Here is the updated PowerPoint from today’s presentation, with all the functioning hyperlinks.
Enjoy!
Old TV networks get another win against online providers
Here’s a story about a 9th Circuit decision, from Ars. Apparently the internet doesn’t count as a “communication channel,” according to the “expert” from FOX. Those alternative facts are pretty convincing, it would seem.
Electronic device ban when travelling from certain countries
A really interesting article showing how the UK has now followed in the footsteps of the USA, banning most electronic devices from being taken into the cabin on flights from some Muslim majority countries, including Turkey and Dubai.
News of the Week; March 15, 2017
MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY
- For the first time, more people subscribe to Netflix than have DVR: The streaming service has dramatically changed how Americans watch TV.
- The Cord Cutting The Cable Industry Says Isn’t Happening, Keeps Happening
- USAToday Latest News Outlet To Completely Miss The Point Of Cord Cutting
- New York City Sues Verizon For Fiber Optic Bait And Switch
- 1 million NYC homes can’t get Verizon FiOS, so the city just sued Verizon: Verizon wants another four years to cover remaining 1 million households.
- Is There Any Rhyme or Reason for Which TV Networks are Included in Skinny Bundles?
- Net neutrality hurts health care and helps porn, Republican senator claims: Does the senator’s argument make any sense? Let’s look at the facts.
- Senate Democrats question FCC chair’s independence from Trump: Dems want promise that Pai won’t “penalize free speech” to punish Trump enemies.
- Net neutrality DOA? Here’s what’s next for the internet
- On Eve of Broadband Privacy Rule’s Effective Date, FCC Pauses Implementation
- AT&T allegedly “discriminated” against poor people in broadband upgrades: “Digital redlining” leaves poor people with the slowest Internet, report says.
- In Dodging FCC Review, AT&T’s Time Warner Mega-Merger Just Got Much Easier Under Trump
- FCC Chairman Ajit Pai Interview: Media Ownership Rules ‘Quite Antiquated’
- After escaping net neutrality probe, Verizon expands data cap exemptions: With net neutrality worries gone, FiOS TV goes “data-free” on Verizon Wireless.
- DirecTV’s ‘Regional Sports Fees’ Make No Coherent Sense, Company Won’t Explain Why
- Mayors slam AT&T for slow Internet, long phone outages: “AT&T has reneged on its responsibility to customers,” mayor says.
- Will The Investigation Into Fox News Be Blunted Now That Preet Is Gone
- Hannity pretends Crowley didn’t plagiarize: Are Monica Crowley and Sean Hannity in denial about Crowley’s plagiarism? Brian Stelter says Hannity hurts his viewers by ignoring real reporting.
- Law School vs. TV Station: Showdown Over Racial Bias Questions
- When times get tough, media consolidates. Tech? Not so much.: Code Advisors partner Quincy Smith talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about the state of M&A on Recode Decode.
- Compliance and Enforcement Decision CRTC 2017-65: William Rapanos – Violations of Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation
- Google Fiber Was Doomed From the Start: The internet access answer won’t come from private markets, but rather from policies that make for competitive networks. (Susan Crawford)
- Amendments to the Films Act and the Broadcasting Act (Singapore)
DIGITAL
- How the Internet Is Saving Culture, Not Killing It (Farhad Manjoo)
- Kodi crackdown: Premier League wins High Court order to block illegal streams – Sky, TalkTalk, BT, and Virgin will block servers that host pirated footie games.
- UK ISPs to block set-top boxes that illegally live-stream soccer matches: Premier League wins court injunction requiring server-level blocking.
- UK Court Grants First Live Blocking Order To Stop New Infringing Streams As Soon As They Start
- First live blocking order granted in the UK
- UK Local Government Confirms Surprising EU Position That Viewing Pirated Streams Probably Isn’t Illegal
- Political Polarization On Twitter Rose Up To 20 Percent In Obama Era: An analysis of 679,000 users over last year 8 years shows how we’re becoming more divided online
- The social media “echo chamber” is real
- Active social media users are self-segregated and polarized in news consumption.
