News Of The Week

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. Massachusetts District Court Finds VoIP Service is Not Cellular Service Per Se Under the TCPA  
2. Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, Pandora Could Face Billions In ‘Fast Lane’ Surcharges
3. How To Make Sense Of Net Neutrality And Telecom Under Trump
4. 50,000 net neutrality complaints were excluded from FCC’s repeal docket: FCC is “going to great lengths to ignore these documents,” advocate says.
5. Democrat asks why FCC is hiding ISPs’ answers to net neutrality complaints: Records request for net neutrality complaints and resolutions still unfulfilled.
6. Use This Tool to See If Your Name Was Used to Support Net Neutrality Repeal 
7. New York AG Provides Tool To Help You Check If Your Name Was Used To Support Killing Net Neutrality
8. Net neutrality activists just took over Reddit with protest posts: “This is my Senator. He sold me out to telecom lobbyists.” 
9. Absent Facts To Support Repealing Net Neutrality, Ajit Pai Wildly Attacking Hollywood Tweeters
10. After Attacking Random Hollywood Supporters Of Net Neutrality, Ajit Pai Attacks Internet Companies
11. Ajit Pai Attacked Hollywood & Silicon Valley Because Even Republicans Are Against His Net Neutrality Plan
12. Ajit Pai Doesn’t Want You Talking About Court Ruling That Undermines His Bogus Claim That The FTC Will Protect Consumers
13. Days Before Doing Verizon’s Bidding, Ajit Pai Gives A Talk At Verizon
14. The FCC Tried To Hide Net Neutrality Complaints Against ISPs 
15. Tom Wheeler slams Ajit Pai’s plan to kill net neutrality rules: FCC is “bend[ing] to the wishes” of big Internet providers, ex-chair says.
16. Commentary: The FCC Has Always Defended Net Neutrality. Why Stop Now?
17. Guardians of the Future: The FCC Commissioner is Working to Delay the Net Neutrality Vote
18. FCC won’t delay vote, says net neutrality supporters are “desperate”: Pai says FTC will protect consumers—but FTC could lose its regulatory authority.
19. AT&T wants you to forget that it blocked FaceTime over cellular in 2012 – AT&T: Your Internet service won’t change after FCC eliminates net neutrality rules.
20. ISPs Are Already Using The FCC’s Planned Net Neutrality Repeal To Harm Consumers 
21. No Parlay for Pirates: FCC Turns Up the Heat on Dozens of Alleged Pirate Radio Operators 
22. Digital Cancon, the Sequel: CRTC Broadcast Consult Sparks Demands for Everything from Internet and iPod Taxes to Website Blocking to Abandoning Net Neutrality (Michael Geist)
23. Tragedy offers lessons for event organisers managing volunteers

DIGITAL

1. Bell Leads on Radical Proposal for CRTC-Backed Mandatory Website Blocking System (Michael Geist)
2. Bell’s Latest Privacy Solution: Enhance Internet Privacy By Blocking Access to It (Michael Geist) 
3. Not Just Bell: Shaw Calls on CRTC To Support Website Blocking (Michael Geist)
4. SCC To Weigh In On Fees For Identifying ISP Subscribers: Rogers v. Voltage 
5. “Relief and happiness”: Supreme Court of Canada to hear VICE press freedoms case
6. The Reckoning at Vice Has Begun
7. Sixth Circuit Suggests Liability for Copyright Infringement May Justify Reduced First Amendment Protection for Anonymous Speech, But Recommends Consideration of Context and ‘Practical Need’ for Unmasking 
8. Silicon Valley Investor Takes Leave of Absence After Harassment Reports
9. Senator Kamala Harris Serves Up A Not-Completely-Terrible Revenge Porn Bill
10. Hyperloop One co-founder takes leave after sexual harassment accusations: Shervin Pishevar claims he is the subject of a “smear campaign.”
11. Disney Sues Redbox Over Sale of Movie Download Codes: The DVD kiosk rental company allegedly disassembles a product package and then sells codes separately in what Disney asserts is a violation of copyright law.
12. The Uber-Waymo Lawsuit Gets A New Star—And Takes A Wild Turn
13. LA City Attorney Jumps Into Uber Fray 
14. Waymo can’t stop Uber employees from explaining Wickr use while at Waymo – Judge Alsup: “I can’t stand it when Waymo or the other side wants it both ways.”
15. Yahoo’s Insanely Bad Deal to Pay Mozilla $375 Million a Year for Nothing Is Headed to Court
16. Apple agrees to set aside more than $15 billion to Ireland in back taxes: Despite EU ruling, neither Apple nor Ireland wants the Cupertino company to pay.
17. Twitter’s Year in Review Confirms 2017 Sucked
18. Tinder Can Now Show Who It Thinks You’ll Swipe Right On
19. The Future of Artificial Intelligence and its Impact on Society
20. A Swarm Intelligence Correctly Predicted TIME’s Person of the Year
21. I Enlisted an Algorithm to Help Me Write the Perfect Piece of Science Fiction. This is our Story.
22. Google Yanks YouTube From Amazon’s Echo Show And Fire TV Devices
23. Google will pull YouTube support from Amazon Fire TVs in 2018: No more YouTube for yet another Amazon device.
24. Google and Amazon are punishing their own customers in a bitter feud: It shouldn’t have come to this
25. Google And Amazon Are Harming Consumers And Behaving Like Obnoxious Toddlers 
26. Amazon Prime Video finally arrives on Apple TV, months after original announcement: The long-awaited app is now available for 3rd-gen Apple TVs and newer devices.
27. Google is blocking YouTube on Amazon’s Echo Show and Fire TV: The service won’t work until Amazon is willing to collaborate with Google on a YouTube app for its devices.
28. Google bans Android developers from adding lock screen ads: Users will no longer be troubled by shady apps that hijack lock screens.
29. Chrome to stop third-party software injections because they make it crash: Users with injected software are 15 percent more likely to experience crashes.
30. Essential CEO Andy Rubin goes on leave for “personal reasons”: A report claims Rubin, the father of Android, left Google after an HR investigation.
31. Google, Amazon Find Not Everyone Is Ready For AI
32. Inside Baidu’s Bid To Lead The Ai Revolution
33. San Francisco Just Put The Brakes On Delivery Robots
34. Many Startup Founders Doubt Extent Of Sexual Harassment
35. Home Security Company Says No One Linking To Its Website Is Allowed To Disparage It
36. Snopes Debunks Fake YouTube Video; Video’s Creator Responds With A Bogus DMCA Notice
37. Data-Saving YouTube Go App Arrives In Thailand, Malaysia, Ghana, Kenya, More
38. YouTube Will Reportedly Make Advertisers Pay More To Ensure Placement On Top-Level Videos
39. YouTube Will Have 10,000 Humans Working To Purge Questionable Content In 2018
40. Expanding our work against abuse of our platform
41. Toy Freaks Dad Reportedly Under Investigation For Disturbing Videos
42. Seven-Year-Old Suffers Severe Burns After Attempting YouTube ‘Fire Challenge’
43. Amid Kids’ Content Controversy, YouTube To Offer 5 Family-Friendly Red Series For Free
44. YouTube CEO To Creators: We’re Going To Be Better About Demonetization
45. Vidme Shuts Down Its Video Platform, Will Launch New Product Next Year
46. YouNow Inks First Content Deal With Eleven Sports For Crypto App Rize
47. BET To Celebrate Influencers, Viral Videos At Inaugural ‘Social Awards’
48. It’s 25 years since someone sent the first text message
49. Emails Show Pretty Much Everyone on Trump’s Transition Team Knew Mike Flynn Talked to Russians
50. Oh my god, he just admitted to obstruction of justice. If Trump knew Flynn lied to the FBI when he asked Comey to let it go, then there is your case.
51. Looking for the Linguistic Smoking-Gun in a Trump Tweet: Could the word pled really reveal who wrote Trump’s reaction to the Flynn news?
52. The underground story of Cobra, the 1980s’ illicit handmade computer: In their poor, Communist country, Romania’s computer curious built an underground industry.
53. ‘Mailsploit’ Lets Hackers Forge Perfect Email Spoofs
54. Is Bitcoin a Pyramid Scheme?
55. The IRS Has Come Knocking at Bitcoin’s Door
56. Bitcoin, Bankers, and Barriers to Legislation
57. Bitcoin’s insane energy consumption, explained: One estimate suggests the Bitcoin network consumes as much energy as Denmark.
58. Bitcoin Mining Guzzles Energy—And Its Carbon Footprint Just Keeps Growing
59. A brief history of Bitcoin hacks and frauds: Bitcoins have been a juicy target for hackers since 2011.
60. Feds shut down allegedly fraudulent cryptocurrency offering: Cryptocurrency offerings are no longer a regulation-free zone.
61. Will Repealing Net Neutrality Really Spell Doom for Cryptocurrencies? 
62. The Wikipedia Competitor That’s Harnessing Blockchain For Epistemological Supremacy
63. Preparing for liability in the age of the Internet of Things 
64. Future Historians Probably Won’t Understand Our Internet, and That’s Okay: Archivists are working to document our chaotic, opaque, algorithmically complex world—and in many cases, they simply can’t.
65. Canada’s Missing Internet Provision: Why NAFTA Offers the Chance to Establish Long Overdue Online Speech Safeguards (Michael Geist)

CREATIVITY

1.  Disney Sued Over Alleged “Let It Go” Song Theft, Millions Of YouTube Covers Could Be Affected
2. Brown v. Time Warner, Inc.
3. Copyright Does Not Protect Ideas, Only Expression 
4. Comic-Con Busted In Libya For Being “Exploitative”
5. Protecting TV Show Formats
6. New copyright protection test for designs of useful articles
7. Can You Copyright Infringe Anonymously? Revisited.
8. What Happens If The DOJ Ends Up With Martin Shkreli’s Sole Copy Of The Wu Tang Clan Album?
9. Robin Wright To Lead Final ‘House Of Cards’ Season Without Kevin Spacey
10. In the Future, Everyone Will Have Their Personality Misappropriated for 15 Minutes 
11. Ohio couple gronked again 
12. Don’t Stop The Presses! When Local News Struggles, Democracy Withers
13. Atlanta Anchor Sharon Reed Claps Back at Viewer Who Calls Her N-Word After Mayoral Election
14. Appeals Court Affirms Dismissal of Libel Claims in Stolen Valor Case: Shane Ladner sued New World Communications of Atlanta for defamation after Ladner and his wife were among veterans on a float that collided with a train in Texas.
15. Ladner v. New World Communications of Atlanta Inc.

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Drawing the Line: Supreme Court Addresses Major Privacy Rights in Cell Phone Dispute
2. Judge Rules Amended Eavesdropping Suit Against Golden State Warriors Can Proceed
3. Trump Tweet About Surveillance Undercuts FBI’s Glomar Responses In FOIA Lawsuits 
4. House Internet Censorship Bill Is Just Like The Senate Bill, Except Worse
5. House Intelligence Committee Lobs Zero-Reform Section 702 Bill Into The Mix At The Last Possible Minute
6. German Government Official Wants Backdoors In Every Device Connected To The Internet
7. Navy Officer Working For The NSA Caught Trying To Search Her Boyfriend’s Son’s Phone
8. NSA, DOJ Still Aren’t Letting Defendants Know They’re Using Section 702 Evidence Against Them
9. Don’t Buy Anyone an Echo
10. Electrician Used Greasy Junk Food Bags to Hide His GPS Location and Skip Work
11. Evidence That Ethiopia Is Spying On Journalists Shows Commercial Spyware Is Out Of Control
12. Champing At The Cyberbit: Ethiopian Dissidents Targeted with New Commercial Spyware
13. 100,000-strong botnet built on router 0-day could strike at any time: New strain of Mirai is sophisticated, locked, and loaded.
14. “Malware-free” attacks mount in big breaches, CrowdStrike finds: Stolen credentials, exploits of command-line tools used in 66 percent of attacks.
15. Mastermind behind sophisticated, massive botnet outs himself: Andromeda kingpin is identified by his ICQ number.
16. Are you kidding me? Only 15% of US companies have insurance for their data! 
17. The Internet of Toys: Legal and Privacy Issues with Connected Toys

GAMES

1. Epic Sues 14 Year Old It Accuses Of Cheating In Videogames After He Counternotices a DMCA On His YouTube Video
2. Epic Games lawsuit over Fortnite cheats ends in settlement
3. Creators of Star Control accuse Stardock of publishing games without permission
4. Star Control creators accuse Stardock of selling games unlawfully: GOG.com pulling games from sale as publisher says devs have gone years without asserting rights, should have addressed it sooner
5. Gambling-addicted teen begs EA to reconsider microtransaction strategy: Meanwhile, Take-Two Interactive boss insists loot boxes aren’t gambling
6. EA trips up on the path from Product to Service: Consumer annoyance over micro-transactions doesn’t change the fact that every major publisher is shifting business model wholesale in that direction
7. State Rep: Games industry must self-regulate loot boxes before government steps in
8. Games industry must self-regulate on loot boxes, says state representative – Sean Quinlan: Legislation would be a “slippery slope”
9. 35% or more of EA Sports players spend on Ultimate Team: CFO Blake Jorgensen says publisher focuses on getting people into the funnel, not on making payers spend more
10. Warframe dev: Industry must get better at “giving players a choice and a voice” – Microtransactions aren’t inherently bad, and they can work with AAA-type experiences says Meridith Braun, VP, Publishing, Digital Extremes
11. PUBG Will Never Add A Loot Box Item ‘That Affects The Gameplay’: New cosmetic items will come after official launch.
12. EA says half of Ultimate Teamplayers spend money on the F2P mode: “Of those 75 percent of the people, about half of those people actually spend some money and the other half just play without spending. But in a free-to-play world, that’s a fantastic balance of spenders and non-spenders.”
13. What reaching 25 million users says about Rainbow Six Siege and games-as-a-service: Siege is an outlier, and one the publishing giants can learn from
14. FTC Finalizes Its First Settlement For Social Media Influencers
15. Childline and NSPCC condemn ‘unacceptable’ Detroit: Become Human – Campaigners concerned by the depiction of violence against children
16. “We have to remember it’s a game”: Mixing anti-cultism and action in Far Cry 5: Creative director Dan Hay discusses reactions to Ubisoft’s upcoming shooter and how the Far Cry team touches on topical themes
17. “It’s the game designer’s job to evoke different sides of humanity”: Thatgamecompany president Jenova Chen believes that positive behavior can be rewarded and monetized
18. Bungie opens up about Destiny 2 changes after hidden “scaling” debacle: Big changes coming for experience system and everything else.
19. “Smaller studios will define the future of video game storytelling”: A fresh wave of developers aims to change the industry with narrative titles that appeal to wider audiences than anything in the charts
20. Sega cuts full-year profit forecast by 54.5 percent
21. People of the Year 2017: Ninja Theory – Ninja Theory is to be commended for its handling of mental illness and for showing how indies can still approach AAA development
22. People of the Year 2017: Larian Studios – With Divinity: Original Sin II, the Belgian studio combined both commercial performance with creative excellence – and it did so on its own terms
23. War Child UK launches world’s first mobile gaming armistice: Charity looking to build on success of 2016’s armistice which raised over £100,000
24. Twitch sees “glimmer of hope” in battle against toxic behavior: Co-founder Kevin Lin tells GamesIndustry.biz he believes positivity will perpetuate out from smaller, more controlled channels
25. The Odd, Enduring Appeal Of Musou Games May Finally Be Paying Off
26. Why The Golden State Warriors Bet Millions On A League of Legends Team
27. Former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue On Esports: ‘It’s Not Sports’
28. Mark Emmert: NCAA Exploring Whether Or Not It Has Role In Esports
29. College Conference Commissioners Question Whether Esports Is A Sport
30. The Overwatch Videogame League Aims To Become The New NFL
31. The Overwatch League Preseason Begins Today, Here’s What You Need To Know
32. BBC launches VR Hub studio: Broadcaster will focus on high-quality, high-impact experiences in effort to push tech to the mainstream
33. VR devs need to unlearn unspoken game dev rules, says Oculus exec: “Sometimes people don’t understand how specific an IP is to the hardware it’s been made for.”
34. Analyst: The Switch topped online sales charts during Thanksgiving weekend
35. The Switch was the best-selling product online over Thanksgiving: Nintendo’s console tops the charts despite not going on sale
36. Nintendo brings Wii and GameCube titles to Nvidia Shield in China
37. Nintendo targets Chinese gamers with remasters for Nvidia Shield: Platform holder increases presence in lucrative market with China-only re-release of Twilight Princess and New Super Mario Bros. Wii
38. Nintendo brings HD Wii games to China’s Nvidia Shield—is Switch next?: Remastered ports could be a test run on similar Tegra hardware.
39. A List Of Old Games That I Would Definitely Buy Again On Switch
40. Valve announces the return of Portal… via Bridge Constructor: Licensed expansion almost counts as V alve’s first “new” game in years.
41. Vivendi a third wheel in the Activision Blizzard union: 10 Years Ago This Month: The media giant orchestrated a massively successful merger but walked away with relatively little to show for it
42. Blizzard, EA among Glassdoor’s best places to work: Employees have given both game companies high marks
43. Digital revenues up 15% in October – Superdata: Single-player games holding their own while Destiny 2 and PUBG push premium PC up 28%; worldwide digital revenues total $8.5 billion
44. Sega’s game division holds strong despite 54.5% cut to company-wide profit forecast: Operating income for games up by $35 million despite net sales decline
45. Neill Blomkamp: ‘It’s inevitable that the uncanny valley just goes away’ – District 9 director talks about his experience creating the ADAM short films with Unity
46. The games industry has an inferiority complex, and it’s holding us back: Some studios have a “fundamental lack of understanding” of narrative and character development, says writer for Destiny: The Taken King
47. Super Mario Run, CATS get Google Play 2017 nods: Nintendo claims most downloaded new title while ZeptoLab’s battle bot fighter awarded Game of the Year
48. World of Warcraft, world of inspiration – Why I Love: Lightseekers senior designer Ana Steiner traces her history with the MMO that convinced her to pursue a career in games
49. Blackbird Interactive to open new gaming studio in False Creek Flats
50. Citing volatile value, Steam drops Bitcoin support
51. Steam no longer accepting Bitcoin: Storefront says high fees and volatile price fluctuations make supporting the cryptocurrency “untenable”
52. Crytek helping launch Crycash cryptocurrency: Developer says paying players who reach certain milestones in its games will be a cost-effective user acquisition strategy

Jon

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. Rogers to cut off support for Viceland TV station
2.  CASL is Constitutional (And Some Guidance on How to Interpret It)
3. Ajit Pai’s Big Lie
4. Ajit Pai’s Shell Game
5. Comcast Spent Millions Repealing Net Neutrality, Now Wants You To Believe It Won’t Take Full, Brutal Advantage 
6. Comcast deleted net neutrality pledge the same day FCC announced repeal: Three-year-old “no paid prioritization” pledge was suddenly removed.
7. Comcast hints at plan for paid fast lanes after net neutrality repeal: Comcast still won’t block or throttle—but paid prioritization may be on the way.
8. AT&T and Comcast lawsuit has nullified a city’s broadband competition law – Bad news for Google Fiber: Nashville utility pole ordinance invalidated by judge.
9. Judge Backs AT&T, Comcast Nuisance Suit Against Google Fiber In Nashville
10. Nazis Want Net Neutrality Repealed To ‘Unleash A Plague Of Frogs On Twitter.’ It Won’t Happen
11. FCC explains why public support for net neutrality won’t stop repeal: Americans who support net neutrality find that their voices don’t count for much.
12. Ajit Pai blames Cher and Hulk actor for ginning up net neutrality support: Net neutrality support is just “fear-mongering and hysteria,” FCC chair says.
13. NY Attorney General Investigating Why Dead People Supported The FCC’s Attack On Net Neutrality
14. The FCC’s Attack On Net Neutrality Is Based Entirely On Debunked Lobbyist Garbage Data
15. Charter is using net neutrality repeal to fight lawsuit over slow speeds: Charter cites FCC preemption of state net neutrality rules in case filed by NY. 
16. More than a Million Pro-Repeal Net Neutrality Comments were Likely Faked: I used natural language processing techniques to analyze net neutrality comments submitted to the FCC from April-October 2017, and the results were disturbing.
17. What An Internet Analyst Got Wrong About Net Neutrality
18. What Actually Happens the Day Net Neutrality Is Repealed
19. Mark Cuban Still Has Absolutely No Idea How Net Neutrality Works
20. Net Neutrality Divide: Canada and the U.S. Go Separate Ways on an Open Internet (Michael Geist)
21. AT&T’s C.E.O. Meets Trump’s Justice
22. AT&T says it should be allowed to buy Time Warner because Comcast bought NBC: AT&T will use customer data to boost advertising business, court filing says. 
23. FCC Adopts Rules Allowing Voice Service Providers to Block Illegal Robocalls 
24. The VCAST decision: how to turn a private copying case into a case about communication/making available to the public
25. TV[R]EV: Is Local TV Worth Saving?

DIGITAL

1. Truthfeed Spreads Pro-Trump Propaganda: The website has connections to the president’s camp—and white supremacists.
2. YouTube pulls ads on 2 million inappropriate children’s videos: It’s also investigating autocomplete search after suggestions for child exploitation content
3. YouTube Investigating Pedophiliac Phrases In Autocomplete Search Suggestions
4. Adidas, Mars Among Brands To Suspend YouTube Campaigns In Response To Inappropriate Kids Videos
5. YouTube’s Creepy Kid Problem Was Worse Than We Thought
6. Making a federal case out of revenge porn 
7. Chicago Considers Another Dumb ‘Texting And Walking’ Law To Raise Revenue
8. The “Lowdown” on DMCA Regulations and Take-Downs
9. YouTube Announces Its Version Of Snapchat’s Stories Among Community Tab Updates 
10. Apple Projected to Spend $4.2 Billion on Original Content by 2022
11. Analyst Projects Apple’s Original Content Budget Will Rise To $4.2 Billion Per Year By 2022
12. Apple Launches New YouTube Channel With Handful Of How-To Videos
13. BuzzFeed To Lay Off Roughly 100 Staffers Amid Missed Revenue Goals
14. BuzzFeed Lays Off About 100 Staffers, Refocuses Content Efforts 
15. The Potential Of Artificial Intelligence In The Future Of Sports
16. Artificial intelligence to impact personal injury law
17. The challenges of patenting artificial intelligence
18. Designing Artificial Intelligence to Explain Itself: A new working paper maps out critical starting points for thinking about explanation in AI systems.
19. A Layered Model for AI Governance
20. Manufacturing an Artificial Intelligence Revolution (Yarden Katz)
21. Cookie law conundrum: Do you know what your webmaster is busy baking?
22. Consumer protection and online advertising
23. Websites use your CPU to mine cryptocurrency even when you close your browser: Resource-draining code hides in pop-under windows that can remain open indefinitely.
24. Uber’s crisis deepens with record quarterly loss: Uber continues disrupting old-fashioned notions of profit.
25. Uber Waymo Trial Delayed After Justice Department Jumps In, Unprompted, To Tell Judge That Uber Was Withholding Evidence
26. Judge delays trial after ex-Uber employee describes rogue behavior: Richard Jacobs, an ex-security official at Uber, testified in court Tuesday.
27. Chicago: Uber’s claim that hackers fully deleted stolen data is “nonsensical” – Uber’s been sued at least 11 times in just 1 week, faces new scrutiny from Senate.
28. Uber hit with 2 lawsuits over gigantic 2016 data breach: “Uber knew or should have known its security systems were inadequate.” 
29. Cyber Monday topped Prime Day to become Amazon’s biggest shopping day ever
30. Facebook (still) lets housing advertisers exclude users by race: ProPublica bought ads that excluded African-Americans, Spanish speakers, Muslims.
31. How Bored Panda Survived Facebook’s Clickbait Purge
32. The End Of The Social Era Can’t Come Soon Enough: It seems increasingly likely that our society will one day view our infatuation with Twitter, Facebook, and the like as a passing, often destructive fad.
33. Elon Musk wins bet, finishing massive battery installation in 100 days: South Australia battery installation has 100MW capacity, a world record.
34. Email Is Broken. Can Anyone Fix It?
35. Subverting Democracy, Advertising, and the Economy Through Bots 
36. Platform Market Power (Kenneth Bamberger & Orly Lobel)

CREATIVITY 

1.  UK High Court rules that TV Show Formats can be Copyright Protected
2. Journalism Is Imploding Just When We Need It Most
3. Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA Opposes Trademark Application For Dog-Walking Company Called Woof-Tang Clan
4. Blade Runner 2049 Director Opens Up About the Film’s Treatment of Women
5. Wilfrid Laurier graduate student delivers a wake-up call
6. Here’s the full recording of Wilfrid Laurier reprimanding Lindsay Shepherd for showing a Jordan Peterson video: Teaching assistant Shepherd was accused of creating a ‘toxic climate’ at the university by screening a televised debate discussing gender-neutral pronouns
7. Christie Blatchford: Here’s where Laurier can stick their apology to Lindsay Shepherd: Rambukkana’s ‘open letter’ is all I expected of a man who would invoke the spectre of Hitler to try to shut down an underling — craven, dissembling, revisionist
8. Why Wilfrid Laurier University’s president apologized to Lindsay Shepherd: Deborah MacLatchy says she regrets how the meeting was conducted
9. Counter-protests at Wilfrid Laurier University over freedom of speech turn — well, one man was shouting
10. Teaching assistant who was sanctioned questions sincerity of Wilfrid Laurier University’s apology: ‘I didn’t expect their apology to be sincere. I don’t think that they are sincere,’
11. Modern Educayshun: Mao, Orwell and Kafka at Wilfrid Laurier University
12. Commentary: Laurier University incident demonstrates defence of certain kinds of speech
13. Neither Wilfrid Laurier University’s methods nor teaching assistant’s debate helped trans people: Its actions come across as high-handed thought-policing that plays right into the hands of the intolerant, Shree Paradkar writes.
14. A woman approached The Post with dramatic — and false — tale about Roy Moore. She appears to be part of undercover sting operation.
15. How media brands are using marketing to turn accusations of fake news into page views
16. The battle over Gucci’s trademark stripes: Gucci’s trademark infringement claim against Forever 21 took a major step forward this month after a US district court dismissed the counterclaim by the fast fashion chain seeking cancellation of the disputed marks. Gucci claims that Forever 21 has infringed the trademarks protecting its ‘iconic stripe motifs’ in blue-red-blue and green-red-green.
17. The Role of Trademark Law in the History of US Visual Identity Design, c.1860–1960 (Carma Gorman)
18. How Patents Have Contributed To The Opioid Crisis 

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. SCC To Weigh In On Fees For Identifying ISP Subscribers: Rogers v. Voltage 
2. Supreme Court to rule on Rogers’ charges for infringer names and addresses
3. Yet Another Legal Action By Dogged Privacy Activist Brings Good News And Bad News For Facebook In EU’s Highest Court
4. Security firm was front for advanced Chinese hacking operation, Feds say: The accused hacked 3 multinational corporations in pursuit of intellectual property.
5. Hacker pleads guilty to huge Yahoo hack, admits helping Russia’s FSB: Three fellow co-defendants remain at large in Russia, unlikely to be extradited.
6. Justices hear case that could reshape location privacy in the cellular age – Gorsuch: Unfettered access is “exactly what the framers were concerned about.”
7. 10 Reasons Why the Fourth Amendment Third Party Doctrine Should Be Overruled in Carpenter v. US (Daniel Solove)
8. Supreme Court Must Understand: Cell Phones Aren’t Optional
9. The Fifth Amendment, Decryption and Biometric Passcodes
10. Judge Tosses Long-Running Section 215 Surveillance Lawsuit
11. Big Brother is Watching You: Feds Now Vetting Foreign Workers Via Social Media 
12. Want your kid to behave this Christmas? There’s an app for that
13. What Amazon Echo And Google Home Do With Your Voice Data
14. It’s Not Always AI That Sifts Through Your Sensitive Info
15. Australian man uses snack bags as Faraday cage to block tracking by employer: On 140 occasions, electrician logged that he was working while concealing his location.
16. Anyone Can Hack Macos High Sierra Just By Typing “Root”
17. macOS bug lets you log in as admin with no password required: Here’s how to protect yourself until Apple patches bafflingly bad bug.
18. Federal student aid site offers one-stop shopping for ID thieves?: If you have someone’s name, birthdate, and SSN, FAFSA site will give up sensitive data.
19. Maine Government Agency Tries To Charge Public Records Requester $750 For Opening A PDF
20. How four Microsoft engineers proved that the “darknet” would defeat DRM – From the archives: How this quartet nearly got fired for it.

GAMES

1. Study: Pokémon Go led to increase in traffic deaths, accidents – Detailed look at accident reports shows 26.5% relative increase near Pokéstops.
2. Parent rebukes Epic for suing teenage Fortnite player accused of cheating
3. 14-Year Old Video Game Cheater Sued, Mom Says He’s A Scapegoat [Update]
4. Good News for Game Developers: Court Extends Protections for Using Others’ Trademarks in the Advertising of Artistic Works
5. Activision Considering An Opposition To Trademark For Dog-Curbing Company ‘Call Of Doodee’
6. Destiny 2 misrepresented XP gains to its players until the devs got caught: After confirming a hidden “XP scaling” system, Bungie made XP grinds even slower.
7. Bungie Changes Destiny 2 XP System After Players Discover It Was Rigged
8. Bungie drops hidden Destiny 2XP scaling following player outcry
9. People Are Making Cults And Prisons In Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp
10. Fans launch Black Friday boycott to #FixFIFA: Petition calling for changes has over 26,000 signaures
11. Belgium denounces loot boxes as gambling; Hawaiian legislator calls them “predatory”: Belgium decides that the combination of random rewards and pay-to-play is gambling.
12. Victorian gambling commission: “What occurs with ‘loot boxes’ does constitute gambling” – Commission has limited options for enforcement, looks to work with other agencies to bring about change
13. British Gambling Commission worried about ‘potential risk’ of loot boxes
14. British Gambling Commission concerned with “increasingly blurred” lines between games and gambling: Meanwhile, French politician calls for “prompt and sincere self-regulation” of the industry
15. UK Gambling Commission Determines Loot Boxes Aren’t Gambling Under British Law
16. Teen who spent $10k+ on microtransactions warns devs of the risk they pose: “The majority of the reason that I made my post was not really to slam EA or any of the companies that do this, but to share my story and to show that these transactions are not as innocent as they really appear to be. They can lead you down a path.”
17. Disney flexes its muscle over Star Wars and Marvel: The IP powerhouse values protecting that IP over any business relationship – as firms working on those properties would do well to remember
18. EA: Visceral’s canned Star Wars project too linear for modern tastes
19. Popularity of linear games declining – EA: CFO Blake Jorgensen says cancelled Star Wars project was a type of game “people don’t like as much today as they did five years ago or 10 years ago”
20. “You probably don’t want Darth Vader in pink”: EA CFO Blake Jorgensen says faithfulness to Star Wars canon prevented a cosmetic microtransaction model for Star Wars Battlefront II
21. Star Citizen now offering to sell in-game land: The most successful crowdfunded game ever is asking players to spend more
22. Animal Crossing Pocket Camp: Critical Consensus – A faithful yet divisive pocket-sized recreation of the beloved series, plagued by microtransactions
23. PC microtransaction revenue has doubled since 2012 –  SuperData report: Battlefront II is the poster child of a new and uncomfortable growing pain for the games industry
24. Take-Two president weighs in on loot boxes as ‘not gambling’: “The whole gambling regulator thing, we don’t view that thing as gambling. Our view is the same as the ESA statement, for the most part. So that’s going to play its course.”
25. Games industry is going 100% digital – Take-Two: President Karl Slatoff says physical game sales are probably going away on a 5-20 year timeline, weighs in on loot boxes
26. Games could be hit hard by net neutrality’s death: This is class warfare and gamers and small game companies are in the crosshairs
27. Appeals Court Affirms Dismissal on Standing Grounds of Biometric Privacy Suit over Videogame Facial Scan Feature 
28. Portraying migrants’ struggles via cellphones in Bury Me, My Love
29. Four And A Half Years After Raising $121,000, Skyrim Composer’s Kickstarter Is MIA 
30. Star Citizen offers $50-$100 in-game ‘land claims’ to boost dev funds
31. Global gaming revenue on par with sports at $149bn for 2017: Software revenue alone expected to reach $143.5 billion by 2020
32. ‘Pokémon Go’ Studio Niantic Completes $200M Funding Round
33. Pokémon global lifetime sales surpass 300m: Figure does not include Pokémon Go or downloads, but does include Snap, Stadium and all the other spin-offs
34. Nintendo Switch on track to outpace ten-month sales of the Wii by 20%
35. Nintendo’s “insane turnaround” driving holiday sales – Analyst: We chat with analysts in the wake of Black Friday and Cyber Monday
36. Report: Nintendo to start offering in-game power-ups via cereal boxes: Box for “Super Mario Cereal” reportedly doubles as an Amiibo.
37. Animal Crossing: Pocket Campimpressions: Nintendo should be ashamed – Lots of good AC series content, but core experience is too low on free-to-play scale.
38. VR headset sales are slowly rising out of the doldrums: Lower prices lead to increased interest as PlayStation Move dominates sales.
39. Analyst: 1M VR headsets shipped last quarter, an industry first
40. More than one million VR headsets sold last quarter: PlayStation VR accounts 80% of Japanese market
41. UK charts: PS4 and PSVR enjoy a strong Black Friday: PlayStation VR sold more than in the previous 18 weeks combined, strongest week of the year for software units and revenue
42. VR to star in China’s $1.5bn future tech theme park: Virtual rollercoasters, shooting games and alien tours will feature
43. Over 300,000 games consoles sold in the UK last week – GfK: Black Friday was the 13th biggest day ever for UK games retail
44. Sony posts record Black Friday hardware sales: Head of PSN Eric Lempel says company sold more PlayStations over the weekend than in the 23-year history of the brand
45. PUBG going mobile with Tencent’s help: The wildly popular game is not only coming to China, but it’s about to get the mobile treatment
46. Mobile still a moving target: GameChangerSF is finding more value bringing back lapsed players than searching for new ones
47. Report: Marvel Heroes dev Gazillion shuts down, lays off entire workforce
48. Gazillion Entertainment has officially shut down: Marvel Heroes goes offline a month ahead of schedule as studio closes
49. Rovio shares fall by 20 percent thanks to rising UA costs
50. Indie devs explore the benefits of working with a publisher: “Indie dev is a minefield now. To have a chance at a good level of success, you basically have to nail everything. That’s a really tall order, so devs are simply looking to stack the odds in their favor.”
51. The sunk cost fallacy: Devs describe how it almost destroyed them
52. 9 years in, Demon’s Souls is losing its online features
53. PC free-to-play revenue has doubled since 2012
54. Pokemon game series surpasses 300M lifetime sales
55. Pokemon Go developer Niantic nets $200M in funding
56. Investors pour $50M into social/casino mobile game dev Huuuge
57. Game sells Multiplay server hosting division to Unity for $25.2M
58. Unity buys GAME’s Multiplay Digital business for £19m: GAME bought the entire Multiplay division for £20m almost 3 years ago
59. Zelda concert producer: “I just want to bring video game music to the masses”: Jason Michael Paul looks back on 14 years of creating video game concerts
60. Oral History: How Marvel’s Creative Head Helped Bring Nintendo To America

