MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. Why the Government Was Right to Swiftly Ditch the Ill-Advised Internet Tax (Michael Geist)
2. CRTC to ban unlocking fees for smartphones as of Dec. 1
3. CRTC bans smartphone unlocking fees, outgoing chairman Blais regrets not taking decision sooner: Bell, Rogers and Telus all charge $50 to unlock a phone. That fee will be eliminated as of Dec. 1.
4. Change is in the Airwaves: CRTC Expands the Wireless Code of Conduct
5. Canadian Government Suspends Implementation of Private Right of Action Under CASL
6. Saving Private Media: The Good, the Bad, and the Terrible From the Latest Canadian Proposals (Michael Geist)
7. Chris Selley: Federal government should stop trying to help private media and fix the CBC –  If the Trudeau Liberals want to help out media, I suggest they forget about the outlets they don’t own and start worrying about the one they do
8. Andrew Coyne: A bailout won’t save media, but just make it easier to avoid problems – If this proposed Canadian Journalism Fund is about saving news, it’s odd that the publishers should have such a narrow definition of it
9. Alex Jones Scoops Megyn Kelly And Proves The Media Isn’t Ready For The Trolls: “I’m not looking to portray you as a bogeyman,” Kelly said in the published audio.
10. How NBC botched the Megyn Kelly rollout
11. The Psychology Of Why Interviewing Alex Jones Is Such A Bad Idea
12. While You Were Offline: Fox News Is Officially No Longer ‘Fair And Balanced.’ Wait…
13. Democrats urge Trump administration to block AT&T/Time Warner merger – Senate Democrats: “Mega conglomerate” could punish rivals and harm consumers.
14. FCC makes net neutrality commenters’ e-mail addresses public through API: E-mail addresses aren’t required, though names and home addresses are.
15. Netflix joins Amazon and Reddit in Day of Action to save net neutrality: Netflix changes tune, says it “will never outgrow the fight for net neutrality.”
16. Cable Lobbyists Try To Scuttle State Inquiries Into Lousy Broadband Service, Slow Speeds
17. Three UK fined £1.9M over failure to provide non-stop access to 999 services: Ofcom – Tech issues should never hamper customers’ ability to make emergency calls.
18. Cable lobby tries to stop state investigations into slow broadband speeds: Besides gutting net neutrality, industry wants less scrutiny of speed claims.
19. Verizon Is Killing Tumblr’s Fight For Net Neutrality: One of the open internet’s fiercest defenders has a new boss
20. Verizon Bucks AT&T And Comcast, Supports Utility Pole Reform For Faster Fiber Deployment
21. Broadband ISP CenturyLink Accused Of Wells-Fargo-Esque Scam That Bilked Millions From Customers
22. 80% Of Cord Cutters Leave Because Of High Cable TV Prices, But The Industry Still Refuses To Compete On Price
23. It’s Working: Free Press Documents Historic Levels of Investment and Innovation Since FCC’s 2015 Open Internet Order – Using FCC’s own financial disclosures and statements to investors, new report definitively debunks FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s claims about Title II harming investment
24. Cable Industry Lobbyist Proclaims Cable TV Industry ‘Failing’ While Advocating Against Broadband Consumer Rights
25. Wall Street Still Annoyed That Competition Forced Wireless Carriers To Bring Back Unlimited Data Plans
26. Utility that says Comcast didn’t pay bills threatens to pull wires off poles
27. Mobile Roaming Charges Abolished in the EU
28. EU mobile roaming charges end today, but beware of other costs: Rules only apply to roaming, which is subject to fair use policy. So check the small print.
29. California may restore broadband privacy rules killed by Congress and Trump: State law could protect customers’ browsing history, but FCC rule is still dead.

DIGITAL

1. Supreme Court Won’t Hear Dancing Baby Case… Despite Gov’t Admitting ‘Serious Legal Error’
2. Supreme Court turns down EFF’s “Dancing Baby” fair use case: The law against bogus DMCA takedowns will remain tough to enforce.
3. Supreme Court Says You Can’t Ban People From The Internet, No Matter What They’ve Done
4. Ban on Sex Offenders Using Social Media Violates First Amendment–Packingham v. North Carolina (Eric Goldman)
5. There’s a constitutional right to use social media, Supreme Court says: North Carolina’s law was “unprecedented in the scope of First Amendment speech.”
6. European Court Rules On Legal Nature Of Torrent Links In Pirate Bay Case
7. US Embassy Threatens to Close Domain Registry Over ‘Pirate Bay’ Domain
8. German Court Bans Google From Linking To Lumen Database Showing Takedown Notices
9. It’s criminal charges and leg shackles for man who shared Deadpool on Facebook: A single Facebook post resulted in 5 million views and a federal investigation.
10. Uber CEO Travis Kalanick resigns after pressure from investors: Five major Uber investors called for his resignation following months of blunders.
11. Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has resigned due to investor pressure, and a search for a new leader is on: Benchmark, Fidelity and others demanded his resignation in a letter titled “Moving Uber Forward.”
12. A Short History Of The Many, Many Ways Uber Screwed Up
13. With her blog post about toxic bro-culture at Uber, Susan Fowler proved that one person can make a difference: The former engineer took a big swing at the car-hailing giant, and did us all an even bigger favor.
14. Travis Kalanick And The Last Gasp Of Tech’s Alpha CEO
15. Queen’s Speech: We’re getting rid of Internet safe spaces. Really now.
16. Amazon to Buy Whole Foods for $13.7 Billion
17. Amazon shakes up grocery sector with $13.7-billion Whole Foods deal
18. Amazon Is About To Transform How You Buy Groceries
19. Just in Time, Amazon Patents Method to Prevent In-store Comparison Shopping
20. Ready For A Monopoly Fight? Amazon And Whole Foods Isn’t It
21. Spotify Passes 140 Million Users, Promises to Pay Labels $2 Billion as Losses Widen
22. Spotify ‘Sponsored Songs’ lets labels pay for plays
23. California’s Anti-SLAPP Law Saves Another News Publication From Bogus Lawsuit
24. The Chilling Effects Of A SLAPP Suit: My Story
25. The Texting Suicide Case Is About Crime, Not Tech
26. Colorado Legalizes Another Vice: Texting While Driving
27. Frequency of Courts’ References to Emojis and Emoticons Over Time (Eric Goldman)
28. Vice Media Receives $450 Million Boost From TPG
29. Vice Raises $450 Million To Build “Largest Millennial Video Library In The World”
30. Breitbart News, Donald Trump’s Pravda, Is In Crisis
31. Time Warner just handed Snapchat a $100 million lifeline
32. Netflix is getting into the ‘choose your own adventure’ game business
33. Argentina’s government is wooing entrepreneurs with a new law
34. Facebook’s Instagram Stories crushes Snapchat with 250 million daily active users
35. Facebook sics AI on terrorist posts, but humans still do the dirty work: “We don’t want Facebook to be used for any terrorist activity whatsoever,” says FB.
36. An Artificial Intelligence Developed Its Own Non-Human Language: When Facebook designed chatbots to negotiate with one another, the bots made up their own way of communicating.
37. fAIth: The most avid believers in artificial intelligence are aggressively secular – yet their language is eerily religious. Why?
38. Humans Can’t Expect AI To Just Fight Fake News For Them
39. We need our platforms to put people and democratic society ahead of cheap profits: The BBC is a model for a trusted social networking platform that combats fake news and propaganda while serving the public interest.
40. Tesla Model S warned driver in fatal crash to put hands on steering wheel: Model S driver had hands on steering wheel for 25 seconds during a 37-minute period.
41. Digital Native Advertising, Influencers And Reviews
42. First Reported Consumer Complaint About an Influencer Post
43. The FTC Speaks, Instagram Listens: A New Disclosure Tool for Social Media Influencers
44. FTC aims to block DraftKings, FanDuel merger over monopolization concerns
45. When pop stars have Instagram, they no longer need record labels
46. Katy Perry’s Four-Day YouTube Live Stream Amassed 49 Million Views Worldwide
47. Katy Perry Just Became the First Person to Reach 100 Million Twitter Followers
48. Colorado dad gives sons smartphones, regrets it, now wants to ban preteen use: He started nonprofit, wrote ballot measure to prevent use by kids under 13.
49. NCAA Forces UCF Football Player To Choose Between His Athletic Career And His YouTube Channel
50. Google Announces Four More Steps Its Taking To Fight Extremist Content On YouTube
51. Google now actively works against extremist YouTube videos: New policies make it harder for terroristic content to flourish (and be found) on YouTube.
52. Google Glass is apparently back from the dead, starts getting software updates: Google’s aging face computer gets a firmware and companion app update.
53. How Amazon’s Echo Is Making Major Labels Rethink Their Tunes
54. Bitcoin and Ethereum Just Crashed, Taking Coinbase Down With Them
55. 2017 Surface Pro least repairable ever; Surface Laptop is made of glue: Compact design continues to be at odds with maintenance and repairability.
56. Ready Lawyer One: Legal Issues In The Innovation Of Virtual Reality (Crystal Nwaneri) 