- Facebook—in hate-crime clash with MPs—claims it’s “fixed” abuse review tool: Lawmaker accuses Twitter, Google, and Facebook of “commercial prostitution.”
- Technology To Blame For Nearly All Serious Crimes: Europol – The main police agency of the EU says its officers need to get more tech-savvy, too
- Tech’s political impact? “14 people watch me on C-SPAN… 1M on Facebook” – Senator: Social media sites aren’t bad or good—ceding them to hate is the problem.
- How To Improve Online Comments: Test Whether People Have Read The Article Before Allowing Them To Respond
- Tim Berners-Lee: I invented the web. Here are three things we need to change to save it – It has taken all of us to build the web we have, and now it is up to all of us to build the web we want – for everyone
- We didn’t lose control – it was stolen: The Web we have is not broken for Google and Facebook. People farmers are reaping the rewards of their violations into our lives to the tune of tens of billions in revenue every year. How can they possibly be our allies?
- Biotyranny and its Resistance: Who Owns Your Body?: Inspired by Foucault, Chelsea Manning and techniques like gene editing, artists and activists are taking back power over our bodies from governments and corporations.
- AI’s PR Problem: Had artificial intelligence been named something less spooky, we’d probably worry about it less.
- Germany May Fine Social Media Companies For Allowing Hate Speech: New bill could make Facebook and Twitter pay for not policing their platforms
- Facebook and Twitter Could Face Fines in Germany Over Hate Speech Posts
- Watch what you tweet! ‘Serious harm’ test clarified
- Prenda May Be Dead, But Copyright Trolling Still Going Strong
- The Kim Dotcom film: How to avoid a trial for 5 years and counting: Dotcom’s showmanship throws a small democracy for a loop.
- Ed Sheeran: Piracy Is What Made Me
- Ed Sheeran intervenes for fan, saying he will sort out Facebook copyright ban
- ‘I Don’t See A YouTube Value Gap. Over 45% Of Our Revenue From The Platform Is From UGC’
- Google’s Uptime App Promotes Collaborative YouTube Viewing
- How YouTube TV stacks up against DirecTV Now, PlayStation Vue, and Sling TV: Google entered TV streaming with a feature-rich service at an aggressive price.
- Bad Libel Law Strikes Again: Silly UK Twitter Spat Results In Six Figure Payout
- Oil Company Files Bogus Libel Lawsuit Over ‘Substantially True’ Facebook Comment By Local Activist
- Man behind GemCoin, a fake cryptocurrency, settles lawsuit for $71M – Judge: “Defendant has shown no sign of recognition of wrongdoing.”
- Study: U.S. Ad-Supported Internet Generated $1.21 Trillion, 10.4 Million Jobs In 2016
- Insights: How Snapchat Is Changing The Way The Web Works And Looks
- Samsung Shut Out Of Arbitration In Recent Consumer Class Actions
- EU Parliament Report Recommends Throwing Out Something Even Worse Than The Link Tax: Upload Filtering
- Uber an avatar of innovation and progress? The economic evidence says otherwise.
- Uber says it will stop using Greyball to evade authorities: Uber’s chief security officer says the changes won’t be immediate but gradual.
- Uber’s Going To Follow The Rules Now, Uber Says: The company, bombarded with bad press, has stopped digging in its heels about certain high-profile issues
- Sharing Economy Giants Are Using Data To Build “The Taking Economy,” Study Warns: Information imbalances benefitting Uber and other services might need new solutions.
- Google tops Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For: Tech giant tops list that also features NVIDIA at 39 and Activision Blizzard at 66
- Report: Lack of Mentors, Female Role Models Top List of Barriers Facing Women in Tech
- Why Is Silicon Valley So Awful to Women?: Tech companies are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to improve conditions for female employees. Here’s why not much has changed—and what might actually work.
- Yahoo to give Marissa Mayer $23 million parting gift after sale to Verizon: Mayer will leave as what remains of Yahoo becomes Altaba holding company.