Jon

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY 

1.  Canada and the U.S. stand divided at the crossroads of net neutrality (Michael Geist)
2. Bell insider reveals high-pressure sales tactics required on every single call: Bell says allegations are ‘completely unfounded and untrue’
3. Trump administration files suit to block AT&T/Time Warner merger: $108 billion merger would raise TV bills and prices for AT&T rivals, DOJ said.
4. The Right Choice For The Wrong Reasons? DOJ Sues To Kill The AT&T Time Warner Merger
5. Why Mergers Like the AT&T-Time Warner Deal Should Go Through
6. A ‘Supernatural’ Profits Fight, and the AT&T-TW Merger Issue That Few Are Discussing: Warner Bros. has been battling the creator of one of the longest-running television shows in an arbitration that addresses the fairness of media consolidation and the very mechanism to resolve disputes with those who feel shortchanged.
7. Why The Government Is Right To Block The AT&T-Time Warner Merger
8. The Economic Case Against an A.T. & T.-Time Warner Merger
9. FCC Releases Net Neutrality Killing Order, Hopes You’re Too Busy Cooking Turkey To Read It
10. FCC Moves To Gut Rules Protecting Broadband Users Telcos No Longer Want
11. FCC Head Ajit Pai: Killing Net Neutrality Will Set the Internet Free
12. An Open Letter to the FCC:
13. FCC Plans To Gut Net Neutrality, Allow Internet ‘Fast Lanes’
14. FCC will also order states to scrap plans for their own net neutrality laws – Double win for ISPs: No more net neutrality, and state laws will be preempted.
15. I’m on the FCC. Please stop us from killing net neutrality
16. Here’s How The End Of Net Neutrality Will Change The Internet
17. Welcome to 2018. There’s No Net Neutrality. We Made Dystopia a Reality.
18. Will Your TV Watch You? FCC Green Lights Targeted Advertising in Next Gen TV Broadcasting Standard 
19. Sorry, poor people: The FCC is coming after your broadband plans: 70% of low-income wireless subscribers in Lifeline could have to find new ISPs.
20. Here’s the FCC’s Plan to Kill Net Neutrality
21. The FCC Is Trying To Destroy The Internet
22. Why Are People Celebrating Al Franken’s Incomprehensible Speech About The Internet?
23. Republicans Finally Set a Date to Kill Net Neutrality
24. The End Of Net Neutrality As We Know It
25. FCC stonewalled investigation of net neutrality comment fraud, NY AG says: Net neutrality fraudsters likely impersonated “hundreds of thousands” of people.
26. Who is Ajit Pai, the “Trump soldier” remaking America’s internet?
27. FCC will also order states to scrap plans for their own net neutrality laws – Double win for ISPs: No more net neutrality, and state laws will be preempted.
28. FCC Finds the Case for Broadcast Ownership Deregulation Compelling 
29. Disgusted With Charter Spectrum Merger, Lexington To Build Entirely New Fiber Network
30. Robocalls from spoofed Caller IDs may soon be blocked by phone companies: FCC authorizes aggressive blocking of spoofed and invalid numbers.
31. The Robocall Nightmare Is Only Getting Worse—But Help Is Here
32. Verizon may sign new deal with NFL to expand game streaming rights: Increasing the number of devices to which Verizon can stream football games.
33. Shaw undercuts Big Three on iPhone pricing, Freedom Mobile to sell iPhone X for $0 upfront: Freedom’s steep discount comes with the caveat that its network only covers major centres in B.C., Alberta and Ontario, meaning consumers may face additional roaming charges outside those zones 

DIGITAL

1. Music Canada Data Confirms Huge Increase in Streaming Revenues and Sharp Decline of Music Listening from Pirated Sources (Michael Geist)
2. SOCAN Financial Data Highlights How Internet Music Streaming is Paying Off for Creators (Michael Geist)
3. Judge Halts Copyright Troll’s Lawsuit Against A Now-Deceased Elderly Man With Dementia And An IP Address
4. EFF Wins Over Patent Troll Trying To Silence EFF Calling Its Patent Stupid
5. Microsoft facing lawsuit over alleged HoloLens patent infringement
6. Microsoft sued over HoloLens patent infringement: Connecticut-based HoloTouch claims that HoloLens actually infringes two of its patents
7. Google plans to ‘de-rank’ Russia Today and Sputnik to combat misinformation: Alphabet chief executive Eric Schmidt says Google and other tech companies must act against state-run Russian news agencies to stop spread of falsehoods
8. US court thumbs its nose at Supreme Court of Canada: Google v Equustek (Barry Sookman)
9. Monopoly Leveraging & Equal Treatment: the EU Commission’s Google Shopping Decision
10. NSW Supreme Court considers jurisdictional issues in an online contract: Gonzalez v Agoda Company Pty Ltd [2017] NSWSC 1133
11. Closed by Default: Why is Prime Minister Trudeau Using Restrictive Terms for Flickr Image Use? (Michael Geist)
12. Inside Google’s Struggle to Filter Lies from Breaking News: The company is revamping the way it displays breaking news search results
13. YouTube Terminates Controversial Kids Channel With Over 8.5 Million Subscribers
14. YouTube’s Purge Of Inappropriate Content Aimed At Kids Spans Tens Of Billions Of Views
15. What makes YouTube’s surreal kids’ videos so creepy?
16. ‘This is not TV’: A growing number of advertisers feel duped by YouTube
17. The Professional Friends of YouTube: The platform and its young celebrities have built a self-contained universe of political cluelessness
18. YouTube Is Addressing Its Massive Child Exploitation Problem: After BuzzFeed News provided YouTube with dozens of examples of videos — with millions of views — that depict children in disturbing and abusive situations, the company is cracking down.
19. Anatomy of a Fake News Scandal: Inside the web of conspiracy theorists, Russian operatives, Trump campaigners and Twitter bots who manufactured the ‘news’ that Hillary Clinton ran a pizza-restaurant child-sex ring
20. Surveillance Fans Angry Journalist Used Metadata, Contact Chaining To Out Comey’s Secret Twitter Account
21. By year’s end, you’ll know if you liked a Kremlin-created Facebook page: “This tool will be available for use by the end of the year in the Facebook Help Center.”
22. One Of The Biggest Alternative Media Networks In Italy Is Spreading Anti-Immigrant News And Misinformation On Facebook: The network sheds light on the overlap between the fringe underbelly of the Catholic world, Italy’s nationalist movements, and for-profit clickbait.
23. We’ll Be Paying For Mark Halperin’s Sins For Years To Come: Reports of sexual harassment destroyed his reputation and his career. But I want to talk about the deeper, subtler, more insidious effect Mark Halperin had on our politics.
24. The policy that the US porn industry has and Facebook needs
25. In her new book, ‘The Uterus Is a Feature, Not a Bug,’ Sarah Lacy says women should fight back, not ‘lean in’: Amusingly, Lacy says Facebook — whose COO Sheryl Sandberg wrote “Lean In” — rejected ads for the book because of the word “uterus.”
26. The Education of Mark Zuckerberg: The Facebook founder has discussed “community” more than 150 times in public. A close reading reveals his road map for the platform’s future.
27. Facebook Launches Creator-Focused App With Content Production And Analytics Tools
28. Facebook Acquires Exclusive Rights to 47 College Basketball Games From Smaller Conferences
29. Athens Court of Appeal applies CJEU GS Media linking decision and interprets ‘profit-making intention’ restrictively
30. Vice Forms Advisory Committee With Gloria Steinem Following Sexual Harassment Claims
31. Jeffrey Katzenberg’s WndrCo Tenders Investment In News Startup Axios
32. Chinese students claim they worked illegal overtime making the iPhone X: Teens say a school made them intern at Foxconn, but Apple says it was voluntary.
33. The Hidden Cost of Bitcoin? Our Environment.
34. A Virtual Reality Film Experience Just Received the First Oscar for VR
35. Inside The Race To Hack The Human Brain
36. This Man Is Leading an AI Revolution in Silicon Valley—And He’s Just Getting Started: The cofounder and CEO of semiconductor and software maker Nvidia saw the future of computing more than a decade ago, and began developing products that could power the artificial intelligence era. Thanks to that vision, and relentless execution, his chipmaker today is perhaps the hottest company in Silicon Valley. And it may just be getting started.
37. China Challenges Nvidia’s Hold On Artificial Intelligence Chips
38. For the First Time, a Robot Passed a Medical Licensing Exam: Chinese AI-powered robot Xiaoyi took the country’s medical licensing examinations and passed, according to local reports. Xiaoyi is just one example of how much China is keen on using AI to make a number of industries more efficient.
39. Experts: Artificial Intelligence Could Hijack Brain-Computer Interfaces
40. Has The Silicon Valley Hype Cycle Run Its Course?: The social media boom, powered by the growth of mobile computing, is over. And while a glittering new technological age of artificial intelligence beckons, the current cycle seems bloated and fatigued. It’s no wonder venture capitalists are looking elsewhere.
41. iOS 11 Is Killing Me
42. Report: Apple Acquired VR Headset Startup Vrvana for $30 Million
43. Amazon Secures Rights To Stream ATP World Tour In U.K., Ireland
44. Amazon’s Last Mile: Who delivers Amazon orders? Increasingly, it’s plainclothes contractors with few labor protections, driving their own cars, competing for shifts on the company’s own Uber-like platform. Though it’s deployed in dozens of cities and associated with one of the world’s biggest companies, government agencies and customers alike are nearly oblivious to the program’s existence.
45. The Uber CEO Who Arrived In The Us With Nothing
46. Colorado fines Uber $8.9M for allowing dozens of unauthorized drivers: Colorado found many drivers with “suspended, revoked, or cancelled driver’s licenses.”
47. Hackers hit Uber in 2016: data on 57 million riders, drivers stolen – CEO: “You may be asking why we are just talking about this now, a year later.”
48. Uber Hid Security Breach Impacting 57 Million People, Paid Off Hackers
49. Jeffrey Tambor To Depart ‘Transparent’ Amid Sexual Harassment Claims: The actor Jeffrey Tambor will depart Transparent — one of Amazon’s most synonymous original shows — following accusations of sexual harassment by two women involved in the Emmy-winning production.
50. We’ll Be Paying For Mark Halperin’s Sins For Years To Come: Reports of sexual harassment destroyed his reputation and his career. But I want to talk about the deeper, subtler, more insidious effect Mark Halperin had on our politics.
51. The Washington Post Is A Software Company Now: The newspaper created a platform to tackle its own challenges. Then, with Amazon-like spirit, it realized there was a business in helping other publishers do the same.
52. This Amazon seller lost $400,000 in sales after being attacked by self-proclaimed ‘virus of Amazon’
53. Tencent crosses $500 billion market cap milestone: Gaming giant is the first Chinese tech company to cross that financial mark
54. Tencent and Bluehole partner to bring Battlegrounds to China
55. Tencent to publish PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds in China: Bluehole’s new partner obliterates any notion on a ban in PUBG’s biggest market
56. IGN, PCMag, AskMen Owner Acquires Mashable For $50 Million
57. Marvell Technology to buy chipmaker Cavium for about $6 billion: Two more chipmakers come together to try to compete with Intel, Broadcom.
58. BuzzFeed IPO Dreams Fizzle as Company Said to Miss 2017 Revenue Target
59. Univision Seeking to Sell Minority Stake in Fusion Media Group
60. Archivist Leslie Berlin Tackles Silicon Valley’s Past In ‘Troublemakers’
61. The media industry has suddenly become a ‘Game of Thrones’-like battle for power

CREATIVITY

1. Judge: EFF’s “Stupid Patent of the Month” clearly protected by Constitution – GEMSA, which has sued dozens of US tech firms, never responded to EFF’s lawsuit.
2. Good Ruling: Court Affirms Fox’s Victory In Trademark Suit From Empire Distribution Over Its Hit Show ‘Empire’
3. The Monkey Selfie Strikes Back (Andres Guadamuz)
4. The Sad Legacy Of Copyright: Locking Up Scientific Knowledge And Impeding Progress
5. Ninth Circuit: Let’s Talk About Comic-Con
6. Twentieth Century Fox Television v. Empire Distribution, Inc.
7. Gucci “Wrongfully Claims a Monopoly” on Stripes, per Forever 21 Complaint
8. Nobel Prize Winning Economist Says Non-US Countries Have Unique Opportunity To Reform Intellectual Property
9. Trial Set To Start For Journalist Facing Decades In Prison For Covering Inauguration Day Protests 
10. Roy Moore’s Threat Letter To Sue The Press Is An Artform In Bad Lawyering
11. Alabama Media Group Isn’t Messing Around With Roy Moore’s Silly Threat
12. Israeli court addresses relationship between design protection and copyright
13. Zack Snyder Fans Petition For The Release of His Cut of Justice League As Deleted Scenes Leak Online
14. Ben Affleck Stole Some Batarangs From the Justice League Set
15. Justice League, Rotten Tomatoes, And DC Fans’ Persecution Complex
16. Kaye v. Cartoon Network, Inc.
17. Harvey Weinstein’s Secret Settlements: The mogul used money from his brother and elaborate legal agreements to hide allegations of predation for decades.
18. What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men?
19. Broadcaster Leeann Tweeden Accuses Sen. Al Franken of Assault
20. Trump Mocks Al Franken On Twitter, Blows It
21. Twitter, It’s Time to End Your Anything-Goes Paradise
22. The Soft Racism of Apu from “The Simpsons”
23. Rashida Jones And Writing Partner Dropped Out Of Toy Story 4 Over “Philosophical Differences” With Pixar: “It is a culture where women and people of color do not have an equal creative voice.”
24. The Female Supercomputer Designer Who Inspired Steve Jobs: The designer and artist Tamiko Thiel gets her due in a new show at MoMA.
25. The Rope: The Forgotten History of Segregated Rock & Roll Concerts – The Platters, the Flamingos, and other pioneering performers share stories of divided audiences, Jim Crow absurdities and harrowing violence
26. How culinary propaganda from a women’s magazine made Thanksgiving a thing
27. Life After ESPN: In April, around 100 employees of the Worldwide Leader in Sports were laid off. Since leaving the mothership, some have found new work, new homes, and new careers—while others are still searching for their next chapter.

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Apple formally asked to release Texas shooter’s iCloud data: Texas judge also signs off on search of shooter’s iPhone SE, LG dumbphone.
2. Court Denies Government’s Demasking Demands In Inauguration Protest Case
3. New York Court Says NYPD Must Get Warrants To Deploy Stingrays
4. Kaspersky: Yes, we obtained NSA secrets. No, we didn’t help steal them – Moscow-based AV provider challenges claims it helped Russian spies.
5. Dozens Of Tech Experts Tell DHS & ICE That Its Social Media Surveillance And Extreme Vetting Should Be Stopped
6. Intel Chip Flaws Leave Millions Of Devices Exposed
7. Defense Department Spied On Social Media, Left All Its Collected Data Exposed To Anyone
8. Investigation Finds Google Collected Location Data Even With Location Services Turned Off
9. No, you’re not being paranoid. Sites really are watching your every move: Sites log your keystrokes and mouse movements in real time, before you click submit.
10. New Study Finds Poorly Secured Smart Toys Lets Attackers Listen In On Your Kids
11. Court Says Glassdoor Must Disclose Anonymous Reviewers’ Information in Grand Jury Proceedings
12. Most Senate Intelligence Committee Members Are Fine With Domestic Surveillance By The NSA
13. Man gets threats—not bug bounty—after finding DJI customer data in public view: A bug bounty hunter shared evidence; DJI called him a hacker and threatened with CFAA.
14. Pentagon contractor leaves social media spy archive wide open on Amazon: Trove included more than 1.8 billion posts spanning eight years, many from US people.
15. Infosec star accused of sexual assault booted from professional affiliations: Morgan Marquis-Boire resigned from Citizen Lab back in September 2017.
16. Iconic hacker booted from conferences after sexual misconduct claims surface: Professor, reporter say meetings with Draper years ago turned inappropriate
17. Skype is the latest messaging app to disappear from Chinese app stores: Skype falls victim to China’s strict cybersecurity laws and Internet regulations.
18. DOJ names Iranian as hacker who stole unaired episodes from HBO: “Those hiding behind keyboards in countries far away—eventually, winter will come.”
19. New “Quad9” DNS service blocks malicious domains for everyone: Set DNS server to 9.9.9.9, and (known) malware and phishes won’t be able to phone home.
20. Should I Confess My Internet Stalking To My Date?
21. Thirty years later, “Max Headroom” TV pirate remains at large: Whoever was behind 1987 Chicago “broadcast intrusion” is the D.B. Cooper of media 

GAMES

1. Russian Foreign Ministry Accuses America Of Supporting ISIS With Video Game Footage
2. Clicker Heroes developer drops free-to-play model over ethical concerns: “We really don’t like making money off players who are in denial of their addiction,” says Playsaurus
3. Citing ethics and better game design, Clicker Heroes 2 dev forgoes free-to-play: “The mere existence of real-money purchases puts an ugly cloud over the player’s experience, with the persistent nagging feeling of ‘My game could be so much better if I just spent a few dollars.’ That alone feels terrible”
4. When F2P goes wrong: NCSoft gave latest game five months before pulling plug – Refunds for some MxM players; in-game coins for all (which won’t matter by Jan. 31).
5. It’s Only A Game. Or Is It? Advergaming In The Digital Age 
6. Star Wars Battlefront II Is Less A Game Than A Value Proposition
7. Star Wars: Battlefront II review: Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope: Even if EA fulfills promises, this game may still be too far gone to the Dark Side.
8. After fan outcry, EA kicks real-money purchases out of Battlefront II: Feature will return, but “only after we’ve made changes to the game.”
9. “Nothing should feel unattainable”: DICE responds to Star Wars loot box backlash: Battlefront II developer hosts Reddit AMA, “deeply saddened” by negative response
10. Belgian Gambling Commission targets EA and Blizzard over loot boxes: “The crate mechanics of Star Wars Battlefront II are not gambling,” says EA
11. Belgian officials say they’d like lootboxes banned, but investigation continues
12. Belgium Aims To Ban Loot Boxes In Europe
13. Star Wars Battlefront II: This Is What $100 Could Get You Before Microtransactions Were Disabled
14. Battlefront II dev temporarily turns off all microtransactions
15. EA suspends microtransactions in Star Wars Battlefront II hours before game launch: “Sorry we didn’t get this right,” says DICE general manager
16. Star Wars Battlefront II: Will EA’s concession hurt sales?: Analysts debate the impact of EA’s last-minute move to pull microtransactions from the title
17. Star Wars Battlefront loot boxes investigation continues, say Belgian authorities: Hawaii also considers legislation against “Star Wars-themed online casino”
18. Hawaiian representative wants to clamp down on ‘predatory’ loot boxes
19. Wall Street is freaking out as EA caves again to social media outrage over its ‘Star Wars’ game: Investors are now worried the controversy over Electronic Arts’ “Star Wars Battlefront II” in-game monetization model will hurt the video game’s sales. – “The escalation of EA concessions over the past month are a potential negative indicator of pre-order sales trends and overall unit confidence,” Bank of America Merrill Lynch analyst Justin Post writes.” – EA’s stock is down 7 percent month to date through Thursday compared with the S&P 500’s 0.4 percent gain.
20. EA tells investors turning off Battlefront 2’s microtransactions will not affect earnings
21. EA share price dips following loot box debacle: Also, Need for Speed Payback retools loot boxes following “community feedback”
22. Star Wars: Battlefront II debacle points the way forward – EA’s approach to microtransactions has been a complete disaster, but it may have stumbled upon a model other publishers should consider emulating
23. Did Disney push for EA’s Battlefront microtransaction decision?: Off-the-record “concerns” and official “support.”
24. Disney pressured EA to pull Star Wars microtransactions – Report: Online outrage had licensing partner concerned the Battlefront II reception could tarnish the Star Wars brand
25. UK boxed charts: Disappointing debut for Star Wars Battlefront II: EA’s blockbuster shooter down 50% compared with Battlefield 1
26. After Battlefront 2 Backlash, Need For Speed: Payback Alters Progression System
27. EA Devs Dial Down Microtransaction Pressure In Latest Need For Speed
28. Devs promise to change Battlefront II until players are happy: “We will be looking at data continually and make adjustments…”
29. Loot boxes are not bad game design, say devs: Star Wars aside, loot boxes are here to stay; “It’s just us dinosaurs that remember buying a game once for a fixed price and getting a set experience”
30. Applying ‘players first’ logic to loot boxes and other mechanics in Hearthstone
31. Economics Of Microtransactions In Video Games
32. Video Game Monetization Strategies
33. FCC is about to dismantle net neutrality: Gamers who rely on equal access to the internet may no longer have any such guarantee
34. When Will Video Game Software Need to Meet FCC Accessibility Requirements?
35. Video Game Software Industry Seeks a Final Disabilities Access Waiver Extension 
36. Marvel Heroes players chasing add-on refunds after short-lived console launch
37. The survival of GAME: Why the retailer is feeling defiant in the face of digital dominance
38. 11 years after launch, Titan Quest gets a new expansion pack
39. “It’s not Hitman without IO”: Why Square Enix set the franchise free – President and CEO Yosuke Matsuda tells GamesIndustry.biz the reasons behind the surprise split with IO Interactive
40. Steam overhauls user reviews to counter spam bots: Platform holder seeks to take power away from accounts that rate an “excessive number of reviews”
41. Publishers are “the most valuable piece of the puzzle” right now: We Are Fuzzy’s Maxx Burman offers a not-so-fuzzy view of indie development in 2017 as he readies his first project, Sleep Tigh
42. NCsoft will shut down Master X Master just months after launch
43. Tiny Metal director accused of funding game with money from another Kickstarter
44. Marvel Heroes Players Are Demanding Refunds For In-Game Purchases
45. Marvel Heroes players chasing add-on refunds after short-lived console launch
46. Marvel Heroes to close down as Disney terminates Gazillion partnership: Future remains uncertain for Marvel Heroes staff
47. Gazillion faces surge of refund requests after Marvel Heroes closure news: Players frustrated after spending hundreds of dollars on in-game microtransactions
48. Chasing the local optimum: Data-led strategies have left many companies trying to squeeze revenue from the same small but lucrative market segment – it’s not an approach with a bright future
49. Twitch: “We’re almost ready to go full-blown Hunger Games” – Co-founder Kevin Lin is excited for a new age of games development where streaming audiences can interact with the players
50. How Ninja Theory proved independent AAA has a future: “Smaller indie teams that want to make that step up in production values can adopt this kind of model”
51. Mario can’t prevent US game sales from falling 11% in October: Nintendo had a great month, but that was offset by an overall decline in software spending
52. Super Mario Odyssey tops US charts for October: Nintendo all over the NPD charts as Switch and Super NES Classic take top two spots on hardware side
53. Nintendo Switch is dominated by physical sales – GAME: Publishers says physical tie-ratio for Switch is almost identical to Wii
54. GAME: In UK and Spain, Switch attach rates are matching the Wii’s
55. GameStop’s earnings rise thanks to demand for new games and Nintendo’s Switch
56. Nintendo Switch drives GameStop global sales to just shy of $2bn for latest quarter: Hardware and software demand counters slight decline in pre-owned sales
57. Nintendo’s Switch and SNES Classic topped U.S. game hardware sales last month
58. Square Enix says its games are a good fit for the Switch, get buried on Steam
59. Vivendi holding off on Ubisoft takeover plans for six months
60. Vivendi: No plans for Ubisoft takeover for six months – French media giant still has aspirations to grow in gaming, but says it will limit stake in Assassin’s Creed publisher for now
61. Jon Shafer leaves Paradox over creative differences: Civilisation V designer moves on after just six months with new employer
62. Xbox One X launch sales well behind competition in Japan: Brand new super-powered console outsold by six-year-old handheld PlayStation Vita
63. The world of Skyrim is thrilling and flawed in VR: A nice place to visit, but I’m not sure about spending 100 hours.
64. “Life doesn’t wait for you, and neither does VR”: Baobab discusses the difficulty of directing player attention, and why we need new terms for virtual reality experiences
65. Wargaming’s symbiotic relationship with education and marketing: Director of special projects Tracy Spaight explores the applications for AR and VR outside of gaming
66. Riot Games Is Trying To Turn League Of Legends Into A Collegiate Esport
67. Why NCAA Involvement In Esports May Not Be Such A Bad Thing
68. What I learned visiting my first live eSports tournament: Just watching on Twitch isn’t the same as being immersed in the crowd.
69. You Can Now Hire Professional Gamers To Play Call Of Duty For You
70. Brooklyn Soccer Leagues To Replicate FIFA Video Game ‘In Real Life’
71. Wanted: Loving home for Boeing 737 cockpit and flight simulator
72. It’s A Living: Meet One Of New York’s Best Professional D&D Dungeon Masters
73. The rise of D&D liveplay is changing how fans approach roleplaying: From Stranger Things’ Dungeons & Dragons obsession to the YouTube and Twitch players becoming online celebrities, role-playing games are becoming public entertainment
74. South Australian government launches $2M digital games investment fund
75. Opinion: South Australia’s $2 million AUD investment in game devs
76. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild leads Golden Joystick award winners
77. The McLaren Formula 1 team just hired the World’s Fastest Gamer: The F1 team wanted a new simulator driver. Now it has found one—through gaming.
78. During The Holiday Season, Home Is Where The Games Are
79. Axiom Verge Publisher Donating 75 Percent Of Its Share To Developer’s Son’s Healthcare

Jon

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. Canada’s Billion Dollar Wireless Cash Grab: CRTC Data Shows Overage Fees Now Exceed Roaming Revenues (Michael Geist)
2. FIFA Trial: Fox Sports Accused of Playing Role in Bribing Officials
3. The NBA’s Vision For The Broadcast Of The Future
4. Colorado Voters Shoot Down Comcast’s Protectionist State Broadband Law
5. Google Fiber now sells $55-per-month gigabit Internet (in one city): $55 gigabit available in San Antonio while people in other cities pay $70.
6. Lawmakers demand investigation into FCC Chairman Ajit Pai: Pai accused of evading questions about FCC helping Sinclair expand media empire.
7. The FCC is having a terrible month, and consumers will pay the price
8. Is Trump’s AT&T Merger Roadblock A Return To Sensible Antitrust, Or Just More Cronyism?
9. AT&T says it’s “prepared to litigate” if US tries to block Time Warner deal: Trump’s DOJ reportedly wants AT&T to sell either CNN or DirecTV.
10. AT&T Promises Your Broadband Will Suck Less…But Only If It Gets Another Massive Tax Cut 
11. FCC’s latest gift to telcos could leave Americans with worse Internet access: FCC will let carriers abandon copper lines without offering adequate replacements.
12. Net neutrality rules should apply to ISPs and websites, senator says: Franken – Google, Facebook, and others are a “new kind” of Internet gatekeeper.
13. Pressure grows on FCC to kill state consumer protection laws: Mobile lobby says FCC should enforce “non-regulation” policy throughout nation.
14. Philo, Funded By Five Major Media Companies, Offers $16-Per-Month Skinny Bundle With Limited Channels 

DIGITAL

1. Court Rejects Gossip Site’s Fair Use Defense–Barcroft v. Coed Media
2. Cable Providers “Cut the Cord”: Audio/Video Streaming Patents Fail Both Alice Steps
3. Playboy Sues BoingBoing For Linking To Collection Of Centerfold Pictures
4. Google LLC v. Equustek Solutions Inc.: On Google’s motion for preliminary injunction, district court enjoins enforcement of Canadian court order requiring Google to delist search results worldwide, finding that Google had established likelihood of success on merits of its argument that order undermined safe harbor protection afforded by Communications Decency Act to Google as interactive service provider, and threatens free speech.
5. Why Google should be afraid of a Missouri Republican’s Google probe: Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley is probing Google’s business practices.
6. Shady Anti-Spyware Developer Loses Lawsuit Against Competitor Who Flagged Its Software As Malicious
7. California Appeals Court Issues A Ruling That Manages To Both Protect And Undermine Online Speech
8. Should we still doubt about the legality of Copyleft?
9. Julian Assange’s Secret DMs to Donald Trump Jr. Are Somehow Dumber, Sadder Than You’d Think
10. Twitter’s Authentication Policy Is A Verified Mess
11. Unusual experiment reveals the power of non-mainstream media: Scholars found that small media outlets have a big effect on Twitter discussions.
12. Facebook Live Is The New QVC
13. The Latest Social Media Trend in Government: It’s hard to get people to follow their local government on Facebook or Twitter. A few cities are using their employees’ personal accounts to connect with more residents.
14. Instagram CEO Positions His Company as Safer Alternative to Controversial Rivals
15. How A Russian Troll Fooled America: Reconstructing the life of a covert Kremlin influence account
16. Very Tired-Sounding John Kelly: Yeah, I Just Ignore Donald Trump’s Tweets
17. University could lose millions from “unethical” research backed by Peter Thiel: With nudge from federal regulators, an internal investigation found big problems.
18. Canada Revenue Agency Obtains Broad Court Order for Years of PayPal Data (Michael Geist)
19. For nearly a year, WikiLeaks was DMing with Donald Trump Jr.: “if your father ‘loses’ we think it is much more interesting if he DOES NOT conceed”
20. WikiLeaks Hitting Up Donald Trump Jr. Shouldn’t Surprise You
21. UK Gov’t Destroys Key Emails From Julian Assange Case, Shrugs About It
22. Trump’s Data Gurus Are Now Turning Their Attention To Your TV: Cambridge Analytica is eyeing targeted TV ads and mobile apps alongside some surprising allies.
23. Paradise Papers: Royalties from thousands of song classics tucked away tax-free – Music catalogue based in Jersey collected millions from songs by Duke Ellington, Sheryl Crow, The Trammps
24. Logitech Once Again Shows That In The Modern Era, You Don’t Really Own What You Buy
25. After online outrage, Logitech will now replace Harmony Link devices for free: You’ll have a new device no matter your warranty status.
26. After Backlash, Logitech Will Upgrade All Harmony Link Owners For Free
27. YouTube Red Climbs the List of Top Ten OTT Platforms
28. Don’t Let YouTube Babysit Your Children
29. Algorithmic Videos Are Making YouTube Unsuitable For Young Children, And Google’s ‘Revenue Architecture’ Is To Blame
30. Encore+ a new YouTube channel for retro CanCon: TV shows and films include Degrassi High, The Littlest Hobo, Mr. Dressup and Due South
31. Google broadens takedown of extremist YouTube videos
32. YouTube Will Remove More Extremist Videos With The Aid Of Government Lists
33. YouTube Vows To Crack Down On Inappropriate Videos Aimed At Children
34. YouTube Pacts With Ticketmaster To Help Musicians Boost Concert Sales
35. YouTube partners with Ticketmaster to sell concert tickets on artists’ video pages
36. YouTube Says World Series Ad Campaign Drove “Double Digit” Lift In YouTube TV Brand Awareness
37. YouTube To Discontinue In-Video Notifications As It Continues To Transition To Card-Based System
38. Online Video Star Matthias Declines Invite To Yearly Rewind Video In Protest Against YouTube’s Policies
39. Fullscreen Shutting Down Subscription VOD Service, Will Lay Off 25 Employees
40. Fullscreen To Shutter SVOD Service In January, Will Lay Off Roughly 25 Staffers
41. Disney Streaming Service May Signal End Of Marvel-Netflix Shows
42. Netflix Study Finds Stigmas Surrounding Public Binge-Viewing Have Dwindled
43. Offering Good Legal Options Works: Interest In Netflix Outpaces Pirate Options In Brazil
44. Sports Illustrated TV: Time Inc.’s First Subscription VOD Is $5 Monthly on Amazon Channels
45. Amazon Paid A Reported $250 Million For Rights To ‘Lord Of The Rings’ Prequel Series
46. Amazon launches Alexa, Echo, and Prime Music in Canada today: Alexa has a new Canadian English accent.
47. Amazon Music app for Android quietly gets Chromecast support: Casting gets a little easier for Android users who get their tunes from Amazon.
48. WhatsApp: inside the secret world of group chat – When WhatsApp launched it quickly became the main messaging service for groups of friends and family. More recently it’s become a useful platform for activists and politicians, fuelling a ‘whisper network’ of alliances and playing a crucial role in the recent revelation of the sexual abuse scandal
49. Facebook Defeats Lawsuit By User Suspended Over ‘Bowling Green Massacre’–Shulman v. Facebook (Eric Goldman)
50. Facebook, show us your secret recipe
51. Sean Parker unloads on Facebook “exploiting” human psychology
52. Facebook can’t cope with the world it’s created
53. Facebook Local Might Be The Only Facebook App You Need
54. Huge media companies like CBS and ESPN are banding together to fight Google and Facebook — but it may not be enough
55. Why Google should be afraid of a Missouri Republican’s Google probe: Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley is probing Google’s business practices.
56. Fashion, Maslow and Facebook’s control of social
57. ESPN Launches a New Version of ‘SportsCenter’ to Snapchat
58. The Facts: Non-Consensual Intimate Image Pilot
59. How One Woman’s Digital Life Was Weaponized Against Her
60. Online harassment of women journalists and international law: not “just” a gender issue, but a threat to democracy
61. And Another Thing: Those Dumb Social Media Guidelines For Journalists Are Going To Paint A Target On Their Backs
62. Breitbart’s Coming Exploitation Of The Believe Women Movement
63. Section 230(c)(2) Protects Anti-Malware Vendor–Enigma v. Malwarebytes  (Eric Goldman)
64. 230 bars false advertising claim against antimalware provider (Rebecca Tushnet)
65. Celebrate The 20th Anniversary Of A Seminal Section 230 Case Upholding It With This Series Of Essays
66. Commemorating the 20th Anniversary of Internet Law’s Most Important Judicial Decision
67. Copyright Infringement and the DMCA’s Safe Harbor Provisions 
68. The UK’s Broad Rejection of the §230 Model
69. UK Government promises more visas, more investment for tech sector
70. Sex, Scandal and Intermediary Liability: Imagining Life Without ‘Zeran v. AOL’: The Bazee.com legal saga highlights what could happen without a strong third-party liability protection standard for Internet businesses.
71. Wikipedia Warns That SESTA Could Destroy Wikipedia
72. Monkey Selfie Photographer Says He’s Now Going To Sue Wikipedia
73. China’s Bytedance Buying Social-Video App Musical.ly
74. U.S. Employs Rarely Used Tool to Probe China IP Practices
75. What My Personal Chat Bot Is Teaching Me About AI’s Future
76. The Robots Are Coming: For our jobs. Our military. And our current way of life. That is, unless a handful of local AI wizards can stop them
77. Ray Kurzweil On Turing Tests, Brain Extenders, And Ai Ethics
78. The real danger of Artificial Intelligence it’s not what you think
79. A Great Use For Artificial Intelligence: Scamming Scammers By Wasting Their Time
80. Welcome To The Era Of The Ai Coworker
81. Today, World Leaders Will Meet to Decide the Future of “Killer Robots”
82. Boston Dynamics CEO Believes Robotics Will Become “Bigger Than the Internet”
83. Could Software Stop School Shootings?: Panic button apps and AI could keep kids safer from shootings, but there are many non-technological problems to solve first.
84. Bitcoin compromise collapses, leaving future growth in doubt: Bitcoiners don’t trust elites—even Bitcoin elites.
85. Bitcoin rival doubles in price in four days as Bitcoin price slumps: With Bitcoin mired in controversy, a rival called Bitcoin Cash is gaining ground.
86. CEO who presided over Mt. Gox’s collapse could end up with massive profits: Creditors to be paid out at April 2014’s ~$440 per Bitcoin, not Nov. 2017’s ~$6,500.
87. Bitcoin Gold, the latest Bitcoin fork, explained
88. Covert Cryptocurrency Miners Quickly Become A Major Problem
89. Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain | How will these impact IP law?
90. 17-Qubit Chips Have Officially Arrived, and So Begins the Quantum Revolution
91. ESPN Streaming Service Set to Launch in Spring of 2018
92. North Korea’s Apple Obsession Brings New Meaning to the Phrase ‘Walled Garden’
93. HTC Announces Multi-million Dollar Vive Art Initiative, Bringing VR to Museums Worldwide
94. Hashtag History
95. CompuServe Forums, RIP: More than two decades of discussion and bad advice about to be deleted.