CREATIVITY

1. Asian Rock Band v. the PTO: The Supreme Court, the First Amendment, and What the Justices Decided in Matal v. Tam
2. Matal, Interim Director, USPTO V. Tam (SCOTUS)
3. Supreme Court rules: Offensive trademarks must be allowed – Justice Samuel Alito: “Giving offense is a viewpoint.”
4. Supreme Court Ruling on Offensive Trademarks Could Embolden Future Trademark Applicants 
5. Siding with The Slants: Ban on Disparaging Marks Held Unconstitutional
6. SCOTUS Strikes Down Ban on Disparaging Trademarks 
7. How The Supreme Court’s Recent Free Speech Ruling May Destroy Hollywood’s Plans To Kick People Off The Internet
8. Supreme Court Reminds US Government That Hate Speech Is, In Fact, Free Speech
9. Slightly cooler take on Tam (Rebecca Tushnet)
10. Captain Morgan defends trademark as Admiral Nelson’s is ordered to weigh anchor
11. Gene Simmons attempts to trademark love
12. Gene Simmons Abandons Hand Gesture Trademark Application
13. NHL’s Vegas Golden Knights Making a Name for Themselves the Hard Way
14. The search to prove that trademark dilution exists; new study casts “serious doubt” on validity of current evidence
15. Should the Patent and Trademark Office Be Allowed to Change Its Mind?: The Supreme Court will decide soon.
16. A Decade Later, Judge Says ‘Jersey Boys’ Use Of Unpublished Autobiography Is Fair Use
17. Fair use is the fifth season in Jersey Boys case (Rebecca Tushnet)
18. Comicmix Wins Against Dr. Seuss Estate On Trademark Infringement Claim, Copyright Claim In Serious Jeopardy
19. Mankowitz’s famous portrait of Jimi Hendrix is original and deserves copyright protection, says Paris Court of Appeal.
20. Copyright Troll Rightscorp Ramps Up Its Efforts To Get ISPs To Push Its Payment Demands On Users
21. Multiple German Courts Rule Photos Of Public Domain Works Are Not In The Public Domain
22. Coal CEO Threatens John Oliver With A SLAPP Suit
23. SLAPP Threats And The Grenfell Fire: Why We Must Stop Attacks On Free Speech
24. Peter Pan and the Copyright that Never Grew Up
25. Once more into the copyright breach: A look at what adjustments to copyright policy can be made through regulation, what needs legislative tweaking, and what’s brewing in the courts. (Howard Knopf)
26. Fact Check: Distortions and Fake News in Virginia Shooting
27. The Normalization of Conspiracy Culture: People who share dangerous ideas don’t necessarily believe them.
28. It’s Super Dangerous to Be a Journalist in the Philippines
29. Star Wars Han Solo film directors leave, citing “creative differences”: No replacement named, but film still on track for 2018 release says Lucasfilm.

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Web host agrees to pay $1m after it’s hit by Linux-targeting ransomware: Windfall payment by poorly secured host is likely to inspire new ransomware attacks.
2. Netizen Report: China Has a New Cybersecurity Law
3. How An Entire Nation Became Russia’s Test Lab For Cyberwar
4. Russia Stumbles Forth In Quest To Ban VPNs, Private Messenger Apps
5. North Korea’s Sloppy, Chaotic Cyberattacks Also Make Perfect Sense
6. Five Eyes Wide Open: How Bill C-59 Mixes Oversight with Expansive Cyber-Security Powers (Michael Geist)
7. Why the Government’s ATI Reform Bill is a Promise Broken: Proactive Disclosure ≠ Access to Information (Michael Geist)
8. Unnamed Tech Company Challenged 702 Surveillance Order
9. Man To Spend 180 Days In Jail For Turning Over Non-Working Password
10. Reckless Exploit: Mexican Journalists, Lawyers, and a Child Targeted with NSO Spyware
11. Revealed: Facebook exposed identities of moderators to suspected terrorists: A security lapse that affected more than 1,000 workers forced one moderator into hiding – and he still lives in constant fear for his safety
12. Patents Reveal How Facebook Wants To Capture Your Emotions, Facial Expressions And Mood
13. UK Cops Say Visiting the Dark Web Is a Potential Sign of Terrorism
14. The ethics of police using technology to predict future crimes: Using computer models to determine where crime is most likely to occur could reinforce police biases about neighbourhoods with ethnic or racial minorities
15. 2008 FISA Transcript Shows NSA Already Knew It Might Have An Incidental Collection Problem
16. Oversight Report Shows NSA Failed To Secure Its Systems Following The Snowden Leaks
17. Secret Defense Dept. Report Shows Manning Leaks Did No Serious Damage
18. Leaked recording: Inside Apple’s global war on leakers: Former NSA agents, secrecy members on product teams, and a screening apparatus bigger than the TSA.
19. Deputy Attorney General Asks Congress For $21 Million To Solve The FBI’s ‘Going Dark’ Problem
20. There Is No ‘Going Dark’ Problem
21. Security News This Week: Microsoft’s Patching Old Versions Of Windows Because Things Are That Bad
22. Honda shuts down factory after finding NSA-derived Wcry in its networks: Automaker briefly stops making cars to contain worm that first struck in May.
23. Advanced CIA firmware has been infecting Wi-Fi routers for years: Latest Vault7 release exposes network-spying operation CIA kept secret since 2007.
24. How A Company You’ve Never Heard Of Sends You Letters About Your Medical Condition
25. Nevada Enacts Internet Privacy Regulation
26. How to Browse the Web and Leave No Trace
27. GOP Data Firm Accidentally Leaks Personal Details of Nearly 200 Million American Voters
28. GOP Data Firm Left The Personal Data Of 198 Million American Voters On Openly-Accessible Amazon Server
29. How a Company You’ve Never Heard of Sends You Letters about Your Medical Condition
30. U.S. Repeal of Privacy Rules Causes Concern For U.S. Internet Users – What do the Changes Mean for Canadians?
31. No Sanctions for Unintentional, Automatic Deletion of Web History and Related Information
32. Fake Libel Court Order Used In (Failed) Attempt To Vanish Sexual Battery Conviction
33. A French Artist Says He Received a National ID Card Using a Computer-Generated Headshot

Jon

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. Canadian Government on Wireless Services: High Prices, Low Adoption, and Unaffordable For Too Many (Michael Geist)
2. CASL Private Right of Action Delayed Indefinitely
3. FCC security denies that guards pinned journalist against a wall: Chairman Pai promises security changes as reporter stands by allegations.
4. Report Falsely Blames The EFF For Fraudulent Net Neutrality Comments
5. To kill net neutrality rules, FCC says broadband isn’t “telecommunications”
6. Vimeo, Amazon Among Companies Joining Upcoming Protest To Defend Net Neutrality
7. Net Neutrality and the First Amendment
8. The End Of Net Neutrality Could Shackle The Internet Of Things
9. Comcast Pinky Swears That The Death Of Net Neutrality Won’t Hurt In The Slightest
10. Is Antitrust Law a Viable Substitute for Net Neutrality? 
11. Canada to launch subsidized low-income broadband program
12. Focus: CRTC decision a blow to the industry?
13. ISPs denied entry into apartment buildings could get help from FCC: FCC looks at expanding competition rules, but it could preempt local regulations.
14. Sky scolded over shadowy small print in LEGO Batman broadband ad: Superhero claim about “lowest price fibre” turns into caped capped caper.
15. Fox News Gets Mad That Wonder Woman Isn’t in Her American Apparel Underwear
16. YES Network Streams Production Meetings Through Facebook
17. Going gray: Sports TV viewers skew older – Study – Nearly all sports see quick rise in average age of TV viewers as younger fans shift to digital platforms
18. FTC and DOJ Case Results in Historic Decision Awarding $280 Million in Civil Penalties against Dish Network and Strong Injunctive Relief for Do Not Call Violations
19. Radio spectrum, the 5G auction, and the future of mobile computing: Here’s why the UK’s upcoming 5G radio spectrum auction is important.
20. Cable TV “failing” as a business, cable industry lobbyist says: Broadband is the future as TV faces rising costs and online video competition.
21. Transnational over-the-top video distribution as a business and policy disruptor: The case of Netflix in Canada (Emilia Zboralska & Charles Davis)

