC Caught Intentionally Misspelling Show Names To Help Hide Sagging Nielsen Ratings
- Charter Spectrum ‘Competes’ With New $20 Streaming TV Service Featuring $6 In Entirely Bogus Fees
- Openreach faces regulatory action if BT split fails to spur broadband market: Decent speeds and right service to meet consumer needs are on Ofcom’s list of demands.
- Sixth Circuit Blocks ‘Junk Fax’ Class Action Under Telephone Consumer Protection Act
- Any Changes to Radio Station Ownership Cap Rule Likely to Come from Courts, Not Congress
- EFF Highlights How ISPs Are Lying To Californians To Try And Kill New Broadband Privacy Protections
DIGITAL
- NAFTA Intellectual Property Talks Should Be Wary of Big Data Impacts: Expanding intellectual property protection may stifle innovation and harm the public interest (Teresa Scassa)
- My NAFTA Consultation Comments: Promoting Canadian Interests in the IP and E-commerce Chapters (Michael Geist)
- Russian man who helped create notorious malware sentenced to 5 years: – DOJ: Citadel led to $500 million in losses for banks.
- Vladimir Putin Cut From Two Upcoming Hollywood Movies
- When Do Review Websites Commit Extortion?–Icon Health v. ConsumerAffairs (Eric Goldman)
- Creators Who Lost Revenue During “Adpocalypse” Seek Class Action Lawsuit Against YouTube
- Jake Paul’s Neighbors Hate Him And Are Considering A Class Action Lawsuit
- American YouTuber ‘My Mate Nate’ In Legal Trouble For Thailand Railroad Stunt
- Lilly Singh Named First UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador From The Digital Space
- Daenerys Targaryen Is The Most Popular ‘Game Of Thrones’ Character…On YouTube
- Google responds to academic funding controversy – with a GIF
- Correction to an article on Google’s academic influence
- The Ethics of Funded Research & the Ethics of Whistleblowing
- How (Not) to Buy an Academic
- All Out Of Ideas, Legacy News Providers Ask US Gov’t For The Right To Collude Against Google & Facebook
- Google Glass is Back, Glass ‘Enterprise Edition’ Unveiled
- Google Glass 2.0 Is A Startling Second Act
- Google’s New Feeds Show You The Internet You Want To See
- Korean defectors show locations of mass graves using Google Earth: NGO creates maps to guide future investigation of crimes against humanity.
- Defense of Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop offers case study on how to sell snake oil: While trying to hammer a medical blogger, Goop nails the best ways to sell BS.
- 70-Year-Old ‘Grandma’ Is Making Serious Waves Within South Korea’s YouTube Scene
- Insights: In An Escher-esque Turn Of Events, Newspapers Need Antitrust Exemption To Deal With Google’s Antitrust Power
- The Biggest Dark Web Takedown Yet Sends Black Markets Reeling
- Two judges smack down notorious patent holder “Shipping and Transit” in one week: More than 300 lawsuits, more than 800 payouts, but not one decision on the merits.
- EFF has appealed the W3C’s decision to make DRM for the web without protections
- Germany Obliges Social Media Companies to Delete Hate Speech
- Nearly 90,000 Sex Bots Invaded Twitter in ‘One of the Largest Malicious Campaigns Ever Recorded on a Social Network’
- Twitter’s Never Going To Ban Donald Trump
- Trump’s Policies Are Sending Precious Startup Jobs To Canada
- As a Guru, Ayn Rand May Have Limits. Ask Travis Kalanick.
- VC Firms Promise To Stamp Out Sexual Harassment. Sounds Familiar
- 22,000 People Agree to Clean Toilets for WiFi Because They Didn’t Read the Terms
- Even Teenagers Are Creeped Out by Snapchat’s New Map Feature
- Snapchat Teams Up With Formula 1 for Grand Prix Stories
- Formula 1 Shares ‘Great Moment’ With Snap Inc. To Attract Millennials
- Watch a Woman Destroy $200,000 Worth of Art While Taking a Selfie
Asia’s Online Video Market to Hit $46 Billion by 2022, Dwarfing Theatrical - Netflix surges to record high as company adds non-US subscribers: There are now more people streaming Netflix outside the US than domestically.
- Netflix Blasts Past Expectations By Adding 5.2 Million New Subscribers In Second Quarter Of 2017
- Netflix Content Assets Valued at $11 Billion — More Than Time Warner, Viacom, Discovery, AMC
- Safeguarding Safe Harbors
- Focus: Social media evidence plays important role in litigation
- The First Alexa Phone Gets Amazon Even Closer To Total Domination
- Amazon Bursts Blue Apron’s Bubble, As The Market Checks Tech’s Hype
- At This Point, Amazon Can Crush a Company Just By Filing for a Trademark
- Pressure mounting for US government to examine Amazon-Whole Foods accord: On campaign trail, Donald Trump said Amazon had “a huge antitrust problem.”
- Chatbot lawyer, which contested £7.2M in parking tickets, now offers legal help for 1,000+ topics: DoNotPay has expanded to cover the UK and all 50 US states. Free legal help for everyone!
- A Son’s Race To Give His Dying Father Artificial Immortality
- Elon Musk’s Freak-Out Over Killer Robots Distracts From Our Real AI Problems
- Pocket brains: Neuromorphic hardware arrives for our brain-inspired algorithms – IBM’s TrueNorth helps usher in design that could again get around Moore’s Law limits.