CREATIVITY

1.  Maybe the Canadian Copyright Bar and the Copyright Board Should Try Some PMNOC Remedies Instead of Rearranging the Deck Chairs? (Howard Knopf)
2. With The US Out, Canada Gets Copyright Out Of TPP And Moves Closer To Agreement
3. Creator Of Arguably The World’s Worst Film Loses Injunction Against Unflattering Documentary
4. Taylor Swift Using Dubious Trademark Registrations To Shut Down Sales Of Fan-Made Goods
5. Playboy Sues BoingBoing For Linking To Collection Of Centerfold Pictures
6. Professor Says Threats Of Retaliation By China Stopped Publication Of His Book Revealing Chinese Influence In Australia
7. Florida Supreme Court Denies Copyright Protection for Sound Recordings Predating Coverage Under the Federal Copyright Act 
8. Lawsuit Brought By Cosby Show Production Company Against Documentary Is The Reason We Have Fair Use
9. Not All Pirates are in the Caribbean
10. When Music You Wrote Becomes A Hate Speech Soundtrack
11. The Fans Made Louis C.K. – Now They Might Undo Him
12. Gal Gadot Will Not Play Wonder Woman Again Unless Brett Ratner Is Gone 
13. Ellen Page alleges director Brett Ratner outed her as a teen on ‘X-Men’ set
14. Brett Ratner and Russell Simmons were investigated by police in 2001 after alleged sexual battery
15. Six women accuse filmmaker Brett Ratner of sexual harassment or misconduct
16. Actress Roundtable: Jennifer Lawrence, Emma Stone and Top Stars on Harassment in Hollywood and Ideas for Industry Change
17. New York Ballot Selfie Ban Upheld… For Now 
18. Pricing access to the Trump White House: the strange case of the Times social media policy: “Any semblance of a political opinion must be squashed, with the appearance of neutrality and balance preserved at all costs.”
19. Repeated Unwanted Emails to Politician’s Personal Email Address Can be Harassment–Hagedorn v. Cattani
20. Coachella, Trademark Lawyers Want “Filmchella” Organizer Held in Contempt
21. No One Knows What Omarosa Is Doing in the White House—Even Omarosa: The ‘Apprentice’ star has a top salary and a high-ranking job. But when we spent time with her, it was her wedding she was planning.
22. Mapping Media Coverage Of Mass Shootings, Hurricanes And More
23. FTC Fills Up With Trump Nominations
24. FTC Speaks Out on Children’s Voice Recordings: In a new Enforcement Policy Statement, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) decreased the burden for operators with regard to the collection of certain audio voice recordings of children under the age of 13.
25. The Superior Court of Québec analyses the exception allowing the use of a work protected by copyright for the purpose of news reporting
26. Presentation on the First 18 Months of the Defend Trade Secrets Act
27. Logitech Once Again Shows That In The Modern Era, You Don’t Really Own What You Buy
28. Disney is planning a live-action Star Wars TV show for its streaming service: The long-rumored live-action Star Wars series might finally actually happen
29. Glamorizing the Nightmare Trade: How a TV show is making a drug criminal way too cool.

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Canada Revenue Agency Obtains Broad Court Order for Years of PayPal Data (Michael Geist)
2. First Ever En Banc FISA Court Review Gives Plaintiffs Standing To Challenge Surveillance Program Secrecy
3. Anonymous Speech Online Dealt a Blow in US v. Glassdoor Opinion
4. Ninth Circuit Lets Us See Its Glassdoor Ruling, And It’s Terrible
5. Hackers Say They’ve Broken Face ID A Week After iPhone X Release
6. Hackers say they broke Apple’s Face ID. Here’s why we’re not convinced: Key questions persist about $150 mask hackers used to unlock Face-protected iPhone X.
7. Watch A 10-Year-Old’s Face Unlock His Mom’s iPhone X
8. Should We Teach Facial Recognition Technology About Race?
9. Trump’s Taxes Have Probably Already Been Hacked
10. He Perfected A Password-Hacking Tool—Then The Russians Came Calling
11. Security Breach and Spilled Secrets Have Shaken the N.S.A. to Its Core: A serial leak of the agency’s cyberweapons has damaged morale, slowed intelligence operations, and resulted in hacking attacks on businesses and civilians worldwide.
12. DOJ Still Demanding Identity Of Twitter Users Because Someone They Shouldn’t Have Arrested Tweeted A Smiley Emoji
13. Texas National Guard Latest Agency To Be Discovered Operating Flying Cell Tower Spoofers
14. The Pentagon Opened Up To Hackers—And Fixed Thousands Of Bugs
15. DOJ: Strong encryption that we don’t have access to is “unreasonable” – Rod Rosenstein – We should weigh “law enforcement equities” against security.
16. Latest DOJ WTFness: Encryption Is Like A Locked House That Won’t Let Its Owners Back Inside
17. How Journalists Fought Back Against Crippling Email Bombs
18. How AV can open you to attacks that otherwise wouldn’t be possible: New AVGater flaw provided key ingredient for hacker to hijack computer.
19. Recent Intel Chipsets Have A Built-In Hidden Computer, Running Minix With A Networking Stack And A Web Server
20. Survey of bug bounty hunters shows who pans for pwns: Bug hunters are educated, young, looking for challenge—and cash to feed security habit.
21. No boundaries: Exfiltration of personal data by session-replay scripts
22. Hack Brief: OnePlus Phones Have An Unfortunate Backdoor Built In
23. Netflix Knows Some Very Strange Things About Public Viewing Habits

GAMES

1. Humvee maker sues Activision over trademark infringement in Call of Duty
2. Humvee maker suing Activision over trademark infringement in Call of Duty: Automotive firm says series success came “only at the expense of AM General”
3. Complaint: Call of Duty Video Game Infringes Trademarks by Pervasively Featuring Humvees 
4. Staffers stage walkout at IGN over mismanagement of sexual harassment claims
5. IGN promises change following allegations of sexual harassment against former editor: Content staff release statement declaring solidarity with victims, some employees stop work in protest against harassment
6. Russian military cites game screenshot as “evidence” of US ISIS support: Image from mobile AC-130 Gunship Simulator apparently came from a YouTube trailer.
7. Behind the addictive psychology and seductive art of loot boxes: How gambling principles and seductive animation compel players to drop cash on card packs and weapon crates.
8. From loot tables to loot boxes, how do we manage an addiction to addiction?
9. Compulsion Loops & Dopamine in Games and Gamification
10. Battlefront II dev: ‘It’s up to us to make sure that grind is fun and not overwhelming’: “I think crates can be a fun addition as long as you don’t feel forced to engage with them in order to progress. I feel that’s where the issue is with our game right now and that’s where we’ll look to solve as quickly as we can.”
11. EA could replace annual sports games with live services: CEO Andrew Wilson says approach to Korean and Chinese markets could be extended globally, publisher is looking at subscription model for mobile games
12. EA CEO: It’s only a matter of time before games embrace subscription services – “The notion that [subscription streaming services] wouldn’t impact our industry, I think, is naive. Will it take a little bit longer? Yes, for a whole bunch of reasons [like] file size, level of interactivity, and design.”
13. EA: Live services plus subscriptions equals “uncapped” monetization – CFO Blake Jorgensen discusses how publisher is becoming less dependent on new titles, growing a more stable business
14. Unlocking a Hero in ‘Star Wars Battlefront II’ Takes Almost Two Days of Gameplay
15. Can EA fix what’s broken with Star Wars: Battlefront II’s economy? – Rant: Loot boxes are just the beginning of EA’s worst-ever dive into pay-to-win.
16. Fans Worry Star Wars Battlefront 2’s ‘Free’ DLC Heroes Are Going To Take Eons To Grind For
17. Star Wars: Battlefront 2 Players Won’t Be Able To Finish Campaign Until Nearly A Month After Launch
18. Congratulations to EA for Posting the Most Hated Comment in Reddit History 
19. EA Defense Of Star Wars Battlefront II Becomes Most Downvoted Reddit Comment Ever
20. EA promises “constant adjustments” to Battlefront II monetization: Users estimate it will take 40 hours to unlock iconic characters, prompting more backlash against the multiplayer shooter
21. Battlefront II devs cut cost of in-game unlocks 75% in response to fan outcry
22. Star Wars Battlefront 2 Developer Confirms That They Will Continue Tweaking The Loot Boxes In Response To Community Feedback: “We’re not somehow trying to bite the hand that feeds us.”
23. The Curious Case Of The ‘EA Game Dev’ Who Said He Received Death Threats
24. Battlefront II, Overwatch under scrutiny by Belgian gambling regulator
25. Need for Speed: Payback can’t avoid its own bankruptcy – Poor driving and awful writing don’t justify a tremendous loot-drop grind.
26. EA buys out a game studio after shutting another one down 3 weeks ago: Studio behind Titanfall, unnamed Star Wars game stays with EA to tune of up to $455M.
27. EA buys Titanfall dev Respawn Entertainment for as much as $455M
28. Electronic Arts to acquire Titanfall maker Respawn for as much as $455 million
29. Reviews vs. revenues: Mixed messages for Take-Two – NBA 2K18 players say they hate virtual currency, but sales figures say they’re spending more than ever; Take-Two listens to the latter at its peril
30. Ex-BioWare dev traces loot boxes back to Mass Effect 3and FIFA
31. The Real Problem With ‘Games As Service’ Isn’t The Microtransactions
32. From loot tables to loot boxes, how do we manage an addiction to addiction?
33. Publishers argue mandated ESRB ratings puts physical indie releases at risk
34. Indies feel the pinch from Sony’s new ESRB mandate: Special edition physical versions of online titles have to be rated, and it’s not going over well with some small studios
35. Guillemot: “PlayStation 5 and fourth Xbox to launch 2019 at the earliest” – Ubisoft CEO does not expect new consoles any time soon thanks to launch of PS4 Pro and Xbox One X
36. Softly, softly: The Xbox One X Launch
37. GameStop aborts the launch of its unlimited game rental program
38. GameStop suspends its unlimited used games program: The PowerPass program has been “temporarily paused” – customers who purchased a pass will get refunds
39. Wolfenstein 2 Reminds Us What Heroes Look Like
40. Bury me, my Love: Using video games to push back far-right rhetoric – Developer Florent Maurin on how we perceive refugees and the role of games in the debate
41. Now you see me: Representation as innovation – Broader representation of gender, race and sexuality can lead to new stories, says Kim Belair, and new stories can enlighten and excite
42. Victoria state government creates opportunities for women in games with $140,000 pledge: Funding opens up positions in seven Australian studios
43. UK government pledges 2,000 visas, £61m investment to Tech sector: Number of visas doubled to bring in more talent, with three £20m schemes planned to grow Britain’s digital industries
44. Pulling back the curtain on Overwatch’s development process
45. More than 6,000 games released on Steam in 2017 so far: Almost ten years’ worth of new games are already on the marketplace – and there’s still a month to go
46. Ark dev: “Retail was not something we had planned to do” – Studio Wildcard’s Jesse Rapczak on the benefits of retail in a digital era, Ark getting enhanced for Xbox One X, and possibly targeting Switch
47. Disney severs ties with Marvel Heroes dev Gazillion Entertainment
48. Kickstarter Launches a Patreon Competitor Called Drip
49. Kickstarter Looks To Compete With Patreon, Launches New Platform Called Drip
50. Kickstarter launches Patreon rival Drip: New crowdfunding platform allows creators to offer subscriptions for ongoing content, will integrate with Kickstarter
51. ‘Pokémon GO’ Makers Announce Harry Potter AR Game, Releasing 2018
52. Where is VR’s Nintendo Switch?: Cloudhead Games CEO Denny Unger says that developers need a device that offers both mobility and a high-powered VR experience
53. More third-party publishers ‘aggressively’ ramp up Nintendo Switch support: Square Enix and Ubisoft are the latest to pledge additional products
54. Doom definitely works on the Switch, but it looks noticeably worse: Reboot looks pretty good in portable mode, pretty fuzzy on the big screen.
55. Report: Nintendo boosting Switch production, could make 30M consoles next year
56. Nintendo takes a gamble with record-setting Switch production plans: Reported bump to 25 to 30 million units per year carries its share of risk.
57. Nintendo to ship almost 50 million Switch units by April 2019: Platform holder plans to produce up to 30 million consoles in next fiscal year
58. Nintendo Switch Has Added Its First Video Streaming App: Hulu
59. Open-world games are broken, and Nintendo spent 2017 trying to fix them
60. Porting classic games to smartphones isn’t the way to go, says Nintendo
61. Report suggests Nintendo close to deal for a new Mario movie: Miyamoto would be a producer on possible Illumination Entertainment film.
62. Minions studio close to deal for Mario movie – Report: Universal’s Illumination Entertainment and Nintendo nearly ready to move forward with animated feature film
63. IO Interactive has cut a deal to make a Hitman TV series
64. Hitman series in the works at streaming platform Hulu: John Wick creator Derek Kolstad on board to write pilot
65. Game Developers Conference announces the inaugural GDC Film Festival
66. GDC rolling out its own film festival: Event organizers open submissions for documentaries and other game-focused films to screen during annual conference
67. National Videogame Arcade launching music festival in 2018: Masaya Matsura, Jessica Curry and Rob Hubbard to headline new event
68. CCP dev: “Virtual reality doesn’t need a killer app” – Eve Valkyrie lead game designer Andrew Whillans also shares how to account for low install bases with VR multiplayer games
69. Latest Figures Suggest ‘Resident Evil 7’ Could Have Some 475,000 PSVR Players
70. Sony ramping up Move production for PSVR push: Platform holder also reports virtual reality attach rate highest on PS4 Pro, five games sold per headset
71. ‘Haptic Shape Illusion’ Allows VR Controllers to Simulate Feel of Physically Larger Objects
72. Tencent still eyes acquisition of PUBG developer Bluehole – report: Tencent working with firm to deliver PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds in China, says Korean Times
73. Tencent to help establish Snapchat as games platform: Chinese behemoth believes mobile games will help social media firm meet growth expectations
74. Tencent online gaming revenue exceeds $4bn in latest quarterly financials: Company-wide profit up to $2.7 billion, year-on-year increase of 67%
75. Marvel Heroes Shut Down By Disney
76. New Counter-Strike Matchmaking System Analyses Your Behavior In Other Steam Games
77. Studio founded to develop bespoke esports title: Former US talent agency esports head looks to build competitive game from the ground-up
78. Konami partners with eSports outfit to launch a new PES league
79. Esports Industry Awards winners announced: Eefje “Sjokz” Depoortere and Megan “RheingoldRiver” Cutrofello first women to be recognised at awards
80. The Game Awards adds new honors, including an award for ‘live games’
81. Nominees revealed for The Game Awards 2017
82. DRM Strikes Again: Sonic Forces Just Plain Broken Thanks To Denuvo
83. Warner Bros.’s Machinima Launches 24-Hour Channel on Twitch
84. Razer raises $500 million with Hong Kong IPO: Successful floatation drives stock up 40%, sells just over one billion shares
85. What do players want from DLC? Obsidian survey attempts to find out
86. The Digital Ruins of a Forgotten Future: Second Life was supposed to be the future of the internet, but then Facebook came along. Yet many people still spend hours each day inhabiting this virtual realm. Their stories—and the world they’ve built—illuminate the promise and limitations of online life.

Jon

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. Quebec Digital Sales Tax Bill Demonstrates the Complications That Come With Implementing a “Netflix Tax” (Michael Geist)
2. US regulators demand CNN sale to approve AT&T-Time Warner deal: Dispute erupts in public as AT&T boss says he will not put news channel up for sale
3. Trump’s DOJ wants AT&T/Time Warner to sell CNN or DirecTV before merger: AT&T could fight government in court in order to keep merger intact.
4. Giant International Egos May Derail The Sprint T-Mobile Merger
5. Competition Dodges A Bullet As T-Mobile, Sprint Merger Dies
6. T-Mobile and Sprint finally, officially, say they definitely won’t merge: T-Mobile and Sprint will “fight the duopoly,” but as separate companies.
7. Don’t Pay Verizon’s $10 ‘Premium Video’ Upcharge
8. FCC Boss Demolishes Media Ownership Rules In Massive Gift To Sinclair Broadcasting
9. FCC tries to help cable companies avoid state consumer protection rules: The FCC wants to block Minnesota from regulating Charter’s VoIP phone service.
10. Sorry, Comcast: Voters say “yes” to city-run broadband in Colorado – Municipal broadband wins “David vs. Goliath battle” in Fort Collins, Colorado.
11. Comcast Tries To Stop Colorado City From Even Talking About Building Its Own Broadband Network
12. Comcast has a lot to lose if municipal broadband takes off: Comcast revenue could take a big hit in two cities that might build networks.
13. Comcast Urges FCC To Ban States From Protecting Broadband Privacy, Net Neutrality
14. Comcast asks the FCC to prohibit states from enforcing net neutrality: Pressure builds on FCC Chair Ajit Pai to preempt state net neutrality laws.
15. AT&T Backs Off Nuisance Lawsuit Intended To Hamstring Broadband Competitors Like Google Fiber
16. An AT&T drone is now providing cellular service to people in Puerto Rico: Cellular network still devastated; carriers scramble to reconnect residents.
17. AT&T struggles to get Trump administration approval for Time Warner merger: DOJ could sue to block merger, but AT&T says everything is on track.
18. House Antitrust Subcommittee Explores the Role of Antitrust Law in Net Neutrality 
19. What blockchain can learn from the net neutrality debate: antitrust and regulatory aspects of “paid prioritization” for a nascent technology 
20. Australia’s national broadband network under relentless attack—by cockatoos: Birds love steel braided cables for beak maintenance.
21. ESPN Joins List Of Companies Enforcing Stringent Social Media Policies, Which Is Both Bad And Stupid

DIGITAL

1. Did a U.S. Court Just Disrespect the Supreme Court of Canada’s Global De-Indexing Decision?
2. US judge says “global de-indexing order” against Google threatens free speech: Canada’s highest court sought to alter search results, but it won’t apply in US.
3. Equustek No-Shows Legal Challenge Of Canadian Court Order Demanding Google Delist Sites Worldwide
4. Company that sought to control Google search results is a no-show in US court: Equustek won an unprecedented global order, but it’s unlikely to stick in the US.
5. US Court Protects Google From Canadian Court’s Delisting Order–Google v. Equustek (Eric Goldman)
6. U.S. Judge Rules Canadian Court Order “Threatens Free Speech on the Global Internet” (Michael Geist)
7. Linking in the US: is an embedded tweet an infringement of the public display right?
8. Does Sharing A Link To Online Content Amount To Copyright Infringement?: This would destroy the way we communicate today, including interactions on social media platforms — and you can thank Tom Brady for it.
9. Piracy site for science research dinged again in court—this time for $4.8M: Latest ruling might require Google to remove Sci-Hub from search.
10. Global Music Lobby Groups Hit Ottawa in Blitz Over Copyright Term Extension (Michael Geist)
11. Judge Ignores Congress, Pretends SOPA Exists, Orders Site Blocking Of Sci-Hub
12. Russian Twitter Support for Trump Began Right After He Started Campaign: In three months after Mr. Trump announced his candidacy, tweets from Russian accounts offered far more praise for the businessman than criticism
13. Russia funded Facebook and Twitter investments through Kushner associate: Institutions with close links to Kremlin financed stakes through business associate of Trump’s son-in-law, leaked files reveal
14. On last day of work, rogue Twitter employee deactivated Trump’s account: “We are conducting a full internal review.”
15. Trump Account Deactivation Exposes Tensions Within Twitter: Disconnect between Twitter’s employees and its highest-profile user is exposed after account deactivation
16. The rogue Twitter employee who deleted Trump’s account could face hacking charges
17. Don’t Cheer For The Twitter Employee Who Deleted Donald Trump’s Account
18. Trump Twitter Use Violates First Amendment, Argue Scholars in Brief by Georgetown Law’s ICAP
19. Newly released e-mails show Ivanka Trump kept using personal account: “The unusual formatting makes it appear that she is not using a government account.”
20. How Russia ‘Pushed Our Buttons’ With Fake Online Ads
21. Jenna Abrams, Russia’s Clown Troll Princess, Duped the World
22. Inside story: How Russians hacked the Democrats’ emails
23. Mitch McConnell: Tech Companies Should Help Us Weaponize the Internet Against Russia
24. Twitter rewrote its user guidelines so it’s easier to tell what will get you banned: Twitter hopes it can make things clearer.
25. Dianne Feinstein Wants Twitter To Just Hand Her A Bunch Of Private Communications
26. Congress Pats Itself On The Back Via Social Media For Its Opportunity To Slam Social Media
27. Twitter officially doubles character count, says most 280 testers didn’t use it: Today, you can spell out “two hundred and eighty” and still have room to say other stuff.
28. Twitter gives new 280-character limit to all users following limited testing phase: The tech company said the new limit will begin its global rollout Tuesday, with everyone receiving the bump up from 140 characters soon
29. Facebook’s New Mission: Video Will Bring Us Together
30. Senator Portman Pushes Forward With SESTA, Despite Being Misinformed
31. Dear Senators Portman & Blumenthal: What Should Blogs Do If SESTA Passes?
32. Internet Association Sells Out The Internet: Caves In And Will Now Support Revised SESTA
33. Will Sheryl Sandberg And Facebook Help Small Websites Threatened By SESTA?
34. How The Internet Association’s Support For SESTA Just Hurt Facebook And Its Users
35. How SESTA Undermines Section 230’s Good Samaritan Provisions (Eric Goldman)
36. Why Does SESTA Allow State Attorneys General To File Civil Claims?
37. Another Human Trafficking Expert Raises Concerns About SESTA
38. Ron Wyden Puts A Hold On SESTA And Warns About Its Dangers
39. Would Shutting Down Backpage Reduce Violence Against Women?
40. It’s Getting Harder for Tech Companies To Deny Responsibility for Content: The industry, having lost control of the narrative in Washington, has reversed course and backed a bill against online sex trafficking
41. Beware These Texas Shooting Rumors That Spread on CNN and Google
42. Now, Silicon Valley Is Totally Cool With a Bill That Could Ruin the Internet 
43. The Internet is Not a VCR
44. EFF destroys the podcasting patent, one last time: Owners of an infamous licensing campaign have now really tried everything.
45. Government-Supported Dutch YouTube Channel Turns Heads By Depicting Effects Of Recreational Drugs
46. YouTube’s Latest Pitch To Brands Celebrates Users Who Are “More Than Just Viewers”
47. After Neglecting Creators, Snapchat To Offer Monetization Opportunities, New Content Tools
48. Snapchat To Redesign Its App Following Disappointing Results
49. CNN Launches E-Commerce Unit, Plans Digital News Subscriptions in 2018
50. Amazon Fresh reportedly shutting down in neighborhoods in up to five states: Customers in affected areas will have to find a new grocery delivery service.
51. With deletion of one wallet, $280M in Ethereum wallets gets frozen: Parity multi-signature wallets created since July break, affecting 1M ETH.
52. SEC warns that celebrity cryptocurrency endorsements may be illegal: Floyd Mayweather and Paris Hilton could be in hot water for paid endorsements.
53. With deletion of one wallet, $280M in Ethereum wallets gets frozen: Parity multi-signature wallets created since July break, affecting 1M ETH.
54. How To Keep Your Bitcoin Safe And Secure
55. Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs): The Current State of Play
56. IBM’s plan to regulate pot with blockchains isn’t as crazy as it sounds: Canada is legalizing marijuana, and IBM wants to help.
57. How A Tiny Error Shut Off The Internet For Parts Of The Us
58. The Web began dying in 2014, here’s how
59. Something is wrong on the internet
60. The Tower of Babel: Five Challenges of the Modern Internet
61. Stephen Hawking: “I Fear That AI May Replace Humans Altogether”
62. Computer says no: why making AIs fair, accountable and transparent is crucial – As powerful AIs proliferate in society, the ability to trace their decisions, challenge them and remove ingrained biases has become a key area of research
63. Ray Kurzweil: “AI Will Not Displace Humans, It’s Going to Enhance Us”
64. Can copyright survive artificial intelligence?
65. China Could Soon Overtake the US in AI Development, Former Google CEO Says
66. DeepMind “Never Found the Limit” of AlphaGo Zero’s Intelligence
67. Can Artificial Intelligence Revolutionize Medicine?
68. Artificial Intelligence Is Putting Ultrasound On Your Phone
69. How sheep with cameras got some tiny islands onto Google Street View
70. The Google Docs Lockout Fiasco & The Failed Promise Of The Cloud
71. Intel Brings Virtual Reality Content To NBA On TNT, Offers Vision Of Future
72. Steven Soderbergh’s New App Will Change How You Watch TV
73. Apple At Its Best
74. I Hate How Much I Love the iPhone X
75. iPhone 8 and 8 Plus are hits as Apple sells 46.7 million smartphones in Q4: Apple Watch sales continue to grow while the company bounces back in China.
76. When Apple soured on Irish tax laws, it turned to a tiny English Channel island: “Apple is so big that it is effectively able to negotiate its own tax laws.”
77. Supreme Court won’t hear Apple v. Samsung round two: Apple has $120M final resolution in one of its two big cases against Samsung.
78. Apple’s Video Offering Takes Shape with Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon TV drama
79. Broadcom wants to buy Qualcomm in unprecedented $130 billion deal: Broadcom would become the world’s third-largest chipmaker, behind Intel and Samsung.
80. Elderly doctor: I lost my license because I don’t know how to use a computer – Doc says her paper records are just fine – state medical board disagrees.
81. Doctor with no computer skills vows to battle medical board in court: “I am not going to compromise patients’ lives or health for the system.”
82. Watching Hackers in 2017 – what happened to all the anarchy?: The 1995 cult classic depicts a vision of techies as stylish, punk and sexy – over twenty years later that aesthetic and attitude is nowhere to be seen
83. The Year in Push Alerts: How the onslaught of breaking news has shaped our lives since Nov. 8, 2016.
84. The End Of The Cult Of The Founder
85. Vice Opens Up Asia HQ, Plots Regional Expansion

CREATIVITY

1. High Court rules on copyright protection of TV formats for game shows 
2. DC Comics Defeats “Jesus” Trademark
3. Moosehead Still At It: Sues Hop ‘N Moose Brewing For Trademark Infringement
4. ‘Cosby Show’ Producer Sues BBC for Using Clips in Bill Cosby Doc: In a copyright lawsuit, Carsey-Werner Company alleges the network sought to capitalize on the popularity of ‘The Cosby Show.’
5. This lawsuit against a Cosby rape documentary is why fair use exists: “Cosby Show” producers say even 7-second clips amount to copyright infringement.
6. Harvey Weinstein: Rape claim by actress credible, police say
7. David Boies Accused Of Running Horrifying Spy Operation Against Harvey Weinstein’s Accusers
8. Netflix Reportedly Severs Ties With Kevin Spacey, Effective Immediately
9. Netflix Is the Reason Behind the Disney, Fox Deal Talks
10. Taylor Swift’s Legal Rep Tries To Kill Critical Blog Post With Bogus Defamation, Copyright Claims 
11. Taylor Swift threatens to sue blogger who connected her to white supremacists: Swift tried to use copyright to keep her threat of a lawsuit secret.
12. Taylor Swift Attempts to Silence Critic, ACLU Fires Back: Pop star and attorney send threatening letter to local blogger
13. India: In Defence of AIB’s Game of Thrones Memes: When can Satire/Critique Act as a Suitable Defence?
14. SLAPP Alert: Professor Sues Another For Defamation Over Competing Academic Papers
15. Disney Bans LA Times Writers From Advance Screenings In Response To Negative Articles
16. LA Times: You can’t read our Thor review because Disney is mad – LA Times documented lavish election spending to defend Disneyland tax breaks.
17. Disney forced to backpedal after banning LA Times from Thor screening: LA Times documented lavish election spending that defended Disneyland tax breaks.
18. Thor: Ragnarok’s Valkyrie Shows How Far We’ve Got to Go for LGBTQ Representation on the Big Screen
19. Chadwick Boseman Chose His Black Panther Accent to Make a Point About White Supremacy
20. Museum fees are killing art history, say academics
21. Top Academic Publisher Kowtows To China: Censors Thousands Of Papers, Denies It Is Censorship
22. Journalists also have a “duty to warn”: Are we starting to do our jobs?: Media’s obsession with “balance” and addiction to spectacle led to disaster. Can we get back to real reporting now?
23. Marvel loses creator of Jessica Jones, Miles Morales to DC: Bendis worked with Marvel since the early 2000s, writing for nearly every big series.
24. Canadian Heritage Minister Joly Hints Many Cultural Groups Don’t Comply With Lobbyist Reporting Rules (Michael Geist)

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Canadian Court Says Law Enforcement Doesn’t Have To Hand Over Info On Stingray Devices
2. Kim Dotcom settles case he filed against NZ police over “military-style raid”: Cops could have “knocked at our door at a reasonable hour and advised me of my arrest.”
3. FBI can’t break the encryption on Texas shooter’s smartphone: FBI won’t confirm it’s an iPhone: “I don’t want to tell bad guys what phone to buy.”
4. Miami City Attorney Tries To Erase Photos Of Fired Firefighters From The Internet
5. Should I be worried that Amazon knows so much about me?
6. Security vs. convenience? IoT requires another level of thinking about risk – Op-ed: Devices like Amazon Key put too much risk assessment on users; bad decisions follow.
7. With Amazon Key’s launch, customers and lawyers have lots of questions – Prof: “Why would anyone want to give Amazon access to their home?”
8. How Facebook Figures Out Everyone You’ve Ever Met
9. Uploading all your nudes to Facebook isn’t such a bad idea: An industry-wide database of image hashes could stop non-consensual pornography, or revenge porn, at source
10. To prevent revenge porn, Facebook will look at user-submitted nude photos: Pilot program goals are laudable, but is the remedy as bad as the ailment it treats?
11. Flaw crippling millions of crypto keys is worse than first disclosed: Estonia abruptly suspends digital ID cards as crypto attacks get easier and cheaper.
12. Cryptojacking craze that drains your CPU now done by 2,500 sites: Android apps with millions of Google Play downloads also crash the party.
13. Stuxnet-style code signing is more widespread than anyone thought: Forgeries undermine the trust millions of people place in digital certificates.
14. Critical Tor flaw leaks users’ real IP address—update now
15. Russia’s ‘Fancy Bear’ Hackers Exploit A Microsoft Office Flaw—And NYC Terrorism Fear
16. The Devious Netflix Phish That Just Won’t Die
17. So What the Hell Is Doxxing?: What doxxing really is, plus advice on how to protect yourself from unwanted exposure of personal and private information online.
18. What Is Informational Injury? The FTC Wants to Know What Folks Think Is Enough Harm to Take Action
19. The Case Of Glassdoor And The Grand Jury Subpoena, And How Courts Are Messing With Online Speech In Secret
20. Some Thoughts On Gag Rules And Government Unmasking Demands