DIGITAL

1. The U.S. Supreme Court Is Reining in Patent Trolls, Which Is a Win for Innovation
2. How one patent troll is desperately trying to stay in East Texas: Uniloc finds plenty of reasons why Google should still be sued in East Texas.
3. Click fraud claim against Google fails:
4. Singh v. Google Inc., 2017 WL 2404986, No. 16-cv-03734 – N.D. Cal. Jun. 2, 2017 (Rebecca Tushnet)
5. Ariana Grande’s ‘One Love Manchester’ Concert To Be Streamed Live On YouTube, Facebook, And Twitter
6. YouTube Takes Down Ariana Grande’s Manchester Benefit Concert On Copyright Grounds
7. Copyright Law In Europe Could Be About To Get Ridiculously Stupidly Bad In Ways That Will Undermine The Internet
8. The Music Licensing Swamp: Spotify Settles Over Failure To Obtain Mechanical Licenses
9. Uber fires 20 employees as fallout from sexual harassment investigation: A law firm is reviewing 215 sexual harassment claims. Uber has about 12,000 workers.
10. Oculus Founder Plots a Comeback With a Virtual Border Wall
11. Top-Secret NSA Report Details Russian Hacking Effort Days Before 2016 Election
12. Leaked NSA report says Russians tried to hack state election officials: Alleged source of leak arrested by FBI after Intercept provided copy to NSA.
13. Russia’s attempt to hack voting systems shows that our elections need better security
14. Feds Charge NSA Contractor Accused of Exposing Russian Hacking
15. How a few yellow dots burned the Intercept’s NSA leaker: By providing copy of leak, Intercept likely accelerated ID of contractor.
16. How Document-Tracking Dots Helped The FBI Track Down Russian Hacking Doc Leaker
17. Intercept Posts NSA Docs On Russian Election Hacking, DOJ Announces Arrest Of Leaker Hours Later
18. The Mysterious Printer Code That Could Have Led the FBI to Reality Winner: Many color printers embed grids of dots that allow law enforcement to track every document they output.
19. Snowden Explains How The Espionage Act Unfairly Stacks The Deck Against Reality Winner
20. Putin: “Patriotic” Russian hackers may have interfered in US election – Comparing hackers to artists, Putin says they may have been inspired by patriotism.
21. How Russian Propaganda Spread From a Parody Website to Fox News
22. You’ll never guess where Russian spies are hiding their control servers: Turla uses social media and clever programming techniques to cover its tracks.
23. Can you commit manslaughter by sending texts? We’re about to find out
24. Wikipedia Seems to Be Winning Its Battle Against Government Censorship
25. 5 Searches That Show Bing Resists Alternative Facts Better Than Google: Breitbart readers really engage with Katy Perry
26. YouTube Spearheads #PowerToDecide Campaign Ahead Of U.K. General Election
27. YouTube Updates Its Guidelines For Advertiser-Friendly Content To Offer More Thorough Info To Creators
28. Philip DeFranco Calls Out What He Sees As YouTube’s Ad Double Standard, Vows To Take Next Show Elsewhere
29. YouTube’s Gossip Vloggers Have Created Their Own Tabloid Industry: There are YouTube celebrities, so of course there are YouTube tabloids
30. Dessert Blogger Files Suit Against Food Network For Copying Recipe Video
31. Confessions of an influencer marketing exec: ‘Micro-influencers are the biggest scam’
32. Late-Night Tweeting Linked To Weaker NBA Performance
33. Covfefe aside, late-night tweets are bad news: Nocturnal Twitter use links to poor performance, according to basketball-player study.
34. Trump Defends Twitter Use as Aides Urge Him to Cut Back
35. President’s Twitter account should not block users, First Amendment lawyers argue
36. Is @RealDonaldTrump violating the First Amendment by blocking some Twitter users?
37. Trump’s Twitter Blocking May Violate First Amendment
38. Twitter users threaten legal action if Trump doesn’t unblock them: Mayors can’t eject city hall critics, so Trump can’t block Twitter critics, either.
39. The Twitter presidency is getting old, according to a new voter survey: “They hate that I can get the honest and unfiltered message out,” Trump tweets.
40. That Lawsuit About A Tweet… Is Both A Publicity Stunt And An Attack On Free Speech
41. Twitter Will Live-Stream James Comey Testimony in Exclusive Bloomberg TV Pact
42. Blaming the Internet for Terrorism Misses the Point
43. Hacking Online Hate Means Talking to the Humans Behind It
44. Google’s Plan to Use Ads to Sway ISIS Recruits
45. Forget far-right populism – crypto-anarchists are the new masters: Many are concerned about the internet’s role in politics. But more worrying is the digital tsunami poised to engulf us, as machine intelligence and a rising tech elite radically restructure life as we know it
46. A Hardware Update for the Human Brain: From Silicon Valley startups to the U.S. Department of Defense, scientists and engineers are hard at work on a brain-computer interface that could turn us into programmable, debuggable machines
47. YouTube clarifies “hate speech” definition and which videos won’t be monetized: h7M bv m,  ore details for creators on what they can and cannot say if they want to make money.
48. An Ad Network That Helps Fake News Sites Earn Money Is Now Asking Users To Report Fake News: In response to queries from BuzzFeed News, Revcontent removed four fake news publishers from its network.
49. Theresa May Calls for International Regulation of Cyberspace in Wake of Attacks
50. Theresa May Blames The Internet For London Bridge Attack; Repeats Demands To Censor It
51. London attack: Internet firms provide safe space for terrorists, claims PM – Home secretary again demands “limit to the amount of end-to-end encryption.”
52. London attack: Tech firms dispute PM’s grandstanding on Internet regulation – Facebook, Twitter, and Google say they’re trying to make sites “hostile” to terrorists.
53. Why not ban cars, Amber Rudd? It’d be more effective than banning encryption – Op-ed: Another terrorist attack, another government attempt at backdooring WhatsApp.
54. Leaving Social Media Taught Me How Broken The News Cycle Is
55. Court Says Facebook Can Block Parents From Deceased Teen’s Account: The page had already been made a “memorial” — blocking them from investigating her death
56. Photographer Sues News Agency For Embedding A Tweet Containing His Photo
57. Social media defamation still a cause for concern
58. The Most Hated Online Advertising Techniques
59. Apple adds ad tracker blocker to desktop Safari
60. Intel & Major League Baseball Partnership Will Bring Free Weekly Games Streamed in VR
61. The Internet Is Where We Share — and Steal — the Best Ideas
62. Can’t Take a Joke? That’s Just Poe’s Law, 2017’s Most Important Internet Phenomenon
63. Women Engineers On The Rampant Sexism Of Silicon Valley
64. Warner Bros and Google using Wonder Woman to get girls into coding: New Made With Code project will use latest superhero firm to introduce skills to young women
65. Google prepares publishers for the release of Chrome ad-blocking: The biggest online advertiser will now block ads; the Web won’t look the same.
66. Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox (Lina Khan)
67. Internet Framing is a Valid Ground for Copyright Infringement in Canada
68. Voltage Pictures Canadian Reverse Class Action – An Update to June 6, 2017 (Howard Knopf)
69. Hanging by a thread: How the online nerdy T-shirt economy exists in an IP world: If big media has legal muscle, why can you buy Link racing Harley Quinn on a shirt?
70. Why Netflix Isn’t Getting Involved In Live Sports Streaming Like Amazon
71. Netflix CEO Offers Eyebrow-Raising Justification As Cancellations Increase
72. App Store revenue breaks $70bn: Downloads have grown by 70% in the last 12 months alone
73. The Rate Of TV Cord Cutting Is Actually Worse Than You Think
74. What Has the Internet Done to Media?
75. Online Marketing to Children – New UK Guidance
76. Toward a Canadian Knowledge Transfer Strategy: My Appearance Before the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology (Michael Geist)
77. Rise of the machines: who is the ‘internet of things’ good for?: Interconnected technology is now an inescapable reality – ordering our groceries, monitoring our cities and sucking up vast amounts of data along the way. The promise is that it will benefit us all – but how can it?
78. The Internet of Things Connectivity Binge: What Are the Implications?: Despite wide concern about cyberattacks, outages and privacy violations, most experts believe the Internet of Things will continue to expand successfully the next few years, tying machines to machines and linking people to valuable resources, services and opportunities
79. IBM unveils world’s first 5nm chip: Built with a new type of gate-all-around transistor, plus extreme ultraviolet lithography.
80. The Robot Dog Fetches for Whom?
81. The Chatbot Therapist Will See You Now
82. Is language as we know it still relevant for the digital age?
83. Whatever Happened To Our Dream Of An Empowering Internet (And How To Get It Back) (Andres Guadamuz)

CREATIVITY

1. Fair use blocks out copyright claim over LeBron’s tattoo 
2. Drake Winning Sampling Case Over Fair Use Is Big News… But Still Demonstrates The Madness Of Music Licensing
3. In breach of EU copyright law, Paris Court refuses to protect Mankowitz’s photo of Jimi Hendrix
4. Harsh Consequences for Dale Chihuly After Failing to Document IP Rights with Independent Contractor
5. Could Donald Trump Make America Great Again In Canada?
6. The Charging Bull and the Fearless Girl: Moral Rights Protections in Australia and the U.S.
7. The Politics of Political Design: In the UK General Election, support for progressive politics is far more visible in the creative community than pro-Conservative messages are. Yet surveys reveal that not all creative people are left-leaning. Hannah Ellis goes in search of designers on the right and examines the contradiction inherent in an industry predominantly ‘of the left’ that spends much of its time enabling an economic system that is at odds with many leftist ideals.
8. Can America’s moviegoing habit be saved? The past, present and uncertain future of the multiplex
9. Are patents effective brand assets anymore?
10. The Top Hits: Fashion Cases with a Big Impact
11. Top Ten Urban Legends of Intellectual Property
12. How Lego clicked: the super brand that reinvented itself: The revival of Lego has been hailed as the greatest turnaround in corporate history, ousting Ferrari as the world’s most powerful brand. 