- Marissa Mayer Getting $23 Million For Running Yahoo Into The Ground
- S.E.C. Rejects Winklevoss Brothers’ Bid to Create Bitcoin E.T.F.
- US Regulator Makes Important Decision About Bitcoin Derivatives
- Vice Media Will Produce Original, Exclusive Programming for Snapchat
- Hologram Sports Broadcasts Of Olympics Competition Being Considered By IT Provider Atos
- Facebook Scores Major League Soccer Streaming Deal, Continuing Push Into Premium TV Content
- Facebook signs deal with MLS, Univision to stream live soccer games: Games that were previously Spanish-only will be streamed in English on Facebook.
- The optimist’s guide to the robot apocalypse
- A Robot Lawyer Is Officially Assisting With Refugee Applications
- Canadian firms can’t use social media to report key information, CSA rules
- Software results in mistaken arrests, jail time? No fix needed, says judge: “Clerical errors… will occur regardless of the case management system used by the court.”
- One Day You Might Choose The Ending To A Netflix Show: The company experiments with interactive storytelling technology
- Wowing and washable: Google’s smart jacket wears and works well at first glance: “Blinking on your jacket is uncool”—luckily this looks the part while having its brains.
- Common Ethical Issues To Consider When Researching Jurors And Witnesses On Social Media
- Why China’s internet use has overtaken the West
- Advertising in Windows has reached an exasperating new low
- ICANN’s Special Privileges for Trademark Owners are The.Worst
- Trademarks and Digital Goods (Mark P. McKenna & Lucas Osborn)
- Are Algorithms In Tune With Music?: What impact do algorithms have for music curation and creation?
CREATIVITY
- Canada Says It Won’t Attend Special 301 Hearing Because USTR Prefers Industry Allegations To Facts And Data
- Is Blacklock’s Now Engaging in a Strategy of Start, Stay and Delay? (Howard Knopf)
- French court finds Jeff Koons guilty of copyright infringement
- When Morality and Copyright Collide
- Copyright: the right to exploit vs the right not to exploit
- Concordia University caught on the wrong side of copyright
- Who is on the Wrong Side?: Why the Copyright Mistake at Concordia Highlights the Problems with Collective Licensing (Michael Geist)
- Yes We Scan: Why Concordia Should Not Shelve Its Book Scanner (Michael Geist)
- Breaking News: OUP and other Publishers Withdraw Copyright Suit Against Delhi University and Photocopier
- Photocopying Textbooks Is Fair Use In India: Western Publishers Withdraw Copyright Suit Against Delhi University
- UC Berkley To Remove More Than 20,000 Online Videos From Public Access In Response To DOJ Captioning Demand
- Get back to whom you once belonged: Paul McCartney seeks to reclaim ownership of music catalog through interesting provision of copyright act
- ‘Fake news’: the best thing that’s happened to journalism – Fake News has upset a lot of people and caused real damage but it’s been good news for journalism analysts like me. I’ve never had more interest in a media issue than this. I’ve never been busier talking and researching a topic and it’s consequences. Here are some notes that I use when I give talks about fake news.
- How South Korea’s Fake News Hijacked a Democratic Crisis
- Trump ‘Fake News’ Story Punished In Tanzania: A Tanzanian news outlet suspended nine people after airing a false story claiming that Trump thought its president was an “African hero.”
- Fixing Fake News Won’t Fix Journalism: Scammers have become a scapegoat for the ailing press. What we really need is a deeper fix.
