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    The “cloud” has come to mean the storing and accessing of data (including programs) over the internet rather than on on our device (computer, phone or otherwise). The official definition of the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology is: “Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of […] Read More

February 15 Group Presentation #2 (Social Media and Government Regulation)

Dear All,

Since we are the second group presenting, we’ve tried to keep our content concise. Our presentation will focus on harms arising from social media and government attempts to regulate them. The first link below gives a sense of the type of social harm that can result from the wider reach and often anonymous nature of social media (read the first page only). The second link gives an example of one extreme of government intervention in controlling the content of social media.

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News of the Week; February 8, 2017

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

  1. The Future of Simsub Post-Super Bowl: Why Canadian Viewership Data Vindicated the CRTC (Michael Geist)
  2. Bell Media adopts new tactics in bid to lure Super Bowl viewers
  3. Poll: Vast majority of Canadians oppose Internet Tax, prefer funding CanCon by extending GST/HST to foreign online companies
  4. Focus: Is shutting down TV service victory for broadcasters?
  5. Trump’s F.C.C. Pick Quickly Targets Net Neutrality Rules
  6. FCC chair stuns consumer advocates with move that could hurt poor people: Ajit Pai “walk[ed] back the stated goal of his chairmanship,” advocate says.
  7. New FCC Boss Ajit Pai Insists He’s All About Helping The Poor, Gets Right To Work Harming Them Instead
  8. FCC makes it harder for poor people to get subsidized broadband: Some might pay $9.25 more as ISPs lose ability to sell low-cost Internet plans.
  9. Ajit Pai defends decision to revoke low-cost broadband designations
  10. FCC rescinds claim that AT&T and Verizon violated net neutrality: Republican Ajit Pai halts Wheeler’s net neutrality investigation of zero-rating.
  11. New FCC Boss Kills Zero Rating Inquiry, Signals Death Of Net Neutrality Enforcement
  12. Undoing the Past – New FCC Rescinds Rulings on Noncommercial Ownership Reports, Political Broadcasting Sponsorship Disclosure and Shared Services Agreements
  13. FCC opens radio and television broadcasting to foreign entities
  14. New FCC Boss Decides It’s Cool If Phone Monopolies Want To Rip Off Inmate Families
  15. FCC Chairman Pai Promotes Transparency – Releases Draft Orders on Next-Generation TV and FM Translators for AM Stations – What Will Be Considered for Radio at February FCC Meeting? 
  16. FCC tries something new: Making proposals public before voting on them: Wheeler said releasing text before vote would cripple process—now we’ll find out.
  17. “Lipstick on a pig”: Time Warner Cable “deceived the FCC” in speed tests – “We just have to make it work temporarily,” TWC said of FCC speed tests.
  18. Not so fast—Comcast told to stop claiming it has “fastest Internet”: Verizon wins challenge of Comcast’s fastest Internet and “in-home Wi-Fi” claims.
  19. How Comcast’s Growing Broadband Monopoly Is Helping It Temporarily Fend Off The TV Cord Cutting Threat
  20. Here’s Exactly How the Internet Is Now Under Threat: Obama’s FCC head Tom Wheeler talks candidly about the open internet — and why, in Trumpworld, four companies could lock it up.
  21. Comcast, Verizon, T-Mobile & AT&T Issue Breathless Love Letter To Privacy With One Hand, Lobby To Kill All Privacy Protections With The Other
  22. The Shattered Mirror, Part Two: The Underwhelming Recommendation for Open Licensing at the CBC (Michael Geist)

