News of the Week; March 26, 2017
MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY As US prepares to gut net neutrality rules, Canada strengthens them: Canada cracks down on zero-rating while FCC allows paid data cap exemptions. Canada Rushes To Defend Net Neutrality As The U.S. Moves To Dismantle It As U.S. gears up for Internet fight, Canada sees an opportunity A very Canadian […]
News of the Week; April 19, 2017
MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY Bill O’Reilly out at Fox after harassment allegations Fox News Found the Perfect Woman-Hater to Replace Bill O’Reilly Alex Jones’ Defense in Upcoming Custody Battle Is That He’s a Fake When Is An Insane Conspiracy Theorist A Bad Parent?: Bizarre strategy in Alex Jones case. FTC Commissioner: If The FCC […]
News of the Week; April 12, 2017
MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY Paul, Weiss Investigating Bill O’Reilly Yochai Benkler: The Right-Wing Media Ecosystem FCC Kills Charter Merger Condition That Would Have Forced ISPs To Compete President Trump Nullifies FCC Broadband Consumer Privacy Rules Yes, There Are Other Laws That Protect Privacy, But FCC’s Rules Were Still Helpful FCC chair wants to replace […]
News of the Week; April 5, 2017
MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY Net Neutrality Is Trump’s Next Target, Administration Says Ajit Pai says broadband market too competitive for strict privacy rules: FCC Chair ignores lack of home Internet competition in argument against privacy rules. FCC, FTC Bosses Pen Misleading Editorial Falsely Claiming The Best Way To Protect Your Privacy Moving Forward… Is […]
News of the Week; March 29, 2017
MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY Germany wants to regulate a 24-hour livestream as a broadcaster: Running a non-stop Twitch channel could be expensive. Consumer Broadband Privacy Protections Are Dead Senate votes to let ISPs sell your Web browsing history to advertisers: ISP now stands for “invading subscriber privacy,” Democratic senator says. U.S. Senate Approves Resolution […]
US House Votes in Favor of Letting ISPs Sell Users’ Browsing History
Today, the US House of Representatives voted to repeal a set of rules passed by the FCC last year which required ISPs to get a user’s explicit consent before selling their personal data (including browsing history). The legislation still needs presidential approval, although the White House has stated that it “strongly supports” the repeal. Critics […]
How Yahoo Was Hacked
Hi everyone, This article explains how Russian hackers were able to compromise Yahoo e-mails. Thought it was an interesting read. http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/russian-yahoo-hackers-indictment-500-million-emails-how-1.4029532
Course Evaluations
To the extent possible, please bring your laptops to class tomorrow as course evaluations will take up the first 15 minutes of the class. If you want to do the evaluations in advance they are available at: https://eval.ctlt.ubc.ca/law You will be able to complete evaluations until 11:59 pm on Sunday, April 9. Thanks, Jon
News of the Week; March 22, 2017
MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY The Netflix Effect?: Foreign Sources Outspend Canadian Broadcasters and Distributors for English TV Production (Michael Geist) Court of Appeals Rules that Over-the-Top Video Service is Not a Cable System Entitled to Statutory License to Retransmit TV Station Programming Hope fades for cheap TV-over-Internet as FilmOn loses copyright fight: TV networks’ […]
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