Here they are…
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2016 Updated Communications Monitoring Report
Communications Monitoring Report 2016: Telecommunications sector overview
Specifically, the “forborne services” portion:
CRTC Submissions on Canadian Content
The CRTC took submissions from interested parties on the topic of a “Netflix Tax.” It is not available on the main CRTC site (that I’ve seen) but the submissions made are available on a separate site: http://www.canadiancontentconsultations.ca/home
Notably, the submission from the CBC is essentially in favour of letting Netflix continue to operate as they have, as they are a notable contributor to CBC productions, and instead calls for a de-politicization of CBC funding.
News of the Week; January 18, 2017
MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY
- Not Exactly a Netflix Tax: Where Canada Stands on a Digital Sales Tax (Michael Geist)
- Careful: a digital tax isn’t the same as a Netflix tax
- Killing net neutrality at FCC is “not a slam dunk,” departing chair says: While Republicans could end net neutrality, Wheeler explains why they shouldn’t.
- Outgoing FCC Boss Warns New FCC About The Perils Of Killing Net Neutrality
- FCC Report Clearly Says AT&T & Verizon Are Violating Net Neutrality — And Nobody Is Going To Do A Damn Thing About It
- Report: Verizon Considering Comcast Merger In Supernova Of Dysfunction
- Trump team reportedly wants to strip FCC of consumer protection powers
- Trump’s Plan Is To Gut All FCC Consumer Protection Powers
- Don’t Touch That Dial: Why attempts to improve AM and FM radio technologies tend to land with a thud—a thud no harder felt than with the FMX standard, circa 1989.
DIGITAL
- Clearing Out the App Stores: Government Censorship Made Easier
- Brexit leads to iOS App Store price jump: Apple raising prices by just under 25% to account for pound’s depreciation since vote to leave the EU
- Labor Department sues Oracle for racial discrimination: Regulators say white male workers paid more than non-white counterparts.
- Feds sue Qualcomm for anti-competitive patent licensing: Regulators say “no license, no chip” policy amounts to an illegal monopoly.
- BuzzFeed’s Bombshell: Why the site published the explosive memos about Trump and Russia—and why no one beat them to it.
- Was BuzzFeed wrong to publish the Trump dossier? This media ethicist says yes.: “They were serving themselves and their own clicks.” –Kelly McBride, vice president of Poynter
- Here’s Why BuzzFeed Was Right to Publish Those Trump Documents
- Exclusive interview with BuzzFeed editor: BuzzFeed’s editor-in-chief talks to Brian Stelter about the decision to publish the unsubstantiated dossier on President-elect Donald Trump
- Trump Is Making Journalism Great Again: In his own way, Trump has set us free.
- Techdirt’s First Amendment Fight For Its Life
- How To Use Facebook And Fake News To Get People To Murder Each Other: In South Sudan, a country where the vast majority of people lack internet access, fake news and hateful speech leap from Facebook to the real world — with possibly deadly consequences.
- Yet Another Lawsuit Hopes A Court Will Hold Twitter Responsible For Terrorists’ Actions
- Clearing Out the App Stores: Government Censorship Made Easier
- Land Court Finds that Texting Can Bind Parties
- Online Price Advertising: Amazon to Pay $1.1 Million to Settle Canadian Competition Bureau Investigation
- New York Times report: ‘The Internet is brutal to mediocrity’
- The Great Unbundling
- Software Copyright Litigation After Oracle v. Google
- No, you do not have to pay a ‘settlement fee’ if you get an illegal download notice
- San Francisco sues local drone maker, drone maker then shuts down: Lily Robotics never shipped a single drone.
- YouTube livestreams now have their own tip jar
- The Inside Story of BitTorrent’s Bizarre Collapse: How a group of valley outsiders blew through the company’s cash and nearly left it for dead.
- How Netflix Lost Big to Amazon in India: The streaming company botched its chance to own India’s huge new video market.
- The next best thing to teleportation: Living in one country and working in another will soon be common, thanks to remote-control robots. Future Now spoke with economist Richard Baldwin about how this trend could change the world.
- Student Disciplined for Posting Threatening Mashup Video to Instagram–AN v. Upper Perkiomen School District (Eric Goldman)
- Drone maker Lily Robotics sued by San Francisco district attorney
- Why Blockchain Will Trump Populism
- The entire modern copyright was built on one fundamental assumption that the Internet has reversed
- Treat robots as “electronic persons” but with kill switches, argue MEPs: Committee approves proposal that mulls “electronic personality” for robots.