GAMES

1. Humvee maker sues Activision over ‘Call of Duty’
2. AM General sues Activision over ‘Call of Duty’ Humvee use: The “Call of Duty” franchise rakes in billions, and AM General wants a piece of the pie.
3. Overwatch devs aim to combat toxicity with a dedicated ‘strike team’
4. The Trouble with Trailers: Developers have learned to deal with violence and difficult themes intelligently and respectfully in recent years – it’s time for marketing teams to catch up
5. The Price Wolfenstein 2 Had To Pay To Get Around Germany’s Anti-Nazi Laws Was Removing A Mustache
6. Board members vote to officially end voice actors’ strike
7. Nearly a year later, video game voice actors end their strike: Approved deal ends the longest acting strike in U.S. history.
8. In Amazon’s game engine, voice actors can now be replaced with robots: Just after actor strike ends, Lumberyard update adds a full text-to-speech pipeline.
9. The End of Ownership: Video gamers have discovered a new and scary loophole in the laws of ownership—and the upshot is that a lot of your digital property might not technically be yours.
10. The life, death, and rebirth of EVE Online’s player-created cemetery
11. Need For Speed Payback Review: One step forwards and two steps back for the series.
12. Call Of Duty: WWII Is A Small Story, Told Poorly
13. Launch to launch, Call of Duty: WWII saw double Infinite Warfare’s sales
14. Call of Duty: WWII doubles Infinite Warfare sales worldwide – Over $500m in opening weekend is just shy of Black Ops III’s $550m
15. Niantic is developing a Harry Potter AR game
16. Harry Potter AR game in the works from Niantic
17. Pokemon Go creator looking to replicate its mobile success in partnership with Warner Bros
18. Report: Apple preparing to release AR headset in 2020
19. PUBG ban in China unlikely, says industry analyst: China is already the number one region for the game, with a 40% share of active players
20. PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds crosses 20 million copies sold
21. PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds hits 20 million sold: Bluehole survival shooter hits newest milestone less than a month after reaching 15 million
22. Fortnite’s Battle Royale reaches 20 million downloads: Epic Games’ free-to-play battle royale edges in front of main rival PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, but remains well behind on concurrent players
23. Canadian game dev surging – ESA Canada: Trade group says national games industry growing at six times the pace of the country’s economy
24. As ESA enthusiastically backs GOP tax reform plan, some devs dismay
25. UK console game sales now 30 – 45% digital: Confidential data shown to GamesIndustry.biz reveals massive shift in UK game sales
26. UK physical market drops 16% in October as downloads increase: FIFA 18 tops a very different looking Top 20
27. UK games tax relief extended to 2023: European Commission renotifies tax incentive scheme, granting another six years of support for British developers
28. Super Mario Odyssey sells over 500,000 copies in Japan in a few days: The latest Famitsu numbers, which don’t include download sales, make Mario the second-highest selling Switch software launch
29. Odyssey is fastest-selling Super Mario game in US and Europe: Switch sales now at 2.6m in the US, with Odyssey selling 1.1m
30. L.A. Noire is too big to download to a standard Switch: Even the physical version requires a massive downloadable patch.
31. EA not committing to more Switch games: Publisher wants to wait until system has been on sale a year to decide on development support beyond FIFA 18
32. Sold Out: “Nintendo does not exclude you, it just asks you to up your game” – CEO Garry Williams says “the opportunities are there” for boxed games on Switch following digital indie gold rush
33. Mobile still a “core pillar” of Nintendo’s strategy, despite Super Mario Run shortfall: “There is still much we have to learn,” says president Tatsumi Kimishima; no plans for platform holder to manufacture smartphones
34. Sales up at Capcom thanks to ‘stalwart’ Monster Hunterfranchise
35. Monster Hunter Switch drives Capcom’s sales up to $295mz: Nintendo title shows “stalwart performance”, publisher expects downloads to account for one in three sales by April
36. Bandai surprised by Switch’s popularity, wants more titles on console
37. Bandai Namco ramping up support for the Nintendo Switch: “We didn’t think the Switch [would] be accepted this fast”, says president Mitsuaki Taguchi
38. One modder is on a quest to preserve Nintendo’s forgotten Flash games
39. Blizzard has its own classic World of Warcraft server in the works
40. Blizzard finally relents to years of fan pressure with World of Warcraft Classic: Shock announcement comes at outset of annual Blizzcon event.
41. Destiny 2 and digital drive Activision Blizzard growth: More than half of Destiny 2 copies sold on consoles were purchased digitally as Activision side carries the company’s quarter – Over $1bn in-game revenues
42. For console games, downloads are approaching a tipping point: Destiny 2’s digital success could spell long-term trouble for discs
43. Activision Blizzard beats expectations to post record Q3 revenues
44. StarCraft II goes free-to-play seven years after launch: Single-player campaign, ranked multiplayer available free of charge.
45. Blizzard is making StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty free-to-play
46. Starcraft II goes free-to-play: New WoW expansion announced alongside new business model for Blizzard’s hit RTS
47. Take-Two plans to only release games with ‘recurrent consumer spending’ hooks: “It may not always be an online model, it probably won’t always be a virtual currency model, but there will be some ability to engage in an ongoing basis with our titles after release across the board. That’s a sea change in our business.”
48. NBA 2K18, GTA Online drive Take-Two’s Q2: CEO Strauss Zelnick says despite complaints of aggressive microtransactions, player spending “probably the best barometer of how a title’s being received”
49. Take-Two wants “recurrent consumer spending” from all titles, won’t always be virtual currency: Meanwhile CEO Strauss Zelnick remains confident Red Dead 2 won’t cannibalise ongoing GTA Online success
50. Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy drive strong earnings for Square Enix
51. New Dragon Quest, old Final Fantasy drive Square Enix growth: Japanese debut of DQ XI, HD remaster of FF XII, and Nier: Automata push publisher to 24% sales growth for first half of fiscal year
52. For the first time, Ubisoft’s microtransactions out-earned digital game sales
53. Microtransactions now account for nearly half of Take-Two’s revenue
54. Games revenue slows to a crawl at Microsoft
55. Microsoft gaming revenue stalls ahead of Xbox One X launch: Strong Xbox software and services revenue offset by lower hardware revenue
56. Pressure Mounts for Xbox’s Missing VR Strategy as PSVR Rakes in Half a Billion in Hardware Alone: VR nowhere in sight for next week’s Xbox One X launch
57. Microsoft joins OpenXR VR and AR standardization project
58. Xbox plans to ramp up in-house development efforts
59. Xbox to make bigger first-party push, could acquire studios: “We need to grow,” Xbox boss Phil Spencer tells Bloomberg
60. Microsoft will have game streaming within 3 years as focus shifts to software: After years of decline, Microsoft plans to invest in first-party game development.
61. Microsoft could bring first-party titles to rival platforms
62. Xbox One X games at launch: The boosts, the bummers, and the bottom line
63. Xbox One X review: An exclamation point for hardware, a question mark for software: Is Microsoft’s “true 4K” console worth $100 more than the PS4 Pro?
64. Xbox One X pre-orders from Amazon UK delayed: Stock issues to responsible for delay, says distributor
65. Assassin’s Creed Origins launch sales double Syndicate’s: Strong return of historical action franchise a bonus as Mario + Rabbids, Rainbow Six Siege help push first half sales up 66% year-over-year
66. Zynga sees earnings rise for the second quarter in a row
67. Zynga turnaround continues, company buys Peak Games’ card studio for $100m: Zynga has now posted two consecutive profitable quarters for the first time since going public
68. Zynga looks to solidify newfound profitability: Developer building a portfolio of card games to keep players engaged for “a very long period of time”
69. 2 Years of Gremlins, Inc.: demographics
70. VR devs react to CCP exit: “VR is not dead”: Studios still optimistic about VR’s future, saying headlines about its death are simply “scandalous”
71. Opioids Haven’t Solved Chronic Pain. Maybe Virtual Reality Can
72. Wind Simulation Accessory for VR Headsets Hits $30k Crowdfunding Goal on Day One
73. A word of warning on VR: Professor Mark Mon-Williams explains why VR headsets have different minimum age ratings, and what developers can do to avoid potential negative effects
74. Intel To Bring Esports To PyeongChang Before Winter Olympic Games
75. Dallas Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones Acquires compLexity Gaming
76. Dallas Cowboys owner buys majority stake in Complexity Gaming: Complexity to relocate to Cowboys’ headquarters as construction begins on “state-of-the-art operations centre”
77. UK games tax relief initiative extended until 2023
78. Zynga pays $100M in cash to buy Turkish mobile dev Peak Games
79. Zynga sees earnings rise for the second quarter in a row
80. Telltale Games lays off 90 employees

Jon

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1.  New CASL Ruling: CRTC Provides Guidance on B2B Messaging and the Due Diligence Defence
2. Ajit Pai submits plan to allow more media consolidation: Rules that preserve media diversity in local markets will be eliminated.
3. FCC chair wants to impose a cap on broadband funding for poor families: Pai proposes Lifeline budget cap and new limits on which ISPs can get subsidies.
4. Another broadband merger: CenturyLink gets FCC approval to buy Level 3: CenturyLink gets bigger while it faces lawsuits alleging overcharges.
5. Dead People Mysteriously Support The FCC’s Attack On Net Neutrality
6. Sprint/T-Mobile merger is off, preserving wireless competition (for now): Sprint owner wants to maintain control and invest in its network, report says.
7. How Right-Wing Media Is Ignoring The Mueller Indictments: “Much ado about nothing.”
8. Charter CEO Tries To Blame Netflix Password ‘Piracy’ For Company’s Failure To Adapt To Cord Cutting
9. Portugal Shows The Internet Why Net Neutrality Is Important
10. Verizon-Funded Group Claims Killing Net Neutrality Would Really Help Puerto Rico Right Now
11. Verizon Will Graciously Now Let You Avoid Video Throttling For An Additional $10 Per Month
12. Verizon creates new $10 monthly charge to remove video throttling: $10 add-on charge removes limit that restricts mobile videos to 720p.
13. Verizon Lobbies FCC To Block States From Protecting Broadband Privacy, Net Neutrality
14. Verizon has a new strategy to undermine online privacy and net neutrality: FCC should declare state broadband laws invalid, Verizon tells commission.
15. San Francisco, Seattle Tire of Comcast, Mull Building Citywide Fiber Networks
16. AT&T admits defeat in lawsuit it filed to stall Google Fiber: Judge dismissed AT&T’s lawsuit against Louisville, and company won’t appeal.
17. Pirate TV services are taking a bite out of cable company revenue: Millions of North Americans are using illegal TV services, research finds.
18. Careful what you wish for – Bill O’Reilly version 
19. Brian Williams Opens Up About His Unexpected Re-Invention: “Second Acts Are Possible, With A Little Spiffing Up”: Most broadcasters would have been cooked if they had undergone the sort of scandal that Williams faced in 2015. But a slow-and-steady revival—a mixture of dutiful penance, clever planning, and a dramatic change in the media—has Williams turning 11 p.m. into the new primetime.

DIGITAL

1. Association Isn’t Liable for Its Members’ Message Board Postings–Inge v. Central Motorcycle     Roadracing Association (Eric Goldman)
2. European Court Rules On Internet Jurisdiction (Andres Guadamuz)
3. TripAdvisor removed warnings about rapes and injuries at Mexico resorts, tourists say
4. Appeals court keeps alive the never-ending Linux case, SCO v. IBM: SCO says IBM released a “sham” version of Monterey OS to prop up AIX for Power.
5. Here are the Kremlin-backed Facebook ads designed to foment discord in US: Ads bash Clinton before election and cap on Trump after he won the presidency.
6. What Congress Should Ask Tech Executives About Russia
7. These Are the Ads Russia Bought on Facebook in 2016
8. Congress Asks Tech To Face Hard Truths About Russian Meddling
9. Spinoff: Whatever The Reports About Russian Trolls Buying Ads Is Initially, It’s Way, Way Worse
10. Facebook, Google and Twitter grilled by Congress over Russian meddling – as it happened
11. Facebook, YouTube admit to wider-ranging campaigns by Russian “state actors”: Disclosure of even bigger numbers comes ahead of Tuesday testimony on Capitol Hill.
12. Facebook, Google, Twitter tell Congress their platforms spread Russian-backed propaganda – Twitter: “We are committed to working every single day at solving this problem.”
13. Eight Revealing Moments From The Second Day Of Russia Hearings
14. Top Experts: Can Facebook Legally Disclose Russian Ads–What does the Stored Communications Act say?
15. Facebook Steps Up Efforts to Sway Lawmakers: Amid Russia probes and online ad scrutiny, social-media giant boosts lobbying spending and work on messaging
16. Lawsuit accuses Facebook of scheming to weasel out of paying overtime: Lawsuit says Facebook has a “systematic, companywide wrongful classification” system.
17. Collateral Damage Not Russian Site-Blocking’s Only Failure: Pirate Video Market Has Doubled As Well
18. Reddit conducts wide-ranging purge of offensive subreddits
19. NY Times Uncritically Says Fake News Debate Supports Chinese Style Censorship
20. Trump adviser Roger Stone has been booted off Twitter: Stone fired off a profanity-laced tirade against a CNN reporter.
21. Roger Stone, President Trump’s Attack Dog, Banned From Twitter For Harassing Journalists 
22. Roger Stone suing Twitter over suspension
23. The College Kids Doing What Twitter Won’t
24. Is Wikileaks Protected by Section 230? The Trump Campaign Thinks So (Eric Goldman)
25. Trump Campaign Tries To Defend Itself With Section 230, Manages To Potentially Make Things Worse For Itself
26. APNewsBreak: Georgia election server wiped after suit filed 
27. Craig Brittain’s Senate Race Page Reports Craig Brittain’s Personal Account As An ‘Imposter’
28. Days after activists sued, Georgia’s election server was wiped clean: Main server deleted in July, two backups were “degaussed three times” in August.
29. Georgia Election Server Mysteriously Wiped Clean After Lawsuit Highlights Major Vulnerabilities
30. Georgia insists server deletion was “not undertaken to delete evidence”: “Narrative asserted in the media that the data was nefariously deleted… is without merit.”
31. Russian Site-Blocking Operation Embroiled In Corruption Scandal
32. Forcing Internet Platforms To Police Content Will Never Work
33. Twitter drops hammer and sickle on RT, Sputnik ad buys over election shenanigans: No more sponsored Tweets, but Russia-funded media sites can still post “organic” Tweets.
34. Twitter adds 4 million users amid ongoing harassment problem
35. Ikea’s Ingenious Pre-Roll Ads Turn The Viewer Into A Voyeur
36. YouTube Says New Technology Will Result In 30% Fewer Videos Being Deemed Advertiser-Unfriendly
37. Google CEO: Viewers Accrue 100 Million Hours Of Daily YouTube Watch Time From Their Living Rooms
38. YouTube TV Arrives On More Smart Devices, Including Xbox One Consoles, Android TVs
39. Brands Beware: FTC Continues Campaign on Social Media Influencer Disclosures 
40. Florida Legislator Thinks First Amendment Should Be Trimmed Back A Bit To Deal With Social Media Threats
41. How Google Goggles Won, Then Lost, The Camera-First Future
42. Google Limits Access To Airfare Data, Risking Antitrust Concerns
43. Dennis Prager Sues YouTube For Filtering His Videos In A Way He Doesn’t Like 
44. YouTube Responds To Lawsuit From Conservative Outlet, Says Restricted Mode “Is Not Censorship”
45. Musician-Run Organization Runs Anti-YouTube Ad Campaign…On YouTube
46. Finally, RIAA Front Group Admits That Forcing YouTube To Police Site Doesn’t Work Well
47. Marketing Guy: Google Image Search Is A Honeypot Set Up By Aggressive Copyright Litigants
48. Google’s AI Wizard Unveils A New Twist On Neural Networks
49. Copyright Law Makes Artificial Intelligence Bias Worse: But it could be used to help fix the problem too.
50. Artificial intelligence and copyright (Andres Guadamuz)
51. We’re building a dystopia just to make people click on ads (Zeynep Tufekci)
52. Universal Music Group Announces Strategic Alliance With Virtual Reality Company Within
53. Amazon Amassed 7.1 Million Streaming Views In Four NFL Games 
54. Website copying allegations allow potpourri of claims (Rebecca Tushnet)
55. Three female engineers sue Uber for sex and race discrimination: Plaintiffs claim that “stack ranking” was stacked against them.
56. In shift to content distribution, Roku may stream to third-party devices: Roku’s mobile app could become a new hub for ad-supported channels.
57. GoFundMe Jumps into Original Content, Launches New Studio
58. Spotify Cancels Its Current Crop Of Original Video Series As It Looks To Design A New Format
59. Apple Taking Family-Friendly Approach To $1 Billion Original Content Push 
60. Apple’s $1 billion TV lineup will be family-friendly, not Game of Thrones: Hollywood insiders paint a picture of a conservative company testing the waters.
61. Is X > 8? Solving Apple’s iPhone sales equation: The iPhone 8 saw slow sales, while iPhone X demand quickly outstripped supply.
62. Apple Reportedly Fires Engineer After Daughter’s iPhone X Video Goes Viral
63. Apple Let YouTubers Review The iPhone X Ahead Of Traditional Tech Outlets
64. Don’t drop that iPhone X—a screen repair will cost you $279
65. Apple reportedly building iPhones, iPads without Qualcomm chips: Qualcomm has reportedly withheld software needed for testing its chips in Apple devices
66. Microsoft Partners With NFL Stars For ‘Create Change’ Campaign
67. AMD, which lost over $2.8B in 5 years, takes a hit after new report – Morgan Stanley: Demand for graphics chips, video game consoles will slow in 2018.
68. GrubHub “gig economy” trial ends with judge calling out plaintiff’s lies: Small details of a part-time actor’s delivery job have become a federal case.
69. The Little Black Box That Took Over Piracy 
70. The Rights of Synthetic Lifeforms is the Next Great Civil Rights Controversy
71. DARPA’s New Brain Device Increases Learning Speed by 40%
72. Prepping Self-Driving Cars For The World’s Most Chaotic Cities
73. Future of Invasive Neural Interfaces & Uploading Consciousness with Ramez Naam
74. Machine Learning Is Aiding in the Fight Against Mental Illness
75. The Robot Tank Designed To Fight Russians
76. Do Robots Have More Rights Than Women In Saudi Arabia?
77. Sony’s Aibo robot dog is back, gives us OLED puppy dog eyes: You can adopt Sony’s newest robo dog today for $1,700 down and a mandatory monthly fee
78. CAA Unveils Digital-Incubator Venture Creative Labs With $12.5 Million in Funding
79. CAA Launches Startup Studio To Found New Tech And Media Companies
80. Canadian Copyright, OA, and OER: Why the Open Access Road Still Leads Back to Copyright (Michael Geist)
81. Information Disorder: Toward an interdisciplinary framework for research and policymaking
82. This stupid patent was going to be used to sue hundreds of small businesses: A patent litigation factory was stopped from suing hundreds of small printers.
83. Whois? No, Whowas: Incoming Euro privacy rules torpedo domain registration system: Internet policy wonks scramble over GDPR
84. ‘I Forgot My Pin’: An Epic Tale Of Losing $30,000 In Bitcoin
85. Samsung’s Mining Rig Lets You Collect Cryptocurrency Using 40 Old Galaxy Smartphones
86. How Netflix works: the (hugely simplified) complex stuff that happens every time you hit Play
87. Netflix Cancels ‘House Of Cards’ In Response To Sexual Misconduct Claims Against Kevin Spacey
88. The Government’s Role in E-commerce: My Appearance Before the Standing Committee on International Trade (Michael Geist)
89. Prepping Self-Driving Cars For The World’s Most Chaotic Cities
90. Best-Ever Algorithm Found For Huge Streams Of Data
91. Rethinking Data Ownership in the Age of the IOT
92. Inside The Downfall Of Doppler Labs
93. The underground story of Cobra, the 1980s’ illicit handmade computer: In their poor, Communist country, Romania’s computer curious built an underground industry.
94. Google, others showcase emoji cheeseburger construction faux pas: Emoji fragmentation of a small stakes, culinary variety. 

CREATIVITY

1.  Gag order silencing Comic-Con producers declared unconstitutional: Appeals court says silencing online speech over trademark suit is unconstitutional.
2. Florida’s top court stops 1960s band from earning pre-1972 copyright royalties: Do states want copyright to sprawl even further? Two have said “no.”
3. Eight Mile Style v New Zealand National Party: National ‘Loses itself’ to Eminem in copyright case
4. New Zealand political party infringed Eminem copyright, must pay $412k: “Sound alike” track used by ad firm was too close to Eminem hit “Lose Yourself.”
5. CBS sues man for copyright over screenshots of 59-year-old TV show: Asked about the lawsuit, CBS says only that plaintiff will “end up on boot hill.”
6. Regulators crack down on gambling ads appealing to children
7. Australian Lawmakers Propose Outlawing Parody, Having A Sense Of Humor
8. There’s no free speech right to refuse wedding cakes to gay couples
9. Standing to Sue for Copyright Infringement: No Bright Line Rule for Stock Photo Agencies
10. Not every pattern is protected by copyright, even if creating it involved many choices
11. Evidence Continues To Show Benefit Of “Openness” In Copyright Regimes
12. The #MeToo moment
13. Against Allegedly
14. Reporter Arrested, Thrown To The Ground For Cursing
15. What future for UK copyright after Brexit? Report on IPKat-BLACA panel discussion
16. The Prehistory of Music: A conversation on the deep history of humans and music with Gary Tomlinson, author of A Million Years of Music.

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. What Did Cambridge Analytica Really Do For Trump’s Campaign?
2. China Tests The Limits Of Its Us Hacking Truce
3. BlackBerry CEO Promises To Try To Break Customers’ Encryption If The US Gov’t Asks Him To
4. Rumors That Facebook Is Secretly Recording You Refuse to Die
5. A surge of sites and apps are exhausting your CPU to mine cryptocurrency: Coinhive harnesses the resources of 500 million people with no questions asked.
6. New Evidence Shows Defense Dep’t Abusing Surveillance Procedures To Spy On Americans
7. Video dooms cop who arrested nurse for not letting him take patient’s blood: Nurse told officer to get a warrant. Cop grabs her and arrests her for no reason.
8. Judge Doesn’t Care Much For DOJ’s Boilerplate, Refuses To Grant One Year Gag Order
9. FBI Says It Can’t Get Into 6,900 Encrypted Phones. So What?
10. Declassified Docs Show NSA Trying To Prosecute A Journalist For His Successful FOIA Requests
11. A new, virulent ransomware epidemic is fuelled by yet another leaked NSA cyberweapon
12. Assessing the threat the Reaper botnet poses to the Internet – what we know now: Whatever the threat posed by the new IoT botnet, a worse one has lurked for months.
13. Apple’s Machine Learning Engine Could Surface Your iPhone’s Secrets
14. Facing privacy suits about facial recognition
15. Back Down The Rabbit Hole About Encryption On Smartphones
16. Researcher Still Being Pursued By Russian Bank Over Last Year’s Mistaken Trump Connection Story
17. European Parliament Agrees Text For Key ePrivacy Regulation; Online Advertising Industry Hates It
18. Kim Dotcom settles case he filed against NZ police over “military-style raid”: Cops could have “knocked at our door at a reasonable hour and advised me of my arrest.”
19. Wyden’s Reform Bill Would Also Deter Misuse Of NSA Powers To Compel Tech Company Assistance
20. Members of Congress want you to hack the US election voting system: Bug-bounty program would exempt participants from federal hacking laws.
21. CIA releases 321 gigabytes of Bin Laden’s digital library, Web cache crap: “There is no absolute guarantee that all malware has been removed.”
22. Man finds USB stick with Heathrow security plans, Queen’s travel details: Secrets discovered when USB was plugged into library computer; data unencrypted.

GAMES

1. Dev draws flak for making a game about resisting oil pipelines
2. Energy Group Labels Creators Of Video Game As ‘Eco-Terrorists’
3. Oil lobbyists accuse game of promoting “eco-terrorism”: Thunderbird Strike “an eco-terrorist version of Angry Birds,” says Republican senator
4. Opinion: When Big Oil attacks your game
5. EA shuts down community-led classic Battlefield revival project
6. EA shuts down fan-run servers for older Battlefield games: Modified game clients were being used to get around defunct GameSpy servers.
7. Kotaku’s scum-and-villainy story of why EA shuttered a Star Wars game: The ripple effects of LucasArts’ closure apparently set Visceral’s demise into motion.
8. EA kicking a studio when it’s downsizing: 10 Years Ago This Month: EA Chicago’s closure makes the announcement of Visceral Games’ demise seem like a lesson in tact
9. Visceral devs share the story of the studio’s closure
10. EA CEO on Visceral closure: “It wasn’t about single-player vs live service” – But publisher says live services continue to be “the bedrock of our business”
11. EA CEO Comments On Closing Visceral And Why Its Star Wars Game Was Refocused: “It does happen from time to time as part of the creative process.”
12. EA tweaks Star Wars Battlefront II’s loot box drops following beta feedback
13. EA execs address Battlefront II loot box concerns: Publisher insists Star Wars shooter will offer good value to players, won’t be pay-to-win
14. Star Wars: Battlefront II changes its loot box plans… but is it enough?: Worst damage is fixed, but is this still too much Dark Side in a Star Wars game?
15. How the ESRB is Promoting Children’s Gambling
16. EA takes a loss in Q2 as digital sales continue to outshine physical
17. EA Sports helps EA grow revenue, narrow losses: Digital growth more than offsets 19% year-over-year decline of packaged goods revenues
18. PlayerUnknown Battlegrounds could face ban in China: Game deviates from values of socialism, according to China’s content watchdog
19. Football Manager to include gay players for first time in series’ history: “I just think it’s crazy that in 2017 we are in a world where people can’t be themselves,” says game director
20. So 52.45% of People Playing my Indie Game Have Pirated it…
21. Ubisoft says DRM isn’t the reason Assassin’s Creed: Origins pushes CPUs: VMProtect has “no perceptible effect,” game uses “full extent” of CPU by design.
22. With Denuvo Broken, Ubisoft Doubles Up On DRM for Assasin’s Creed Origin, Tanking Everyone’s Computers
23. Ubisoft has made its Sharpmake game dev tool open-source
24. U.S. gov’t stands by DMCA exemption for museums preserving online games
25. Amazon opens dedicated ‘Retro Zone’ for selling ‘retro’ games and gear
26. Wolfenstein II: a good argument for games to get political
27. Does Wolfenstein II’s brutal opening have design value?
28. Wolfenstein 2 Collectible Mocks Progressive Magazine Over Its Coverage Of White Nationalists 
29. The New Colossus: Building Wolfenstein II atop a million small decisions
30. Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus Review – If the only good Nazi is a dead Nazi, I just made a whole pile of good Nazis.
31. Ethics 101: Designing Morality in Games
32. Dev Q&A: A Mortician’s Tale challenges how games depict death
33. The economics of single-player games: As many top studios focus on multiplayer, service-based games, does the business case for narrative-driven single-player titles still add up?
34. Reclaiming Assassin’s Creed’s lost identity
35. Sales and profits up at Nintendo as the Switch continues to shine
36. Nintendo Switch closing in on 8M sales worldwide
37. SNES Classic and Super Mario Odyssey hit 2M sales
38. Super Mario Odyssey hits 2 million sales: With Switch sales “tracking those of the Wii,” latest Mario game reached almost a third of the console’s audience
39. Odyssey breaks 3D Mario week one sales record in Japan
40. Super Mario Odyssey Review: Mario’s new romp joyously fuses old with new.
41. Switch shipments will near 17 million units by the end of March: Six-month results show big increases in revenue and profit, with 50 million units of software expected to ship this fiscal year
42. Nintendo survey reveals who’s purchasing the Switch
43. Data shows versatility of the Switch is more than just a gimmick: Nintendo still has a knack for designing unique hardware
44. Nintendo promises improved Switch availability for holiday season: Company bumps planned production by 4 million units to meet unexpected demand.
45. Nintendo: The least popular way to play Switch games is primarily on a TV
46. Super Mario Run is still short of Nintendo’s profit expectations: Despite reaching 200 million downloads, Nintendo tells investors that Mario’s mobile debut has “not yet reached an acceptable profit point”
47. Sony’s games division drives strong growth in profits
48. PlayStation drives Sony’s Q2 2017 revenues up to $18.25bn: Game and Network Services division saw sales more than double on 2016, PS4 shipments up to 67.5m units
49. Sony focus moving from hardware sales to active user base: PS4 maker the latest to underscore the increasing importance of engagement metrics over unit sales
50. Resident Evil 7 doubled PlayStation VR session time, says Sony
51. Daybreak gives PS3 version of DC Universe Online 3 months to live
52. Gartner’s Brian Blau on the State of the VR & AR Industries
53. Oculus’ Bernard Yee: “Everything we’ve done to date is the warm-up for VR” – Executive producer posits that VR is about ‘the fantasy of the small space’ during View Conference talk
54. Rob Pardo: VR MMOs not happening any time soon – World of Warcraft designer also offers advice to aspiring developers during his View Conference keynote
55. “VR’s potential is literally infinite” – Oculus: Jason Rubin on the VR road-map and why analogies to failed tech from analysts and critics “all fall flat for me”
56. CCP closes 2 studios as it backs away from VR development
57. CCP exits the VR business: EVE Online studio has shuttered its Atlanta studio and is selling its Newcastle studio – the strategy shift impacts about 100 staff
58. Google launches VR and AR object library called ‘Poly’
59. Free-to-play Fortnite: Battle Royale surpasses 811k concurrent players
60. Profits and revenue on the rise for Konami’s video game branch
61. Profits up at Konami thanks to strong performance in mobile market: Konami enjoys 24.5% year-on-year profit growth in games industry
62. Doubt cast on future of Amazon Game Studios’ first major development: Breakaway on “indefinite hiatus” according to report
63. Steam beta tests Curator changes: Valve adds tools to help devs deal with influencers, hopes to roll them out wider in coming weeks
64. Valve’s big Steam Curator overhaul aims to streamline key distribution
65. Xbox software and services Q1 revenue offsets hardware decline: CEO Satya Nadella positions revenue balance as “leading indicator” of Microsoft’s ambitions in the gaming sector
66. How Microsoft Delayed A Wildly Popular Xbox Feature To Clean Up Its Wildly Unpopular Always Online Plans
67. Microsoft has stopped making the Kinect, and that makes me sad: Robbing the Xbox of its eyes and ears makes it a lesser platform.
68. Microsoft could bring first-party titles to rival platforms
69. HoloLens availability expanded as Microsoft continues pushing it to industry: Redmond insists that Mixed Reality isn’t just for gaming.
70. Warner Bros. Interactive takes over Rocket League retail distribution
71. Firefly Games partners with Dreamworks for franchise-laden RPG
72. Riot Games introduces revenue sharing in EU LCS overhaul: Developer rethinks Challenger Series and looks to reward teams that “positively contribute to the success of the LCS”
73. A New Cornerstone of Human Culture is Transforming Our Oldest Institutions: The future of eSports is in the hands of the players. Can they take it?
74. Esports Execs Discuss Barriers, Advantages To Olympic Inclusion
75. Olympic Committee agrees eSports ‘could be considered’ legitimate sport
76. International Olympic Committee takes steps to recognise esports: IOC and international sports federation “in a dialogue with the games industry” on esports
77. Olympic committee lays out expectations for esports’ inclusion: They will need an international governing organization
78. Applying entrepreneurial skills to be a better game dev
79. Juggling the chainsaws of work-for-hire vs. original projects
80. Video Game Mini-Maps Might Finally Be Going Away
81. The untapped potential of games to shape the future: “The popular imagination of games hasn’t quite caught up to the reality,” says Near Future Society co-founder Oliver Lewis
82. Razer partners with devs to debut $700 game-focused Android phone
83. Razer Debuts Its First Phone, And It’s Built For Games
84. Essential Facts (Entertainment Software Association of Canada)

Jon

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. Government Rejects Call for an Internet Tax: “Conflicts With Principle of Affordable Access” (Michael Geist)
2. Compliance and Enforcement Decision CRTC 2017-367: 3510395 Canada Inc., operating as Compu.Finder – Constitutional challenge to Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation
3. Bill O’Reilly says he was one of many employees accused of sexual harassment at Fox
4. James Murdoch Says Size of O’Reilly Settlement Was ‘News to Me’ 
5. Local TV and radio stations no longer required to have local studios: Republicans eliminate rule, make it easier for stations to close local studios.
6. The Main Studio Rule Is Dead; Long Live the Main Studio 
7. FCC Approves Repeal of Main Studio Rules and Starts Proceeding to Examine Broadcast Public Notices and Filing of TV Ancillary and Supplementary Revenue Reports 
8. FCC Likely To Use Thanksgiving Holiday To Hide Its Unpopular Plan To Kill Net Neutrality
9. A Public Focused Approach To Net Neutrality
10. Michigan Lawmaker Flees Twitter After Reports Highlight She Helped AT&T Push Anti-Competition Broadband Law
11. Verizon brings back full-quality video streaming for $10 more: If you want your mobile video to stream in 4K on Verizon, you’ll need to pay extra. And have the right phone.
12. Report: Verizon struggling to launch streaming TV service in crowded field – It’s had two delays and now plans to launch in the spring, says Bloomberg. 
13. Verizon’s Long-Shot Bet To Disrupt Google And Facebook
14. Michigan Lawmaker Doesn’t Understand Her Own Bill Hamstringing Broadband Competition
15. The Cable Industry’s Ingenious ‘Solution’ To TV Cord Cutting? Raise Broadband Rates
16. After Report Suggests It Ripped Off Taxpayers, Frontier Communications Shrugs When Asked For Subsidies Back
17. $100 Internet bill became $340 for no reason, Frontier customer says: Overcharges continue for months despite customer service promising a fix.
18. Google Fiber is now in Louisville thanks to new fiber deployment strategy: Microtrenching sped up work in Louisville during court battle over utility poles.
19. Wireless Carriers Again Busted Collecting, Selling User Data Without Consent Or Opt Out Tools
20. Jails pocket up to 60 percent of what inmates pay for phone calls: “Site commissions” raise prices by sending up to 60 percent of revenue to jails. 