DIGITAL

  1. Breitbart loses advertising deals with 818 companies due to grassroots campaign
  2. Alt-Right Website, Breitbart, Loses Over 800 Advertisers For Offensive Content
  3. Playpen moderator sentenced to 20 years in prison
  4. The art of the troll: New tool reveals egg users’—and Trump’s—posting patterns: When an account makes 500 posts a day, that’s a sure sign that there’s something amiss.
  5. Ahead Of France’s Elections, Facebook Tries To Stop Fake News: With a new filter, it’s working with French media companies to fact check stories
  6. Want to post a discriminatory ad? Facebook may try to stop you automatically: Follows November outcry over targeted FB ads’ possible violations of Fair Housing Act.
  7. “Fake news is bad, but the ministry of truth is even worse”: Europe Considers Regulation for the Post-Truth Era
  8. Refugee who took selfie with German chancellor has had enough of “fake news”: Anas Modamani says Facebook should do more to stop misuse of his image.
  9. ‘Fake news’ highlights much bigger problems at play
  10. Judge rules against DOJ in Amazon, Expedia case against Trump travel ban – Washington AG: “No one is above the law—not even the president.”
  11. Apple, Google, and 95 other tech firms join forces to fight Trump travel ban: Companies say executive order is “overbroad…lacks any basis in precedent.”
  12. Basically The Entire Tech Industry Signs Onto A Legal Brief Opposing Trump’s Exec Order
  13. BT backs Google in EU’s Android antitrust spat: “We welcome Google’s anti-fragmentation initiatives,” says BT in snub to Brussels.
  14. How Iranian authorities have been fighting the ‘Soft War’ online
  15. Netflix abroad set for showtime after EU strikes a “portability” deal: But Brexit Brits’ beach-based boxset binges could be short-lived.
  16. Pirate Party’s Pirate Site Was Legal Under EU Law, Court Rules: Six years ago the Czech branch of the Pirate Party declared open war on a local anti-piracy outfit, opening several ‘pirate’ sites to draw fire from copyright holders. But, after being prosecuted in a criminal court last year, the matter has now been dropped after it was deemed the Pirates acted in accordance with a recent landmark EU ruling.
  17. Amazon Defeats Lawsuit Over Its Keyword Ad Purchases–Lasoff v. Amazon (Eric Goldman)
  18. Patent troll sues Netflix over offline downloads: Patent for “CD-Rs by mail” service—perhaps inspired by old-school Netflix—used to sue.
  19. HP patents, sold off to a troll, are used to sue Cisco and Facebook: Patents went from 3Com to HP to East Texas-based Plectrum LLC.
  20. Kanye West caught using Pirate Bay to download music software
  21. Music Industry Majors Sue Hip-Hop Streaming Site Spinrilla
  22. A Word of Caution: File Wrapper Contents Can Come Back to Haunt You
  23. How a former editor allegedly used Vice Canada to recruit drug mules for a global smuggling ring
  24. The Codification Of Web DRM As A Censorship Tool
  25. Google Brain super-resolution image tech makes “zoom, enhance!” real: Google Brain creates new image details out of thin air.
  26. YouTube now lets creators with 10,000 subscribers live-stream video on mobile: And new “Super Chat” lets viewers pay to get noticed.
  27. Facebook Plans To Be Like YouTube, Not Netflix
  28. Facebook is focusing on shorter content, YouTube model for its video strategy
  29. GoPro reports 35% lift in YouTube uploads
  30. The Problem With Snapchat’s IPO
  31. Snapchat parent warns of Brexit anxiety and sexting confusion in IPO filing: First public prospectus reveals a $405 million ad biz—and a net loss of $515 million…
  32. Majority Stake Owner Wants to Sell BroadbandTV – Or Take It Public
  33. Snapchat Stacks New York Times on Media Pile
  34. Something Happened: The origin of day-one patches – Canadian software houses were fast and loose places in the 1980s.

CREATIVITY

  1. Prof: “Can you sue the President based on his tweets? We’re about to find out” – Lawsuit joins at least 15 other cases challenging president’s executive order.
  2. BuzzFeed Sued for Naming Tech CEO in Story About Trump’s Alleged Russian Ties
  3. Court Tells Melania Trump She Can’t Sue The Daily Mail In Maryland, So She Refiles In New York
  4. Recent Law School Grad Sues Twitter Because Someone Made A Parody Twitter Account
  5. Bad Idea Or The Worst Idea? Having The FTC Regulate ‘Fake News’
  6. Liberals Won’t Bail Out Canada’s News Industry, Sources Say
  7. Time Inc. begins shopping for potential buyers
  8. Feds must take action on copyright trolls
  9. HowStuffWorks Attempts To Explain Why Advertisers Use Super Bowl Euphemisms, But I Have A Simpler Explanation
  10. New National “Right to Work” Bill Threatens Hollywood Unions
  11. ESPN Settles Lawsuit Over Reporter’s Tweet Revealing an NFL Star’s Amputated Finger
  12. Nine Years Later, Patriots Get ’19-0′ And ‘Perfect Season’ Trademarks, Despite Doing Neither
  13. Former NFL star Shawne Merriman sues Under Armour for trademark infringement
  14. Federal Court Basically Says It’s Okay To Copyright Parts Of Our Laws
  15. The Kylie Jenner–Kylie Minogue Trademark Dispute Was a Battle of the Old School vs. the New
  16. Investors pour another $8.5M into Star Trek Timelines dev Disruptor Beam
  17. Employers, employees and consultants – who owns what when it comes to intellectual property?
  18. How being replaced by a machine turned this graphic artist into an activist
  19. Political ad isn’t commercial, can’t be basis of Lanham Act claim (Rebecca Tushnet)