- Using Tinder in Your Hometown Is Like Visiting an Alternate Reality: Surfing the app on a trip back home can be a way of regressing, or imagining what life would be like if you never left.
- Siri-ously 2.0: What Artificial Intelligence Reveals About the First Amendment (Toni M. Massaro, Helen Norton, Margot E. Kaminski)
CREATIVITY
- Fake News, Fake Art? Richard Prince Disavows Work Depicting Ivanka Trump
- Ceci n’est pas une Prince*: Richard Prince Appropriates and Repurposes Himself
- How the Killers & a fortune cookie turned philanthropic
- Star Trek fan-fiction copyright suit tests ‘fair use’ defence
- Louis Vuitton’s appeal fails in parody case
- LA Chargers Already Face Trademark Opposition To Their Name Over The Term ‘L.A.’
- Artist creates “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” memes to stop people from whitewashing MLK
- How Reality TV Builds Narrative Is Crucial to Understanding Trump
- For Hollywood, The Best Way To Win Against Disney Is To Not Be Disney
- New Study Essentially Suggests That Publishers Should Do CwF + RtB Instead Of Going Legal To Combat Piracy
- What If China’s Money Stream Stops Flowing to Hollywood?
- Austria: Tattoos and Copyright
- Billions of Bilious Barbecued Blue Blistering Barnacles: Tintin Gets Color Makeover!
- Lucasfilm: Carrie Fisher will not return to Star Wars in CGI form: Still leaves major questions about Leia’s role in Episode IX unanswered.
- Beware! Academics are getting reeled in by scam journals: The number of predatory publishers is skyrocketing – and they’re eager to pounce on unsuspecting scholars.
- Copyright Reform in Canada – the 2017 Section 92 Review (Howard Knopf)
- Quick Links, Part 10: Marketing, Uber, Airbnb, Taxes & More (Eric Goldman)
- 2016 Quick Links, Part 11: Social Media, Harassment, E-Discovery & More (Eric Goldman)
- Free speech debates are more than ‘radicals’ vs ‘liberals’ (Eric Heinze)
SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY
- Assange weasels out of pledge to surrender if Manning received clemency: WikiLeaks founder now says it’s not good enough Manning will be released in May.
- Chinese Officials With Government Access To Every Kind Of Personal Data Are Selling It Online
- Court rules against man who was forced to fingerprint-unlock his phone: Unlocking a phone like this “is no more testimonial than furnishing a blood sample.”
- Mississippi AG Jim Hood sues Google—again
- Syrian Migrant Says He’s Tired Of Being The Subject Of ‘Fake News,’ Sues Facebook For Posts Linking Him To Terrorism
- US court says PSN data doesn’t get Fourth Amendment protection: Sony could hand info to the police without a warrant.
- It’s shockingly easy to hijack a Samsung SmartCam camera
- Empirical Data on the Privacy Paradox
- Cell Phone Hacking Company Hacked; 900 GB Of Logins, Log Files, And Forensic Evidence Taken
- Did The FISA Court Finally Reject The FBI’s Advances?
- Top UK Cop Says Hackers Should Be Punished Not With Prison, But With Jammed WiFi Connections
- VR as the Most Powerful Surveillance Technology or Last Bastion of Privacy? It’s up to Us.
- Law Enforcement Has Been Using OnStar, SiriusXM, To Eavesdrop, Track Car Locations For More Than 15 Years
- NSA to share data with other agencies without “minimizing” American information: Rules opposed by civil liberties and privacy advocates.
- It’s Official: Sixteen Government Agencies Now Have Access To Unminimized Domestic NSA Collections
- After Lawsuits And Denial, Pacemaker Vendor Finally Admits Its Product Is Hackable
- Cloudflare Finally Able To Reveal FBI Gag Order That Congress Told Cloudflare Couldn’t Possibly Exist
- Our Apathy Toward Privacy Will Destroy Us. Designers Can Help: The loss of security and privacy online may seem inevitable, but designers can help the public help themselves.
- Privacy’s Trust Gap (Neil Richards & Woodrow Hartzog)
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Class 3 Slides
Class 3 slides below…
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Materials and Questions for January 25th Class
Kasey and I are planning our presentation for next week, and would like everyone to read through Changing the Channel on Canadian Communications Regulation, which is a research report from the C.D. Howe Institute which basically argues that broadcasting laws have failed to keep up with changes and innovation. The actual content runs from pages 3-22 of the pdf.