DIGITAL

1.  Demers v. Yahoo Inc: Québec Court Confirms that Québec Consumer Law Applies to Free Online Services
2. Google Removed Catalonian Referendum App Following Spanish Court Order
3. Another Court Rejects ‘Material Support To Terrorists’ Claims Against Social Media Sites–Gonzalez v. Google (Eric Goldman)
4. Controversial “Gripe Site” Protected (Again) by the Communications Decency Act and Defeats Novel Copyright Attack with Website “Browsewrap” License to User Generated Content
5. Spanski Enterprises, Inc. v. Telewizja Polska, S.A.: How Far Is Too Far When It Comes to the Extraterritorial Reach of US Copyright Law? 
6. Nielsen Data says 89% of OTT Viewing Takes Place on TV Sets
7. Apple calls report of reduced iPhone X Face ID specs “completely false”: Apple says Face ID will still only have a one-in-a-million chance of failing.
8. All The Face-Tracking Tech Behind Apple’s Animoji 
9. After Supreme Court detour, Apple v. Samsung goes to a fourth jury trial: Apple wields design as a weapon, a strategy that has led to judicial paralysis.
10. Apple’s Billion-Dollar Bet on Hollywood Is the Opposite of Edgy: A conservative corporation takes its first steps into a new industry.
11. Empathy – the latest gadget Silicon Valley wants to sell you: The tech world wants us to believe that virtual reality will unlock human understanding on a global scale. But it’s also a business strategy 
12. Vox Media Fires Editorial Director Lockhart Steele For Misconduct, Says Investigation Is “Ongoing”
13. Open for business, ransomware authors and perpetrators cashing in on emerging dark web marketplace economy 
14. Two-week-old Pixel 2 XL displays are already showing burn-in: LG’s terrible OLED panels have yet another issue.
15. Gab Drops Its Lawsuit Against Google; Considers Trying Its Hand At Lobbying
16. Copyright Office Will Renew Previous DMCA Exemptions Without Much Fuss — But Why Is This Even Necessary?
17. Report: Twitter CEO took a Russian impostor’s bait in 2016: The retweets were for innocent, “positive” stories.” And that was the point. 
18. Proposed law would regulate online ads to hinder Russian election influence: Honest Ads Act requires Google, Twitter, Facebook to open ads to public review.
19. When Russian Trolls Attack: Anna Zhavnerovich knew she was taking a risk when she publicized the details of her assault online. But in doing so, she joined a growing movement of survivors fighting back against Russia’s Kremlin-influenced trolling machine. 
20. Political ads on Twitter will now be labeled with lots of spending data: Follows mounting congressional pressure about social media ads and disclosure.
21. In its new timeline, Twitter will end revenge porn next week, hate speech in two: The company has laid out a “safety calendar” with changes through January.
22. Lawyers: Trump’s Twitter Account Not Presidential; Also: Trump Is President, Can’t Be Sued
23. Trump’s Favorite Law Firm Loses Massive RICO SLAPP Suit Against Greenpeace, But Has Another One Already Going
24. This Week’s Best Twitter Is College Kids Pretending to Flunk Midterms for Viral Fame 
25. Mercedes handles the competition because it knows how to handle data, too: Ahead of (another) Mercedes win, Ars gets a look at the team’s network stack.
26. High-tech mirror for cancer patients only works if you smile
27. UK Gov’t Considering Redefining Social Media Services As Publishers To Make It Easier To Control Them
28. How Social Media Endangers Knowledge
29. How Fiction Becomes Fact on Social Media 
30. The Responsibility of Online Platforms: a Marginal Challenge in Québec
31. Russian Cyberspies Are Rushing to Exploit Recent Flash 0-Day Before It Goes Cold
32. Computer Parts Site Newegg Is Being Sued for Allegedly Engaging in Massive Fraud [Updated]
33. Korean banks sue Newegg, allege online retailer aided massive fraud: Both Newegg, ASI will “vigorously defend” their companies and deny wrongdoing.
34. When Government Fails, Social Media Is The New 911
35. How blockchain technology can set us free from this Brexit time warp
36. Blockchains Explained In Two Minutes
37. MasterCard Announces That Payments Can Now be Made on Blockchain 
38. Your Browser Could Be Mining Cryptocurrency For A Stranger
39. An AI god will emerge by 2042 and write its own bible. Will you worship it?
40. Elon Musk Eviscerates People Who Discuss “A.I. Gods”
41. Artificial Intelligence in Christian Thought and Practice: This series by Christian computer scientists introduces questions for Christians about AI and its role in society
42. These Are The Ethical Dilemmas We Face As AI Takes Over Our Lives 
43. Using Abstract VR Art for Neural Entrainment & Brain Research + Can Creative AI Become Conscious?
44. The Surreal Comedy Bot That’s Turning AI Into LOL
45. Google Is Honing AI That Can Recognize Human Actions Using YouTube Videos
46. Insights: Google Knits Artificial Intelligence Into Everything, But Are We Sure It Won’t Be Evil?
47. Welcoming Our New Robot Overlords: Once, robots assisted human workers. Now it’s the other way around.
48. The Future of Online Dating Is Unsexy and Brutally Effective
49. Facebook is struggling to meet the burden of securing itself, security chief says: Chief Security Officer described security report as a “very painful process.”
50. How People Inside Facebook Are Reacting To The Company’s Election Crisis
51. Monopoly Power and the Future of Facebook
52. Will Facebook Kill All Future Facebooks?
53. Court Not Impressed With Sneaky Plan To Sell Patents To Native Americans To Avoid Review… But New Lawsuits Filed
54. Several women accuse tech pundit Robert Scoble of sexual harassment
55. Tech Writer Robert Scoble Accused of Sexual Harassment, Assault by Multiple Women
56. The Slippery Slope of Internet Censorship in Egypt: In response to a recent, dramatic increase of Internet filtering in Egypt, Internet users take to social media and Google Drive to protest filtering and disseminate banned content.
57. A Joke Tweet Leads To ‘Child Trafficking’ Investigation, Providing More Evidence Of Why SESTA Would Be Abused
58. Beyond ICE In Oakland: How SESTA Threatens To Chill Any Online Discussion About Immigration
59. Study On Craigslist Shutting ‘Erotic Services’ Shows SESTA May Hurt Those It Purports To Help
60. Is Hollywood ‘Exploiting’ Anti-Trafficking Organization To Support SESTA?
61. How A Startup’s Legal Battle With A Software Giant Could Redefine Tech Workers’ Rights
62. Uber, Intel, and other tech firms will urge Congress to let “Dreamers” stay – Uber: “We plan to support Dreamers as long as they need help.”
63. Regulators of ‘sharing economy’ platforms caught between competing interests
64. Cities around US offer billions in tax breaks to be Amazon’s HQ2: Cities and states are trying to one-up each other, showing off their best features.
65. Another German decision warns against broad application of GS Media presumption for for-profit link providers
66. NAFTA Modernization and IP/E-commerce: My Appearance at the Senate Open Caucus (Michael Geist)
67. Netflix Plans To Fund Its Increased 2018 Content Budget With Additional $1.6 Billion Of Debt
68. Netflix to Raise $1.6 Billion More Debt Financing to Fuel Content-Buying Binge
69. Nielsen Now Vends Ratings Info For Netflix Shows To Top Media Companies
70. Using YouTube Takedowns As Extortion
71. YouTube’s brilliant ad was one of the biggest stories from Game 1 of the World Series
72. As YouTube TV Begins World Series Ad Campaign, Its Play Button Vexes Viewers
73. Billboard Will Decrease Weight Of YouTube Views In Hot 100 Charts
74. How YouTube Entrepreneurs In Their 20s Are Disrupting Traditional Record Labels
75. “Despacito”, YouTube’s Most-Viewed Video, Was Shot In 14 Hours And Edited On Final Cut Pro X
76. Amazon Video Direct Funds Programming For The First Time By Investing In Funny Or Die Shorts
77. BroadbandTV Signs Yousef ‘FouseyTube’ Erakat, Bart Baker, And h3h3Productions
78. Snap Has Hundreds Of Thousands Of Unsold Spectacles Sitting In Warehouses 
79. The Judge’s Code: Meet the judge who codes — and decides tech’s biggest cases
80. Digital Goods Are Valued Less Than Physical Goods
81. How has digital journalism changed your work day?
82. How Big Tech Became A Bipartisan Whipping Boy 

CREATIVITY

1. Eminem Wins New Zealand Copyright Lawsuit; Awarded Over 400K In Damages
2. Author Who Lost Copyright Case Over The Da Vinci Code In The US In 2007 Looks To Revive It In The UK In 2017
3. TV formats potentially eligible for copyright protection as dramatic works under UK law
4. Forgetting Functionality (Christopher Buccafusco & Jeanne Fromer)
5. Copyright Laws Make Photographs of the Eiffel Tower at Night Illegal
6. Does a French copyright smell anything?
7. Judge Bars News Station From Showing Pictures In News Story, Admits It’s Prior Restraint, Shrugs
8. Hate speech is protected free speech, even on college campuses: My students trust colleges to control offensive speech. They shouldn’t.
9. Communism’s Answer to Mickey Mouse Is Thrust Into a Very Capitalist Dispute
10. Long Trail Brewing Sues East Coast Apparel Company Over ‘Take A Hike’ T-Shirt
11. Harvey Weinstein Case Brings Sexual Harassment Back to the Spotlight 
12. Photographer Spends Eternity Waiting For Museum Visitors To Match Artworks And The Result Is Worth The Wait
13. Serialized Television Has Become a Disease
14. How (not) to protect an idea for a TV format 
15. Arnold Schwarzenegger Thinks Last Action Hero Bombed Because of Bill Clinton 

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. DOJ changes “gag order” policy, Microsoft to drop lawsuit – Brad Smith, Microsoft’s attorney: “It is an unequivocal win for our customers.”
2. New DOJ Policy Restricts Use Of Warrant/Subpoena Gag Orders
3. Government Drops Its Demand For Data On 6,000 Facebook Users
4. Amazon Key Is Bigger Than Package Delivery
5. Amazon Key unlocks your door for in-home package deliveries: Will you let Amazon be the gatekeeper to your home?
6. Court Has No Problem With All House Residents Being Forced To Hand Over Fingers To Law Enforcement
7. Judge: MalwareTech is no longer under curfew, GPS monitoring – Marcus Hutchins, awaiting trial, can now live and work unencumbered in LA.
8. New Ransomware Linked To Notpetya Sweeps Russia And Ukraine
9. New wave of data-encrypting malware hits Russia and Ukraine: Highly advanced “Bad Rabbit” hits train stations, airport, and media.
10. DOJ Subpoenas Twitter About Popehat, Dissent Doe And Others Over A Smiley Emoji Tweet
11. The DOJ’s Bizarre Subpoena Over An Emoji Highlights Its Ridiculous Vendetta Against A Security Researcher
12. The Reaper IoT Botnet Has Already Infected A Million Networks
13. Equifax Deserves The Corporate Death Penalty
14. Key e-mail from feds got caught in body-cam maker’s spam filter: Axon hopes “to resolve these matters as expeditiously as possible.”
15. Police body cams had no “statistically significant effect” in DC: “There was no indication that the cameras changed behavior at all.”
16. NYPD Tells Judge Its $25 Million Forfeiture Database Has No Backup
17. NYPD can’t get story straight on evidence system backups: Deputy commissioner says the system is “backed up”; IT staff affidavit says otherwise.
18. FBI director: Unbreakable encryption is a “huge, huge problem”: “I get it, there’s a balance that needs to be struck,” Christopher Wray said.
19. Law Prof Argues Cell Location Records Shouldn’t Need Warrants Because Cell Phones Have Encryption
20. Time For The Feds To Say What They Know About Kaspersky
21. Worker who snuck NSA malware home had his PC backdoored, Kaspersky says: Kaspersky presses its case it didn’t knowingly help Russia steal NSA secrets.
22. Kaspersky pledges independent code review to cast off spying suspicions: After accusations by DHS of ties to Russian intel, company seeks to reassure customers.
23. Crippling crypto weakness opens millions of smartcards to cloning: Gemalto IDPrime.NET almost certainly isn’t the only smartcard vulnerable to ROCA.
24. How To Avoid Future Krack-Like Failures: Create Well-Maintained ‘Fat’ Protocols Using Initial Coin Offerings
25. “Security concerns” lead to LTE service shutdown on Chinese Apple Watches: The Chinese government doesn’t know what to do with eSIMs yet.
26. Amazon Key Puts Deliveries—And Delivery People—In Your Home
27. Computer hacking victims to receive up to £6,000 compensation for ‘distress’ caused by cyber crime, under new plans: There are fears the EU regulations will spark industry of bogus hacking claims – Companies with millions of customers could be left crippled if they have to pay – Bill would give right for payout for ‘psychiatric and psychological damage’ – In 2013 157,000 TalkTalk customers were affected when it was hacked – If everyone affected claimed, the company would have to pay £471 million 
28. On Internet-Connected Toys and Human Flourishing: Hello, Privacy
29. Police Camera Study Shows New Tech Having Little Effect On Misconduct And Excessive Force
30. Google, Facebook & Comcast Jointly Lied to California Lawmakers To Scuttle Broadband Privacy Bill
31. How lobbyists convinced lawmakers to kill a broadband privacy bill: Leaked documents reveal scare tactics that helped ISPs avoid privacy rules.
32. A comparative guide to data security penalties in 10+ jurisdictions

Jon

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. Trump’s threats amount to a First Amendment violation
2. Trump May Not Be Serious About His NBC Threats… But He May Have Violated The First Amendment
3. FCC Chair Ajit Pai’s Silence On Trump Tweets Speaks Volumes
4. Tom Wheeler to Ajit Pai: “Why the silence” about Trump’s media threats? – Meanwhile, Trump continued attacks on NBC, media: “Sadly, they and others are Fake News.”
5. FCC chair “refused” to rebuke Trump over threat to take NBC off the air: Lawmakers want Pai to “publicly disavow President Trump’s repeated threats.”
6. Six days later, FCC chair says Trump can’t order FCC to revoke TV licenses: Pai response is “better than nothing,” but critics want stronger rebuke of Trump.
7. FCC Republican says Trump is “rightfully venting” anger at the press: O’Rielly sympathizes with Trump but says “politics” shouldn’t affect TV licenses.
8. Republican fight against municipal broadband heats up in Michigan; Michigan bill says no “federal, state, or local funds” can pay for broadband.
9. FCC’s DDoS claims will be investigated by government: GAO will investigate after Democrats asked for evidence that attacks happened.
10. ISPs don’t want to tell the FCC exactly where they offer Internet service: Better data collection could tell us which homes have broadband and which don’t
11. Big ISPs Lobby To Kill Attempts At More Accurate Broadband Mapping
12. Groups Battle Trump FCC’s Claim That One ISP In A Market Means There’s Effective Competition
13. Charter accuses its employees of cutting cables 125 times during strike – Lawsuit: Tens of thousands of New Yorkers lost service because of vandalism.
14. Comment Dates Set on FCC Proposal to Abolish Requirement for Paper Copies of FCC Rules
15. DOJ Staffers: The T-Mobile Sprint Merger Will Reduce Competition And Should Be Blocked
16. T-Mobile Dials Back Major ‘Un-carrier’ Perk
17. AT&T Spent Hundreds Of Billions On Mergers And All It Got Was A Big Pile Of Cord Cutters
18. Comcast found a way to raise other cable companies’ prices, rivals say: Comcast/NBC contract demands allegedly make it hard to sell basic TV package.
19. Google Fiber Gives Up On Traditional TV, And Won’t Be The Last Company To Do So
20. Weather Forecast Title Not Significantly Inaccurate, Says Canadian Broadcast Standards Council
21. Ah Statism, how we love thee! (Timothy Denton) 

DIGITAL

1. It’s 11 p.m., do you know where your ads are?:
2. B.C. businesses and schools hurry to distance themselves from controversial media organizations after activists raise alarm over advertising with Breitbart and others
3. An open letter to Mr Bezos, Mr Pichai and Mr Zuckerberg to tear down Breitbart News
4. New Whistleblowers Highlight How Russia’s Information War On U.S. Was Larger Than Initially Reported
5. The mysterious group that wants to kill Breitbart’s ad revenue, one tweet at a time
6. Amazon isn’t one of the 2,575 companies to pull ads from Breitbart
7. Amazon Suspends Video Head Roy Price Over Sexual Harassment Claims
8. Due to legal settlement, Amazon customers now get a few extra bucks: Ars staffers got as little as $0.76 and as much as $12.02. How much did you get?
9. Memo To Facebook: How To Tell If You’re A Media Company
10. Sheryl Sandberg’s Russia talk was an insult to our intelligence
11. Did Facebook delete Russian bought ads because of a bug? 
12. Facebook apologizes for allowing Russian ads to interfere with 2016 campaign – COO: Company must “prevent everything we can from this happening on our platforms.”
13. What Facebook Did to American Democracy: And why it was so hard to see it coming
14. Facebook is testing a resume feature to take on LinkedIn
15. How Facebook’s Ad System Works
16. Man acquitted of felony charge over Facebook police parody page sues: Fake account said police would offer abortions and anybody could become a recruit.
17. Court To Guy Who Sued News Stations Over His Facebook Live Video: Pay Their Legal Fees… And Maybe Sue Your Lawyers
18. U.S. Supreme Court Rejects CFAA Appeal by Power Ventures against Facebook 
19. The Problem With #MeToo And Viral Outrage
20. Nova Scotia introduces new Cyber-bullying Legislation
21. Incentivizing Better Speech, Rather Than Censoring ‘Bad’ Speech
22. Cheap Speech and What It Has Done (To American Democracy) (Richard Hasen)
23. Ninth Circuit Upholds Enforceability of Arbitration Agreements in Click-Through Agreements
24. Age of consent in the GDPR: updated mapping
25. Ex-workers: Supervisors at Tesla factory routinely called us the n-word – Tesla slams such abuse but expresses doubts regarding the men’s claims.
26. There’s Blood In The Water In Silicon Valley: The bad new politics of big tech.
27. African rulers’ weapon against web-based dissent: the off switch
28. Saskatchewan Court of Appeal confirms that emails can extend limitation periods under the Limitations Act
29. China congress: How authorities censor your thoughts
30. DOJ indicts Chinese fentanyl distributors selling to Americans online: “They use multiple identities to disguise their activities and their shipments.”
31. Reddit’s unlikely first edit partner: Time magazine
32. Supreme Court refuses to hear case questioning Google’s trademark: Lawsuit claimed “google” had become synonymous with “search the Internet.”
33. Google Bombs Are Our New Normal
34. Google Offers Help To Industries It Helps To Destroy
35. Google’s Learning Software Learns To Write Learning Software
36. Twitter Says It Will Finally Do Something About Those Hordes of Nazis
37. Harvey Weinstein Is Hollywood’s Silicon Valley Moment
38. Eight takes on sexual harassment and Harvey Weinstein 
39. Twitter Says Rose McGowan Account Was Suspended Over Phone Number in Tweet
40. Twitter’s suspension of Rose McGowan epitomizes the site’s most infuriating problem: It’s a double standard at its most divisive.
41. Women Are Boycotting Twitter Today in Solidarity with Rose McGowan
42. Twitter CEO after Rose McGowan account suspension: ‘We need to be a lot more transparent’
43. Rose McGowan back on Twitter
44. @jeffbezos I told the head of your studio that HW raped me. Over & over I said it. He said it hadn’t been proven. I said I was the proof. (rose mcgowan)
45. Rose McGowan says Amazon knew Weinstein had raped her
46. Silicon Valley Can’t Handle Its Own Toxic Culture. Is It Really Ready to Tackle Hollywood’s, Too?
47. Black members of Congress push for more diversity in Silicon Valley hires – Rep. Barbara Lee: “Coding jobs will become the blue collar jobs of the future.”
48. We should stop tech firms from screening extremist videos: Internet giants have a duty to help counter-terrorism efforts
49. Another Ridiculous Lawsuit Hopes To Hold Social Media Companies Responsible For Terrorist Attacks
50. The ‘Gawker Effect’ Is Chilling Investigative Reporting Across The US
51. Inside The Weird World Of Social Media Marathon Cheating
52. Dutch privacy regulator says Windows 10 breaks the law: Regulator says Microsoft doesn’t offer enough information to enable informed consent.
53. Judge Agrees – YouTube Mockery Protected by Fair Use 
54. AT&T Researchers Share Map Depicting Top YouTube Channels In Each State
55. Blame The Cord-Cutters For AT&T’s Sudden Drop In Share Price
56. YouTube Revamps Website For Creators, Rolls Out ‘Master Class’ Video Advice Series
57. Here’s Why YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Started Her Very Own Channel
58. Casey Neistat: YouTube Doesn’t Do Enough To Take Care Of Creator Community
59. Advertising Practices Land Tinder in Hot Water
60. Snapchat Stories Usage Among Top Influencers Has Dipped 33% In 6 Months 
61. Influencers Sound Off on Why They Do Not Want to Disclose Sponsored Posts
62. Vice Media To Launch Sub-Saharan African Operation In 2018
63. Major Studios, Streamers Declare Legal War on TickBox: “What TickBox actually sells is nothing less than illegal access to Plaintiffs’ copyrighted content,” a lawyer for the studios and streamers says.
64. Netflix, Amazon, movie studios sue over TickBox streaming device: TickBox TV says it’s a “100% legal” directory of everything ever made.
65. Netflix Now Says It Will Spend Up To $8 Billion On Original Content Next Year 
66. Two months after Disney split, Netflix pledges $8B for original content: What’s cooler than spending $6 billion (in 2017) on original content?
67. Another German decision questions reasonableness of GS Media presumption if generally applied
68. Revealed: How copyright law is being misused to remove material from the internet – When Annabelle Narey posted a negative review of a building firm on Mumsnet, the last thing on her mind was copyright infringement
69. Copyright Isn’t a Tool for Removing Negative Reviews
70. Sorry, You Can’t Abuse Copyright Law To Make A Negative Review Disappear
71. New Copyright Trolling Operation Lowers The Settlement Demands And Calls Them Fines To Improve Conversion Rate
72. Native American tribe sues Amazon and Microsoft over patents: Can “patent trolls” advance their cause using Native American legal rights?
73. Vladimir Putin: Russia Will Issue its Own Cryptocurrency
74. Sweden’s Tax Authority Accepts Bitcoin As Settlement: The Swedish government agency responsible for the collection of taxes has, for the first time, accepted bitcoin from a debtor.
75. The Difference between Blockchain and Bitcoin
76. Waymo’s staggering settlement demand for Uber: $1 billion: Holding fast on massive cash demand suggests Waymo wants to cripple its competitor.
77. Uber And Lyft Haven’t Revolutionized The American City—Yet
78. The Crowdsourced Maps Guiding Puerto Rico’s Recovery
79. New neural network teaches itself Go, spanks the pros: This time, the Go-playing algorithm didn’t need any human players to help it.
80. Artificial Intelligence – With Very Real Biases: According to AI Now co-founder Kate Crawford, digital brains can be just as error-prone and biased as ours
81. Intellectual Property and Artificial Intelligence
82. Stunning AI Breakthrough Takes Us One Step Closer to the Singularity
83. The Seven Deadly Sins of AI Predictions: Mistaken extrapolations, limited imagination, and other common mistakes that distract us from thinking more productively about the future.
84. AI Experts Want To End ‘Black Box’ Algorithms In Government
85. Can we teach robots ethics?
86. You Aren’t Ready For The Weirdness Of Working With Robots
87. Love in the Time of Robots: Hiroshi Ishi­guro builds androids. Beautiful, realistic, uncannily convincing human replicas. Academically, he is using them to understand the mechanics of person-to-person interaction. But his true quest is to untangle the ineffable nature of connection itself.
88. Apple’s Tim Cook On iPhones, Augmented Reality, And How He Plans To Change Your World: In a wide-ranging interview, the CEO of the biggest tech company in the world explains how AR will change our lives, and why he thinks the world is actually getting better
89. First iPhone X batch reportedly only contains 46,500 units: Apple’s TrueDepth camera may be holding things up.
90. Apple and GE partner to make industrial analytics iOS-accessible: GE thinks the software will result in $12 billion in revenue by 2020.
91. Udacity to focus on individual student projects 
92. Many patent-holders stop looking to East Texas following Supreme Court ruling: Can Delaware handle the incoming caseload?
93. The Case for CASL: My Appearance Before the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology (Michael Geist)
94. First Circuit Rejects Copyright Workaround to Section 230–Small Justice v. Ripoff Report (Eric Goldman)
95. Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?: More comfortable online than out partying, post-Millennials are safer, physically, than adolescents have ever been. But they’re on the brink of a mental-health crisis.

CREATIVITY

1.  Statute Of Limitations Has Run Out On Trump’s Bogus Promise To Sue The NY Times
2. At Core of 5Pointz Trial: Is Graffiti Art Protected by Law?
3. Will Recent Court Rulings Endanger the Future of Biopics and Documentaries?: A Lynyrd Skynyrd movie ban and Olivia de Havilland’s recent legal victory are causing Hollywood studios, press organizations and others to speak up, lest they lose that right.
4. Disney: The Only Fun Allowed At Children’s Birthday Parties Is Properly Licensed Fun
5. Internet Archives Liberates Old Books Using Never Used Before Provision Of Copyright Law
6. Freedom of panorama: would it hurt architects? Survey among Italian-based architects says NO
7. “Haters Gonna Hate, Hate . . . .” Can Taylor Swift “Shake it Off”?
8. CEIPI Opinion on copyright limitations’ reform in the European Digital Single Market
9. (The cult of) personality rights in Canada
10. Guide to Doing Business in Canada: Intellectual property
11. Prioritizing the Public Interest: My Submission on Copyright Board of Canada Reform (Michael Geist)
12. NDAs: A Logistical and Legal Nightmare

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Details Emerge Of World’s Biggest Facial Recognition Surveillance System, Aiming To Identify Any Chinese Citizen In Three Seconds
2. Supreme Court to decide if US has right to data on world’s servers: Feds claim legal right to reach into the world’s servers with a valid US warrant.
3. Supreme Court Agrees To Hear Case Involving US Demands For Emails Stored Overseas
4. Justices to Hear DOJ Appeal on Microsoft Ruling: Is Email Stored Abroad Subject to a U.S. Warrant?
5. Microsoft never disclosed 2013 hack of secret vulnerability database: Database contained details required to carry out highly advanced software attacks.
6. Attack of the Hack Back: The worst idea in cybersecurity is back again.
7. “OK, Google. Send a Letter to the CPSC.”: Privacy Groups Request Recall of Google Home Mini 
8. Judge shocked to learn NYPD’s evidence database has no backup: City says cash forfeitures not in flagship PETS system; police say PETS backed up.
9. DreamHost Wins Challenge Against DOJ’s Overbroad Data Demands
10. DOJ Continues Its Push For Encryption Backdoors With Even Worse Arguments
11. There’s No Good Decision in the Next Big Data Privacy Case
12. Could a child sue their parents for sharenting?
13. Viral video of man being dragged from United flight gets officers fired: “Our cell phones are the best deterrent to ensure mistreatment becomes a rarity.”
14. It Takes Just $1,000 To Track Someone’s Location With Mobile Ads
15. Millions of high-security crypto keys crippled by newly discovered flaw: Factorization weakness lets attackers impersonate key holders and decrypt their data.
16. Details around controversial surveillance unknown
17. Equifax website borked again, this time to redirect to fake Flash update: Malware researcher encounters bogus download links during multiple visits.
18. After second bungle, IRS suspends Equifax’s “taxpayer identity” contract
19. Federal watchdog tells Equifax – no $7.25 million IRS contract for you: Equifax-IRS ordeal exposes the strangeness of the government contracting system.
20. There’s No Good Decision in the Next Big Data Privacy Case
21. Equifax rival TransUnion also sends site visitors to malicious pages: People visiting TransUnion’s Central American site redirected to potpourri of badness.
22. Accenture The Latest To Leave Sensitive Customer Data Sitting Unprotected In The Amazon Cloud
23. Don’t Panic, But Wi-Fi’s Main Security Protocol Has Been Broken
24. How the KRACK attack destroys nearly all Wi-Fi security: Android 6.0 hit especially hard, but all devices are vulnerable.
25. Serious flaw in WPA2 protocol lets attackers intercept passwords and much more: KRACK attack is especially bad news for Android and Linux users.
26. The Flawed System Behind The Krack Wi-Fi Meltdown
27. Why The Krack Wi-Fi Mess Will Take Decades To Clean Up
28. Australian defense firm was hacked and F-35 data stolen, DOD confirms
29. Australian Police Ran A Dark Web Child Porn Site For Eleven Months
30. Australian Government Claims That Facial Recognition Systems Increase Privacy…
31. Google’s ‘Advanced Protection’ Locks Down Accounts Like Never Before
32. Google now offers special security program for high-risk users: The new opt-in program requires authentication with a physical security key.
33. The search for painless Internet privacy gets another boost with InvizBox 2: Successor to Tor “travel router” focuses on protecting traffic from “harvesting” by ISPs.
34. In 3-1 vote, LA Police Commission approves drones for LAPD – ACLU: new policy “fails to take into account public mistrust” of police surveillance.
35. Would the United States Be Responsible for Private Hacking? (Kristen Eichensehr)

Jon

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. Netflix in campaign to ‘set record straight’ on $500-million pledge for Canadian productions
2. Think There Should be a Netflix Tax?: Why There is Nothing Stopping Canadian Subscribers From Paying Today (Michael Geist)
3. Donald Trump tweet suggests that FCC should take NBC off the air: That’s “not how it works,” FCC commissioner tells the president.
4. Zero Rating & Internet Adoption
5. Advertised broadband speeds should actually be realistic, UK tells ISPs: ISPs would have 30 days to improve speeds or risk losing customers.
6. Anybody Claiming Net Neutrality Rules Killed Broadband Investment Is Lying To You
7. Wall Street Predicts Apathetic Regulators And Limited Competition Will Let Comcast Double Broadband Prices
8. Analysts Predict Sprint, T-Mobile Merger Will Be A Massive Job Killer 

DIGITAL

1. Catalan independence websites blocked by Spanish government in bid to stop referendum: ‘Blocking domain name servers is doing what Turkey does and what China does and North Korea does’
2. The Disturbing Rise Of Cyberattacks Against Abortion Clinics
3. Iran Cracks Down On Movie Pirates In The Most Inception-Esque Manner Possible
4. Russia Moves to Block Cryptocurrency Exchanges
5. Miami Beach Police Unaware Of The First Amendment, Arrest Guy For Twitter Parody Account
6. Miami Beach cops arrest man for Twitter parody of police spokesman – Police chief: Parody “threatened to damage the reputation” of police department.
7. Congress members threaten Twitter with regulation if it doesn’t suppress ‘racially divisive communications’ and ‘anti-American sentiments’
8. Alt-White: How the Breitbart Machine Laundered Racist Hate – Here’s How Breitbart And Milo Smuggled Nazi and White Nationalist Ideas Into The Mainstream – A cache of documents obtained by BuzzFeed News reveals the truth about Steve Bannon’s alt-right “killing machine.”
9. Fantasy gambling is newsworthy, doesn’t violate players’ rights of publicity (Rebecca Tushnet)
10. Suing Doe reviewers under the Lanham Act fails (Rebecca Tushnet)
11. Hyperlinking to Sources Can Help Defeat Defamation Claims–Adelson v. Harris (Eric Goldman)
12. B.C. social-media terror case shows pitfalls for prosecution (Benjamin Perrin)
13. Real Talk About Fake News: Towards a Better Theory for Platform Governance (Nabiha Syed)
14. How to seek truth in the era of fake news
15. Supreme Court Leaves Troubling CFAA Rulings In Place: Sharing Passwords Can Be Criminal Hacking
16. Potential Lawsuit Could Reveal How Trump Targeted Voters on Facebook and If There’s Any Connection to Russia
17. How Israel Caught Russian Hackers Scouring the World for U.S. Secrets
18. Kaspersky reportedly modified its AV to help Russia steal NSA secrets: Hackers used company’s software to secretly scan for top-secret information, WSJ says.
19. Kaspersky, Russia, And The Antivirus Paradox
20. Silicon Valley’s Russian ads problem, explained: Why Facebook, Google and Twitter find themselves in the middle of an investigation into the 2016 election.
21. Report: Facebook removed references to Russia from fake-news report – Facebook decided it didn’t have enough evidence to name Russia in April report.
22. Atone? He’d better: Facebook is still the biggest source of right-wing fake news – From Hillary rumors to the nonexistent Puerto Rico truckers’ strike, Facebook continues to spread total garbage
23. The Threat of Big Tech Is Real: Why it’s time to panic about what Google and Facebook are doing to our lives.
24. “The Industry Is Fundamentally Broken”: Women On Sexism In Silicon Valley
25. How Facebook Rewards Polarizing Political Ads
26. The science behind why fake news is so hard to wipe out: It’s time for Facebook and Google to pay attention to the psychology of the illusory truth effect.
27. How Facebook Outs Sex Workers
28. Facebook outsources its fake news problem to Wikipedia—and an army of human moderators
29. Accidental Dow Jones News Report Claims Google to Buy Apple for $9 Billion
30. Dow Jones posts fake story claiming Google was buying Apple: Story claims Jobs arranged the $9 billion acquisition in his will.
31. Why Apple could be slapped with a massive $15 billion Irish tax bill: Tech giants use shell companies to defer corporate income tax bills indefinitely.
32. Jony Ive’s creativity pales compared to Apple’s App Store lawsuit defense: Apple sells “software distribution services to developers” who lease App Store space.
33. Supreme Court says live streaming would “adversely affect” oral arguments: Court wants transparency “while preserving the integrity of its proceedings.”
34. Facebook’s Promise of Community Is a Lie: Under increasing criticism for spreading fake news, the internet giant is using communitarianism as a shield.
35. Monopoly Men: After an eventful summer in Silicon Valley, there is blood in the water. At stake is democracy itself.
36. Should Facebook And Twitter Be Regulated Under The First Amendment?
37. Insights: New Year, New Start for Facebook’s Ad Targeting Troubles
38. Dove apologizes for ‘racist’ ad that caused outcry on social media
39. Twitter Temporarily Blocks Campaign Ad… Getting It Much More Attention
40. “Baby body parts” campaign ad from US House member blocked by Twitter
41. Algorithms Have Already Gone Rogue
42. Most people saw the Las Vegas shooting as a tragedy. Propagandists saw an opportunity.: Fake rumors designed to spread anti-leftist bias included making up victims, wrongly identifying the shooter, and feeding false narratives to media.
43. YouTube Enacts Search Algorithm Changes After Las Vegas Conspiracy Videos Run Rampant
44. Return of the algorithm monster: YouTube auto-promoted conspiracy theory videos – Dubious search results have led YouTube to “accelerate the rollout of planned changes.”
45. Algorithmic Consumer Protection: To manage the risks & benefits of AI, we need to look beyond the fairness and accuracy of AI decisions.
46. Vegan’s life upended after Facebook rant about “carnists” killed in Vegas: “It’s almost like a lynch mob is forming,” she says about the fallout from her post.
47. YouTube Restricts Videos Related To Bump Stocks In Wake Of Las Vegas Shooting
48. When YouTube Removes Violent Videos, It Impedes Justice
49. Creators Cry Foul After YouTube Demonetizes Casey Neistat’s #LoveArmyLasVegas Video
50. Jake Paul Sued For Damaging Man’s Hearing During Car Horn Prank
51. German YouTube Star Finds Himself Facing Trial One Year After Ill-Advised Prank
52. Defy Media Fires ‘Honest Trailers’ Creator Andy Signore After Wave Of Sexual Misconduct Allegations
53. Amazon Weighing New Ad Programs To Make It A More Formidable YouTube Competitor (Report)
54. GAW Miners founder owes nearly $10 million to SEC over Bitcoin fraud: Homero Josh Garza’s now-defunct companies must also pay $10 million.
55. The Creator of Bitcoin Comes Clean, Only to Disappear Again
56. How a Silicon Valley Striver Became the Alt-Right’s Tech Hero: Andrew Torba founded Gab.ai as a “free speech” alternative to other social networks
57. Google CEO Sundar Pichai: ‘I don’t know whether humans want change that fast’ – From artificial intelligence to cheap smartphones, Google is on the frontline of technological development. But is it growing too big and moving too fast?
58. Google’s New AI Can Mimic Human Speech Almost Perfectly
59. Google’s Internet-Beaming Balloons Will Soon Be Floating Over Puerto Rico
60. Google Fiber is losing interest in old-school TV: Existing TV customers will be kept on, but some will see a price increase.
61. Kurzweil Claims That the Singularity Will Happen by 2045
62. The Last Invention of Man: How AI might take over the world.
63. The Seven Deadly Sins of AI Predictions: Mistaken extrapolations, limited imagination, and other common mistakes that distract us from thinking more productively about the future.
64. Put Humans at the Center of AI
65. Waiting for the AI claims hurricane 
66. We Almost Gave Up On Building Artificial Brains
67. As IBM Ramps Up Its AI-Powered Advertising, Can Watson Crack the Code of Digital Marketing?: Acquisition of The Weather Company fuels a new division
68. Should drunk drivers be charged with DUI in fully autonomous cars?: New laws will have to be written based on the level of automation you have.
69. How Smartphones Hijack Our Minds: Research suggests that as the brain grows dependent on phone technology, the intellect weakens
70. ‘Our minds can be hijacked’: the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia: Google, Twitter and Facebook workers who helped make technology so addictive are disconnecting themselves from the internet. Paul Lewis reports on the Silicon Valley refuseniks alarmed by a race for human attention
71. While You Were Offline: The People Of Twitter Agree With Rex Tillerson
72. Does The Media Cover Trump Too Much? Too Harshly? Too Narrowly?
73. Your Data is Being Manipulated (danah boyd)
74. Six Features of the Disinformation Age
75. Facebook Security Chief Alex Stamos Hits Back at Media Coverage of Its Algorithms
76. Facebook security chief rants about misguided “algorithm” backlash
77. Facebook Quietly Enters Starcraft War For AI Bots, And Loses
78. At UN, robot Sophia joins meeting on artificial intelligence and sustainable development
79. The Reports Are In: AI and Robots Will Significantly Threaten Jobs in 5 Years
80. District 9 Director’s New Short Movie Offers A Disturbing Look At Our AI Future
81. New Theory Cracks Open The Black Box Of Deep Neural Networks
82. Why Don’t We Know the 100s of Women Writing About Tech?: When the Los Angeles Review of Books included only one woman writer in its tech issue, the Internet responded with a glorious list of women writers we should all know.
83. How To Tell When Someone Else Tweets From @Realdonaldtrump
84. What Rick and Morty fans’ meltdown over McDonald’s Szechuan Sauce says about geek culture: The mass revolt illustrated what increasingly toxic fandom culture looks like in real life.
85. McDonald’s apologizes after ‘Rick and Morty’ Szechuan sauce deal makes adults mad, kids cry
86. Dubai Prince Shows Off His Life Like No Other Royal
87. Netflix Is Raising Prices Again
88. Netflix raises its US monthly fee again, but only for two plans: The lowest tier stays the same, and the others are still competitive.
89. Why Shonda Rhimes left TV for Netflix: ‘I love the creative freedom’
90. Publishers seek removal of millions of papers from ResearchGate: Academic social network accused of infringing copyright on a massive scale
91. New ‘Coalition For Responsible Sharing’ About To Send Millions Of Take-Down Notices To Stop Researchers Sharing Their Own Papers
92. Library trolls copyright zealots by naming collection after Sonny Bono: Little-known copyright provision allows reproduction of full book texts.
93. Authors Alliance & Creative Commons Launch New Termination Of Transfer Tool
94. Windows Phone is now officially dead: A sad tale of what might have been
95. “Technical difficulties” plague Arizona lottery; same winning numbers drawn: Yet again, Arizona Lottery investigates a glitch with a random number generator.
96. 7th Annual Streamy Awards Live Stream Scores One Million Unique Viewers On Twitter
97. AOL Is Shutting Down AIM in December
98. kthxbai: AOL Instant Messenger is being turned off on December 15^th – 20 years is a long time on the Internet.
99. So Long, Aim. For Years, For Millions, You Were The Internet
100. Fact: Asking Whether We Live in a Simulation is Not A Scientific Question
101. Tim O’Reilly on why the future probably won’t be all that terrible: Economies as AI, humans as gut bacteria for tech, and how the Luddites got it wrong.
102. What is the Value of Re-use? Complementarities in Popular Music (Jeremy Watson)
103. Online Platforms and Free Speech: Regulating Fake News (Yale Law Journal)
104. DPLA Exchange Offers Library-Centered Ebook Marketplace
105. EU Commission issues guidance to online platforms for tackling illegal content online