- This Article Won’t Change Your Mind: The facts on why facts alone can’t fight false beliefs
- SXSW has rescinded its incendiary immigration policy after a huge backlash
- When Art Meets Power
- Ad Agencies And Accountability
- China Busily Approving ‘Trump’ Trademarks With Stunning Speed
- Judge Allows for Possibility “Marilyn Monroe” Is Too Generic for Trademark
- No Photographs, Please, We Are French
- The Role Insurance Can Play in Your IP Strategy
- In liberal Hollywood, a conservative minority faces backlash in the age of Trump
- Are Black Brits Black Enough to Play Black Americans?: Samuel L. Jackson questioned the casting of black British actors in American roles on Hot 97 earlier this week, but his comments neglect both shared history and the reality of Britain’s entertainment industry
- The Fate Of The Critic In The Clickbait Age
- Pi(e) Is Not Protected By Copyright Laws
- Music as a Matter of Law (Joseph Fishman)
SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY
- US charges two Russian agents with ordering hack of 500m Yahoo accounts: Russian law enforcement agency that works with FBI hired Yahoo hackers.
- Russian Agents Were Behind Yahoo Hack, U.S. Says
- Are White House Officials Breaking the Law by Using Secret Messaging Apps
- Secretary of State Tillerson used e-mail alias as Exxon CEO: Climate change investigation leads New York AG to request “Wayne Tracker” e-mails.
- Privacy commissioner investigating Canada Border Services Agency over electronic media searches
- High Court reserves judgment in Facebook case: Data watchdog wants EU court to decide on European Commission data-transfer rulings
- Constitution Protects Publication of Politicians’ Home Address/Phone Number–Publius v. Boyer-Vine (Eric Goldman)
- Advertisers look forward to buying your Web browsing history from ISPs: Ad groups thank Republican lawmakers for move to kill ISP privacy rules.
- NY Legislators Looking At Installing A Free Speech-Stomping ‘Right To Be Forgotten’
- French Government Adopts Long-Awaited Decree Compensating ISPs for HADOPI-relatedTasks
- the internet of (very private) things (Brenda Pritchard)
- Maker of ‘Smart’ Vibrators Settles Data Collection Lawsuit for $3.75 Million
- Vibrator maker ordered to pay out C$4m for tracking users’ sexual activity: Canadian manufacturer We-Vibe collected data about temperature and vibration intensity, revealing intimate information without customers’ knowledge
- Judge Rules For Golden State Warriors, Dismisses Eavesdropping App Lawsuit
- FBI’s methods to spy on journalists should remain classified, judge rules – Reaction: “It is antithetical to a democracy that supposedly values a free press.”
- US spies still won’t tell Congress the number of Americans caught in dragnet: Electronic surveillance programs Prism, Upstream hang in the congressional balance.
- Despite Stream Of Leaks Exposing Tremendous Gov’t Surveillance Capabilities, James Comey Still Complaining About ‘Going Dark’
- Congressman Introduces Bill That Would Allow People And Companies To ‘Hack Back’ After Attacks
- Controversial ‘Vigilante’ App Relaunches To Help People Go Film Police
- Tobii Recommends Explicit Consent for Recording Eye Tracking Data
- Threat via Whisper prompts FBI to show up: “holy **** I’m… going to get raided”: Seriously, don’t post violent threats on “anonymous” messaging apps.
- There were more device searches at US border last month than all of 2015: CBP has not answered Ars’ questions; ACLU has heard no explanation.
- Digital Privacy at the U.S. Border: Protecting the Data On Your Devices and In the Cloud
- Big data to get intellectual property protection in Japan: Companies would be freer to sell information they now collect and hoard
- Consumer Reports Proposes Open Source Security Standard To Keep The Internet Of Things From Sucking
- DeepMind says no quick fix for verifying health data access
- Data Mining for Personally Targeted Politics
- Judge Grants Search Warrant Demanding Info On Everyone Who Searched For A Certain Person’s Name
- Geohot’s new automated-driving device can only be redeemed by coughing up data: Answers questions about NHTSA letter from October, Tesla snafu.
- Consumer protection & privacy paramount at the FTC Forum on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Blockchain
Jon
Facebook starts deploying new tools to combat “fake news”
This week, Facebook has begun implementing its new strategy, announced a few months ago, in reducing the amount of “fake news” posted on its platform. In this Quartz article, the writer attempts to publish a fake news article about “Irish Slaves” and is met with a series of warnings that the user has to “click through” in order to post the article.