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

  1. Did a Canadian court just establish a new right to be forgotten online? (Michael Geist)
  2. Did a Canadian Court Just Establish a New Right to be Forgotten? (Michael Geist)
  3. When are public documents too public?: A.T. v. Globe24h.com tests the limits
  4. Goodale orders review into illegal CSIS metadata program: The CSIS Operational Data Analysis Centre had stored “associated data” — usually called metadata — on innocent Canadians for nearly a decade.
  5. US visitors may have to reveal social media passwords to enter country: “If they don’t want to cooperate, then you don’t come in.”
  6. Ohio man’s pacemaker data may betray him in arson, insurance fraud case: Man describes quickly packing and fleeing; heart data shows otherwise, doctor says.
  7. Court Tosses Lawsuit Brought By Brother And Sister Against Take-Two Interactive Over NBA2K Face Scans
  8. Biometrics, Gaming & Privacy Laws: Facial scanning features can help put players in the game, but they can also put game makers in court if they aren’t implemented carefully
  9. Vizio Agrees To Pay $2.2 Million To Settle Too-Smart TV Lawsuit: The TVs were tracking viewership habits and selling the information to advertisers
  10. Vizio Fined $2.2 Million For Not Telling Customers Their TVs Were Spying On Them
  11. Vizio TVs secretly tracked viewership in U.S. without consent: Canadian units excluded from system that set screens to report what people watched — without them knowing
  12. Superior Court of Quebec Authorizes Privacy Class Action in Zuckerman v. Target Corporation
  13. Jason Pierre-Paul and ESPN reach settlement in invasion-of-privacy lawsuit
  14. Baseball team pays a big price for hacking
  15. Major privacy case to open before High Court in Dublin: Facebook and privacy campaigner party to action by Data Protection Commissioner
  16. The Ninth Circuit Holds That a Telephone Consumer Protection Act Violation Alone Is Sufficient To Establish Standing
  17. Maybe the US does have the right to seize data from the world’s servers: Until Supreme Court resolves this, we’ll likely see many conflicting rulings.
  18. The FBI Can Engage In All Sorts Of Surveillance And Snooping Without Actually Placing Someone Under Investigation
  19. How Google fought back against a crippling IoT-powered botnet and won: Behind the scenes defending KrebsOnSecurity against record-setting DDoS attacks.
  20. Privacy Tort Update – Not So Fast on Public Disclosure of Embarrassing Private Stuff 
  21. FTC Will Consider Spying Toy Privacy Concerns 
  22. Windows DRM: Now An (Unwitting) Ally In Efforts To Expose Anonymous Tor Users
  23. Former NSA contractor may have stolen 75% of TAO’s elite hacking tools: Prosecutors reportedly plan to charge Harold T. Martin with espionage.
  24. A rash of invisible, fileless malware is infecting banks around the globe: Once the province of nation-sponsored hackers, in-memory malware goes mainstream.
  25. Keys Under Doormats: Mandating insecurity by requiring government access to all data and communications
  26. Ron Deibert’s Lab Is the ‘Robin Hood’ of Cyber Security
  27. It’s Too Complicated: How The Internet Upends Katz, Smith, And Electronic Surveillance Law (Steven M. Bellovin, Matt Blaze, Susan Landau, & Stephanie K. Pell)

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Russia Considers Returning Snowden to U.S. to ‘Curry Favor’ With Trump: Official

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February 15 Discussion Materials (Internet Advertising)

 

Hi all,

Zoe and I will be presenting February 15th on internet advertising and a number of unique issues which it raises. To give an idea of what we will cover, please see our our full discussion outline below.