CREATIVITY

1.  Ennio Morricone Loses Bid to Reclaim Rights to Film Scores
2. Appeals Court Skeptical About Overturning Marvin Gaye Family’s “Blurred Lines” Victory
3. Salt Lake Comic Con Fights Back Against Judge’s ‘Unprecedented’ Gag Order
4. Courtroom “Feud” Leaves Accurate Speech About Celebrities Unprotected
5. Who Can Create Copyrightable Work in Canada? Musings on a Monkey’s Selfie
6. Books from 1923 to 1941 Now Liberated!
7. Gender stereotyping in UK advertising – staying on the right side of the line  
8. Entertainment trade associations looking for opportunity to push a false narrative
9. From Aggressive Overtures to Sexual Assault: Harvey Weinstein’s Accusers Tell Their Stories – Multiple women share harrowing accounts of sexual assault and harassment by the film executive.
10. Men Must Step Up to Change the Hollywood Culture That Enabled Harvey Weinstein 
11. Caroline Gleich Fights Back Against Cyber Harassment: Caroline Gleich’s Instagram feed is full of epic shots of the pro skier conquering the planet’s hardest lines. But in recent years, it was marred by an ugly shadow: anonymous bullies whose abusive comments left a wake of anxiety and doubt. Then Gleich spoke out about her tormenters—and realized she wasn’t the only adventure athlete being harassed online. 
12. The share of women in newsrooms has increased barely 1 percentage point since 2001, ASNE data shows: Things are almost as bad when it comes to the hiring of people of color: The share of POC working in American newsrooms is up 2.9 percent since 2001.
13. The fight for the First Amendment, on campuses and football fields, from the sixties to today.
14. Can the First Amendment save us?: It took a long time for the press to gain freedom and respect in America. Now both are in peril.
15. How hip hop became the force behind Gabon’s political activism
16. Bassel Khartabil’s Story Proves Online Activism Is Still Powerful
17. Is Trump-Whisperer Maggie Haberman Changing The New York Times?: She’s a West Wing-beat colossus and a sui generis creature at the paper of record. “Maggie’s success is very much part of that tabloid, Twitter-fied sensibility bleeding into the Times,” says a colleague.
18. Trump and the Watergate effect: Will young journalists still be inspired by today’s watchdog reporting?
19. The Liberation of Kesha: Before she could make one of the year’s best albums, Kesha had to save her own life
20. Whoops: Drug ads gloss over risks with a mind trick – that’s backed by the FDA – Drug makers are supposed to be forthcoming with health risks – and the more the better.
21. France Has ‘Champagne,’ Portugal Has ‘Port.’ Should Australia Have ‘Uggs?’
22. Marvel Keeps Making TV—But How Many Networks Is Too Many?
23. Canada: The cult of personality (rights)

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. SCC rules residential school survivors’ testimony should be kept private
2. US Government Has ‘No Right To Rummage’ Through Anti-Trump Protest Website Logs, Says Judge
3. Court significantly reins in what data anti-Trump website must give to feds – Judge: DOJ can’t “rummage through the information contained on DreamHost’s website.”
4. Treasury Department Wing Latest To Be Accused Of Domestic Spying
5. Supreme Court: Hacking conviction stands for man who didn’t hack computer: High court refuses to hear appeal of hacking conviction, one-year prison sentence.
6. Russia reportedly stole NSA secrets with help of Kaspersky—what we know now: Proven or not, the accusations almost certainly mean the end of Kaspersky as we know it.
7. How Kaspersky AV reportedly was caught helping Russian hackers steal NSA secrets: Reports say Israeli spies burrowed inside Kaspersky’s network caught Russia red handed.
8. Hackers Grab More NSA Exploits, Possibly With Assistance Of Russian Antivirus Developer
9. The NSA’s ‘Time Machines’ Make It Incredibly Easy To Violate Section 702 Restrictions
10. The Worst-Case Scenario For John Kelly’s Hacked Phone
11. House Judiciary Committee Introduces Weak Surveillance Reform Bill
12. Deputy AG Pitches New Form Of Backdoor: ‘Responsible Encryption’
13. Trump’s DOJ tries to rebrand weakened encryption as “responsible encryption”: DOJ rekindles fight with Apple, wants government access to encrypted devices.
14. DOJ Says No One Has Any Right To Question The Adminstration’s Handling Of Records, Not Even The Courts
15. How the Chinese cyberthreat has evolved
16. UK Home Secretary Calls Tech Leaders ‘Patronizing’ For Refusing To Believe Her ‘Safe Backdoors’ Spiels
17. Man who sued over Facebook childbirth livestream slapped with $120k in fees: Plaintiff stayed mum about possible money received in three other cases.
18. The Equifax Aftermath – We Need More Hacking
19. Man: My wife and I were secretly filmed at our Airbnb rental – “I hope more victims will come forward,” says man who claims he was recorded naked.
20. T-Mobile customer data plundered thanks to bad API: T-Mobile missed bug that allowed harvesting of IMSI numbers, security question answers.
21. Hackers Score Touchdown: NFL Players Association Hit With Data Breach 
22. Google is permanently nerfing all Home Minis because mine spied on everything I said 24/7 
23. Sex Toys Are Just As Poorly-Secured As The Rest Of The Internet of Broken Things
24. Locking Your Phone Like This Is Pretty Much Useless
25. Mattel withdraws kid-focused “smart hub” from market after complaints: Lawmakers, child advocates expressed concern about caregiving being “outsourced.”
26. Beware of sketchy iOS popups that want your Apple ID: Benign iOS prompts are indistinguishable from those generated by malicious apps.
27. Schrems Redux: What’s the Future for Transatlantic Data Transfers?
28. An Irish Court Clouds the Future of EU Data Transfers: The Luck of the Model Clauses May Be Done

Jon

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. Globe editorial: A bad idea for ‘fixing’ Canada’s internet rules
2. Joly’s Digital Cancon Plan: Netflix May Be The Star, But No New Regulations, Taxes or Bailouts is the Story (Michael Geist)
3. Cancon 2.0 and the Netflix deal: The 10 key takeaways – On Thursday, the Heritage Minister unveiled ‘Creative Canada,’ the first major overhaul of the cultural funding regime in more than 25 years. Here’s what you need to know
4. Five reasons to like Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly’s Netflix deal
5. Netflix commits to a $400 million investment in Canadian film and TV: It’s the company’s first permanent production outside the US
6. Netflix Canada and the Misleading Claims About “Level Playing Fields” (Michael Geist)
7. The Launch of ‘Creative Canada’: Some Brief Thoughts Following the Minister’s Speech
8. Canada’s Cultural Funding Regime Receives Overhaul
   ‘Creative Canada’ – More Musings
9. Fake Data on Fakes: Digging Into Bell’s Dubious Canadian Piracy Claims (Michael Geist)
10. Bell MTS hikes most of its rates
11. Secretary of State refers Fox/Sky merger to the CMA on public interest grounds
12. FCC chair accused of ignoring investment data in push to end net neutrality: Pai ignores cyclical nature of wireless network investment, critics say.
13. ISPs want Supreme Court to kill Title II net neutrality rules now and forever: FCC may soon revoke net neutrality rules, but ISPs want immunity from regulation.
14. Hoping The Third Time’s The Charm, ISPs Urge Supreme Court To Kill Net Neutrality
15. Net neutrality debate ‘controlled by bots’
16. Trump’s FCC Boss Blasts Apple For Refusing To ‘Turn On’ FM iPhone Chipsets That Don’t Actually Exist
17. FCC chief Ajit Pai wants Apple to stop disabling FM radio chips in iPhones: Pai cites public safety concerns; Apple says new iPhones have no FM chip at all.
18. Ajit Pai gets new term on FCC despite protest of anti-net neutrality plan: Democrats objected to Pai’s re-nomination, but Republicans had his back.
19. Why some Senate Democrats voted to give Ajit Pai another term on FCC: Pai’s support mostly came from GOP senators, but four Democrats broke ranks
20. Broadband Lobbyists Gush Over Re-Appointment Of Trump’s FCC Boss
21. AT&T’s wireless home Internet, with 160GB cap, is now in 18 states: AT&T got nearly $3 billion federal subsidy to connect 1.1 million rural customers.
22. As Broadband Usage Caps Expand, Nobody Is Checking Whether Usage Meters Are Reliable
23. T-Mobile agrees to stop claiming its network is faster than Verizon’s: Verizon wins ruling as T-Mobile’s use of crowdsourced speed tests is criticized.
24. What’s Going on With the Rumored, Not Good T-Mobile and Sprint Merger

DIGITAL

1. Bad Info Follows Every Tragedy. Don’t Fall For It
2. Google’s Top Stories Promoted Misinformation About the Las Vegas Shooting From 4Chan 
3. Google admits citing 4chan to spread fake Vegas shooter news: 4chan was, for some reason, counted among Google News’ “authoritative” sources.
4. The Death Loop
5. This “Ghost Gun” Machine Now Makes Untraceable Metal Handguns
6. Myanmar’s Internet Disrupted Society—And Fueled Extremists
7. As US launches DDoS attacks, N. Korea gets more bandwidth—from Russia: Fast pipe from Vladivostok gives N. Korea more Internet in face of US cyber operations.
8. Sirius XM Uses DMCA To Memory Hole Archive Of Howard Stern’s Interviews With Donald Trump
9. Years of Howard Stern’s interviews with Trump now gone after DMCA takedown: “This is the only public version of a massive quarter century trove of interviews.”
10. Former Revenge Porn Site Operator Readies For Senate Run By Issuing Bogus Takedown Requests To YouTube
11. Copyright Troll Carl Crowell Ups The Ante: Now Demands Accused Pirates Hand Over Their Hard Drives
12. Shouldn’t Federal Judges Understand That Congress Did Not Pass SOPA?
13. ‘Six Strikes’ May Be Dead, But ISPs Keep Threatening To Disconnect Accused Pirates Anyway
14. Supreme Court Won’t Review US Government Getting To Steal All Of Kim Dotcom’s Stuff
15. Supreme Court won’t hear Kim Dotcom’s civil forfeiture case – Dotcom’s lawyer: “It is a bad day for due process and international treaties.”
16. Supreme Court says live streaming would “adversely affect” oral arguments: Court wants transparency “while preserving the integrity of its proceedings.”
17. Federal Court Rejects Absurd Attempt to Sue #BlackLivesMatter, the Hashtag
18. Coffee Subscription Lawsuit Involving Negative Option Contracts a Wake-up Call for Online Sellers 
19. Female ex-Oracle engineers sue for gender discrimination: Oracle, like Google, stands accused of paying women less than male equivalents.
20. Why Tech Leadership Has A Bigger Race Than Gender Problem
21. Oracle Tells The White House: Stop Hiring Silicon Valley People & Ditch Open Source
22. Elsevier’s Latest Brilliant Idea: Adding Geoblocking To Open Access
23. As ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Shows, The Streaming Exclusivity Wars Risk Driving Users Back To Piracy
24. That Flag-Burning NFL Photo Isn’t Fake News. It’s A Meme
25. Amazon’s First NFL Stream Posts Solid Numbers Despite Glitches, Paywall
26. With 372,000 Average Viewers, Amazon Tops Twitter In First Stream Of NFL’s ‘Thursday Night Football’
27. Amazon’s Attribution Approach To Streaming NFL Games
28. Couple Grifts Amazon Out of $1.2 Million in Electronics
29. Facebook: Ten million people exposed to Russia-linked ads
30. Why Trump Hate and Russian Ads Are Good for Facebook
31. Russia’s Facebook Ads Will Remain Secret, For Now
32. Russian Facebook ads featured anti-immigrant messages, puppies, women with rifles: See some of the ads used “to sow discord and chaos, and divide us from one another.”
33. Facebook loses attention as publishers shift focus to other platforms
34. Who Will Take Responsibility For Facebook?
35. Google and Facebook Failed Us: The world’s most powerful information gatekeepers neglected their duties in Las Vegas. Again.
36. Does Even Mark Zuckerberg Know What Facebook Is?: The same company that gives you birthday reminders also helped ensure the integrity of the German elections.
37. The U.S. Election System Remains Deeply Vulnerable, But States Would Rather Celebrate Fake Success
38. Silicon Valley isn’t just disrupting democracy—it’s replacing it
39. Trustworthy Networking
40. How Vice reassures brand-safety conscious advertisers
41. Uber Knew Its Self-Driving Guru Had Taken Google’s Trade Secrets, Report Says
42. Waymo vs. Uber: unsealed court documents reveal damning evidence – Reports show lies, visits to shredder, and evasive texts 
43. Google May Not Need A Smoking Gun To Win Its Case Against Uber
44. Here’s the “due diligence” report Waymo hopes will win its case against Uber – Otto’s head of HR: “I’m gonna go get your stuff destroyed this afternoon btw.”
45. Uber Charges Passenger Clueless About Surge Pricing $925 For Ride
46. Uber expands board to 17 members, reduces Kalanick’s power: A month into new job, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi is making his mark at Uber.
47. Uber investors to former CEO: We’ll sue you if you don’t vote how we want: “Our clients have authorized us to pursue any and all legal recourse… ”
48. Section 230’s Applicability to ‘Inconsistent’ State Laws 
49. How Europe is going after big tech when no one else is
50. Never Enough: EU Demands Social Media Companies Do The Impossible Even Faster
51. Inmates Need Social Media. Take It From A Former Prisoner
52. The Hardest Medium to Troll
53. Microsoft Discontinues Groove Music, Partners With Spotify Instead
54. Microsoft getting out of the music biz, moving Groove subs to Spotify: The app will stick around for local playback, but streaming is gone.
55. Beauty for girls, pranks for boys – it’s the same old gender stereotypes for YouTube stars
56. YouTube Adds iMessage Support To Make Sharing Videos Even Easier
57. YouTube Restricts Externally-Linking End Cards (Include Those To Patreon) To Members Of Its Partner Program
58. YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Launches New Channel With Influencer-Packed Intro Video
59. YouTube TV To Serve As Presenting Sponsor Of The 2017 World Series
60. YouTube Grows Up: Inside the Plan to Take on Netflix and Hulu
61. Stupid Patent Of The Month: Will Patents Slow Artificial Intelligence?
62. EFF: Stupid patents are dragging down AI and machine learning – “The patent reads like the table of contents of an intro to AI textbook.”
63. Sex Trafficking Experts Say SESTA Is the Wrong Solution
64. Artificial Intelligence Is Our Future. But Will It Save Or Destroy Humanity?
65. DeepMind wants to answer the big ethical questions posed by AI
66. How To Build A Self-Conscious Machine
67. The Myth Of A Superhuman AI
68. In AI We Trust? (Urs Gasser)
69. Mr. Know-It-All: Is It Ok For Me To Ask Customer Service Reps If They’re Robots?
70. Google’s DeepMind Launches Ethics Group to Steer AI
71. Google’s AI Still Isn’t Smarter Than a First Grader
72. What Happened When I Wore Google And Levi’s “Smart” Jacket For A Night
73. Google’s Gadget Vision: Same Stuff, Different Screens
74. Google unveils a $249 smart camera that decides what’s worth photographing: You can leave it lying around or wear it.
75. Google Pixel Buds are wireless earbuds that translate conversations in real time: Google Translate in your ears for $159.
76. Chinese High-Tech Startups: Now More Copied Than Copying
77. Showtime Won’t Explain Why Its Website Was Hijacking User Browsers To Covertly Mine Cryptocurrency
78. South Korea joins China in banning coin offerings: Money has flooded in an “unproductive and speculative direction,” official says.
79. Looking Through an IP Lens at Blockchain and Cryptocurrency
80. Cryptocurrencies: securities law implications
81. Cryptocurrency: A ‘Snap’ on Developments
82. LG is releasing a mosquito-repellent phone, but it probably won’t work: It claims to repel mosquitoes with ultrasonic waves, but scientists are skeptical.
83. How VR Saves Lives In The OR
84. The 3 Biggest Challenges Facing Augmented Reality Today
85. Where Are The Drones That Could Be Saving Puerto Rico?
86. Stop The Endless Scroll. Delete Social Media From Your Phone
87. The War on General-Purpose Computing Turns on the Streaming Media Box Community
88. Spurs Pitched Austin As Tech Hub To Lure Iguodala From Warriors
89. App Listening For Audio Beacons May Be Illegal Wiretapping–Rackemann v. Colts (Eric Goldman)

CREATIVITY

1.  How The Supreme Court’s Continued Misunderstanding Of Copyright Ruined Halloween
2. Crown copyright alive and well in new decision from the Ontario Court of Appeal (Teresa Scassa)
3. The Eggshell Attorney General: Jeff Sessions wants a First Amendment that celebrates robust criticism of everyone but himself. 
4. New York voters have no 1st Amendment right to snap ballot-booth selfies: “The State’s interest in the integrity of its elections is paramount,” court says.
5. Kmart faces copyright lawsuit for selling the wrong banana costume: Copyright law has gone bananas after a Supreme Court ruling earlier this year.
6. King’s College Football Coach Sued For Copyright Infringement For Retweeting A Book Page 2 Years Ago
7. The Long Read: Confessions Of An English Music-Pirate
8. Politics in the Workplace: Do NFL Players Have Freedom of Speech to Protest at Games?
9. Police Chief Takes To Facebook To Complain About A Journalist Committing Journalism
10. Judge: Barrett Brown donors can sue government over subpoenaed records – San Francisco activist led campaign to raise money for jailed journalist.
11. The Trump Administration is Investigating the “Theft of IP” by China: What You Need to Know About Trademarks in China
12. ASA cracking down on gender stereotypes in advertisements
13. Unbalancing Act: How Conferences Perpetuate The Music Industry’s Gender Parity Crisis – Conferences have the opportunity to improve on reality’s mistakes. Unfortunately, the data shows otherwise.
14. Lynda Carter to James Cameron: ‘Stop Dissing Wonder Woman, You Poor Soul’
15. Remembering Tom Petty, Unlikely Video Pioneer

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. So, Uh, That Billion-Account Yahoo Breach Was Actually 3 Billion
2. Every Yahoo account that existed—all 3 billion—was compromised in 2013 hack: It’s official. If you had a Yahoo account in 2013, it was compromised.
3. Hacks Are Always Worse Than Reported: All Of Yahoo Email Was Hacked In 2013. All. Of. It.
4. NSA warned White House against using personal email: In briefings to incoming Trump aides, security officials highlighted the dangers of unsecured email and phones.
5. NSA Warned Trump Staffers Against Personal Email/Device Use; Were Ignored
6. The NSA Warned Jared Kushner Not to Do the Dumb Email Thing That He Then Did
7. After Kushner’s private e-mail became known, it moved to Trump Org servers: In late September, it changed from outlook.com to mailhost01.trumporg.com.
8. Well-Known Email Prankster Ends Up With Sensitive Document From Jared Kushner’s Lawyer
9. Congressman demands to know if DHS will collect his social media history, too – Rep. Ted Lieu, naturalized American: “Does your proposed rule apply to me?”
10. Use of Search Warrants to Create Trump Enemies List Continues
11. Justice Department Demands Names of Thousands Who Liked Anti-Trump Facebook Page
12. DOJ’s Facebook Warrants Target Thousands Of Users For Protesting Inauguration
13. FOIA’ed Documents Show NSA Abuse Of Pen Register Statutes To Collect Content
14. FBI may keep secret the name of vendor that cracked terrorist’s iPhone: Judge agrees with FBI that national security trumps the public’s right to know.
15. SEC hack came as internal security team begged for funding: Forensic investigative unit was forced to use equipment tagged for scrap.
16. The new surveillance state
17. Sounding the privacy alarm
18. As Expected, EU Court Of Justice To Review If Internet Company’s Privacy Practices Are Acceptible
19. An alarming number of patched Macs remain vulnerable to stealthy firmware hacks: At-risk EFI versions likely put Windows and Linux PCs at risk, too.
20. New Equifax CEO offers “sincere and total apology” to consumers: Embattled company vows to give consumers more control over their credit data.
21. Equifax, Which Said Executives Did Not Know of Hack Before Trades, Has Launched a ‘Thorough Review’
22. Equifax Was Warned About Vulnerability But Failed To Patch It
23. Can Equifax’s Offerings Actually Protect Your Identity?
24. A series of delays and major errors led to massive Equifax breach: Former CEO’s testimony to Congress reveals a shocking lack of security rigor.
25. 6 Fresh Horrors From The Equifax CEO’s Congressional Hearing
26. IRS awards Equifax no-bid, $7.25 million contract after hack: “This is considered a critical service that cannot lapse.”
27. Into the Breach: How Canada’s Security Breach Disclosure Regulations Fall Short (Michael Geist)
28. Auto Location Tracking Company Leaves Customer Data Exposed Online
29. “NSFW” doesn’t begin to describe Bluetooth security in sex toys: Poor security lets connected “wearables” be hijacked by attackers.
30. Can Pseudonyms Make Better Online Citizens?

Jon

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. FCC Sued For Ignoring FOIA Request Investigating Fraudulent Net Neutrality Comments
2. Ajit Pai’s plan to lower broadband standards is “crazy,” FCC Democrat says: “This is crazy. Lowering standards doesn’t solve our broadband problems.”
3. Mission Accomplished: Ajit Pai’s FCC Declares Wireless Competition Issues Fixed: from the ignore-a-problem-and-it-goes-away,-right? dept
4. Ajit Pai should be fired, petition says before Senate re-confirmation vote: Senate Democrats plan “very loud” debate on vote to give Pai a new term.
5. To save net neutrality rules, senator tries to get Ajit Pai off FCC: Pai accused of ignoring “public interest” but will likely get new term on FCC.
6. FCC declares that USA’s wireless competition problem has been solved: Ajit Pai’s FCC says mobile market is competitive, in change from Obama years.
7. Joly’s Challenge: Digital Cancon Without New Digital Tax Dollars (Michael Geist)
8. How to build an effective digital Cancon strategy on the cheap (Michel Geist)
9. Not Just Netflix: Government Asks the CRTC To Conduct a Review of Changing Broadcast Models (Michael Geist)
10. Bell Calls for CRTC-Backed Website Blocking System and Complete Criminalization of Copyright in NAFTA (Michael Geist)
11. ‘Radical and overreaching’: Bell wants Canadians blocked from piracy websites – Company says a federal agency like the CRTC should create a blacklist of sites
12. European Commission Backed Study Confirms Canada Among the Most Expensive for Broadband Internet Access (Michael Geist)
13. Mysterious Apocalyptic Message Interrupts TV Broadcasts in California: ‘Violent Times Will Come’
14. Report: T-Mobile, Sprint finally figuring out this merger thing – T-Mobile owner would take majority stake; US would be left with 3 big carriers.
15. Prepare For An Epic BS Sales Pitch For The Competition-Killing Sprint, T-Mobile Merger
16. Verizon backtracks—but only slightly—in plan to kick customers off network: Rural users with no other options can switch plans but can’t get unlimited data.
17. Cox starts charging data cap overage fees in California: A new group of Cox customers gets a 1TB data cap and $10 overage fees.
18. The Soaring Cost Of Sports Programming Is Simply Not Sustainable
19. Global BC (CHAN-DT) re Global News Hour at 6 & Global News at 11 – Abbotsford school stabbing
20. CTV Vancouver (CIVT-DT) re CTV News at 6 – Abbotsford school stabbing CBSC Decision 16/17-0554 2017 CBSC 9 September 26, 2017     

DIGITAL

1. Russian operatives used Facebook ads to exploit divisions over Black Lives Matter and Muslims
2. Facebook’s Frankenstein Moment
3. Facebook Can Absolutely Control Its Algorithm
4. Facebook revamps political-ad rules after discovering Russian ad buys: Shadowy Russian group spent $100,000 on political ads during the 2016 election.
5. Mark Zuckerberg Is Still Pissed That We Know About His Army of Handlers
6. Shareholders force Zuckerberg to give up plan for non-voting shares: The plan would have further cemented Zuck’s total control over Facebook.
7. Facebook will target ads to people based on store visits, offline purchases, calls to businesses: Facebook is using its online-to-offline ad measurement tools for offline-to-online ad targeting.
8. Facebook’s Ad Scandal Isn’t a ‘Fail,’ It’s a Feature (Zeynep Tufekci)
9. Could public pressure cause Facebook to regulate itself?
10. Facebook’s Crackdown Ahead Of German Election Shows It’s Learning
11. How Germany’s far right took over Twitter – and tilted the election: A sophisticated and tightly organised troll army has spent the last three months championing a ‘patriotic revolution’. Boosting the AfD’s power is just the start
12. Iceland authorities weighing options after neo-Nazi site registers there: The racist site has been at a .is domain for more than a week.
13. Reddit’s campaign against hate speech worked: Even when users stuck around, they started watching their words more carefully.
14. Jared Kushner conducted White House business with personal e-mail: Kushner lawyer says it was “fewer than a hundred e-mails.”
15. Members Of Trump’s Admin Team Using Private Email Accounts Because Of Course They Are
16. How One Syrian Fought To The Death For A Free Internet
17. Judge spanks Mugshots.com hard for charging for photo removal: Lawsuit claims one arrestee was told it would cost $15k to have profile removed.
18. EU Buried Its Own $400,000 Study Showing Unauthorized Downloads Have Almost No Effect On Sales
19. EU study finds piracy doesn’t hurt game sales, may actually help: Results suggest a positive effect, but there’s a huge margin of error.
20. German Court: Thumbnail Images In Search Engines Not A Copyright Violation
21. German Federal Court of Justice rules that GS Media presumption of knowledge does not apply to Google Images
22. Twitter testing shift from 140 to 280 characters: Twitter thinks 140 characters might be too constraining for English writers.
23. Framing It Another Way: Tweets, Copyright and the De Minimis Doctrine
24. Google Pulls YouTube From Amazon Echo: All About Control Or Just More Corporation On Corporation Violence?
25. Ninth Circuit Blesses Amazon’s Terms of Service
26. British News Channel Touts Amazon Bomb Materials Moral Panic That Ends Up Being About Hobbyists And School Labs
27. Eros Beats Investor Suit Over Statements About Streaming Platform: The company touted 30 million users for Eros Now. The judge rules it was never said they were “meaningful” users.
28. In my opinion, this is an opinion
29. Fordham University Named in Class Action Lawsuit by Blind Individuals, Alleging Fordham.edu Website is Inaccessible
30. Contact Lens Seller Agrees To $7 Million Settlement Over Search Ads
31. U.S. Floats Nafta Proposal That Could Erode Copyright-Liability Protection: Language in the trade talks could weaken internet companies’ liability protections for pirated content
32. NAFTA 2.0 and Intellectual Property Rights: Insights on Developing Canada’s Knowledge Economy
33. FTC serves health-app maker massive slice of humble pie—and $1.5M bill: The app was meant to motivate users to go to the gym, eat veggies. It went very wrong.
34. FTC clarifies influencer guidelines: Federal Trade Commission warns that platforms’ built-in disclosure methods aren’t sufficient, reviews of products given for free must be marked as ads
35. The FTC, Like, Revises Its Social Media Endorsement Guides, Bruh!
36. Disney’s New, Influencer-Led Mickey Mouse Club Releases Music Video For First Original Song
37. Another Student Athlete Facing Scrutiny From NCAA For Budding YouTube Presence
38. Emojis Head to a Courthouse Near You
39. Victory for YouTubers as New York District Court rules “reaction video” is fair use
40. Fair use is never simple 
41. Vimeo To Acquire Livestream, Launches ‘Vimeo Live’ Pro Broadcasting Product
42. Verizon Reveals The Secrets Of Yahoo Search
43. Facebook, NFL Back In Business Again With Programming Partnership
44. Canon Virtual Camera System Enables Fans To Watch From Any 3D Angle
45. Block The Pirate Bay Within 10 Days, Dutch Court Tells ISPs
46. Company CEO Pleads Guilty After Forging Judge’s Signatures On Bogus Court Orders Sent To Google
47. More Thoughts On The Senate’s SESTA Hearing
48. My Senate Testimony on SESTA + SESTA Hearing Linkwrap (Eric Goldman)
49. Google Will Survive SESTA. Your Startup Might Not.
50. SESTA Is Being Pushed As The Answer To A Sex Trafficking ‘Epidemic’ That Simply Doesn’t Exist 
51. New Essay: The Ten Most Important Section 230 Rulings (Eric Goldman)
52. Rohingya Ethnic Cleansing (Once Again) Demonstrates Why Demanding Platforms Censor Bad Speech Creates Problems
53. London regulator announces Uber ban: Uber has 21 days to appeal the ruling, which could affect 40,000 drivers.
54. Uber CEO apologizes for “mistakes” in London: Uber has vowed to appeal a decision banning the company from London.
55. Uber really doesn’t want its drivers to be considered employees: O’Connor v. Uber one of 11 cases heard together at 9th Circuit.
56. Waymo to judge: We want Uber to pay “only” $1.86 billion: Waymo says big numbers are based on Uber’s own calculations.
57. ISIS Launches The Spelling Teacher, A New App For Kids
58. Dispute Between Roberto Escobar And Netflix Over ‘Narcos’ Gets Weird: Licensing Talks And A Dead Location Scout
59. What Netflix’s Congenial Trademark ‘Threat Letter’ Says About Everyone’s Tolerance For Trademark Bullying
60. Why Big Tech Is Clashing With Internet Freedom Advocates
61. Mattress Startup Casper Sued a Mattress Review Site, Then Paid for Its Acquisition
62. Machine-learning cloud platforms get to work: Analytic platforms as a service (PaaS) could shorten machine-learning learning curve.
63. Self-Driving Cars Will Kill People. Who Decides Who Dies?
64. When Websites Design Themselves 
65. Bill Gates Says We Shouldn’t Panic About Artificial Intelligence
66. Robots have already taken over our work, but they’re made of flesh and bone: Many jobs in the modern economy have been sapped of their humanity. How should we resist the rise of ‘digital Taylorism’? (Brett Frischmann &Evan Selinger)
67. BCSC Grants Bitcoin Investment Fund Manager Registration 
68. If Bill Gates really thinks ctrl-alt-del was a mistake, he should have fixed it himself: You can’t pin the blame for this one on IBM.
69. 4K titles on iTunes can only be streamed, not downloaded: You also can’t stream 4K videos from YouTube either.
70. YouTube Revamps Analytics Reports To Help Creators Better Understand Subscription Traffic
71. YouTube’s Technology Can Now Spit Out Thousands of Different Video Ads at Once: And target them based on apps that consumers have downloaded
72. New French Law Orders Video Services Like YouTube, Netflix To Pay 2% Tax On Local Revenues
73. Instagram now has 800 million monthly and 500 million daily active users
74. Twitter explains why Trump can use site as venue for violence, hate: Announcement comes as social media is under pressure to remove hate-based accounts.
75. Twitter sold enough ads to support all the live video shows it was pitching: Twitter is moving forward with 16 live video shows and features it said it wanted to stream.
76. Vice Ramps Up Original French Content With Three New Shows
77. Report recommends new legal approaches to online defamation
78. Ivanka Trump: Computer science education a new “priority” – “We do have a major diversity problem in the tech industry,” president’s daughter adds.