Here’s a brief rundown: On pasting the link to the article in the “What’s on your mind?” text box, a warning sign pops up with a “Disputed by Snopes and Associated Press” label. Clicking the label produces the tool-tip window shown in the picture below. Attempting to post the article gives you a final ‘are-you-sure?’ (with the same warning) and an option to “post anyway”.
Several questions are raised:
- How is Facebook automatically tagging these articles as fake news? Does the algorithm simply refer to a hand-picked list of ‘known’ fake news websites, or is it somehow more complicated?
- Are users who are more likely to post or share fake news articles likely to be deterred by such warnings?
- Is Facebook sufficiently addressing the issue of “who should decides what’s fake news” by referring to “independent fact-checkers” Snopes.com and Associated Press? (a question that the users in question 2 might be asking)
Cyber Safety – Dave, Will & Mimi presentation
Hi all!
Our presentation this week is on threats to online security that lawyers face and how to combat them. Please read the article below, as well as taking a look at the videos attached. See you Wednesday!
Powerpoint Presentation on Journalism (Zak and Josh)
Hi everyone,
Attached is mine and Josh’s presentation on Journalism from last week.
Zach + Josh
Class 10 Slides
Here are the slides from todays class. They do include the results of last weeks group exercise.
Jon
News of the Week; March 8, 2017
MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY
- Study: Breitbart-led right-wing media ecosystem altered broader media agenda (Yochai Benkler, Robert Faris, Hal Roberts & Ethan Zuckerman)
- I Tried Trump’s Media Diet. Now Nothing Surprises Me Anymore
- Trump’s FCC chairman says he won’t just do what Trump tells him to: Ajit Pai met with Trump Monday but won’t say what they discussed.
- Trump renominates FCC Chair Ajit Pai for another five-year term: Cable lobby hails Pai for pushing “pro-consumer agenda” and “Internet freedom.”
- The FCC Helped Make the Internet Great: Now, It’s Walking Away
- Op-ed: The Internet belongs to the people, not powerful corporate interests – Senator Chuck Schumer writes for Ars – Keep net neutrality rules in place.
- Op-ed: Protect the Open Internet with a bipartisan law – Senator John Thune writes for Ars – Time for a new approach on net neutrality.
- Charter CEO Touts Pro-Industry Cable Deregulation Under Trump
- FCC Boss Calls Net Neutrality A ‘Mistake,’ Repeats Debunked Claim It Stifled Broadband Investment
- FCC Partially Kills Rules Requiring ISPs Be Clear About Usage Caps, Hidden Fees
- Broadband lobbyists celebrate as FCC halts data security requirements: Data security rule would have confused Internet users, FCC chair claims.
- FCC Broadband Privacy Rule On Hold, Likely Dead
- Sprint’s long VoIP patent war leads to $140M verdict against Time Warner Cable: Can Sprint’s patent lawyers force competitors to pay up for VoIP?
- CRTC says No to “backdoor MVNO” Sugar Mobile
- Why proper MVNOs, unlimited data won’t happen in Canada
- Brad Wall says people have spoken and they don’t want SaskTel sold
- CRTC releases data on device unlock revenue made by Canadian carriers
- YouTube TV Improves Outlook For AT&T Time Warner Merger
- Report: Sprint “betting big on Trump,” could merge with T-Mobile or Comcast – Sprint owner weighs a few possible mergers, makes case to Trump administration.
DIGITAL
- Snap explodes another 14% on second day of trading
- NBCUniversal invests $500 million in Snapchat maker’s IPO
- Snapchat says 42 million people are watching its NFL content
- Shares of Snapchat Are Way Higher Than Expected
- How Mobile Dominates YouTube Viewership
- Uber and Airbnb are not the future of capitalism
- Uber Maybe Not Taking Its COO Search Very Seriously
- Important Ruling On Perennially-Problematic Creative Commons Non-Commercial License
- Italian firm thinks Facebook’s “Nearby Places” is a copycat, gets feature shut down: Court ordered Facebook to suspend the feature or pay 5,000 euros per day.