Reading Materials

Please have a look at the following reading materials in advance of our discussion:

  • Ben Elgin et al, “The Fake Traffic Schemes that Are Rotting the Internet”, Bloomberg (2015), online: <https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-click-fraud/>.
  • Competition Bureau, “False or Misleading Representations and Deceptive Marketing Practices”, (2009, pamphlet), online: <http://www.competitionbureau.gc.ca/eic/site/cb-bc.nsf/eng/03133.html>.
  • An example of a Competition Bureau bulletin: “The Deceptive Marketing Practices Digest”, (2015) vol, online: <http://www.competitionbureau.gc.ca/eic/site/cb-bc.nsf/vwapj/cb-digest-deceptive-marketing-e.pdf/$FILE/cb-digest-deceptive-marketing-e.pdf>.

How Internet Advertising Works

  • Advertisers (often, but not exclusively) use…
  • Ad networks (such as Google DoubleClick, Taboola, etc.) to place links to their websites or content on the pages of…
  • Publishers (e.g., newspapers, blogs, other various web sites) to draw in…
  • Audience(s) (you!).

Current Issues

Privacy & Tracking

  • The modern online advertising industry is built on the collection of user information. What (legal) privacy limits should be imposed on this?
  • Also, consider implications with regards to “big data” and government surveillance—even if current practices do not offend privacy rights, the retention of user information could present a problem in the future.

Deceptive & Fraudulent Advertising

  • Are current regulations and regulatory frameworks effective?
  • Do traditional consumer protection models even work in this context?

Adblocking & the Sustainability of Advertising as an Income Model

  • Content creator appeals to ethos & the morality of refusing to be advertised to: asking the audience to turn off Adblock?
    • eg: https://pagefair.com/blog/2016/rights-or-respect-the-ethics-of-adblocking/
  • Potential different models: sponsored content or affiliate links?
  • When and why do we turn off Adblock and consent to see advertising?

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February 8 “Facebook” Slides

Hey everyone,

Thanks for the lively discussion today.

Here are the slides (in .PDF form) from our presentation.

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Class 6 Slides

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Where are the EU Twitter Communities?

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Trump says terror acts in Europe were ignored by ‘dishonest press.’ Evidence says otherwise

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February 8th Presentation Materials

Hello everyone,

This week in Comms law we’re doing a presentation on Facebook’s alleged privacy infringements and the broader societal implications of “Big Data”.

If you find yourself some time to spare, take a skim through this informal Q&A with Facebook Global Deputy Chief Privacy Officer Stephen Deadman. This video raises many privacy concerns regarding Facebook and presents the company’s ‘official’ perspectives on them.

Thanks and see you in class!

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News of the Week; February 1, 2017

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

  1. Ajit Pai on net neutrality: “I favor an open Internet and I oppose Title II”: New FCC chairman won’t say whether he’ll enforce net neutrality rules.
  2. FCC Chairman Pai takes Wheeler’s set-top box plan off the table: Cable industry was open to compromise, but no Republican plan has been offered.
  3. FCC exempts small ISPs from broadband truth-in-billing rules: Rule requiring disclosure of hidden fees won’t benefit customers of small ISPs.
  4. Pai FCC’s First Commission-Level Vote Targets Rural Broadband Access 
  5. Sen. Franken asks AT&T to prove Time Warner merger is good for customers: AT&T won’t commit to public interest statement as it tries to avoid FCC review.
  6. Eliminating Net Neutrality likely to raise the cost of using the Internet
  7. New York AG Sues Charter For Slow Broadband Speeds, Says Company ‘Ripping Off’ Users With Substandard Service
  8. Republican-led FCC drops court defense of inmate calling rate cap: FCC lawyers no longer authorized to defend intrastate calling caps.
  9. Verizon Eyes Charter Megamerger, Because Who Likes Broadband Competition Anyway?
  10. Comcast will charge extra fee for watching TV on Roku boxes: Xfinity beta app is now on Roku; for now, customers still need a Comcast TV box.
  11. 13 Years Ago at the Last Houston Super Bowl – Janet Jackson’s Impact on FCC Indecency Rules 