CREATIVITY

1. University Defeats Cyberbullying Lawsuit Related to Yik Yak–Feminist Majority v. UMW (Eric Goldman)
2. What the Constitution says Berkeley can do when controversial speakers come knocking: The rules governing the right-wing “Free Speech Week” showdown.
3. Italian Supreme Court confirms availability of copyright protection to TV formats
4. The Grinch loses and protection of parody wins 
5. Osaka Court’s Ruling Helps Destroy Tattoos In Japan 
6. Turkish President Claims Jailed Journalists Are Actually Terrorists: From the wobbles-so-much-you-can’t-even-call-it-‘spin’ dept
7. Kim Jong-Un Calling Trump A ‘Dotard’ Gave The Internet A Language Lesson 
8. Furie-ous creator of Pepe the Frog determined to use copyright to get his green creation back
9. Is the alt-right’s use of Pepe the Frog “fair use?”: Is Pepe like Luke Skywalker—or just super-chill frog anyone can use?
10. Penguin Random House LLC v. Frederick Colting d/b/a Moppet Books: District court finds that child-focused literary guides infringed copyrights in four famous novels and that literary guides did not qualify as fair use, granting summary judgment in favor of owners and exclusive licensees of copyrights in novels.
11. Saudi minister fired after textbook shows Yoda at UN signing ceremony: Begun, the textbook scandal has.
12. How The RIAA Helped Pave The Way For Spain To Undermine Democracy
13. Appeals Court Limits Ability of Patent Trolls to File Suit in Far-Flung Districts
14. Appeals Court Tells Patent Trolls’ Favorite Judge He Can’t Just Ignore The Supreme Court To Keep Patent Cases In Texas
15. Instagram rolls out comment-control, puts onus on user to filter trolls
16. “Comic-Con” trademark may have to activate superpowers to survive attack – Epic intellectual property battle: San Diego Comic-Con versus Salt Lake Comic Con.
17. Challenge on offensive trademarks could bring clarity
18. Velcro’s Hilarious Trademark Lesson Video Actually A Good Lesson In Just How Stupid Trademark Law Has Become
19. Velcro’s anti-genericide song is big, bold and brash – but critics question whether it will actually be effective
20. Scientific Publishers Want Upload Filter To Stop Academics Sharing Their Own Papers Without Permission
21. Burger King is Trying to Ban It In Russia For the Most Insane Reason
22. The very dirty history of on-demand video technology: In the early 1970s, hotels experimented with new video delivery systems for X-rated movies.
23. Netflix Pulls Cartoon Episode After Mom Spots Stealthy NSFW Drawing
24. Netflix Sends Cease-and-Desist to “Stranger Things”-Themed Bar
25. A Brief History of Hiding Dicks in Cartoons
26. Police: Armed Robber Dressed As Coke Bottle – Costumed perp held up eatery manager at Kentucky Rally’s
27. Project Jengo Strikes Its First Targets (and Looks for More)
28. Copyright’s Framing Problem (Margot Kaminski & Guy Rub)
29. Is the First Amendment Obsolete? (Tim Wu)
30. Response to Tim Wu’s piece on First Amendment obsolescence (Rebecca Tushnet)

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Bill C-58’s Order-Making Powers: A Huge Disappointment (Teresa Scassa)
2. Justice Department goes nuclear on Google in search warrant fight: Google’s conduct is a “willful and contemptuous disregard of various court orders.”
3. Report Details The NSA’s Decade-Long Abuse Of Its Surveillance Powers
4. US Homeland Security Will Start Collecting Social Media Info on All Immigrants October 18th
5. DHS To Officially Require Immigrants’ Files To Contain Social Media Info
6. WhatsApp Reportedly Rejected UK Government Demand For Encryption Backdoor
7. UK Man Gets 12-Month Sentence For Refusing To Turn Over Passwords To Police
8. Another court tells police: Want to use a stingray? Get a warrant – DC Court of Appeals: Even if you know the police can track you doesn’t mean they should.
9. Judge overturns local law that effectively banned drones over small town: Newton, Mass. wanted drone pilots to get permission to fly at or below 400 feet.
10. Deloitte Hit By Cyberattack That Compromised Client Information & Decided To Basically Tell Nobody At All
11. Deloitte hit by cyber-attack revealing clients’ secret emails: Hackers may have accessed usernames, passwords and personal details of top accountancy firm’s blue-chip clients
12. Password-theft 0day imperils users of High Sierra and earlier macOS versions: Rogue apps can exfiltrate all plaintext passwords, no master password required.
13. CCleaner Hack May Have Been A State-Sponsored Attack On 18 Major Tech Companies
14. CCleaner malware outbreak is much worse than it first appeared: Microsoft, Cisco, and VMWare among those targeted with additional mystery payload.
15. CCleaner backdoor infecting millions delivered mystery payload to 40 PCs: Samsung, Asus, Fujitsu, Sony, and Intel among those infected.
16. How Malware Keeps Sneaking Past Google Play’s Defenses
17. SEC Chairman reveals financial reporting system was hacked: EDGAR system data may have been used for “illicit gain through trading.”
18. Man held website hostage for $10,000, failed, redirected it to porn, got busted: After plea deal, DOJ says: “this appears to be a one-time lapse in judgment.”
19. All The Ways Equifax Epically Bungled Its Breach Response
20. After huge Equifax breach, CEO “retires”: Board is “deeply concerned about and totally focused on the cybersecurity incident.”
21. New York Governor Cuomo Directs NYDFS to Make Credit Reporting Agencies Comply with the State’s Cybersecurity Regulation
22. NSA-Developed Crypto Technology No Longer Trusted For Use In Global Standards
23. More Government Agencies Filing Lawsuits Against Public Records Requesters
24. Released Snowden Doc Shows NSA Thwarting Electronic Dead Drops By Using Email Metadata
25. Internet Explorer bug leaks whatever you type in the address bar: All your private addresses and search queries are belong to us.
26. In a first, Android apps abuse serious “Dirty Cow” bug to backdoor phones: The critical Linux vulnerability is exploited on Android 1 year after coming to light.
27. In spectacular fail, Adobe security team posts private PGP key on blog: Since deleted, post gave public and private key for Adobe incident response team.
28. Do Tech Companies Really Need All That User Data?
29. Cross-Border Data Access Primer
30. Don’t Rely On An Unlock Pattern To Secure Your Android Phone
31. How Much Do Your Dating Apps Know About You?
32. One Tinder user’s data request turned into 800 pages of probing info: Yet another reminder that when a service is free, you are the product.

Jon

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1.  Why Canadian cell phone bills are among the most expensive on the planet: As tech analyst Michael Geist has noted, cell phone companies keep raising prices ‘because they can’ 
2. Toronto Star receives $65,000 fine for violating CRTC Do Not Call List rules
3. Yet Another Report Says The Rate Of TV Cord Cutting Is Worse Than Anybody Thought
4. “Fake” net neutrality comments at heart of lawsuit filed against FCC –  Lawsuit: FCC ignored public records request for data on mass comment uploads
5. ‘I Want to Explode’ — A Roger Ailes Protégé Bares His Soul: Joe Lindsley was as close to the late Fox News chairman as anybody. Now, for the first time, he’s giving his account of their dramatic split.
6. The transformation continues (Timothy Denton)
7. Verizon Is Booting 8,500 Rural Customers Over Data Use, Including Some on ‘Unlimited’ Plans
8. Verizon Hangs Up On Tens Of Thousands Of ‘Unlimited’ Wireless Customers For Using Too Much Data
9. Comcast looks forward to more mergers during Trump presidency: Comcast VP is glad Trump is “less hostile” to mergers than Obama.
10. Comcast said he used too much data—so he opted to live without home Internet: Man said he didn’t go over his data cap; Comcast told him to trust the meter.
11. FCC’s New ‘Diversity Chair’ Has Long History Of Undermining Minority Consumers At Comcast’s Behest
12. T-Mobile’s unlimited plan will soon let you use 50GB before slowdowns: T-Mobile leaps further ahead of Verizon and AT&T with more data before slowdowns.
13. T-Mobile backtracks from plan to throttle Apple Watch speeds to 512kbps: T-Mobile initially planned $20 charge for watch LTE, but now it’ll be $10.
14. Unlimited Data Customers Report Fewer Network Problems Than Capped Users
15. SpaceX’s worldwide satellite broadband network may have a name: Starlink – Low-latency, gigabit network inches closer to commercialization.
16. A telemarketer called my elevator: The emergency intercom started speaking to me in a voice I’ve heard a thousand times.

DIGITAL

1. Hollywood’s Use of “Stolen” Computer Technology Tests Ownership Theories: In a bid to dismiss a lawsuit, Disney, Fox, and Paramount distinguish between human and technological output.
2. Hulu Becomes First Streaming Service To Win Best Drama Emmy For ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’
3. To Fix Its Toxic Ad Problem, Facebook Must Break Itself
4. Exclusive: Facebook Silences Rohingya Reports of Ethnic Cleansing – The social network says it’s committed to helping the world ‘share their stories.’ But when people from Burma’s oppressed minority post, their stories have a habit of disappearing.
5. Facebook Enabled Advertisers to Reach ‘Jew Haters’: After being contacted by ProPublica, Facebook removed several anti-Semitic ad categories and promised to improve monitoring.
6. Could Facebook Have Caught Its ‘Jew Hater’ Ad Targeting?: “Facebook can monitor the things it does that make it money.”
7. Facebook’s Offensive Ad Targeting Options Go Far Beyond “Jew Haters”
8. Trump Retweeted A Video From An Anti-Semitic Account Showing Him Hitting Hillary Clinton With A Golf Ball: The original poster had previously tweeted several anti-trans and racist statements.
9. The Real Trouble With Trump’s ‘Dark Post’ Facebook Ads
10. Google Allowed Advertisers To Target People Searching Racist Phrases: Google prompted BuzzFeed News to run ads targeted to keywords like “black people ruin neighborhoods,” then allowed the campaign to go live.
11. Facebook’s Reckoning Draws Nearer: Sooner or later, the company will be forced to take on the responsibilities that come with being the world’s dominant news distributor.
12. ­Facebook’s war on free will: How technology is making our minds redundant
13. Should Facebook Ads Be Regulated Like TV Commercials?: The company’s sales to a Russia-connected troll farm raise big questions about free speech in advertising and beyond.
14. Alt-Right Twitter App Developers Sue Google After Gab.Ai App Is Kicked Out Of The Play Store
15. Google Paid HTC $1.1 Billion To Turn Itself Into A Phone Maker
16. Google/HTC deal is official, Google to acquire part of HTC’s smartphone team: $1.1 billion deal means HTC will still exist, while Google beefs up its hardware team.
17. Female ex-Googlers sue, claiming sex discrimination: Three former Googlers say women were funneled into less lucrative “job ladders.”
18. The Pao Effect Is What Happens After Lean In
19. Lost Context: How Did We End Up Here?: Facebook and Google’s advertising platforms are out of control. That used to be a good thing. Now…not so much.
20. Twitter rival Gab sues Google over app store rejection: Gab, an app popular with the alt-right, says Google violated antitrust law.
21. Twitter rival Gab faces domain loss over extremist content: After anti-Semitic post, registrar gives Gab five days to find a new provider.
22. The Super-Aggregators And The Russians
23. Facebook’s Russia data: What Mueller may learn
24. A Fishy Wikileaks Dump Targets Russia For A Change
25. New Group Of Iranian Hackers Linked To Destructive Malware
26. Snopes And The Search For Facts In A Post-Fact World
27. Unwanted ads on Breitbart lead to massive click fraud revelations, Uber claims – Uber: We paid Fetch Media for “nonexistent, nonviewable, and/or fraudulent advertising.”
28. Here’s a real-life, slimy example of Uber’s regulator-evading software: “In using Greyball, Uber has sullied its own reputation,” Portland says.
29. Waymo wants Uber to pay $2.6 billion in damages—just for starters: It’s the first hint of what Waymo might want as compensation for alleged theft.
30. Appeals court rejects Uber’s attempt to dodge trial: No arbitration – And, Levandowski can’t stop Waymo lawyers from reading a report on his startup.
31. Faced with a trove of new evidence in Uber case, Waymo asks to delay trial 
32. Uber: We don’t have to pay drivers based on rider fares – Contracts allow rider fares to be higher than what is known and paid to drivers.
33. Drone delivery startup is about to begin commercial operations: Startup envisions hundreds of drone delivery stations across metro areas.
34. Digital transformation: How machine learning could help change business – ML has more than just a learning curve to overcome before it transforms business.
35. HTML5 DRM finally makes it as an official W3C Recommendation: 30.8% of W3C members disapproved of the decision.
36. EFF Resigns From W3C After DRM In HTML Is Approved In Secret Vote
37. HP Brings Back Obnoxious DRM That Cripples Competing Printer Cartridges
38. Adding clickbait title isn’t false advertising or fraud on author Dankovich v. Keller, 2017 WL 4081852, No. 16-13395 E.D. Mich. Sept. 15, 2017 (Rebecca Tushnet)
39. 5 reasons why people share fake photos during disasters
40. Do the distracted boyfriend memes infringe copyright?
41. The Blacklock’s Perfectly Predictable Costs Appeal Dismissal & a Preview of Potential Problems (Howard Knopf)
42. The Senate Is Close To Undermining The Internet By Pretending To ‘Protect’ The Children
43. Why SESTA Is Such A Bad Bill
44. The Wrong Answer to a Serious Problem: Senator Wyden’s testimony to the Senate Committee on Commerce at the legislative hearing titled “S.1693, The Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act of 2017”
45. The Top Ten Myths About SESTA’s (S. 1693) Impact On Startups
46. Senator Blumenthal Happy That SESTA Will Kill Small Internet Companies
47. Is There A Single Online Service Not Put At Risk By SESTA?
48. Free Software Foundation Europe Leads Call For Taxpayer-Funded Software To Be Licensed For Free Re-use
49. The Sex Trafficking Fight Could Take Down A Bedrock Tech Law
50. Music Industry Is Painting A Target On YouTube Ripping Sites, Despite Their Many Non-Infringing Uses
51. YouTube Apologizes To ‘Red’ Subscribers Who Were Served Ads, Says Fix Is In The Works
52. Yes, You Can Believe In Internet Freedom Without Being A Shill
53. Regulating Hate Speech?
54. The rise of AI is sparking an international arms race: Elon Musk thinks it’s the most likely cause of WWIII.
55. The AI Chatbot Will Hire You Now
56. AI: Scary for the Right Reasons
57. AI built profiles for every individual is a reality
58. AI Research Is In Desperate Need Of An Ethical Watchdog
59. Can Competition Act address Big Data cases?
60. Big data and Innovation: Implications for competition policy in Canada
61. Big data may become big antitrust concern
62. Google Chrome To Block Autoplay Videos With Sound Beginning In January
63. Google Chrome will block autoplay video starting January 2018: Only muted video and user “interest in the media” will be allowed by default.
64. Chrome Will Soon Block Autoplay Videos With Sound—Here’s Why You Should Be Worried
65. YouTube TV, Now Available In Eight More Areas, Nears Completion Of US Rollout
66. These Are The Types Of Influencers Who Get Paid Most Per Sponsored Post (Study)
67. Snapchat Is Pulling Out All The Stops For This Year’s Emmy Awards
68. Crowdfunding platform Patreon secures $60M investment
69. Are We Asking Too Much From Defamation Law? Reputation Systems, Adr, Industry Regulation And Other Extra-Judicial Possibilities For Protecting Reputation In The Internet Age: Proposal For Reform (Emily Laidlaw)
70. The Political Awakening of Silicon Valley: What happens when tech leaders, like Y Combinator’s Sam Altman, believe our system is broken? They treat it like a startup. 
71. “Skip intro”: Netflix could’ve saved TV title sequences, but now it’s killing them
72. Netflix Has Narcos Actors Threaten To Shoot The Families Of French People For Pirating The Show
73. Vancouver Canucks, Perspective Films Offer Virtual Reality Views
74. Baltimore Ravens Debut NFL’s First Augmented Reality Face Painting
75. Mizuno Introduces Smart Baseball With Internal Pitch-Tracking Tech
76. China’s Largest Messaging App ‘WeChat’ is Creating its Own AR Platform
77. It looks like China is shutting down its blockchain economy: Leaked regulation orders Chinese Bitcoin exchanges to shut down.
78. Bitcoin and Ethereum plunge on Chinese crackdown
79. The Pirate Bay Added a CPU-Hijacking Bitcoin Miner to Some Pages
80. Feds in California are aggressively going after Silk Road, AlphaBay vendors: Federal courthouse in Fresno is set to see a lot of action in coming months.
81. Your Digital Millennium Copyright Registration May Be About To Expire
82. Bored With Your Fitbit? These Cancer Researchers Aren’t
83. About FaceID
84. After 23 years, the Apple II gets another OS update: On 30th anniversary of Apple II GS, devoted developer releases ProDOS 2.4.
85. The Pluralist Model of Speech Regulation: Free Speech in the Algorithmic Society (Jack Balkin)
86. Free Speech in the Algorithmic Society: Big Data, Private Governance, and New School Speech Regulation (Jack Balkin)

CREATIVITY

1. Quebec Superior Court Rules on the Concept of Fair Dealing in Relation to the Substantial Reproduction of Journalistic Works
2. Off-Broadway ‘Grinch’ Parody Defeats Copyright Claims
3. Joy in Who-Ville? Playwright Wins Fair Use Copyright Dispute in Parody of “Grinch” 
4. Maradona sues Dolce&Gabbana over 2016 ‘MARADONA’ jersey 
5. Monkey Selfie Case Settled Out Of Court, Questions Remain (Andres Guadamuz)
6. Lawyer: Without The Monkey’s Approval, PETA Can’t Settle Monkey Selfie Case
7. Monkey See, Monkey Do… Monkey Own? The Curious Case of Naruto v. Slater 
8. Man who made “Pepe” wants his frog back, and he’ll use copyright to get it: Mike Cernovich won’t pay, threatens “to embarrass the f***” out of Pepe creator.
9. With Court Ruling, Fan Subtitles Officially Copyright Infringement In Sweden
10. Structural engineers score big as Federal Court recognizes and enforces copyright on structure of soccer complex
11. Canadian Government Publications Still Don’t Belong To The People As Ottawa Maintains Its Iron Grip On Crown Copyright
12. Melania Trump billboard removed in Croatia after legal action threatened
13. ‘Racist’ Paddy Power Floyd Mayweather ad dealt knockout blow by ASA
14. New patent review process has saved billions—so why is it under attack?: “Inter partes review” let a patent’s opponents be heard, without spending millions.
15. Doubling (& Tripling) Down on Trademark Protection For Secret Menu Items–In-N-Out v. Smashburger 
16. Yoko Ono halts sale of John Lemon lemonade: Polish company agrees to change its name to On Lemon after legal letters saying drink infringed trademark 
17. Kim Kardashian West’s trade mark woes and the love-hate relationship between celebrities and IP
18. New study claims Slender Man is in the commons, argues assertion of trademark rights “chills creativity”
19. Charles Harder Loses Again: You Can’t Just File Defamation Lawsuits In A Random State Because You Like Its Statute Of Limitations
20. Model Behaviour – Copyright infringement action brought against model Gigi Hadid
21. Why Copyright Term Matters: Publisher Study Highlights Crucial Role of the Public Domain in Ontario Schools (Michael Geist)
22. Buyer Beware: Make Sure Your Copyright Assignment Is Valid
23. The Business of Fandom: How Teenage Girls Predict the Future of Culture
24. 20 years in, Kid Rock, Eminem and ICP are politically relevant — and culturally divided
25. How Amazon is becoming the third force in advertising, making the duopoly an oligopoly
26. The Battle for Blade Runner
27. Vermont State Police Rewrite Press Rules To Withhold As Much Information As Possible
28. Bleistein, the Problem of Aesthetic Progress, and the Making of American Copyright Law (Barton Beebe)
29. First application of the Canadian parody exception (Sabine Jacques)

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. EFF, ACLU Sue Government Over Warrantless Electronic Searches At The Border
2. ISPs claim a privacy law would weaken online security and increase pop-ups: California to vote on privacy law opposed by AT&T, Comcast, Charter, and Verizon.
3. Closely watched California Internet privacy bill dies in final minutes of legislative session
4. California Sides With Comcast, Votes To Kill Broadband Privacy Law Favored By EFF
5. ISPs can keep sharing your browsing history after California no-vote: Lawmakers fail to vote on opt-in rule that would protect your browsing history.
6. Face Scanning Lawsuit Against Shutterfly Survives Motion to Dismiss
7. Trump Administration Says It’s Classified If They Can Let The NSA Spy On Americans
8. Equifax Officially Has No Excuse
9. Oh Man, You’re Gonna Hate What Equifax Just Admitted About That Security Breach
10. Equifax’s Chief Information Officer and Head of Security Are ‘Retiring’
11. Equifax CIO, CSO “retire” in wake of huge security breach: Press release – “The company’s review of the facts is still ongoing.”
12. DoNotPay chatbot adds feature allowing users to sue Equifax over data breach
13. Scammers keep trying to sell fake Equifax facts: Site offers “proof” of access to Equifax data, but it all appears to be fake.
14. FTC launches Equifax breach probe, warns consumers about credit scammers: Posing as Equifax employees, crooks are calling to verify your account information.
15. Equifax sends breach victims to fake notification site
16. Google stops challenging most US warrants for data on overseas servers: Microsoft keeps up the challenges while Supreme Court remains silent.
17. Secret Algorithms Are Deciding Criminal Trials and We’re Not Even Allowed to Test Their Accuracy (ACLU)
18. EFF Asks Court: Can Prosecutors Hide Behind Trade Secret Privilege to Convict You? (EFF)
19. Biased Algorithms Are Everywhere, and No One Seems to Care: The big companies developing them show no interest in fixing the problem.
20. Ad industry “deeply concerned” about Safari’s new ad-tracking restrictions: Apple’s limits on tracking will “sabotage the economic model for the Internet.”
21. How One Of Apple’s Key Privacy Safeguards Falls Short
22. Infrared signals in surveillance cameras let malware jump network air gaps: aIR-Jumper weaves passwords and crypto keys into infrared signals.
23. The CCleaner Malware Fiasco Targeted At Least 18 Specific Tech Firms
24. NSA Employees Routinely Undermined ‘Non-Attributable’ Web Access With Personal Web Use
25. How The NSA Built A Secret Surveillance Network For Ethiopia
26. Trudeau needs to deliver on his access-to-information promises
27. New law firm seeks would-be gov’t whistleblowers, requires Tor and SecureDrop: “We want to earn the trust of people who have been 20-year veterans at the NSA.”
28. Most-wanted criminal arrested after posting Instagram video of himself: Officials obtained fugitive’s GPS coordinates after he took to social media.
29. Apple’s FaceID Could Be A Powerful Tool For Mass Spying
30. Software Has A Serious Supply-Chain Security Problem
31. For $200 you can buy an NBA smart jersey and be a marketing pawn: Once activated, Nike knows where you live, and when and where jersey is scanned.
32. Internet-Connected Toys: Cute, Cuddly and Inherently Insecure
33. The Undue Influence of Surveillance Technology Companies on Policing (Elizabeth Joh)

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MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1.  TV Ad Spend To Remain Flat Through 2021 As Cord-Cutting Surpasses Projections (Report)
2. More on Media Deregulation – Chairman Pai Speaks to NAB Radio Show and Promises to Propose the Repeal of a Rule Each Month 
3. Comcast Whines That The Net Neutrality Debate It Keeps Rekindling Is A Lot Like ‘Groundhog Day’
4. Comcast Continues To Insist Its Sneaky, Misleading Fees Are Just The Company’s Way Of Being ‘Transparent’
5. Comcast Sues Vermont, Insists Having To Expand Broadband Violates Its First Amendment Rights
6. Comcast raises sports and TV fees again, says it’s about “transparency”: Charges fees even in areas where Comcast owns local sports networks.
7. Comcast puts YouTube in its TV boxes to entice would-be cord-cutters: YouTube follows Netflix to a prime spot on Comcast’s X1 set-top boxes. 
8. Senators Blast The FCC For Weakening The Definition Of Broadband To Try And Hide The Industry’s Lack Of Real Competition
9. AT&T’s John Stankey hopes to avoid a disconnect in merger with Time Warner
10. This Sinclair-Tribune merger is a rotten deal for America: What’s to be done about “the most dangerous company most Americans haven’t heard of?”
11. New analysis suggests Fox News is working, shifting votes to R column: Research relies on Americans being too lazy to keep channel surfing.
12. Dirty, big secrets: Why won’t CNN and Fox account for their mistakes? 

DIGITAL

1. Why Has the Government Failed to Act on Copyright Notice-and-Notice When Internal Docs Raise Abuse and Fraud Concerns? (Michael Geist)
2. RT, Sputnik and Russia’s New Theory of War: How the Kremlin built one of the most powerful information weapons of the 21st century — and why it may be impossible to stop.
3. The Fake Americans Russia Created to Influence the Election
4. Russia’s Facebook Fake News Could Have Reached 70 Million Americans: Facebook acknowledged that Russian propagandists spent $100,000 on election ads. It neglected to mention how many millions of people those ads reached.
5. Russian-made Facebook page invited Americans to protest “upsurge of violence”: Effort to unmask the Kremlin’s propaganda campaign takes a dark turn.
6. I Bought a Russian Bot Army for Under $100
7. Facebook May Have More Russian Troll Farms To Worry About
8. Russia Piracy Blocking: Four Thousand ‘Pirate’ Sites Blocked… Along With Forty Thousand Sites Worth Of Collateral Damage
9. Kaspersky software banned from US government agencies: Kaspersky: We have “never helped, nor will help, any government with cyberespionage.”
10. Social influence and political mobilization: Further evidence from a randomized experiment in the 2012 U.S. presidential election (Jason J. Jones, Robert M. Bond, Eytan Bakshy, Dean Eckles & James H. Fowler)
11. How Facebook Changed the Spy Game: I fought foreign propaganda for the FBI. But the tools we had won’t work anymore.
12. Facebook Wins, Democracy Loses
13. Why it’s so hard to trust Facebook
14. Facebook will ban monetizing on violence and tragedy, even for news and awareness
15. Facebook Sets Guidelines To Dictate What Types Of Content It Won’t Monetize
16. The Terrifying Power of Internet Censors
17. Facebook’s Failed $608 Million Bid For Cricket Rights Sends Strong Signal
18. Facebook To Spend $1 Billion On Original Content For ‘Watch’ Through 2018 
19. Make Mark Zuckerberg Testify
20. Facebook Wins Appeal Over Allegedly Discriminatory Content Removal–Sikhs for Justice v. Facebook (Eric Goldman)
21. The Fake News Pipeline: How A Small-Time Clickbait Farmer Is Spreading the Gospel of Big Oil
22. America Is a Cyberpunk Dystopia
23. Adding a “disputed” label to fake news seems to work, a little. But for some groups, it actually backfires: Labeling only some fake news stories as fake can make some people more likely to believe other fake news that aren’t labeled.
24. China’s Social-Media Smoke Screen
25. 1st Amendment wins in self-proclaimed e-mail inventor’s Techdirt libel suit: The truth, whatever that may be, is the best defense to defamation.
26. Texas AG’s office accuses ‘reputation management company’ of procuring fraudulent libel takedown lawsuits
27. Texas Attorney General Issues Complaint Against Reputation Management Company For Bogus Lawsuits
28. Blacklock’s Loses Appeal of Justice Barnes’ Costs Order: Dismissed from the Bench
29. Patent Trolls’ Favorite Judge Comes Up With Test To Keep Patent Cases In East Texas, No Matter What SCOTUS Said
30. The Latest Scam To Protect Sketchy Patents From Patent Office Review: Sell To Native Americans
31. YouTube stream-ripping site for the masses dead in wake of RIAA suit: Youtube-mp3.org facilitated 40% of illegal stream-ripping from YouTube globally.
32. Digital Network Collab Launches New Rights Management Tool
33. Facebook Testing ‘Instant Videos’ Feature That Enables Offline Viewing
34. The no-sports streaming bundle is coming soon from Viacom, Discovery, and others: The entertainment-focused service could cost less than $20 per month.
35. Verizon customers can sue ad company over “zombie” cookies, judges rule: Judges say ad company can’t use Verizon’s arbitration clause to avoid lawsuit.
36. Uber is apparently facing a third federal criminal investigation: Uber allegedly created fake Lyft accounts to gather data on drivers and prices.
37. The first man at trial over a “gig economy” job got dismantled on cross-examination
38. Amazon’s 1-Click Patent Is About To Expire. What’s The Big Deal?
39. Canadian cities jump at chance to play host to massive Amazon HQ
40. Amazon’s New Headquarters Should Be in Hell
41. White Supremacist Threatens to Sue News Outlet Over Photoshopped Gun (That He Tweeted a Month Earlier)
42. PewDiePie Draws More Ire By Using N-Word During Live Stream
43. PewDiePie Uses Racial Slur In Livestream, Game Dev Says He’s “Worse Than A Closeted Racist”: The super-popular streamer has found himself in hot water, again.
44. PewDiePie Is Inexcusable but DMCA Takedowns Are Not the Way to Fight Him
45. PewDiePie racial slur sparks backlash from Campo Santo, Simogo: Prominent YouTube streamers brace for fallout from “liability” PewDiePie’s actions
46. Why was it so easy to weaponize copyright against PewDiePie?
47. Let’s Play Copyright Threat Raises Questions About The Law And How To Use It
48. Campo Santo legally able to file DMCA against PewDiePie over racial slur: But court costs to enforce could be “well over six figures” so dangerous defence for indies and smaller studios
49. Here’s what the law says about PewDiePie’s fight with Campo Santo: Game company wants to take down YouTube star’s livestreams after n-word incident.
50. As PewDiePie Offers Apology For Racial Slur, YouTube’s ‘Let’s Play’ Gamers Worry About Financial Fallout
51. Ted Cruz Liked a Porn Tweet and I Can’t Even Decide Which Joke to Say 
52. Cruz blames ‘staffing issue’ for porn video ‘liked’ on his Twitter account
53. No “Contract By Tweet” for Plaintiff Who Pitches Movie Idea via Social Media (Eric Goldman)
54. Congress Is About To Eviscerate Its Greatest Online Free Speech Achievement (Eric Goldman)
55. Why Has the Government Failed to Act on Copyright Notice-and-Notice When Internal Docs Raise Abuse and Fraud Concerns?
56. LinkedIn’s efforts to stop the bots
57. Bitcoin investors could lose all their money, FCA warns: UK financial watchdog spells out risk for those participating in initial coin offerings using cryptocurrencie
58. CSA Staff Narrow the Path for Cryptocurrency Offerings
59. A Debate about Google and Its Critics: Recent allegations stoke growing ‘antitrust sentiment’ about Google.
60. Can You Get Addicted to Trolling?: It’s becoming increasingly evident that, for some people, trolling isn’t just playing an a—-le on the internet.
61. News Use Across Social Media Platforms 2017 (Pew Research Center)
62. A tech critic on the sham populism of Silicon Valley: Ex-New Republic editor Franklin Foer on the expansive power of big tech.
63. There’s Blood In The Water In Silicon Valley: The bad new politics of big tech.
64. Conservatives, liberals unite against Silicon Valley: The fading of the tech industry’s bipartisan glow in Washington puts it at risk for tighter regulations.
65. Tech Is Public Enemy #1. So Now What?: If tech wants to reverse the crushing tide of negative public opinion, it must start creating public good commensurate with its extraction of private profit.
66. Teen Girls With Smartphones Flirt Most With Depression and Suicide: A spike in the teen suicide rate parallels almost exactly the rise of smartphone use, especially among teen girls, who are the most vulnerable to cyberbullying and alienation.
67. Searching For Help: She turned to Google for help getting sober. Then she had to escape a nightmare.
68. Terms Of Service Aren’t Just Annoying—They’re A Failure
69. Phones Are Changing How People Shoot And Watch Video
70. Attacked by Rotten Tomatoes
71. Hollywood’s Movies Suck, and It Doesn’t Want You to Know
72. Lawyer who sued Gawker and Techdirt has a new target: Jezebel – “Whatever he says, goes,” former Superstar Machine member “Poppy” told Jezebel.
73. AG Szpunar advises CJEU on cloud-based recording and private copying exception
74. iPhone X: Software leak appears to confirm name, features, and specs – Meanwhile, iPhone 8 is an updated iPhone 7 with a glass back, and wireless charging.
75. The Biggest IPhone Leak Yet Won’t Bruise Apple
76. How Apple Finally Made Siri Sound More Human
77. Apple, Facebook And Disney To Shake Up Video Streaming With Original Content
78. Apple strikes deal with Warner Music, looks to pay labels lower rates: More paid subscribers means less money directly out of Apple’s pocket.
79. Should Spotify Try to Become the ‘Netflix Of Music’? Not So Fast
80. Disney To Move Marvel, ‘Star Wars’ Films From Netflix To Its Own Streaming Service
81. Disney is pulling Star Wars and Marvel films from Netflix: In 2019, you’ll have to subscribe to Disney’s service to stream these movies.
82. H3h3productions Raises Over $100,000 With Twitch Live Stream To Support Hurricane Harvey Relief
83. Artificial Intelligence’s Fair Use Crisis (Benjamin L. W. Sobel)
84. For Superpowers, Artificial Intelligence Fuels New Global Arms Race
85. Putin says the nation that leads in AI ‘will be the ruler of the world’: The Russian president warned that artificial intelligence offers ‘colossal opportunities’ as well as dangers
86. Elon Musk: Competition for AI Superiority at National Level Will Be the “Most Likely Cause of WW3”
87. Following Elon Musk Letter, UK Government Plans to Ban Fully Autonomous Weapons
88. Elon Musk auto-magically extended the battery life of Teslas in Florida to help drivers evacuate
89. MIT, IBM team up on $240 million effort to rule the AI world: The open-ended research will explore consumer tech, health, and security applications
90. Apple’s ‘Neural Engine’ Infuses The Iphone With AI Smarts
91. Brain-Machine Interface Isn’t Sci-Fi Anymore
92. How Seoul Is Reinventing Itself As A Techno-Utopia
93. Every NFL Football Will Have A Data Tracking Chip This Season
94. Are Your Jokes Always Bombing? This App Crowdsources Them
95. It Took A Natural Disaster For Me To Understand Snap Map
96. The Music Industry Bands Together To Finally Get Paid Online
97. Inside Juicero’s Demise, From Prized Startup to Fire Sale: The shuttering of the much-ridiculed Silicon Valley startup was the culmination of unsustainable costs, slow sales and unflattering media reports.
98. Before trying robot judges, let’s learn from robot referees: Automated rulings in sports can help inform the development of criminal justice tech.
99. How Indian Smartphone Makers Lost the War Against Chinese Companies
100. In Irma prep, GasBuddy downloads increased 10x, nuclear reactors stayed online
101. Tesla remotely extends the range of some cars to help with Irma: An over-the-air software update temporarily unlocks spare battery capacity.
102. Hurricane Irma took 7 million cable and wireline subscribers offline: Comcast, AT&T, other ISPs try to get customers online as power outages persist.
103. How Silicon Valley is erasing your individuality
104. Whose record is it anyway? Musical ‘crate digging’ across Africa
105. Are nonprofit news sites just creating more content for elites who already read a lot of news?
106. Internet Archaeology
107. The History Of The Music Industry’s First-Ever Digital Single, 20 Years After Its Release 