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Court Says Password Protection Doesn’t Restore An Abandoned Phone’s Privacy Expectations
2. Supreme Court To Consider Fourth Amendment Implications Of Cell Site Location Info
3. Sixth Circuit Appeals Court Latest To Say Real-Time Cellphone Location Tracking Not A Fourth Amendment Issue
4. OneLogin Data Breach May Have Revealed Encrypted Data
5. OneLogin breach: Hacker stole AWS keys, rifled through customer data for 7 hours – Customer info potentially decrypted by “threat actor” who accessed database tables.
6. Internet cameras have hard-coded password that can’t be changed: Cameras with multiple brand names are wide open to remote hacking.
7. How to Create an Anonymous Email Account
8. Trump administration rolls out social media vetting of visa applicants: The new travel screening is for those deemed a national security threat.
9. Trump’s Tougher Visa Vetting Now Asks For Social Media Handles: It also asks for emails addresses and biographical information
10. DHS Steps Up Demands For Visa Applicants’ Social Media Account Info
11. EFF Sues FBI For Refusing To Turn Over Documents About Its Geek Squad Informants
12. WikiLeaks says CIA’s “Pandemic” turns servers into infectious Patient Zero: Latest Vault 7 release exposes operation that infects PCs inside targeted networks.
13. UK police arrest man via automatic face-recognition tech: Camera-equipped van in South Wales apparently spotted man whose face was in database.
14. Got a face-recognition algorithm? Uncle Sam wants to review it: “Face recognition is hard.”
15. The premature quest for AI-powered facial recognition to simplify screening: “This technology at the airport… is premature. It’s not the right way to go.”
16. Digital Privacy Is Making Antitrust Exciting Again

Jon

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. Canadian TV in the Netflix Age: In Defence of the CRTC Television Licensing Decision (Michael Geist)
2. Diversity and competitive equity underline the CRTC’s recent decisions on television services operated by Canada’s large French- and English-language ownership groups
3. Montreal Economic Institute isn’t ready for internet reality: No, cat videos aren’t going to interfere with self-driving cars and the internet of things. (Peter Nowak)
4. Breaking down the FCC’s proposal to destroy net neutrality: The agency is asking if we even need any rules at all
5. Net neutrality going down in flames as FCC votes to kill Title II rules: GOP’s 2-1 majority starts repeal process, with final vote coming later in 2017.
6. The FCC Just Voted. They Are Going to Start Dismantling Net Neutrality.
7. FCC Ignores The Will Of The Public, Votes To Begin Dismantling Net Neutrality
8. FCC Commissioner Wants To Ban States From Protecting Consumer Broadband Privacy
9. Internet Providers Insist They Love Net Neutrality. Seriously?
10. Cable Companies Refuse To Put Their Breathless Love Of Net Neutrality Down In Writing
11. Comcast vendor sent cease-and-desist to operator of anti-Comcast website: Net neutrality website stays online as Comcast agrees to take no further action.
12. The FCC Doesn’t Care That Somebody’s Spamming Its Net Neutrality Proceeding With Fraudulent Comments
13. FCC Refuses to Release Evidence of the ‘DDoS Attack’ on Its Website
14. Examining the FCC claim that DDoS attacks hit net neutrality comment system: Attacks came from either an unusual type of DDoS or poorly written spam bots.
15. Journalist allegedly “manhandled by FCC guards” for asking questions: FCC apologizes, says guards were on “heightened alert” due to threats.
16. FCC Guards ‘Manhandle’ Reporter Just For Asking Questions At Net Neutrality Vote
17. Senators ask FCC why reporter was “manhandled” after net neutrality vote – Senators to FCC: Don’t roughhouse journalists who are trying to ask questions.
18. If Net Neutrality Dies, Comcast Can Just Block A Protest Site Instead Of Sending A Bogus Cease-And-Desist
19. It’s Not Too Late to Save Net Neutrality From a Captured FCC: The Trump-appointed FCC chairman has ushered in a virulent strain of market libertarianism. He can and must be stopped.
20. A Trump FCC advisor’s proposal for bringing free Internet to poor people: Trump advisor says net neutrality hindered free data services for the poor.
21. California Noncommercial TV Station Licensee Faces $20,000 Proposed Fine for Public Inspection File and Related Violations
22. Wireless Data Revenues Dip For First Time in Seventeen Years — Thanks To A Crazy Little Thing Called Competition
23. Viacom wants to leave sports in the dust with future $20 “skinny” TV bundle: How many people really want cable TV with no live sports?
24. The Worldwide Leader in Schadenfreude: For the first time in 40 years, people aren’t just criticizing ESPN. They’re savoring its decline.
25. How Deregulation Gave Us FM Radio, HBO, and the iPhone
26. What toppled Bill O’Reilly? A reporter’s hunch, a cold call, and a Pilates class.
27. A Fox News Host Was Racist Enough to Actually Get Fired
28. Roger Ailes, who built Fox News into a powerhouse, dies at 77
29. Roger Ailes: Brilliant and Destructive – Fox News may be the greatest business investment Rupert Murdoch ever made. It was Roger Ailes who led it to massive success and controversy. Some think he destroyed sane, constructive political dialogue in America and gave birth to a sinister breed of news.
30. Roger Ailes will be remembered as a lecherous, misogynistic and terrible boss — and that’s a good thing: Ailes spent his life fighting for a world where men are free to exploit women — and the good news is, he lost
31. I’m Sorry To Report That Roger Ailes Ever Lived
32. Alex Jones’ InfoWars Claims To Have White House Press Credentials: A guy who thinks Sandy Hook was a ‘hoax’ now has access to the same White House briefing room as ‘fake news’ outlets
33. How the big TV networks are adapting to ad-skipping viewers … and Google, Snapchat and Facebook
34. Upfronts week just concluded, which means it’s time to take stock of the TV business: Ratings are down, live events are up, and IP is more important than ever
35. Federal Judge Triples Damages Against Dish In Telemarketing Lawsuit, Resulting in $61.34m in Damages
36. Plot twist: Cheesy soap opera script is deceptive drug ad, doctors warn – General Hospital character gets rare disease. Drug company has just the pill for that.
37. The Tricky Ethics of Big Pharma Soft-Selling on Soap Operas