Some questions we are hoping you will think about so that we can discuss them in class:
- What are the arguments for and against the preservation of Canadian Content in a digital age?
- Does Canadian Content regulation achieve its goal of preserving Canadian culture?
- If nearly all content is now available on demand through the internet and/or various streaming services, what purpose does it actually serve to require certain quotas be met?
- In practice, does CanCon Regulation actually help the Canadian artist? Is Canadian creation actually encouraged by this kind of regulation, or is funding access the primary issue?
We look forward to discussing this with you next week (Jan 25)!
-Angi & Kasey
News of the Week; January 11, 2017
MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY
- Canadian Regulators Declare 50 Mbps To Be The New Broadband Standard
- Why a media coalition is decrying a CRTC ruling on Super Bowl feeds (Michael Geist)
- NFL Blitzes Trudeau in Arcane Super Bowl Advertising Dispute
- Norway Set to Be First Country to Switch Off FM Radio: Move to all-digital radio sparks debate
- ISPs Get Right To Work Pushing For Elimination Of New FCC Broadband Privacy Rules
- Verizon Cracks Down On Unlimited Data Users, Claims Nobody Wants Unlimited Data Anyway
- FCC Denies Reconsideration of Noncommercial Broadcasting Ownership Report Requirements – But Signs that New Commission May See Things Differently
- Tom Wheeler accuses AT&T and Verizon of violating net neutrality: Paid zero-rating in crosshairs, but it won’t matter once Trump is president.
- AT&T Intends To Dodge FCC Review Of Time Warner Mega-Merger, But Trump Remains A Wild Card
- AT&T Already Backing Off Its Biggest Time Warner Merger Promise: Cheaper TV
- AT&T and Time Warner still trying to sidestep FCC scrutiny of merger: Time Warner might get rid of dozens of licenses to avoid public interest review.
- Ad Industry Wants New FCC Broadband Privacy Rules Gutted Because, Uh, Free Speech!
- Don’t Gut Net Neutrality. It’s Good for People and Business
- Verizon raises upgrade fee to “cover increased cost”—but its costs declined
- Verizon purges unlimited data customers, targets those using 200GB: Heaviest unlimited data users must switch to limited plans or be disconnected.
- The Fox News nighttime lineup has shed its last element of real journalism
- The huge challenge of covering Trump fairly
- Yes, Donald Trump ‘lies.’ A lot. And news organizations should say so.
- The U.S. Media’s Problems Are Much Bigger than Fake News and Filter Bubbles
- It’s time to retire the tainted term ‘fake news’
- How to Reverse Journalism’s Decline: American journalism is in dire straits. Is a robust public subsidy the antidote?
- Inside The Rise Of The “Breitbart Of The Left”: David Brock, the conservative apostate turned liberal agitator, lays out his plans for the future of the Internet for progressives. “We’re going to go after spineless Democrats who want to make nice with Trump.”
- Did Media Literacy Backfire? (danah boyd)
DIGITAL
- Popular tech blog sued by self-proclaimed “inventor of e-mail” hits back: “This fight could be the end of Techdirt, even if we are completely right.”
- Bureau closes Apple iPhone investigation: No abuse of dominance found related to contracts with Canadian wireless carriers (January 6, 2017 — Ottawa, On — Competition Bureau)
- France’s ‘Right To Disconnect’ Is Now Live, For Reasons Passing Understanding
- Linking to illegal content can constitute a copyright infringement – CJEU Sanoma interpreted by a German Court
- EFF to Court: Don’t Let the Right of Publicity Eat the Internet
- Children in England sign over digital rights ‘regularly and unknowingly’: Children’s commissioner calls for greater representation after study finds half of eight- to 11-year-olds have agreed opaque T&Cs with social media firms
- A Lack of Yakking: Students appear to have moved on from Yik Yak, once a prime app for anonymous gossip and racist comments — a relief for administrators struggling to curb online bullying.
- Tim Wu: ‘The internet is like the classic story of the party that went sour’ – The influential tech thinker has charted the history of the attention industry: enterprises that harvest our attention to sell to advertisers. The internet, he argues, is the latest communications tool to have fallen under its spell
- How a week of Trump tweets stoked anxiety, moved markets and altered plans
- Snapchat Accused of Misleading Investors in Ex-Employee’s Lawsuit
- Yahoo is dead, long live Altaba!: Following Verizon purchase, only Asian investments and some patents remain.