- Blockchain for the humanitarian sector
- The Curious Comeback Of The Dreaded QR Code
- Scrap dealer finds Apollo-era NASA computers in dead engineer’s basement: Plus hundreds of mystery tapes from Pioneer and Helios probe missions.
- #engage it’s time for judges to tweet, like, & share
CREATIVITY
- Federal Court finds University’s Fair Dealing Guidelines Are Not So Fair. When is Fair Foul, and Foul Fair?
- Access Copyright v. York U – And All Eyes Over to York U for What’s Next
- Ignoring the Supreme Court: Federal Court Judge Hands Access Copyright Fair Dealing Victory (Michael Geist)
- Donald Graham’s Copyright Infringement Suit against Richard Prince Allowed to Go Forward
- Canadian Rapper Sends Rap Video Cease & Desist Letter To Coca Cola For ‘Jacking’ His Catchphrase
- Copyright Madness: Blurred Lines Mess Means Artists Now Afraid To Name Their Inspirations
- Latest EU Parliament Votes On Copyright: Give Big Corporations More Copyright
- Animal rights? Monkey selfie case may undo evolution of the Internet – Analysis: PETA’s quest for animals to own property is no laughing matter.
- Monkey selfie photographer says he’s broke: ‘I’m thinking of dog walking’ – David Slater has been fighting for years over who has the copyright to photos taken by monkeys using his camera, and says he’s struggling as a result
- George Romero, Zombies… And The Public Domain
- How the Guy Who Played Jar Jar Binks Survived the Fandom Menace
- No One Looks Good in the Ugly Drama Surrounding Kermit the Frog’s Firing
- Freedom of panorama in Italy: does it exist? (Eleonora Rosati)
- 1H 2017 Quick Links, Part 1 – Trademarks, Keyword Ads (Eric Goldman)
- 1H 2017 Quick Links, Part 4 – Copyright, Patent, More (Eric Goldman)
SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY
- Appeals court OKs secrecy of FBI national security data requests: Targets of NSLs can’t challenge them because ISPs can’t tell the target about them.
- Appeals Court Agrees Government Can Tell NSL Recipients To STFU Indefinitely
- Ashley Madison Parent Company to Pay $11.2 Million to Data Breach ‘Victims’
- Lawyers score big in settlement for Ashley Madison cheating site data breach: Members who paid $19 for their data to be deleted (it wasn’t) might get a refund.
- French court refers ‘right to be forgotten’ dispute to top EU court
- Facebook Persistent Tracking Lawsuit Crashes Again
- Security experts from Google, Facebook, Crowdstrike want to save US elections: “Defending Digital Democracy” will “generate innovative ideas” to safeguard democracy.
- Hack Brief: A Myspace Security Flaw Let Anyone Take Over Any Account, No Biggie
- Private Data Of 6 Million Verizon Users Left Openly Accessible On The Internet
- Indian ISPs Continue Futile Effort To Prevent Subscribers From Using Decent Encryption
- Privacy International Sues US Government Over Denied Access To Five Eyes Surveillance Agreements
- Government Lawyers Hoping To Keep Leaker’s Lawyers From Talking About Leaked Documents
- US border agents: We won’t search data “located solely on remote servers” – What does that mean in practice? CBP isn’t saying for now.
- White House voter commission publishes names, numbers of worried citizens: Vice president’s spokesman dismisses concerns: “These are public comments.”
- Trump’s Pick For FBI Head Sounds A Lot Like The Guy He Fired When It Comes To Encryption
- Prime Minister Says the Laws of Australia Can Beat the Laws of Math
- Biometrics catches violent fugitive 25 years on the run: Like it or not, facial-recognition tech has become an everyday part of society.
- DHS Goes Biometric, Says Travelers Can Opt Out Of Face Scans By Not Traveling
- DHS Confirms There Will Be More And Greater Intrusiveness During Border Searches
- New Zealand Airports Customs Officials Performing ‘Digital Strip Searches’ Of Travelers’ Electronics
- Not for the first time, Microsoft’s fonts have caught out forgers: If you’re going to pretend a document is from 2006, you should use Times New Roman.
- From Sans Serif To Sans Sharif: #Fontgate Leads To Calls For Pakistan’s Prime Minister To Resign
- Congresswoman’s iPhone contained nude images, and an aide put them online: Staffer allegedly accessed images while taking lawmaker’s phone in for repair.
- California Vote on Internet Privacy Could Have Big Impact on Other States: State law would limit how internet service providers can use customers’ data
- Apple’s Privacy Pledge Complicates Its AI Push
- An Amazon Echo Can’t Call The Police—But Maybe It Should
- IBM’s Plan To Encrypt Unthinkable Amounts Of Sensitive Data
- Reputation Matters: Court of Appeal prohibits Reuters from publishing commercially confidential information – The Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal by Reuters against an injunction granted by the High Court to hedge fund Brevan Howard, which prohibited Reuters from publishing certain commercially confidential information.
- 1H 2017 Quick Links, Part 2 – Privacy, Security (Eric Goldman)
- Averting Robot Eyes (Margot E. Kaminski, Matthew Rueben, William Smart, Cindy Grimm)
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