DIGITAL

1. Appeals Court Orders Expedited Hearing in ReDigi Case
2. Apple and Nokia end their patent fight
3. Lawsuits get settled, but what about the companies wielding Nokia patents?
4. Titan Note Continues Trying To Sell Its Questionable Device; Its Own Actions Keep Raising More Questions
5. Apple, Verizon Join Forces To Lobby Against New York’s ‘Right To Repair’ Law
6. Terrorism victims can’t hold Facebook liable for Hamas’ use of the platform: Website immunity holds up against the US Anti-Terrorism Act.
7. Facebook Defeats Lawsuit Over Material Support for Terrorists–Cohen v. Facebook (Eric Goldman)
8. Turkish President Demands Google Delist A Bunch Of Websites Comparing Him To Hitler
9. Malta’s Prime Minister Sues Panama Papers Journalist For Defamation; Gets Facebook To Delete His Reporting
10. Revealed: Facebook’s internal rulebook on sex, terrorism and violence – Leaked policies guiding moderators on what content to allow are likely to fuel debate about social media giant’s ethics
11. Facebook content rules leaked days after Tories vow tougher Internet laws: Facebook mod guidelines are OK with violent death, misogyny; but don’t threaten Trump.
12. A Campus Murder Tests Facebook Clicks as Evidence of Hate
13. EU fines Facebook 110 million euros over WhatsApp deal
14. Facebook fined $122 million for misleading EU over WhatsApp deal: Facebook says it couldn’t automatically match WhatsApp accounts; EC disagrees.
15. Mergers: Commission fines Facebook €110 million for providing misleading information about WhatsApp takeover (European Commission)
16. European Union Proposes Rules To Hold Online Video Platforms Accountable For Hate Speech
17. Social networks face tougher EU oversight on video content: Facebook, Twitter and others may have to abide by same regulations as broadcasters
18. You won’t believe why Facebook will block this headline: Updates to news feed algorithms tweaked to catch spammy and deceptive headlines.
19. How Facebook Sees The World: By acknowledging the existence of an editorial compass, the technology giant tacitly accepts its role as a de facto censorship power—and opens itself to government attack.
20. Facebook Will Begin Streaming One Major League Baseball Game A Week On May 19
21. Facebook Joins Twitter In Live Streaming Major League Baseball Games On Friday Nights
22. ISIS Has A Strategy To Create A Media Frenzy And News Outlets Are Struggling To Disrupt It: Struggling to cover terror in the media age. (Zeynep Tufekci)
23. Twitter And Tear Gas: How Social Media Changed Protest Forever (Zeynep Tufekci)
24. Court of Appeal granted an appeal of the Federal Court’s decision allowing internet service provider to charge a fee for disclosure of suspected infringer
25. Copyright Board Rules Whether YouTube Uploads Constitute “Publication” and “Making Available” Under Copyright Act
26. Four copyright registrations expunged where Respondent was not the author and owner of the works
27. Defense Against the Dark Arts of Copyright Trolling (Matthew Sag)
28. Uber threatens to fire Levandowski if he doesn’t comply with court order: Can Uber engineer be forced to choose between the Fifth Amendment and his job?
29. Objecting to sexual harassment got me fired, says ex-Uber employee
30. The Taking Economy: Uber, Information, and Power (Ryan Calo & Alex Rosenblat)
31. Paypal says Pandora’s logo infringes, starts trademark battle: “The similarities between the logos are striking, obvious, and patently unlawful.”
32. Trademark Has Come To This: Tinder Opposes Dating App With Only One Lonely Dude On Its Dating Roster
33. Shinder, Shinder, Shinder … will you ever be like Tinder?
34. Did eBay Irreparably Injure Trademark Law? (Mark Lemley)
35. How Not to Prove a Mark is Generic. Use of GOOGLE as a Verb Does Not Constitute Genericide
36. A WannaCry Flaw Could Help Some Victims Get Files Back
37. Windows XP PCs infected by WCry can be decrypted without paying ransom: Decryption tool is of limited value, because XP was unaffected by last week’s worm.
38. Hackers Are Trying to Reignite WannaCry With Nonstop Botnet Attacks
39. Windows 7, not XP, was the reason last week’s WCry worm spread so widely
40. How I accidentally stopped a global Wanna Decryptor ransomware attack: A British security researcher found and pulled WannaCrypt’s kill switch.
41. WannaCry Ransomware Cyberattack Raises Legal Issues
42. NSA Was Concerned About Power Of Windows Exploit Long Before It Was Leaked
43. There’s new evidence tying WCry ransomware worm to prolific hacking group: Common tools, techniques, and infrastructure make link “highly likely.”
44. Inside Russia’s Social Media War on America
45. Who Are the Shadow Brokers?: What is—and isn’t—known about the mysterious hackers leaking National Security Agency secrets
46. The Seth Rich Conspiracy Theory: A Tale of Two Filter Bubbles
47. Someone Is Trying to Scrub Trump’s Name From the Wikipedia Page of Lieberman’s Law Firm
48. The Library of Congress Makes 25 Million Records From Its Catalog Free to Download
49. Theresa May Plans To Regulate, Tax And Censor The Internet
50. An EU text and data mining exception: will it deliver what the Digital Single Market Strategy promised?
51. How a Chipmunk Emoji Cost an Israeli Texter $2,200
52. A Pro Flag Football League Is Launching And It Might Be The Most High-Tech League In The World
53. James Corden is getting his own Snapchat show, the first from CBS
54. BostonGlobe.com disables articles when your browser’s in private mode
55. Boston Globe Blocks Readers Using Privacy Modes In Browsers
56. Amid YouTube Ad Plight, Patreon Says It Will Pay Creators $150 Million This Year
57. The Most-Desired Career Among Young People Today Is ‘YouTuber’ (Study)
58. Google Confirms Glass Team is Not Working With AR/VR Team
59. Google’s New AI Is Better at Creating AI Than the Company’s Engineers
60. Google Wants to Apply AI & Machine Learning to All Its Products
61. Intel to make Thunderbolt 3 royalty-free in bid to spur adoption: And the company has promised to put Thunderbolt 3 controllers into its processors.
62. Five Ways Elon Musk’s Brain-Computer Interface Could Transform the World
63. Hear Me Out: Let’s Elect an AI as President
64. How Artificial Intelligence will impact professional writing
65. AI and Robots Will Change the Way We Create and Consume Content
66. An AI invented a bunch of new paint colors that are hilariously wrong: Let’s just say this neural network won’t make you fear the robot uprising.
67. We Are All Kasparov: When Deep Blue beat the world chess champion 20 years ago, we learned a huge lesson. Just not the one we thought.
68. Why Humans Are So Terrified Of Robots With Feelings
69. The value of robotic process automation
70. How Copyright Law Creates Biased Artificial Intelligence (Amanda Levendowski)
71. Plagued by high-profile flops, Kickstarter and Indiegogo are bringing in experts to help inventors fulfill their promises.
72. The Barbarians Are at Etsy’s Hand-Hewn, Responsibly Sourced Gates: The ur-Brooklyn online craft marketplace is under pressure to start acting more like a conventional, shareholder-focused company.
73. Conference Report – ‘Moral Rights and New Technologies: Authorship, Attribution and Integrity in a Digital World’
74. Piece by Piece Review of Digitize-and-Lend Projects Through the Lens of Copyright and Fair Use (Michelle M. Wu)
75. Netflix And Amazon Screenings Are Being Booed At The Cannes Film Festival
76. The A-EON Amiga X5000: An alternate universe where the Amiga platform never died – A new Amiga computer emerges that is both modern and an Amiga.
77. Employee misconduct and social media
78. Eli Pariser Predicted the Future. Now He Can’t Escape It.: Six years after the Upworthy cofounder coined the term “filter bubble,” things are much worse.
79. Tulips, Myths, And Cryptocurrencies

CREATIVITY

1. Supreme Court to decide who owns the 38,000 stories of residential school survivors: The courts say it is up to the survivors to decide what happens to the accounts of their experiences. But a coalition representing the survivors’ children and grandchildren wants to save the stories.
2. Why Is The Far-Right Attacking Ariana Grande After Manchester?: While the world grieves for Manchester, others are taking aim at the pop star’s personal beliefs in a disgusting way.
3. Manchester was an attack on girls: The bombing — and the trolling that followed — show again how females are targeted
4. The Meaning of Ariana Grande: She has one of the most loyal, dedicated fanbases in pop. She represents confidence, empowerment, sexiness, independence. Grownups may never understand, but young women do. Is that what terrorists are afraid of?
5. Conan O’Brien Joke-Stealing Case Gets Green-Lit For Jury Trial
6. A Brief Explainer About What the Heck Is Going On With Rebel Wilson’s Defamation Case
7. Supreme Court urged to clarify law on journalist-source protection
8. Judge Agrees Broadcasters Have First Amendment Right to Refuse Advertisements: SiriusXM wins a lawsuit against a dating company as a result.
9. Music Performing Rights Organizations and the “Full-Work” vs. “Fractional” Licensing Dispute: Government Seeks to Overturn Fractional Licensing Decision
10. RIAA Says Artists Don’t Need “Moral Rights,” Artists Disagree: Major entertainment industry associations often create the impression that they are fighting for the rights of smaller artists, not just their corporate overlords. However, responding to a US Government consultation, both sides are now going head to head over the “moral rights” issue.
11. Sorry East Texas: Supreme Court Slams The Door On Patent Jurisdiction Shopping
12. Supreme Court makes it much harder for patent trolls to sue in East Texas: Folks got sued in East Texas “just because they had a website.” Those days may be over.
13. Lawyer who founded Prenda Law is disbarred: Twenty-one months later, an ethics complaint ends in disbarment.
14. Japanese Music Collection Society Demands Copyright Fees From Music Schools For Teaching Music
15. Trump Allegedly Wants FBI To Look Into Locking Up Journalists Who Publish Leaks
16. News Coverage of Donald Trump’s First 100 Days
17. Burna Boy allegedly stopped from working in US and Canada by New York Supreme Court
18. The Fyre Festival Is Still a Damn Mess, and Now the FBI Is Involved
19. The Fearless Girl who challenges the Charging Bull
20. 17 charts that show the current state of the music industry
21. Time Magazine Rips Off Mad Magazine?
22. Spanish Supreme Court Rules on Originality for Architectural Works
23. The Personal-Essay Boom Is Over
24. The Mad King of Juice: Inside the Dysfunctional Origins of Juicero
25. Is there copyright in the taste of a cheese? Sensory copyright finally makes its way to CJEU
26. Does Fair Use Affect Academic Authors’ Incentive to Write? Some Lessons from Authors of Works from the GSU Course Reserves Case
27. Seeing’s Insight: Toward A Visual Substantial Similarity Test For Copyright Infringement Of Pictorial, Graphic, And Sculptural Works (Moon Hee Lee)
28. The Right to Attention in an Age of Distraction
29. On Bias, Clickbait, And The Future Of Journalism: Insight And Advice From Staffers At The Washington Post

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Russian Military Apparently Using Cell Tower Spoofers To Send Propaganda Directly To Ukrainian Soldiers’ Phones
2. Wikimedia wins small victory in challenge to NSA “Upstream” spying: “This surveillance will finally face badly needed scrutiny in our public courts.”
3. Appeals Court Revives Wikimedia’s Lawsuit Against The NSA
4. “Yahoobleed” flaw leaked private e-mail attachments and credentials: Yahoo promptly retired ImageMagic library after failing to install 2-year-old patch.
5. Vermont DMV Caught Using Illegal Facial Recognition Program: Local, state, and federal law enforcement were allowed to search DMV photo database, documents show
6. Get Ready for the Next Big Privacy Backlash Against Facebook
7. Google and Facebook lobbyists try to stop new online privacy protections: Lobbyists try to kill “opt-in” privacy standard before it can be implemented.
8. Facebook whacked with piddly fine after breaching French data law: But free content ad network insists it complies fully with EU data protection rules.
9. British Human Rights Activist Faces Prison For Refusing To Hand Over Passwords At UK Border
10. New EU Lawsuit Claims Google Failed To Forget ‘Sensitive’ Information, Such As Their ‘Political Affiliation’
11. Inspector General’s Report Shows Section 702 Isn’t The Only Thing Being Abused By The NSA
12. Some Android Phones Keep Listening After ‘OK Google’ Is Disabled
13. RNC, Chamber Of Commerce Want Robocallers To Be Able To Spam Your Voicemail Without Your Phone Ringing
14. Something about Trump cybersecurity executive order seems awfully familiar: Trump’s cybersecurity order cribs from his predecessor, despite campaign bluster.
15. GOP lawmaker who helped kill ISP privacy rules proposes new privacy rules: Bill requires opt-in consent, but prohibits states from imposing stricter rules.
16. The everyday habits that reveal our personalities: From dining on spicy food to singing in the shower, seemingly innocuous behaviours may say a lot about your character.
17. Ontario court finds Information and Privacy Commissioner’s decision to order disclosure of a commercial contract between bank and university reasonable
18. Anti-Lawful Access Tide Continues: Security Consultation Finds Public Strongly Opposed to New Reforms (Michael Geist)
19. Corporate Surveillance Is Turning Human Workers Into Fungible Cogs: Emerging technologies are enabling more invasive management practices.
20. Tech Leaders Say You Could Be Storing Data in Your DNA in the Next 10 Years
21. The Organization That’s Tracking People With Mental Illnesses: An experimental Florida program that aims to use big data to treat the mentally ill raises privacy questions
22. Famed Hacker Kevin Mitnick Shows You How to Go Invisible Online