- Verizon Insists Higher Phone Upgrades Are Being Used To Enhance The Network Instead Of Make Up Revenue Decline
- TV anchor says live on-air ‘Alexa, order me a dollhouse’ – guess what happens next: Story on accidental order begets story on accidental order begets accidental order
- The Humans Working Behind the AI Curtain
- Why We Can’t Fix Twitter: Social media is broken. When will we realize that we’re the problem?
- How should Twitter respond to WikiLeaks threats to track its verified users?
- France does not currently need the new 3D printing laws that parliament is considering, say experts
- Martin Shkreli harasses Teen Vogue writer, has Twitter account suspended
- Eli Pariser: activist whose filter bubble warnings presaged Trump and Brexit – Upworthy chief warned about dangers of the internet’s echo chambers five years before 2016’s votes
- 2016 sees Internet Explorer usage collapse, Chrome surge
- Netflix Downloader Pulled Offline Following Trademark Complaint
- BBC vs Netflix: iPlayer to stream shows before they air on TV – Beeb gets in on binge-watch game—hopes to lure Brits away from rival services.
- Vancouver-based BroadbandTV expands to Southeast Asia, Middle East
- The Internet of Things: U.S. Copyright Office Releases Report on Software Enabled Products
- FridgeCam lets you make your dumb fridge smart with a simple camera: Why replace an entire fridge when you can stick a camera inside the one you have?
- Blockchains for Artificial Intelligence: From Decentralized Model Exchanges to Model Audit Trails
- Hacking the Attention Economy (danah boyd)
- Top 10 Internet Law Developments of 2016 (Eric Goldman)
- Honest YouTube Rewind: The Most Controversial YouTube Stories of 2016
- Why Trolls Won in 2016
- 2016: The Year We Stopped Listening To Big Tech’s Favorite Excuse – For a time, “We’re just a platform” was a handy excuse for the unexpected consequences of Silicon Valley’s most important companies. But this year it stopped working.
- Aaron Swartz and me, over a loosely intertwined decade: Remembering the talented activist who lived in our Internet neighborhood.
CREATIVITY
- US Supreme Court loaded with First Amendment cases: Can you trademark an offensive name or not? Justices to decide.
- Axanar isn’t fair use, judge finds, setting stage for Star Trek copyright trial: Set courtrooms to stun as judge rejects motions for summary judgment from both sides.
- Court gives jury mission to explore strange world of copyright and fair use
- Copyright in Klingon
- Why Unreleased Marvin Gaye, Supremes, Beach Boys Tracks Are Suddenly Appearing: EU Copyright Law
- Bill O’Reilly accused again of sexual harassment. Ratings to spike!
- The Killers issue demands to Panda Express over fortune cookie: It appears that the Las Vegas rock band stumbled upon a fortune cookie that reminded them of a hit track from their first album, Hot Fuss.
- Judge Rules ‘Krusty Krab’ Restaurant Violates Viacom’s ‘SpongeBob’ Rights
- Indian High Court Blocks Rent-Seeking Collection Societies From Seeking Any More Rent
- Ontario Court of Appeal confirms $80,000 libel judgment against Ezra Levant: Saskatchewan lawyer brought suit in response to blog posts
- <i>Walking Dead</i> creator lives to fear others’ trademark applications
- Tresona Multimedia, LLC v. Burbank High School Vocal Music Association
- Now BMI takes on the US Radio industry
- Bulgarian Public Radio Forbidden To Play 14 Million Pieces Of Music By Copyright Collection Society
- China & Hollywood: What Lies Beneath & Ahead In 2017
- Congressman Appoints Himself Censor, Removes Painting Critical Of Cops From Congressional Halls
- A Seismic Ruling Revisited: No Common-Law Public Performance Rights in Pre-1972 Sound Recordings in New York–Flo & Eddie v. Sirius
- 2016 Quick Links, Part 8: Fake News, Terrorist Content, Censorship & More (Eric Goldman)
- 2016 Quick Links, Part 9: Privacy/Security (Eric Goldman)
- Copyright Law & The Drummer (Ronojoy Basu)
SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY
- Facebook, Google face strict EU privacy rules that could hit ad revenues: Plans to plug “void of protection” could place ad trackers on cookie diet in Europe.
- LA Community College paid $28,000 to free itself from ransomware
- CSIS assessing ‘bulk data’ collection, records show
- IMDb tells California it will continue to publish actors’ ages: The law “plainly violates the First Amendment of the US Constitution and cannot be enforced,” says the Amazon-owned company.