DIGITAL

  1. Intellectual Property Owner Awarded Control of Infringer’s Social Media Accounts
  2. Perfect 10, Inc. v. Giganews, Inc.
  3. Facebook Live Is the Right Wing’s New Fox News: How the rough-around-the-edges live-streaming tool became the perfect incubator for conservative news in the Trump age.
  4. The Data That Turned the World Upside Down
  5. Axel Springer CEO: Facebook should not fact check ‘fake news’ — it is not a news organization
  6. Flush with anti-Trump donations, ACLU gets Y Combinator’s mentorship
  7. China’s Response To Study Confirms It Uses ‘Strategic Distraction’ To Prevent Collective Action. Sound Familiar?
  8. Copyright Trolls Overplay Their Hand In Finland, Bringing A Government Microscope To Their Practices
  9. RIP, “Six Strikes” Copyright Alert System: The anti-piracy accord between ISPs and entertainment industry meets its demise.
  10. Ding Dong: Silly Six Strikes Copyright Infringement Scheme Is Dead
  11. Internet Service Providers, Studios and Record Labels Call It Quits on Copyright Alert System
  12. The US ‘Six Strikes’ Anti-Piracy Scheme is Dead: The “six-strikes” Copyright Alert System is no more. In a brief announcement, MPAA, RIAA, and several major US ISPs said that the effort to educate online pirates has stopped. It’s unclear why the parties ended their voluntary agreement, but the lack of progress reports in recent years indicates that it wasn’t as successful as they had hoped
  13. Venezuelan officials arrest four Bitcoin miners on charges of stealing electricity: With the economy in shambles, Bitcoin miners have tried to side-step currency woes.
  14. Monero, the Drug Dealer’s Cryptocurrency of Choice, Is on Fire
  15. Sony missed writing on the wall for DVD sales, takes nearly $1B writedown: Or, in corporate-speak, loss was “mainly driven by an acceleration of market decline.”
  16. Thanks to YouTube, Vevo Nears 100 Million Active Monthly Users
  17. Lawyer for “inventor of e-mail” sends threat letter over social media posts: Shiva Ayyadurai’s attorney, who sued Techdirt, goes after another blogger.
  18. Thousands of College Kids Are Powering a Clickbait Empire: How a 29-year-old built Odyssey, a vast network of college students happy to fuel multi-million dollar marketing campaigns for peanuts.
  19. The internet of toys
  20. Robot knows when to hold ‘em, wins huge in poker tournament: 120,000 hands and a $1.7 million margin of victory later, Carnegie Mellon’s AI wins out.
  21. Click Here to Kill Everyone: With the Internet of Things, we’re building a world-size robot. How are we going to control it? (Bruce Schneier)
  22. The merging of humans and machines is happening now: Her organisation invented the internet. It gave us the self-driving car. And now DARPA’s former boss sees us crossing a new technological boundary
  23. Tech Leaders Are Just Now Getting Serious About the Threats of AI: Apple joins a leading AI ethics group, one of several tech-led initiatives preparing for a highly automated future.
  24. The Gates Foundation Emerges As A Leader In The Fight For Full Open Access And Open Data
  25. Apple will move its entire international iTunes business to Ireland: International HQ will move from one tax haven to another.
  26. Apple sets revenue and iPhone sales records in Q1 of 2017
  27. TV shows go into overdrive on Snapchat
  28. Can One App Revolutionize TV Ratings For The Streaming And Binge-Watching Era?
  29. Causality in machine learning
  30. Canada’s Supreme Court Is Preserving Every Website Mentioned In Its Rulings
  31. What We Buy When We Buy Now (Aaron Perzanowski & Chris Hoofnagle)