Jon

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. Lawsuit depicts Fox News as not just sexist. Not just misogynistic. Barbaric.
2. FCC to investigate, ‘take appropriate action’ on Colbert’s Trump rant
3. Opening up broadcast indecency
4. The FCC ‘Investigation’ Into Stephen Colbert Is A Complete Non-Story
5. FCC to Investigate Steven Colbert? – Much Ado About Nothing
6. A John Oliver Net Neutrality Rant Has Crippled The FCC Website A Second Time
7. FCC: John Oliver Didn’t Bring Down Our Site, Attackers Did – Just as the comedian sent a flood of people to support net neutrality, attackers brought commenting site down
8. After net neutrality comment system fails, senators demand answers: John Oliver caused big comment increase, but FCC blames DDoS attacks.
9. The FCC Claims A DDoS Attack — Not John Oliver — Crashed Its Website. But Nobody Seems To Believe Them
10. The FCC has received 128,000 identical anti-net neutrality comments: There might be a bot faking widespread net neutrality opposition.
11. The FCC Is Using Garbage Lobbyist Data To Defend Its Assault On Net Neutrality
12. AT&T Takes Heat For Avoiding Broadband Upgrades For Poor Areas
13. AT&T could be punished for unlimited data throttling after all: Ajit Pai cheers court decision, says case to overturn Title II is strengthened.
14. Comcast, Charter Join Forces In Wireless, Agree Not To Compete
15. Plan to kill municipal broadband fails in state legislature: Angry constituents convince Maine lawmakers to vote against Republican bill.
16. UK’s New ‘Digital Economy’ Law Somehow Now Gives Police The Power To Remotely Kill Phone Service
17. How the NFL is Crippling ESPN and Harming the Future of TV Sports
18. Only Connect

DIGITAL

1. Trump administration to Supreme Court: Don’t hear EFF “Dancing Baby” case: Copyright fight over 29 seconds of a toddler dancing to Prince is now a decade old.
2. The Trump Admin’s Advice to Supreme Court in Copyright Case Is a True Mind-Bender
3. Hackers Hit Macron With Huge Email Leak Ahead of French Election
4. Evidence suggests Russia behind hack of French president-elect: Russian security firms’ metadata found in files, according to WikiLeaks and others.
5. Dear France: You Just Got Hacked. Don’t Make The Same Mistakes We Did. – A brief guide to the information wars. (Zeynep Tufekci)
6. Here’s How Far-Right Trolls Are Spreading Hoaxes About French Presidential Candidate Emmanuel Macron
7. Why the Macron Hacking Attack Landed With a Thud in France
8. Macron campaign team used honeypot accounts to fake out Fancy Bear: Digital team filled fake accounts with garbage data to slow information operation.
9. A Last Minute Influence Op by Data DDoS: Where there’s smoke, there’s a smoke machine!
10. As France becomes latest target, are election hacks the new normal?: After the hacking of the Democratic party in the US, governments have been braced for similar attacks. The onslaught has arrived
11. The great British Brexit robbery: how our democracy was hijacked – A shadowy global operation involving big data, billionaire friends of Trump and the disparate forces of the Leave campaign influenced the result of the EU referendum. As Britain heads to the polls again, is our electoral process still fit for purpose?
12. We are not done with state-sponsored hacking. Far from it.
13. Russians Say They’re Sick Of Hacking Accusations
14. China’s New Online Encyclopedia Aims To Surpass Wikipedia, And To ‘Guide And Lead’ The Public
15. UK Parliament Takes First Step Towards Making Google & Facebook Censor Everything
16. Dear Europe: Please Don’t Kill Free Speech In The Name Of ‘Privacy Protection’
17. Cisco kills leaked CIA 0-day that let attackers commandeer 318 switch models: Fix neutralizes attack code that was put into the wild in early March.
18. Trump’s Campaign Can’t Just Erase History on the Internet
19. Activists Are Pushing Back Against Tech Platforms That Quietly Empower Hate Groups
20. No More Trolls: Austria Rules Facebook Must Remove Hate Speech: An Austrian court case aimed at making Facebook responsible for policing vitriolic posts could have an international ripple effect.
21. Will Facebook actually hire 3,000 content moderators, or will they outsource?: The company refuses to comment on where those 3,000 workers will be employed.
22. Facebook Sees Video Views Rise By 32% In Q1 2017, Doubles Down On Long-Form Content
23. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg: Paying For Live Sports Video Content Isn’t A ‘Long-Term Goal’
24. How Sheryl Sandberg’s Sharing Manifesto Drives Facebook: The COO inspires her fans, and her employees, to talk about sadness, even tragedy, at work. That can be healing—and very good for business.
25. Don’t Let Facebook Make You Miserable
26. On Facebook: Why won’t the company let us truly filter our feeds?
27. Facebook Tweaks News Feed to Crack Down on ‘Low Quality’ Sites
28. Facebook takes to newspapers to teach UK users how to spot “fake news”: Social network claims to have killed “tens of thousands of fake UK accounts.”
29. Ridiculous Lawsuit Looks To Hold Social Media Companies Responsible For The San Bernandino Shooting
30. Norwich orders: who pays under the notice and notice regime? Voltage v Doe
31. Microsoft’s bid to bring AI to every developer is starting to make sense: The APIs are getting good enough to be built into production systems.
32. The Commodification of People
33. Kodi: Open source TV app inspires full-blown copyright panic in the UK – Descended from Xbox Media Center software, it’s a crime wave to copyright cops.
34. AG Szpunar says that Uber is a transport activity, not an information society service
35. Warner Music Inks New Deal With YouTube, But Does Not Cease Its Complaints
36. The Premier League Kindly Requests Google De-List All Of Facebook Over Copyright Infringement Claims
37. Creator of infamous Playpen website sentenced to 30 years in prison
38. Kardashian lumped with lawsuit over Instagram snap
39. Third verse same as the first – Will Richard Prince’s transformation defense work yet again?
40. 5th Circuit: ISP Not Liable for Infringement Due to Lack of Volitional Conduct, Despite Ineligibility for DMCA Safe Harbor
41. Megaupload users still can’t get data back: The answer for users waiting five years for their seized data? Keep waiting.
42. YouTube taps creators, celebrities for new original shows on ad-supported site: Fitness with Kevin Hart, behind-the-scenes with Ellen, and more.
43. Lyor Cohen, YouTube’s music ambassador, makes his case to the big music labels: Warner Music Group signed a deal with YouTube and then complained about it. Here’s the video site’s response
44. Maker Studios wrapped up in new, more ‘curated’ Disney YouTube network
45. Disney rebrands all Youtube content under Disney Digital Network: Maker Studios output subsumed into new ‘Polaris’ channel
46. Time Inc. To Launch ‘Sports Illustrated’ SVOD Service, Slew Of Social Video Brands
47. What’s Wrong With Twitter’s Live-Video Strategy
48. Anti-Authoritarian Book Club: Twitter And Tear Gas (James Grimmelmann)
49. Report: Uber faces federal criminal probe over regulator-evading software
50. Imagination Technologies can’t resolve Apple IP spat, opens formal dispute: Starting in 2019, Apple will no longer use firm’s designs.
51. Tim Cook announces $1 billion investment in “advanced” US manufacturing: Apple also created a page highlighting the jobs it already supports in the US.
52. When Internet Memes Infiltrate the Physical World: Deplorable frogs and “nasty women” aren’t just online for comic relief. They’re central to how people engage with political issues.
53. What You Need to Know About Emoji Law (Yes, That’s a Thing)
54. Surveying the Law of Emojis (Eric Goldman)
55. Copyright Considerations for using Emoji in Commercial Ads
56. Data is giving rise to a new economy
57. Why Do Gas Station Prices Constantly Change? Blame the Algorithm: Retailers are using artificial-intelligence software to set optimal prices, testing textbook theories of competition; antitrust officials worry such systems raise prices for consumers
58. SpaceX Just Laid out a Plan to Give Everyone Internet Access
59. US Legislators Form VR-centric “Reality Caucus” to Guide Immersive Technology Policy
60. Verizon Is Paying the NFL $21 Million for Exclusive Streaming Rights to One Football Game
61. Premier League scores a big win against illegal streaming
62. Snapchat lines up media companies to produce original shows for Snap TV: Could your next favorite show be a Snapchat exclusive?
63. Amazon Alexa Will Now Wait On Seattle Mariners Fans In Private Suites At Safeco Field
64. Alexa, is Amazon poised to control the connected ecosystem of the future?
65. Social media and personal injury lawsuits
66. Libel in the age of the Internet: click with caution
67. Building a Better Loom: How technology might serve, rather than hinder, democracy
68. How Vladimir Putin mastered the art of ‘online Judo’ – and why the west should be worried: Russia is using the internet’s idealistic freedom as a hybrid-warfare weapon against the west
69. The inventor of the web Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the internet, ‘fake news,’ and why net neutrality is so important
70. Google and Facebook aren’t fighting fake news with the right weapons
71. Facing digital reality: Regulation, product complexity, and insurers’ large balance sheets have kept digital attackers from insurers’ gates. That is changing, but in ways incumbents should embrace. They can flourish in the digital age—if they move swiftly and decisively.
72. The meaning of life in a world without work
73. As technology renders jobs obsolete, what will keep us busy? Sapiens author Yuval Noah Harari examines ‘the useless class’ and a new quest for purpose
74. University Of Alberta Develops Smallest-Ever Edmonton Oilers Logo Via Nanotechnology