- Court Says 791 Days Of Warrantless Location Tracking ‘Unreasonable,” But Refuses To Toss Evidence
- What The US Intelligence ‘Russia Hacked Our Election’ Report Could Have Said… But Didn’t
- How the U.S. Hobbled Its Hacking Case Against Russia and Enabled Truthers: There’s a ton of evidence tying Moscow to the DNC hack. Somehow, Washington managed to screw up its presentation of that evidence.
- FBI Releases A Stack Of Redactions In Response To FOIA Request For Info On Its Purchased iPhone Hack
- Unsecure routers, webcams prompt feds to sue D-Link: D-Link failed to maintain confidentiality of private key used to sign its software.
- US warns of unusual cybersecurity flaw in heart devices
- Feds may let Playpen child porn suspect go to keep concealing their source code: In 2016, judge ordered DOJ to give up source code targeting a Tor-hidden child porn site.
- ‘For The Children’ Cyberbullying Law Running Into Opposition From Groups Actually Concerned About Children
- How hackers made life hell for a CIA boss and other top US officials
- Big Surprise! – Fraud and identity theft a real problem for online dating sites!
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Class 1 & 2 Slides
Slides from today (also covering some logistics from last week)…
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News of the Week; January 4, 2017
MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY
- Terence Corcoran: The CRTC needs to stop playing this game and let networks decide what ads run during the Super Bowl
- Canada Classifies Broadband as a Basic Telecommunications Service
- Tucker Carlson delivers sexism for Fox News
- Megyn Kelly Is Leaving Fox News for NBC
- Canada among the ‘most expensive mobile data countries,’ report says: People are worried about ‘crazy, huge overage fees,’ OpenMedia spokeswoman says
- FCC Approves Up to 49% Foreign Ownership of Univision – What Guidance is Provided to Potential Foreign Investors in US Broadcast Stations?
- FCC Settles Largest Lifeline Enforcement Case for $30 million and Permanent Ban from the Program
- FCC Denies Petition for Declaratory Ruling on Fax Advertisements
- Dutch Regulators Demand T-Mobile Stop Zero Rating, Remind Users That Free Data Isn’t Really Free
- Cord-Cutting Forces Cable Networks to Make Hard Choices
- CASL — Year in Review
DIGITAL
- ‘Copyright Trolls’ Hit With Class Action Lawsuit For Theft by Deception
- Browsewraps, fair dealing and Blacklock’s Reporter v Canada: a critical commentary
- Failure to Introduce Source Code of Original Work Fatal to Claim Against Alleged Derivative Work
- Apple pulls New York Times apps from Chinese App Store by China’s request: Apps have been missing from the store since December 23.
- Honest Shanghai app gives citizens public credit score
- China has made obedience to the State a game: China has created a social tool which gives people a score for how good a citizen they are
- Web of tax breaks and subsidies keeps iPhone production in China: Foxconn’s clout as Apple’s manufacturing partner nets billions in incentives.
- Apple’s FaceTime blamed for girl’s highway crash death in new lawsuit: Family claims Apple should have deployed patented tech to “lock-out” motorists.
- Victims Of Car Crash Sue Apple For Not Preventing Distracted Driver From Hitting Their Vehicle
- Families of Orlando nightclub shooting victims sue Facebook, Google and Twitter
- Follow Buddies and Block Buddies: A Simple Proposal to Improve Civility, Control, and Privacy on Twitter (Danielle Citron & Benjamin Wittes)
- Google Apparently No Longer Humoring Court Orders To Delist Defamatory Content
- The Most Important Law in Tech Has a Problem: How “safe harbor” turned into a protector of privilege.
- Facebook scrubs — then restores — post that called Trump supporters ‘fascists’
- Now Italy Wants To Make ‘Fake News’ Illegal
- How Amazon, Google, and Facebook Will Bring Down Telcos
- Op-ed: Five unexpected lessons from the Ashley Madison breach – This is the first FTC complaint involving lying bots – there will be more.
- Pirates: You Can Click But You (Can’t) Can Hide
- LG threatens to put Wi-Fi in every appliance it introduces in 2017: Its new fridge includes Amazon’s Alexa and a bunch of cameras.
- Snapchat using machine learning to introduce greater targeting to its ad stack
- Ridiculous Congressional Proposal Would Fine Reps Who Live Stream From The Floor
- From Tape Drives to Memory Orbs, the Data Formats of Star Wars Suck (Spoilers)
- 2016 Was The Year Torrent Giants Fell
- Is an NSA contractor the next Snowden? In 2017, we hope to find out: These 5 cases touch on the near-future of drones, privacy and IP law.