- Zuckerberg World President: From a Harvard dormitory at the ripe age of 20, Mark Zuckerberg created one of the most successful companies of the Internet Age. He is liked and respected by his employees and leads what is probably the Valley’s best run organization. Today, Facebook has become so powerful that it challenges established political structures and threatens to undemocratically twist the will of The People.
- Massive Internet Outage Had A Pretty Dumb Cause: A Typo – Pity the poor Amazon programmer and their errant finger
- Terms and Conditions (Rebecca Tushnet)
- Industry, and Apple, opposing “right to repair” laws: Apple claimed jailbreaking would embolden hackers—says same about right to repair.
- A right to repair: why Nebraska farmers are taking on John Deere and Apple – Farmers like fixing their own equipment, but rules imposed by big corporations are making it impossible. Now this small showdown could have a big impact
- The Art Of Manipulating Algorithms:
- Joy Buolamwini: How I’m fighting bias in algorithms
- Patent-holding company’s $533M verdict against Apple is dust on appeal: Massive verdict would have been largest ever for a non-practicing entity.
- Copyright Troll Sues Tor Exit Node, Gets Partial Win
- Why Canada is Now Home to Some of the Toughest Anti-Piracy Rules in the World…And What Should Come Next (Michael Geist)
- UK: Search engines agree to demote pirate sites in search result listings
- German Judge Fines Father Because He Didn’t Tell His Kid Not To Engage In Piracy
- UK government publishes digital strategy to create and support a secure and thriving data economy
- The UK Government Digital Strategy is out, and it’s rubbish
- “Save The Meme” Campaign Protests EU’s Proposed Piracy Filters
- Politico publishes (part of) draft copyright report by MEP Comodini Cachia
- Electronic marketing and internet use in Canada
- 4chan: The Skeleton Key to the Rise of Trump – Trump’s younger supporters know he’s an incompetent joke; in fact, that’s why they support him.
- The Golden State of Hate: How the Internet Made Hate Respectable
- South Africa Introduces Revised Cybercrime Legislation, Acknowledging Criticism
- PR-Stupid JetSmarter Will Charge Journalists $2000 If They Don’t Write Positive Reviews
- Soundcloud Tells Guy It Needs To Kill His Account Of 8 Years Because Someone Else Trademarked His Name
- Silicon Valley Needs To Get Its Act Together On Sexual Harassment & Discrimination
- Google’s Artificial Brain Learns to Find Cat Videos
- Robots’ Legal Personality (Horst Eidenmuller)
- Going for Gold: 3D Printing, Jewellery and the Future of Intellectual Property Law
- Why the biggest challenge facing AI is an ethical one
- How Artificial Intelligence Will Change Everything: Baidu’s Andrew Ng and Singularity’s Neil Jacobstein say this time, the hype about artificial intelligence is real
- Why Netflix Lets You Subtitle All Your Shows In Comic Sans
- Alcatel A5 LED: Because someone, somewhere wants a phone that doubles up as a mobile disco. Maybe.
- Virtual Reality: How to protect your IP rights in a virtual world
- Blockchain applications may be caught by Ontario’s securities law
- Blockchain and Secured Lending in Canada
- Bitcoin Is A Chaotic Bedlam Of Manipulation And Deceit And That’s Just The Way We Like It
- A Single Bitcoin Transaction Takes Thousands of Times More Energy Than a Credit Card Swipe
- Mossberg: Tech’s ruling class casts a big shadow
CREATIVITY
- Audiences no longer care about platforms. The content creator is ‘king.’: Sweet Paul, Cheddar and Axios are proof that media consumers will change their behavior and go where a creator has produced interesting content.
- Andrews v Sony ATV Music Publishing
- SXSW Faces Heavy Criticism For Immigration Clause In Artist Contract: Downtown Boys, PWR BTTM, Priests, and more have signed an open letter demanding that SXSW retract the clause.