CREATIVITY

1. Spanish Citizen Sentenced To Jail For Creating ‘Unhealthy Humoristic Environment’
2. Police Union Sues Toy Gun Maker For Not Doing Enough To Keep Cleveland Cops From Killing 12-Year-Old Boys
3. Rome Court of Appeal confirms that mere indication of a work’s title is enough to trigger hosting provider’s liability
4. CJEU to rule on enforceability of German press publishers’ right
5. Molteni and Cassina duke it out over Gio Ponti chair design
6. “Turn Down for What” Becomes Latest Target for “Blurred Lines” Lawyer
7. US Entertainment Firm Milks Croatian Concert Promoter With Trademark Rights It May Never Have Owned
8. Sad Raiders Fans Fail To Keep Team In Oakland By Squatting On Trademark
9. A Photographer Sued a Student Over a School Project. Guess How That Turned Out–Reiner v. Nishimori (Eric Goldman)
10. How Zeke Smith’s Being Outed as Trans May Have Gotten Him Kicked Off Survivor
11. “Digital Is Cheaper” & Other Bogus Arguments
12. Illinois right of publicity allows truthful statements about performers in ads (Rebecca Tushnet)
13. Engineered To Deceive: Many of today’s visual artists are technological innovators, using advanced materials, industrial design, and sophisticated light manipulation to build experiences that trick your brain. Look inside their imaginations—and allow them to expand your own.
14. Is It “Fake News” To Call The Media “Fake News?”
15. The Local News Business Model
16. Vogue India Celebrated Its 10th Anniversary by Getting Kendall Jenner Into Even More Trouble
17. Coca-Cola and Music: A Case Study
18. The New Intellectuals: Political wars on college campuses aren’t really about free speech. They’re about what it means to be a student.
19. The Art Market’s Modigliani Forgery Epidemic: A skyrocketing interest in Amedeo Modigliani’s work is producing Picasso-level price tags, with major museum shows stoking the flame. Buyers are wary, though: the mystery surrounding one of the world’s most-faked artists has led to death threats, lawsuits, and hoaxes.
20. Branding “Vaverisms”: All I Really Need To Know I Learned From His Quips 

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Massive vulnerability in Windows Defender leaves most Windows PCs vulnerable: PCs can be compromised when Defender scans an e-mail or IM; patch has been issued.
2. Google phishing attack was foretold by researchers—and it may have used their code: A potential threat from spoofing Google applications was cited in 2011.
3. Security News This Week: Oh Good, Hackers Beat Two-Factor to Rob Bank Accounts
4. Man: Border agents threatened to “be dicks,” take my phone if I didn’t unlock it – “I believe strongly in the Constitution and in my right to privacy.”
5. Privacy, Poverty and Big Data: A Matrix of Vulnerabilities for Poor Americans
6. How Privacy Became a Commodity for the Rich and Powerful
7. Lawyers: How can we scrutinize surveillance records that remain sealed?: Stanford attorneys make unusual request to a federal court itself, DOJ opposes.
8. Lawyer: Cops “deliberately misled” judge who seemingly signed off on stingray – “Any system that is not transparent is inherently corrupt.”
9. Watch a cop’s staged body cam footage made “to look like it was done in real-time”: “The staging was done in such a way to make it look like it was done in real-time.”
10. Ahead Of His Senate Hearing, James Comey Pushes His ‘Going Dark’ Theory
11. James Comey Says Real Journalists Check With The Government Before Publication
12. Feds propose heightened social media vetting of visa applicants: Plan applies to applicants “who have been determined to warrant additional scrutiny.”
13. Investigatory Powers Act: Back doors, black boxes, and tech capability regs: Expert legal analysis of the UK’s spy law and what it could mean for end-to-end crypto.
14. Hidden Cameras And Zoom Lenses: Meet The Voyeur Pornographers: Revenge porn gets all the attention, but other forms of nonconsensual adult content are thriving under the radar
15. Is Facebook Taking Its First Steps Into VR Surveillance?: With new ‘Spaces’ app, privacy advocates warn it could one day offer a wealth of new data to advertisers
16. More Android phones than ever are covertly listening for inaudible sounds in ads: Your Android phone may be listening to ultrasonic ad beacons without your knowledge.
17. Your Keystrokes Can Reveal Who You Are — And How You Feel: An NYU researcher is using machine learning to show how easy it is to identify people and emotions from typing patterns
18. Happy or sad? Your future car might know the difference: Using deep learning technology, Affectiva developed an emotion recognition engine, and it promises to make cars much more human.
19. How Facial Recognition Will Help Doctors Take Better Care Of Babies: Medical researchers are developing facial analysis apps that diagnose genetic disorders and monitor babies’ pain
20. Facial Recognition Helps Parents Find Son 27 Years After Abduction: Tens of thousands of Chinese children are kidnapped every year, but artificial intelligence is helping families reunite
21. Internet Privacy – ISP Snooping and U.S. Surveillance Laws 

Jon

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. As US prepares to gut net neutrality rules, Canada strengthens them: Canada cracks down on zero-rating while FCC allows paid data cap exemptions.
2. Canada Rushes To Defend Net Neutrality As The U.S. Moves To Dismantle It
3. As U.S. gears up for Internet fight, Canada sees an opportunity
4. A very Canadian approach: How net neutrality rules reflect a country’s true nature: Reasonable, fair, no-nonsense. Typical Canucks
5. Canada Just Took a Major Stand for Net Neutrality
6. Win for citizens as CRTC framework will help prevent telecoms from engaging in differential pricing practices: Today’s ruling strengthens Net Neutrality protections by discouraging telecom providers from zero-rating certain apps and services and not others
7. Net Neutrality is alive and well in Canada (Scott Prescott)
8. Net Neutrality Alive and Well in Canada: CRTC Crafts Full Code With Zero Rating Decision (Michael Geist)
9. CRTC’s Zero Rating Ruling Kills Proposals for Preferential Treatment for Cancon Online (Michael Geist)
10. Dispelling the net neutrality and zero rating FUD (Peter Nowak)
11. CRTC Chair Blais Calls Out Telcos For Double-Talk on Internet Fibre Investment (Michael Geist)
12. Telecom Regulatory Policy CRTC 2017-104: Framework for assessing the differential pricing practices of Internet service providers
13. Ajit Pai announces plan to eliminate Title II net neutrality rules: Vote to begin net neutrality rollback scheduled for May 18.
14. FCC Chair Ajit Pai Announces Plan to Destroy Net Neutrality
15. FCC Boss Unveils Ingenious Plan To Replace Net Neutrality Rules With Fluff & Nonsense
16. Comcast and other ISPs celebrate imminent death of net neutrality rules: ISPs say they support net neutrality—but oppose FCC’s authority to enforce it.
17. FCC helps AT&T and Verizon charge more by ending broadband price caps: Business Internet price caps eliminated even when customers have only one choice.
18. FCC Moves To Make Life Easier For Business Broadband Monopolies
19. Mobile industry loses its bid to stop Berkeley’s cellphone warning law – 9th Circuit: Local law actually “complements and reinforces” federal law, policy.
20. Verizon lost 400,000 customers in the 6 weeks before it launched unlimited data: Verizon turned things around but still lost 289,000 phone subscribers.
21. FCC Changes in Rules on Computation of Foreign Ownership of Broadcast Stations Now Effective 
22. In Trump era, Rachel Maddow starts beating Fox News
23. CTV Toronto (CFTO-DT) & CP24 re promos for CHUM-FM (CBSC decision)
24. Another Reminder to Comply with CASL: The CRTC Imposes $15,000 Penalty for Non-Compliance 