- Glasses From eSight Help Legally Blind Indianapolis Colts Fan See First Game
- The Chatbot Will See You Now
- The Bot Politic: Silicon Valley’s usual solution to designing an inoffensive, eager-to-please technology has been to make it a woman. But why use gender at all?
- The most dramatic patent and copyright cases of 2016: Google v. Oracle; Prenda lawyers arrested; and much more.
- Our Unfortunate Annual Tradition: A Look At What Should Have Entered The Public Domain, But Didn’t
- Fighting for Fair Use and Safer Harbors: 2016 in Review (EFF)
CREATIVITY
- ‘Star Trek’ Fan Film Not Fair Use, Will Be Tried by Jury
- Aussie Productivity Commission Doubles Down On Fair Use And Serious Copyright & Patent Reform
- Surrender Dorothy: Court Upholds Damages, Injunction for Movie Content Infringement
- Welcome, Mr. Walt Disney, to the Canadian Public Domain (Howard Knopf)
- Milo Yiannopoulos’s Cynical Book Deal
- Milo Yiannopoulos Inks Book Deal With Simon & Schuster: The “alt-right” icon was banned from Twitter after launching a widespread attack on actress Leslie Jones.
- Simon & Schuster Threatened with Boycott for $250K Book Deal with Alt-Right Homocon Troll Milo Yiannopoulos
- Our Murrow Moment: The time for hand-wringing and hysteria is over. The Trump presidency promises a civic stress test. In a time of principled fights, citizens and journalists need to respond with fearlessness rooted in fairness.
- Librarians must resist trumpism
- Actors rush to protect their image from ‘digital resurrection’ after they have died following eerie Star Wars: Rogue One reanimation of Carrie Fisher
- Fox News Opinions Get Wide Berth Under Defamation Law
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: ‘The Bachelor’ Is Killing Romance in America
- Creative solutions to cultural appropriation – fashion industry
- The most dramatic patent and copyright cases of 2016: Google v. Oracle; Prenda lawyers arrested; and much more.
- Tesla Gave Up Its Patents, But People Are Freaked Out That Faraday Future Put Its Own Into A Separate Company
- Ten Worst Section 230 Rulings Of 2016 (Plus The Five Best)
- 2016 Quick Links, Part 3: Trademarks And Domain Names (Eric Goldman)
- 2016 Quick Links, Part 4: Counterfeits And Olympics (Eric Goldman)
- 2016 Quick Links, Part 5: Patents, Other IP, Employment, CFAA (Eric Goldman)
- Functionality Screens (Christopher Buccafusco & Mark Lemley)
SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY
- A French court case against Google could threaten global speech rights
- Obama administration announces measures to punish Russia for 2016 election interference
- White House Kicks Russian Diplomats Out Of The Country, Releases Preliminary Report On Russian Hacking With More To Come
- Obama tosses 35 Russians out of US, sanctions others for election meddling: Intelligence dump from DHS and FBI bolsters claims of Russian election interference.
- Singapore Will Add Iris Scans As Identifier For Citizens And Permanent Residents Starting January 1
- UK Councils Used Massive Surveillance Powers To Spy On… Excessively Barking Dogs & Illegal Pigeon Feeding
- Surveillance in Latin America: 2016 in Review (EFF)
- Facebook buys data on users’ offline habits for better ads: And opting out is a lot more complicated than it should be.
- Man Has To Beg LG To Uncripple His ‘Smart’ TV After Ransomware Attack
- Malware Purveyor Serving Up Ransomware Via Bogus ICANN Blacklist Removal Emails
- Online and Mobile Tracking Company Settles FTC Charges It Deceptively Tracked Consumers
- Watch out hackers: Deploying ransomware is now a crime in California: Previously, prosecutors had to rely on the state’s extortion statute.
- Confirmed Horrible Person James Woods Continues Being Horrible In ‘Winning’ Awful Lawsuit To Unmask Deceased Online Critic
- EU Binding Corporate Rules For Transferring Data: A Comparison of US Law, EU Law, and Soon-To-Be EU Law
- The Real Name Fallacy
- When Do Data Breaches Cause Harm? (Daniel Solove)
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The Cloud
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 configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.”
The origins of the term is discussed here: Where did ‘cloud’ come from?
Whatever its origins, the irony is that the cloud has true to its name added a lot of cloudiness to communications, particularly when it comes to privacy 😉
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Communications Law