CREATIVITY

  1. Fairness Confirmed Again: Federal Court of Appeal Upholds Copyright Board’s Fair Dealing Ruling (Michael Geist)
  2. Supreme Court rejects appeal against B.C. Election Act: Registration rules for political ad sponsors don’t restrict individual political expression, court finds
  3. Back To The Stampede: Court Upholds Forum Selection Clause Requiring Copyright Action To Return to Alberta
  4. Actress in Viral Video Can’t Prevent Video From Being Made Into an Advertisement–Roberts v. Bliss (Eric Goldman)
  5. Ninth Circuit Finds First Amendment Protects Against Right-of-Publicity Claim Involving Film “The Hurt Locker” 
  6. Woman Claims Her Picture is Worth $2 Billion in Right of Publicity Suit
  7. Court of Appeal endorses Data Protection Act as alternative to defamation claim
  8. The Federal Court of Appeal Rules on Access Copyright’s K-12 Tariff
  9. The New Joint DOJ/FTC Antitrust Guidelines for the Licensing of Intellectual Property 
  10. Judge Gorsuch On Copyright And Technology (James Grimmelmann)
  11. Apple sued over singer’s right of publicity in iPhone ad singing: No copyright, but can an artist’s voice sustain a “right of publicity” case?
  12. Mac Repair Company iGeniuses Sends Legal Threats To Unhappy Customers, Demanding $2500 Per Negative Review
  13. Michael Jackson Is Worth More Than Ever, and the IRS Wants Its Cut: Jackson’s star lawyer made a mint for his heirs, so now the government has to be startin’ somethin’.
  14. Germany Finally Dumps Law That Says It’s A Crime To Insult Foreign Leaders
  15. Jose Cuervo Loses Bid To Block Trademark Registration For Il Corvo Wine
  16. The Shattered Mirror, Part One: Fair Dealing Reform Isn’t the Answer for News in the Digital Age (Michael Geist)
  17. How the arts helped kill off the NEA — by trying to play the conservative “economic value” game: Our strategy of ditching “Art for Art’s Sake” in favor of “ArtWorks” hasn’t saved the arts — and it never will
  18. Trump Advisor Pens Almost Totally Clueless Piece About ‘Intellectual Property Theft’
  19. How True Advertising Can Save Journalism From Drowning in a Sea of Content
  20. Strategies for Discerning the Boundaries of Copyright and Patent Protections (Pamela Samuelson)
  21. Freeing Buskers’ Free Speech Rights: Impact of Regulations on Buskers’ Right to Free Speech and Expression (John Jurich)

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

  1. Suspecting arson, cops subpoena homeowner’s pacemaker logs, then charge him with multiple felonies
  2. Trump’s Executive Order Eliminates Privacy Act Protections for Foreigners (Michael Geist)
  3. New Trump Executive Order Says Federal Agencies Should Exclude Foreigners From Privacy Protections
  4. President Trump’s Executive Order May Impact the Privacy Shield 
  5. Already Under Attack In Top EU Court, Privacy Shield Framework For Transatlantic Data Flows Further Undermined By Trump
  6. Trump Orders The Cyber To Be Fixed In The Next Sixty Days
  7. Twitter Reveals Two National Security Letters After Gag Orders Lifted; Rightly Complains About Gag Orders
  8. Court Says Location Of FBI’s Utility Pole-Piggybacking Surveillance Cameras Can Remain Secret
  9. Bodycam footage leaks, resisting arrest charges dropped – Girl screams: “I just recorded everything.” Police officer responds: “Me too.”
  10. Appeals court rules that stolen laptops class action against payer can proceed
  11. Live Streaming: The Privacy Concerns of Behind-the-Scenes Access
  12. Site that sold access to 3.1 billion passwords vanishes after reported raid: LeakedSource garnered criticism for actively cracking the passwords it sold.
  13. Majority of Android VPNs can’t be trusted to make users more secure: Study of nearly 300 apps finds shocking omissions, including a failure to encrypt.
  14. St. Louis Cardinals Hacking Scandal: A Real-World Example of the Importance of Password Management 
  15. Amidst Increased Government Surveillance, Chinese Internet Users Finally Gain Important Online Privacy Protections
  16. One More Time With Feeling: ‘Anonymized’ User Data Not Really Anonymous
  17. FTC Report Reinforces the Rules for Cross-Device Tracking
  18. “You took so much time to joke me”—two hours trolling a Windows support scammer: “Albert Morris” and team get taken for a ride while we tried to track their tradecraft.
  19. Blue Lies Matter: BuzzFeed News reviewed 62 incidents of video footage contradicting an officer’s statement in a police report or testimony. From traffic stops to fatal force, these cases reveal how cops are incentivized to lie — and why they get away with it.
  20. In not-too-distant future, brain hackers could steal your deepest secrets: Religious beliefs, political leanings, and medical conditions are up for grabs.

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