DIGITAL

1. Can Facebook Fix Its Own Worst Bug?
2. Father in Thailand Kills 11-Month-Old Daughter Live on Facebook
3. Facebook shows Related Articles and fact checkers before you open links
4. Facebook To Reportedly Pay Publishers To Create Videos That Feature New Mid-Roll Ads
5. The Weird Antitrust Questions Of A Google Chrome Ad Blocker
6. Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria: “Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.”
7. Google pushes fake news, hate-speech workshops (and YouTube) on UK teens: After backlash over censored LGBTQ+ content, Google debuts “Internet Citizens” project.
8. Wikitribune is Jimmy Wales’ attempt to wage war on fake news: Wikipedia cofounder says pages won’t go live until trusted volunteers verify stories.
9. Palantir settles US charges that it discriminated against Asian engineers
10. The Surprising Speed with Which We Become Polarized Online: Users isolate themselves in social media echo chambers, even when they start out looking at a variety of posts.
11. Instagram Now Has 700 Million Users
12. Khloe Kardashian Sued for Posting a Photo of Khloe Kardashian on Instagram: This follows a lawsuit focused on Tom Holland republishing an image of Tom Holland on Instagram.
13. More Shady Libel Lawsuits Resulting In Dubious Delisting Court Orders Uncovered
14. Feds Say Jewelry Company CEO Scrubbed Google Results With Fake Court Orders And Forged Judge’s Signatures
15. Five years later, legal Megaupload data is still trapped on dead servers: EFF lawyers head to appeals court to demand one man’s data.
16. Dutch Court Rules That Freely Given Fan-Subtitles Are Copyright Infringement
17. Fansubs for TV shows and movies are illegal, court rules: Anti-piracy group tells Dutch court they damage the industry.
18. CJEU in Filmspeler rules that the sale of a multimedia player is a ‘communication to the public’
19. Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf applies CJEU McFadden decision
20. Car Ad Websites Slightly “Scraped” in Copyright Case, Court Puts Brakes on Statutory Damages Minimums
21. After Bill Gates Backs Open Access, Steve Ballmer Discovers The Joys Of Open Data
22. Silicon Valley Losing Ground in Washington
23. Oh Yes They Did! – Ninth Circuit Holds that Use of Moderators May Impact DMCA Safe Harbor Shield
24. Dozen Amicus Briefs Oppose the Worst Section 230 Ruling of 2016 (and One Supports It)–Hassell v. Bird (Eric Goldman)
25. Can Your Employer Fire You For Posting Vacation Photos to Facebook?-Jones v. Accentia (Eric Goldman)
26. Faulty Mobile Device User Interface Jeopardizes Uber’s Contract Formation–Metter v. Uber (Eric Goldman)
27. Uber’s app fingerprinted iPhone hardware, breaking App Store rules 
28. Man sues Confide: I wouldn’t have spent $7/month if I’d known it was flawed
29. Patent-holding company uses ex-Nokia patents to sue Apple, phone carriers: Nokia has spread its patents around widely, and they keep popping up in lawsuits.
30. Singapore Court Tosses Copyright Troll Cases Because IP Addresses Aren’t Good Enough Evidence
31. He Tweeted About Chinese Government Corruption. Twitter Suspended His Account.
32. Russia Is Trying to Copy China’s Approach to Internet Censorship
33. Russian man gets longest-ever US hacking sentence, 27 years in prison: Roman Seleznev bankrupted businesses, did $170 million in damage.
34. Internet Censorship Is Advancing Under Trump: We expect attacks on internet speech in Zimbabwe and Russia. Under Trump, it’s hitting home.
35. Russian DNC Hackers Are Now Targeting Germany’s Merkel — Report
36. Russia’s Fake News Crusade Is Still Pushing For Le Pen: Kremlin-backed news sites at home and abroad have long favored the pro-Russia French presidential candidate
37. NY Judge Says Prior Restraint Is America’s Best Defense Against Internet ‘Chaos’
38. North Korean Media: A Story of Language, Censorship, and Tech
39. Governing body declares: No IP addresses for governments that shut down internet access
40. Netflix Hits 100 Million Subscribers, Vows To Raise Another Billion Dollars Of Debt
41. Cord Cutting Is Very Real, And 25% Of Americans Won’t Subscribe To Traditional Cable By Next Year
42. Here Comes The Attempt To Reframe Silicon Valley As Modern Robber Barons
43. Here’s Everything You Need to Know about Elon Musk’s Human/AI Brain Merge
44. With Neuralink, Elon Musk Promises Human-to-Human Telepathy. Don’t Believe It.: Why the billionaire is wrong that telepathy technology will be available in a few short years.
45. How Garry Kasparov Learned To Stop Worrying & Love The Machines That Beat Him At His Job
46. YouTube TV review: Not a game-changer out of the gate, but it could be soon – Using it is easy, but it doesn’t offer multiple tiers or apps for many platforms.
47. Twitter: PGA TOUR LIVE Averages Almost 500,000 Unique Viewers Daily
48. Regulation of Fintech in Canada
49. 162 Tech Companies Tell Appeals Court That Trump’s 2nd Travel Ban Is Illegal
50. Make America Troll Again (James Grimmelmann)
51. Programming is Forgetting: Toward a New Hacker Ethic
52. Picture this: Senate staffers’ ID cards have photo of smart chip, no security: Senate employees just use passwords, and their badges sport a picture of an alternative.
53. Senate ID Cards Use A Photo Of A Chip Rather Than An Actual Smart Chip
54. How Should a Lawyer Respond to a Yelp Review Calling Him “Worst. Ever.”?–Spencer v. Glover (Eric Goldman)
55. Rubbing Elbows and Blowing Smoke: Gender, Class, and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Patent Office (Kara Swanson)
56. An AI wrote all of David Hasselhoff’s lines in this bizarre short film – Ars film debut: Watch It’s No Game and meet the Hoffbot, written by an algorithm.

CREATIVITY

1. This Lawsuit Goes to 11: The creators of This is Spinal Tap, the most influential mockumentary ever made, have been paid almost nothing. The rock gods are angry.
2. Beyoncé Aims to End Copyright Suit Against “Formation”: The singer says the claims against her are “grossly overstated.”
3. Copyright Law Precludes Athletes’ Publicity Rights Suit, Ninth Circuit Rules
4. Artist Sues Church For Moving His 9/11 Memorial Sculpture
5. Texas Lawmaker Wants To Decide Who’s A Real Journalist, Make It Easier To Sue Them
6. Charging Bull, Fearless Girl and comparative moral rights
7. Horizon’s Copyright Claim Against Marvel’s Iron Man Promotional Poster Survives Motion to Dismiss 
8. Sixth Circuit has nominative fair use sans la letter: Oaklawn Jockey Club, Inc. v. Kentucky Downs, LLC, No. 16-5582 (6th Cir. Apr. 19, 2017)
9. Is France Right To Criminalize Online Hate Speech?: Facebook says it’s wary of crossing the boundary into censorship but minorities say France’s muscular approach on the ground is the bigger problem
10. The Reel Story: Why Changing How We Measure a “Canadian Film” is Long Overdue (Michael Geist)
11. A Chicago Artist is Under Fire For Plagiarizing a Black Woman’s Artwork For His Michelle Obama Mural
12. Australian Copyright Scandal Points to the Need for Greater Oversight of Copyright Collectives (Michael Geist)
13. Duke Ellington And Copyright: Five Things You Should Know

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Search Warrant Gag Order Successfully Challenged In Court
2. The U.S. government’s ‘witch hunt’ to root out a Trump critic has now sparked an investigation
3. Man suspected in wife’s murder after her Fitbit data doesn’t match his alibi: Officials say the timeline given by Richard Dabate, accused of killing his wife in their Connecticut home, is at odds with data collected by her wearable device
4. IoT Privacy Lawsuit- Bose sued for taking headphone data without consent!
5. Silicon Valley security robot beat up in parking lot, police say: The droid can scan 300 license plates a minute.
6. A vigilante is putting a huge amount of work into infecting IoT devices: When it comes to features and robustness, Hajime surpasses its blackhat rivals.
7. Malware Hunts And Kills Poorly Secured Internet Of Things Devices Before They Can Be Integrated Into Botnets
8. Lessons from the FTC’s First Enforcement Action Against an IoT Company 
9. Amazon’s Echo Look takes outfit photos and suggests the best styles for you: Is the mirror-selfie dead?
10. Amazon Wants To Put A Camera In Your Bedroom To Watch You Dress: The Echo Look will mine your mirror selfies and judge your style. What’s unclear is how else this data will be used
11. Amazon Wants to Put a Camera and Microphone in Your Bedroom: Echo Look will use machine learning to decide if you look fat in that shirt.
12. Activist’s protest against practice of ‘carding’ derails Toronto police board meeting: Meeting adjourned after journalist Desmond Cole refuses to leave following deputation. Of data collected on citizens by police, Cole said: “It was never your information to take in the first place.”
13. >10,000 Windows computers may be infected by advanced NSA backdoor: Did script kiddies use DoublePulsar code released by NSA-leaking Shadow Brokers?
14. NSA backdoor detected on >55,000 Windows boxes can now be remotely removed: Microsoft dismisses DoublePulsar infection estimates, but otherwise remains silent.
15. Tanium CEO admits using real hospital data in sales demos
16. Windows bug used to spread Stuxnet remains world’s most exploited: Code-execution flaw is triggered by plugging a booby-trapped USB into vulnerable PCs.
17. Taking Trust Seriously In Privacy Law (Neil Richards & Woodrow Hartzog)

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