- Downtown Boys, Priests, Sheer Mag, More Sign Open Letter Demanding SXSW Rescind Deportation Clause: “We are calling on SXSW to immediately drop this clause from their contract, and cease any collusion with immigration officials that puts performers in danger”
- State Rep Diego Bernal pulls out of SXSW panel amid immigration controversy: “I will not in good conscience participate in a festival that uses the threat of deportation as part of it’s business practices.”
- Federal Law Now Prohibits Censoring of Unfavorable Reviews
- Careful clearing photos from social media for news reporting
- Focus: Appropriation of personality after death issue in estates
- Canadian Government on U.S. Special 301: We Don’t Recognize Validity of Flawed Report (Michael Geist)
- Text Protecting Indigenous Cultural Expressions Streamlined At WIPO, But Divergence Persists
- Why newspaper subscriptions are on the rise
- How Disaster Science Explains the Oscars Mix-Up: Major errors don’t cause disasters. Banal mistakes and human nature do.
- Why does anybody own CRISPR? An argument against academic IP
- The Racist Legacy of NYC’s Anti-Dancing Law
- The Defend Trade Secrets Act Isn’t An “Intellectual Property” Law (Eric Goldman)
SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY
- WikiLeaks says it has obtained trove of CIA hacking tools
- Helpful(?) coding tips from the CIA’s school of hacks: WikiLeaks dump includes a best (and worst) practices guide for exploit developers.
- How the CIA Can Hack Your Phone, PC, and TV (Says WikiLeaks)
- CIA Leak Shows Mobile Phones Vulnerable, Not Encryption
- Trump Administration Wants A Clean Reauthorization For NSA Surveillance
- Selfie With Merkel by Refugee Became a Legal Case, but Facebook Won in German Court
- Court Tells Cops They Can’t Use GPS Data Gathered After Suspect They Were Tracking Sold The Vehicle
- DARPA’s Brain Chip Implants Could Be the Next Big Mental Health Breakthrough—Or a Total Disaster
- Master spy behind Snoopers’ Charter wants to gag leakers, journalists: Cabinet office refuses to deny that ex-MI6 man Charles Farr is behind espionage law review.
- To keep Tor hack source code secret, DOJ dismisses child porn case
- Yahoo’s data breach costs general counsel his job
- The cost of Yahoo’s data breach
- BBC screenshots child abuse images on Facebook—Facebook reports it to cops: “Probe shouldn’t involve making more images,” say CPS rules. Did BBC follow them?
- Prenda’s John Steele Pleads Guilty, Admits To Basically Everything
- VP Who Thought Clinton Private Emails Were Bad Also Had Private Emails: Mike Pence used an AOL account to conduct official business, which was hacked
- The Vatican Announces Plan To Protect Pope Francis’ Publicity Rights
- India Opening Up World’s Largest Biometric Database For Commercial Applications, Despite Inadequate Privacy Protection
- Court Refuses to Dismiss Biometric Privacy Action over Facial Recognition Technology Used by Google Photos
- EFF: Data Collected From Utility Smart Meters Should Be Protected By The Fourth Amendment
- CIA Leaks Unsurprisingly Show The Internet Of Broken Things Is A Spy’s Best Friend
- GOP senators’ new bill would let ISPs sell your Web browsing data: Senate resolution would throw out FCC’s entire privacy rulemaking.
- Body Cameras Used By UK Local Government To Catch People Dropping Litter And Walking Dogs
- The Validity of EU-U.S. Personal Data Export Tools: A Pending Issue
- Hacker George Hotz cancels Model S order after Tesla reminds him about IP theft: Was set to receive a car last week, then came a last-minute call from Tesla legal.
- Vizio Fails To Dodge Class Action Over Its Spying ‘Smart’ Televisions
- Uber’s “Greyball” tool helped company evade authorities in Portland, Paris
- Here’s A Tip: If You’re Desiging Special Apps To Hide From Regulators, You’re Going To Get In Trouble
Jon
Communications Law