CREATIVITY 

1.  Judge throws out 57-year-old copyright on “We Shall Overcome”: Pete Seeger asked for his name to be removed from the copyright in 1994.
2. Monkey selfie case settles out of court 
3. Lawsuit settled over rights to monkey’s selfie photo
4. PETA drops lawsuit arguing animals have right to own property: Naruto can beat his chest: Monkey’s habitat wins 25% stake in the selfies.
5. Monkey Selfie Case Reaches Settlement — But The Parties Want To Delete Ruling Saying Monkeys Can’t Hold Copyright
6. 9th Circuit’s VidAngel decision vindicates lawful video filtering service
7. Federal Court Says Utah Theater Can Serve Up Beer And R-Rated Movies Simultaneously
8. Another Craft Beer Brand Gets Bullied To Death Over Shaky Trademark Claims
9. Why Is This Peppa Pig Cartoon Banned In Australia?
10. Can a tattoo on human flesh be copyrighted? We’ll soon find out: Is the human body a protectable medium of expression for purposes of copyright?
11. Is Moviegoing Dead? Lessons Learned From The Worst Summer At The B.O. In Over A Decade
12. America’s local newspapers might be broke – but they’re more vital than ever: Local journalism is doing great work across the country while fighting cutbacks and tight budgets.
13. Intellectual Property and Architecture
14. Boats Are Art; Is Fashion?
15. Who Cares Whether Cake-Baking Is “Expressive”? The Doctrinal Costs of Focusing on Private Burdens Rather Than Governmental Purpose
16. UGC Uncertainty Consternation Continues 
17. Pop Stars or Porn Stars? ‘Blurred Lines’ Book Examines Music’s Role In Sexual Assault on Campus
18. Dr. Phil Misuses Copyright In A False Imprisonment Claim
19. Police Chief Says He’ll Decide Who Is Or Isn’t A Real Journalist
20. Effectively Regulating E-Cigarettes and Their Advertising—and the First Amendment (Eric Lindblom)
21. How Don Hewitt Invented 60 Minutes And Changed Journalism Forever
22. Why the Fall TV Season is Like Your Junk Drawer
23. Nicolas Cage Believes His Scrapped Superman Movie Is Better Than Man of Steel, Because It Exists Only in Our Minds
24. Imagination is ancient: Our imaginative life today has access to the pre-linguistic, ancestral mind: rich in imagery, emotions and associations

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Judge won’t release man jailed 2 years for refusing to decrypt drives: Kid-porn suspect to remain jailed pending 5th Amendment appeal to Supreme Court.
2. Remember the artist whose iPhone was searched at border? He’s suing the feds: “The border doctrine does not say that the Constitution doesn’t exist at the border.”
3. MA SJC Ruling on Bail Instructive Re: Algorithms and Criminal Justice
4. NSA Broke The Encryption On File-Sharing Apps KAZAA And EDONKEY
5. What you should know about privacy and Apple’s FaceID on iOS 11: Your rights may differ if phone is locked via biometrics compared to a passcode.
6. New AI can guess whether you’re gay or straight from a photograph: An algorithm deduced the sexuality of people on a dating site with up to 91% accuracy, raising tricky ethical questions
7. So, Equifax says your data was hacked—now what?: 143 million now face identity theft threat, so here’s what to do if you’re one of them.
8. Why the Equifax breach is very possibly the worst leak of personal info ever: Consumers’ most sensitive data is now in the open and will remain so for years to come.
9. Equifax Breach Response Turns Dumpster Fire
10. Equifax Security Breach Is A Complete Disaster… And Will Almost Certainly Get Worse
11. Why Some Are Recommending ‘Credit Freezes’ in the Wake of the Gigantic Equifax Data Breach
12. Are you an Equifax breach victim? You could give up right to sue to find out: Visiting Equifax site to see if you’re a victim can require you to waive lawsuit rights.
13. Failure to patch two-month-old bug led to massive Equifax breach: Critical Apache Struts bug was fixed in March. In May, it bit ~143 million US consumers.
14. Don’t waste your breath complaining to Equifax about data breach (Bruce Schneier)
15. Apple’s IOS 11 Will Make It Even Harder For Cops To Extract Your Data
16. It’s about to get tougher for cops, border agents to get at your iPhone’s data
17. The DNC’s Technology Chief Is Phishing His Staff. Good.
18. Mandatory Data Breach Reporting One Step Closer with Publication of Proposed Regulations

Jon

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. Senate Democrats fight FCC plan to lower America’s broadband standards: You can’t fix the US broadband problem by redefining it, senators tell FCC.
2. FCC’s Broken Comments System Could Help Doom Net Neutrality
3. FCC “apology” shows anything can be posted to agency site using insecure API: FCC API could be misused to host malware on FCC’s domain.
4. FCC makes net neutrality complaints public, but too late to stop repeal: 13,000 pages of net neutrality complaints released, but comment deadline passed.
5. Apple Throws Its Support Behind Net Neutrality. Sort Of.
6. Apple’s Real Reason For Finally Joining The Net Neutrality Fight
7. AT&T Blatantly Lies, Claims Most Consumers Want Net Neutrality Killed
8. Large ISP & Silicon Valley CEOs Were Too Afraid To Publicly Testify On Net Neutrality
9. Comcast sues Vermont to avoid building 550 miles of new cable lines: Vermont is trying to make Comcast bring TV and Internet to unserved areas.
10. FTC slaps Lenovo on the wrist for selling computers with secret adware: Companies need user “affirmative consent” to preinstall MITM adware, FTC says.
11. Video Chat Price-Gouging Costs Inmates More Than Money
12. More and More Actions on Pirate Radio – What is Next? 
13. Bouyant RTL fully acquires SpotX
14. BMG Continues Growth Spurt as Revenues Top $276 Million
15. Antitrust Is Back — But The Media Industry Doesn’t Need It 
16. How I Became Fake News: I witnessed a terrorist attack in Charlottesville. Then the conspiracy theories began.

DIGITAL

1. Case Dismissed: Judge Throws Out Shiva Ayyadurai’s Defamation Lawsuit Against Techdirt
2. Judge dismisses Shiva “I Invented EMAIL” Ayyadurai’s libel lawsuit against Techdirt
3. Court Dumps Lawsuit Against Zillow Over Its Inaccurate ‘Zestimates’
4. Blogger Isn’t Liable for Anonymous Comments–Griffith v. Wall (Eric Goldman)
5. Lawsuit: Amazon sold eclipse glasses that cause “permanent blindness”: “Eye injury ranging from temporary discomfort to permanent blindness.”
6. Spotify: Don’t Compare Us to Napster – The company has responded to a copyright lawsuit by challenging what rights are truly implicated by streaming.
7. Spotify Finally Realizes That Streaming Isn’t Reproduction Or Distribution
8. Steve Jobs gave us President Trump
9. The ‘internet of things’ is sending us back to the Middle Ages (Joshua Fairfield)
10. CBS Welcomes Amazon’s NFL Streaming But Sees ‘Competitors’ In Future
11. Apple, Amazon bid for James Bond film rights- Hollywood Reporter 
12. Kaspersky Gets Awful Patent Troll To Pay Up To Drop Its Own Case
13. Reports of Russia’s Election Hack Keep Getting Scarier
14. Thousands Of Facebook Ads Tied To Bogus Russian Accounts
15. Facebook says it sold political ads to Russian company during 2016 election
16. Facebook sold 2016 election-related ads to “shadowy Russian company”: 470 “suspicious and likely fraudulent” FB accounts all tied to same Russian firm.
17. The Devil’s Pact: Putin, the “Alt-Right” and the Long Shadow of History – The Russian president’s claims of “historical victimhood” in World War II try to justify his country’s present-day destructive behavior.
18. Twitter Suspends Reporter’s Account… After He Gets Targeted By Russian Twitter Bots
19. How Russian & Alt-Right Twitter Accounts Worked Together to Skew the Narrative About Berkeley: #Antifa and #Berkeley were hot topics last weekend in America — and in Russia
20. Fear And Loathing On Social Media
21. Digital property rights debate heats up in NAFTA renegotiation
22. Leaked Plans Shows Top EU Body Backing: Copyright Industry Against The Public, The Internet, And Innovation
23. Tech companies declare war on hate speech—and conservatives are worried: In light of Charlottesville, Silicon Valley revisits its absolute approach to free speech.
24. AI is Developing Faster than Experts Imagined. Do We Need a Speed Limit?
25. Google And Microsoft Can Use AI To Extract Many More Ad Dollars From Our Clicks
26. How to Regulate Artificial Intelligence
27. A Serf on Google’s Farm
28. Reporter: Google successfully pressured me to take down critical story – Google allegedly told Forbes “the article was problematic and had to come down.”
29. Google is losing allies across the political spectrum: Antitrust sentiment grows, so does skepticism about Google on both the left and the right.
30. Google promised not to scan Gmail for targeted ads—but for how long?: Google tells judge it might resume targeted advertising “to meet changing demands.”
31. Third-party Google Assistant speakers put “OK Google” in tons of form factors: The Google Assistant comes to speakers from Sony, JBL, Onkyo, Panasonic, and others.
32. Say Goodbye To The Blob. Google’s New Emoji Have Arrived
33. The YouTube Generation And 6-Second TV Ads
34. Facebook’s YouTube Competitor, ‘Watch’, Rolls Out Nationwide
35. Facebook launches Watch video service in U.S. to take on YouTube for ad dollars: The move comes as advertisers are shifting budgets from television to online as more viewers prefer to watch their favourite shows on smartphones and tablets
36. Facebook is offering the music industry millions to let its users upload songs in videos
37. Inside the black market where people pay thousands of dollars for Instagram verification
38. Internet’s Most Popular “Stream Ripping Site” Shuts Down As Result Of Legal Settlement
39. A Popular Third-Party YouTube Video Player Has Been Removed From The App Store
40. Music Industry Halts Popular YouTube Piracy Service
41. YouTube Live Now Supports Ultra-Low Latency, More: YouTube launched a series of updates for its livestreaming service
42. The ‘demonetized’: YouTube’s brand-safety crackdown has collateral damage
43. Why Alphabet’s Shares Are Soaring in 2017
44. Bitcoin falls as China bans initial coin offerings
45. How Netflix’s Content Strategy Is Reshaping Movie Culture
46. Time Inc shifts toward video as eyeballs move online
47. Time Inc, publisher of magazines including People and Sports Illustrated, is turning to the internet to distribute its growing cache of video material and television shows, part of a plan to counter fast-declining print advertising revenue.
48. The Agony and Ecstasy of Building an Online Music Business 
49. In a blast from the past, Logitech releases a new trackball: It’s the company’s first new trackball in nearly a decade.
50. As Uber struggles, Lyft expands into 32 more states: 94 percent of the US population will now be able to access Uber’s top competitor.
51. Squeezed for profits, maker of $400 connected juice press closes up shop
52. The Risks Of Demonizing Silicon Valley
53. From Apple to Y Combinator—tech sector denounces new “Dreamers” plan: “It’s against our values to turn our backs on #DREAMers,” Uber’s new CEO tweeted
54. Boston Red Sox caught red-handed using Apple Watch to steal signs: Boston was apparently stealing signs from opposing teams’ catchers and pitchers.
55. Apple bids farewell to Apple Music Festival after 10 years: As Apple’s focus shifts to original video content for its services business.
56. Samsung is Developing VR Tools to Help Diagnose Mental Health
57. One of the biggest challenges of self-driving cars: The humans inside them.
58. Stupid Patent Of The Month: JP Morgan Patents Interapp Permissions
59. Surviving This Summer On The Internet
60. Catching Up on Ninth Circuit CFAA Jurisprudence: Internet Law Casebook Excerpt (Eric Goldman)
61. Global Content Removals Based on Local Legal Violations: Internet Law Casebook Excerpt (Eric Goldman) 

CREATIVITY

1. “Monkey Business” settled
2. Awful Court Decision Says Dr. Phil Producer’s Video Not ‘Fair Use’
3. Mickey singer Toni Basil sues Disney and South Park
4. Why Notoriously Litigious Disney Is Letting Fan Stores Thrive: The Mouse isn’t bringing cease-and-desists down on Instagram darlings like Cakeworthy or The Lost Bros.
5. Insurer Attempts To Fight Back Against Kanye West’s Touring Company’s Lawsuit 
6. New York Times 1; Sarah Palin 0 
7. Court battle over one driver’s pay could have big impact on “gig economy”: Was Raef Lawson an employee or a business owner when he drove for GrubHub?
8. High-profile “gig economy” trial turns on a part-time actor’s job woes: A surprising plaintiff is challenging worker classifications in the gig economy.
9. Judge Sweet: Lynyrd Skynyrd Movie Cannot Proceed 
10. Coachella Sues “Filmchella” for Trademark Infringement 
11. Terry Pratchett and protecting artistic legacy
12. Can Rotten Tomatoes Crush a Movie at the Box Office?: Moviegoers, critics, and filmmakers weigh in on the website that is torturing major studios and redefining how we decide whether to go to the theater
13. Theater of War: He traveled to some of the world’s most dangerous places to disarm militias, negotiate with gangs, and defy terrorists. But Bill Brookman was just a clown.
14. Activists want to fight sex trafficking by changing a key Internet law: The 1996 law Section 230 is widely seen as a foundation of the Internet economy.
15. Al Jazeera Gives A ‘Voice To The Voiceless’ By Killing News Comments
16. What Makes Information Valuable? Information Quality, Revisited (Urs Gasser) 

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Instagram Done Got Hacked
2. Site sells Instagram users’ phone and e-mail details, $10 a search: Leak suggests this week’s Instagram breach was bigger than first thought.
3. Celebs’ phone numbers and e-mail addresses exposed in active Instagram hack: Hackers exploited app bug, then advertised data in underground forums, researchers say.
4. FDA, Homeland Security Issue First Ever Recall, Warnings About Flimsy Pacemaker Security
5. Military Appeals Court Says Demands To Unlock Phones May Violate The Fifth Amendment
6. The Epic Crime Spree Unleashed By Onity’s Ambivalence To Its Easily Hacked Hotel Locks
7. Court Finds FBI’s ‘Malware’ Deployment To Be Perfectly Constitutional
8. UK’s Terrorism Law Reviewer Says Tech Companies Shouldn’t Offer Encryption To Anonymous Users
9. Officers With Personal Body Cams Taking The ‘Public’ Out Of ‘Public Accountability’
10. As a general rule, body cam footage across US is not a public record: “The patchwork releases of body camera footage only sow further public distrust.”
11. UK Police Test Facial Recognition Tech At Carnival, Rack Up 35 Bogus ‘Hits’ And One Wrongful Arrest
12. Data Breach Exposes Thousands of Job Seekers Citing Top Secret Government Work
13. Exploit goes public for severe bug affecting high-impact sites: Apache Struts bug opens banks, insurance cos., and Fortune 500s to code-execution hacks.
14. Taking Stock Of Trump’s Cybersecurity Executive Order So Far
15. Companies should treat cybersecurity as a matter of ethics
16. The Feds Promised To Protect Dreamer Data. Now What?
17. Canadian Cops Belatedly Asking For Authorization To Deploy Stingray Devices They’ve Been Using For Years
18. The Privacy Battle Over the World’s Largest Biometric Database: A new ruling could jeopardize India’s controversial collection of citizens’ fingerprints, photographs, and iris scans.
19. Hacker Lexicon: What Is DNS Hijacking?
20. Above Devastated Houston, Armies Of Drones Prove Their Worth

Jon

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1.  AT&T’s slow 1.5Mbps Internet in poor neighborhoods sparks complaint to FCC: AT&T refusal to boost Internet speed violates discrimination ban, complaint says.
2. EFF, Others Think It Would Be Cool If The FCC Stopped Hiding 47,000 Net Neutrality Complaints
3. Why Net Neutrality Matters Even In The Age Of Oligopoly
4. Net neutrality comment deadline is tomorrow; 21.9 million comments in so far
5. Even Many ISP-Backed Allies Think Ajit Pai’s Attack On Net Neutrality Is Too Extreme
6. A Title II opponent explains why Ajit Pai’s plan won’t protect net neutrality: Pai says antitrust will protect net neutrality—here’s why it probably won’t.
7. 98.5% of unique net neutrality comments oppose Ajit Pai’s anti-Title II plan: Besides form letters, ISP-funded study finds almost no support for repealing rules.
8. AT&T absurdly claims that most “legitimate” net neutrality comments favor repeal: AT&T ignores finding that 98.5% of unique comments favor net neutrality rules.
9. Junk call nightmare flooded woman with hundreds of bizarre phone calls a day: Kim France gets a lot of calls – but nothing prepared her for receiving 700 a day.
10.  ‘It was premeditated’: ‘FOX LIES’ guy speaks!
11. Fox News lies about Bolling: ‘None of these women’ have come forward — except one of them has
12. NPR Gives Up On News Comments; After All, Who Cares What Your Customers Have To Say?
13. British Regulator Submits New Report to Government on Fox-Sky Takeover
14. Paradigm Shift: Why Radio Must Adapt To The Rise Of Digital

DIGITAL

1. Appeals Court Upholds Injunction Against VidAngel’s Streaming Service: “Star Wars is still Star Wars, even without Princess Leia’s bikini scene,” states the opinion.
2. Selling alterable versions of Star Wars is still infringement, court says: “Star Wars is still Star Wars, even without Princess Leia’s bikini scene.”
3. Suit blaming iPhone for student’s death by texting driver is defeated by Apple: Judge agrees with Apple that it has no legal duty to combat distracted driving.
4. Horrible or non-existent Mayweather-McGregor fight streams prompt lawsuit: Showtime “knowingly failed to disclose that its system was defective,” suit says.
5. Mayweather V. McGregor: Showtime Got Injunctions On Pirate Stream Sites Which Didn’t Work & Neither Did Their Own Stream
6. Reaction video deemed fair use in YouTuber court battle: The pair behind the YouTube channel H3H3 Productions wins copyright lawsuit.
7. Why the H3H3 YouTube victory could mark a major turning point for the site: The husband-and-wife team triumphed in a copyright and defamation lawsuit, with huge implications for “fair use” on YouTube
8. ‘Reaction’ Video Protected By Fair Use–Hosseinzadeh v. Klein
9. YouTube Personality Upset About Criticism Of His Video Loses Infringement/Defamation Lawsuit
10. Suing critics using copyright doesn’t workHosseinzadeh v. Klein, No. 16-cv-03081 S.D.N.Y. Aug. 23, 2017 (Rebecca Tushnet)
11. Copyright Suit Requires Fair Use Analysis: A fair use analysis is required before a copyright suit against “appropriation artist” Richard Prince can be dismissed, a New York federal court judge decided this week, declining to grant a quick win.
12. Ingrid Goes West revels in everything wrong with Instagram celebrities: Aubrey Plaza is terrific as a social media addict in search of viral fame.
13. Insights: Who’s An Influencer When You Can Buy Fake Online Love?
14. Snapchat Looks To Win Over Influencers As Many Of Them Head To Instagram
15. YouTube’s Redesign Makes It Easier To Watch All The Videos
16. How Youtube Perfected The Feed: Google Brain gave YouTube new life
17. Amazon lures YouTube influencers
18. Google And Walmart’s Big Bet Against Amazon Might Just Pay Off
19. Amazon Prime members will get even deeper discounts at Whole Foods: Beef, salmon, avocados, and more will be cheaper for everyone starting next week.
20. The Real Price of Those Cheaper Avocados: In the Amazon era, Whole Foods is already getting cheaper. But there’s a potential price for those discounted groceries.
21. Cortana and Alexa are coming together in surprising Microsoft-Amazon partnership: You’ll be able to tell Cortana to talk to Alexa and vice versa.
22. German Court Says Ad-Blocking is Liberation, Not Extortion
23. After Previously Claiming the Economics Would Never Work, HBO Streaming Now A Major Windfall
24. Dark web finds bitcoin increasingly more of a problem than a help, tries other digital currencies
25. Magic Leap settles bitter legal battle with executives who started its Silicon Valley office
26. NFL Deal In China Means Big Things For Social Media Streaming
27. NFL Sets Kickoff of Twitter Live Show for 2017-18 Season
28. Homeowners Can’t Sue Over Low Zestimates–Patel v. Zillow (Eric Goldman)
29. Section 512(f) Complaint Survives Motion to Dismiss–Johnson v. New Destiny Church (Eric Goldman)
30. Backpage Executives Must Face Money Laundering Charges Despite Section 230–People v. Ferrer (Eric Goldman)
31. California Case Against Backpage Moves Forward Over Money Laundering Claims
32. The Ten Most Important Section 230 Rulings (Eric Goldman)
33. Violent Alt-Right Chats Could Be Key To Charlottesville Lawsuits
34. DreamHost takes a beating after hosting racist Daily Stormer: The neo-Nazi site has struggled to find a domain registrar.
35. The far right is losing its ability to speak freely online. Should the left defend it?: Free speech was the left’s rally cry. But the fate of the Daily Stormer, a hate site ‘kicked off the internet’, signals the increasing irrelevance of the first amendment
36. A Hunt for Ways to Combat Online Radicalization
37. Nazis, The Internet, Policing Content And Free Speech
38. Trump’s Latest Nonsensical Announcement About Censoring The Internet
39. Convicted felon Martin Shkreli finds novel way to be a jerk online: He has offered to sell a New York Post reporter’s domain name for $12,000.
40. James Damore Case Could Spawn More Legal Headaches For Google
41. Google-funded think tank fires prominent Google critic: Think tank boss allegedly accused scholar of “imperiling funding for others.”
42. Would You Doxx a Nazi?: The dangers of revealing the names and identities of white supremacists
43. Facebook has hired former NYT public editor Liz Spayd as a consultant in a ‘transparency’ effort: She has also worked at the Washington Post and Columbia Journalism Review as a top editor.
44. The Scale Of Moderating Facebook: It Turns Off 1 Million Accounts Every Single Day
45. Supreme Court of Canada challenges the idea of state sovereignty
46. Snapchat Is Adding Manual Controls for Advertisers Concerned About Brand Safety: Buyers can limit which content categories ads appear in
47. Uber board has a surprise new CEO pick: Expedia’s Dara Khosrowshahi: Board reportedly took a last-minute turn away from HP Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman.
48. Uber drivers have made more than $50M in the first month of tipping: Company tries to keep drivers happy while it awaits a new CEO.
49. Major Uber investor tells Benchmark: Drop your lawsuit against ex-CEO Kalanick – VC: Benchmark Capital “is trying to use the courts… to take over this company.”
50. Engineer whose blog post caused a storm at Uber has filed a Supreme Court brief: Fowler files a determined defense of employee-driven class-action lawsuits.
51. Uber to stop tracking customers after ride is over: Uber app was programmed to monitor riders for five minutes after trip was done.
52. Win for ex-Grubhub driver in pending trial may profoundly impact “gig economy”: “This trial is a milestone because similar cases have settled or been dismissed.”
53. Copyright Troll Insists Septuagenarian Is An Enormous Copyright Infringer, Then Runs Away After Backlash
54. Supreme Court Has Another Chance To Help Take Down The Patent Trolls
55. Kaspersky Lab turns the tables, forces “patent troll” to pay cash to end case: “Why don’t you pay us $10,000?”
56. Samsung’s boss is sentenced to prison: Unlike other jailed chaebol bosses, he may not be pardoned
57. Samsung heir convicted, sentenced to 5 years on corruption charges: Scandal was connected to a move to strengthen control of Samsung Electronics.
58. Apple will build new data center in Iowa, get $200M in tax breaks: Cheap energy, open land, and tax breaks are making Iowa a go-to for data centers.
59. More Than 180,000 iPhone Apps Won’t Be Compatible With iOS 11
60. Merlin Has Paid Out $1 Billion To Indie Labels: Merlin, the global digital music rights agency for 20,000 indie labels and distributors from 53 countries, has announced its billionth dollar in distributions, since launching in May of 2008. With all of its payments coming from music streaming, this milestone points to a promising future for independent music companies.
61. Dystopian What Happened To Monday?may hint at Netflix’s film priorities: One actor in many roles, a population-controlled future—so Hunger Games plus Orphan Black?
62. For Netflix, ‘The Defenders’ Is A Market Research Goldmine
63. Can ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Help CBS Boldly Go Into a Streaming Future?
64. Why HBO was right to stand its ground against Game of Thrones hackers: As the network appears to emerge unscathed from a major cyber attack, experts say that hackers misjudged their leverage 
65. With the USS McCain collision, even Navy tech can’t overcome human shortcomings: One mistake can cascade into a disaster in heavy marine traffic, regardless of tech.
66. Feds: Son teaches dad how to sell drugs on AlphaBay, they both get busted – From his iPad, son allegedly searched “safest wallet to transfer tumble.”
67. New Mini-Antennae Could Pave the Way for Brain-Computer Interfaces
68. Who Owns the Internet?: What Big Tech’s monopoly powers mean for our culture.
69. The ‘Distracted Boyfriend’ Meme’s Photographer Explains All
70. All The Gear You Need To Record A Hit Song On Your iPhone
71. Turnaround artists: How companies can catch up to the digital revolution – Latecomers can succeed at digitization if they take these five steps.
72. What We Get Wrong About Technology
73. #BotSpot: Twelve Ways to Spot a Bot: Some tricks to identify fake Twitter accounts
74. The age of AI surveillance is here
75. Do We Need A Speedometer For Artificial Intelligence?
76. In the AI Age, “Being Smart” Will Mean Something Completely Different
77. Artificial Intelligence Policy: A Roadmap (Ryan Calo)
78. How Copyright Law Can Fix Artificial Intelligence’s Implicit Bias Problem (Amanda Levendowski)
79. The New Governors: The People, Rules, And Processes Governing Online Speech (Kate Klonick) 

CREATIVITY

1.  Palin v. NYT dismissed
2. Judge Tosses Sarah Palin’s Defamation Suit Against The New York Times, Says No Actual Malice
3. A chicken sandwich cannot be copyrighted, court rules: Man who put chicken inside a bun sought $10 million for theft of creative work.
4. Village Roadshow Promises To Mete Out Its Brand Of Justice As Inequitably As Possible
5. General Mills loses bid to trademark yellow color on Cheerios box: Cereal maker claimed consumers identified “yellow” with “the Cheerios brand.”
6. Cheerios’ Failed Case for Yellow Shows Why It’s So Hard for Brands to Trademark Colors: General Mills’ defeat illustrates one of branding’s trickiest tasks
7. Comparison to former licensor’s products isn’t trademark infringement: Alpha Pro Tech, Inc. v. VWR Int’l, LLC, No. 12-1615, 2017 WL 3671264 E.D. Pa. Aug. 23, 2017 (Rebecca Tushnet)
8. Is a ban on the words “climate change” in grants consistent with Tam? (Rebecca Tushnet)
9. 4th Cir. holds certification nonprofit’s self-promotion to retailers is commercial speech: Handsome Brook Farm, LLC v. Humane Farm Animal Care, Inc., No. 16-1813, 2017 WL 3601506, — F. Appx. – 4th Cir. Aug. 22, 2017 (Rebecca Tushnet)
10. State Courts Do Nominative Fair Use Tooz: Instant Infosystems, Inc. v. Open Text, Inc., 2017 WL 3634547, No. B276691 Cal. Ct. App. Aug. 24, 2017 (Rebecca Tushnet)
11. On Remand, Ninth Circuit Says Robins Satisfied Article III Standing
12. Copyright Consternation & Confusion on Canadian Campuses as York Cogitates its Appeal
13. A Tee, A Tweet And Frank Ocean: Some Copyright Lessons
14. What Business Insider’s rambling hatchet job gets wrong about my work on copyright: A recent piece in Business Insider insults Rebecca Giblin’s academic integrity. Here is where it goes so horribly wrong.
15. President Trump Banned From Reading InfoWars, Including These Vital Stories of the Week
16. How Conservatives Manipulated the Mainstream Media to Give Us President Trump: A new report shows how conservatives are winning a war that the rest of us don’t even know we’re fighting.
17. How Trump Is Creating a Propaganda State: The president is taking conservative media to its evolutionary endpoint. Is there any way to stop him?
18. Chelsea Clinton defends Barron Trump after conservative site criticizes his clothes
19. Daily Caller slams Barron Trump for dressing like a normal kid sometimes: The right-wing rag the Daily Caller goes after the president’s 11-year-old son for dressing down — like a kid
20. Fake News: It’s Mostly a Right-Wing Phenomenon
21. Alec Baldwin’s Trump Impression Is A Technical Marvel
22. IP lawyer who represented TiVo is Trump’s pick as USPTO chief: Andrei Iancu has enforced patents for TiVo and Immersion Corp.
23. TV Station Falls For Pranksters; Sues Them For Fraud
24. The Seattle Times Bans Sportswriters from Local Radio, TV
25. How to Get Ripped Off While Trying to Book Your Favorite Rapper: Over a few months, one tiny Atlanta-based company made $67,000 booking Migos and Rae Sremmurd concerts across the country that never actually happened. Their business model is surprisingly common in the live rap music industry.
26. Dinwoodie & Dreyfuss on Brexit & IP
27. Wonder Woman Is “A Step Backwards,” James Cameron Says; Director Responds
28. Patty Jenkins hits back at James Cameron: ‘He doesn’t understand Wonder Woman’ 
29. Twitter Did Not Hold Back in Responding to James Cameron’s Wonder Woman Criticism
30. Erasing Herself From The Narrative: Taylor Swift and the absence of intimacy in the launch of Reputation
31. Blame Taylor Swift’s New Song On The Internet
32. A Day After Being Uploaded To YouTube, Taylor Swift’s New Music Video Sets Record With 35 Million Views
33. Taylor Swift’s ‘Look What You Made Me Do’ Smashes YouTube’s 24-Hour Record, Crushing Psy
34. Former Band Member Sues The Roots
35. Marijuana-Themed Media Company Merry Jane Gets A Spark From Seth Rogen, Wiz Khalifa
36. Deputy Attorney General Trots Out All Sorts Of Silly Analogies About ‘Intellectual Property’
37. The Hitman’s Bodyguard Tops Worst Weekend Box Office In 16 Years: Lowest-grossing weekend since September 2001.
38. Free speech in the fog of scientific uncertainty (Jane Bambauer)
39. Primary-Market Auctions for Event Tickets: Eliminating the Rents of “Bob the Broker”? (Aditya Bhave & Eric Budish)

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. cy pres-only settlement ok’d in Google privacy case In re Google Referrer Header Privacy Litigation, — F.3d —-, 2017 WL 3601250, No. 15–15858 9th Cir. Aug. 22, 2017 (Rebecca Tushnet)
2. Court Calls Out Government For The ‘General Warrant’ It Served To Facebook
3. Man in jail 2 years for refusing to decrypt drives. Will he ever get out?: Defendant to ask Supreme Court if compelled decryption is a 5th Amendment breach.
4. Feds: Man jailed for not decrypting drives has “chutzpah” to ask to get out – Prosecutors use Yiddish to describe man imprisoned 2 years for contempt of court.
5. No Immunity For Cops Who Arrested Man Recording Them For Obstruction
6. Some In Congress Don’t Get The “Gravity” Of Russian Election Meddling, Former CIA Director Said: John Brennan, CIA director under President Barack Obama, also bemoaned a “barrage” of “inaccurate and misleading” news reports. He made these statements in an internal memo to CIA employees obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.
7. All The Ways Us Government Cybersecurity Falls Flat
8. Public should know how police are using high-tech spying tools
9. Once Again, New Zealand’s Spying On Megaupload Execs Found To Be Illegal
10. Megaupload execs’ extradition may be at risk after new spying revelations: GCSB couldn’t say more without jeopardizing the national security of New Zealand.
11. Canadian Courts Edging Towards A Warrant Requirement For Device Searches At Borders
12. Aetna Mailer Accidentally Reveals HIV Status Of Up To 12,000 Customers
13. New app scans your face and tells companies whether you’re worth hiring
14. CCTV + Lip-Reading Software = Even Less Privacy, Even More Surveillance
15. 465k patients told to visit doctor to patch critical pacemaker vulnerability: A year after calling advisory “false and misleading,” maker warns patients to patch.
16. IOT Devices Provide Comcast A Wonderful New Opportunity To Spy On You
17. Leak of >1,700 valid passwords could make the IoT mess much worse: List of unsecured devices lived in obscurity since June. Now, it’s going mainstream.
18. 711 million email addresses ensnared in ‘largest’ spambot: The spambot has collected millions of email credentials and server login information in order to send spam through “legitimate” servers, defeating many spam filters.
19. India’s Supreme Court Rules Privacy Is A Fundamental Right; Big Ramifications For The Aadhaar Biometric System And Beyond
20. MalwareTech’s legal defense fund bombarded with fraudulent donations: At least $150,000 in donations were from stolen or fake credit card numbers.
21. One of 1st-known Android DDoS malware infects phones in 100 countries: Move over, IoT. Attackers are abusing a new widely used platform to knock out sites.
22. Microsoft’s Bid To Save Powershell From Hackers Starts To Pay Off
23. Facebook Figured Out My Family Secrets, And It Won’t Tell Me How

Jon

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. Pick-and-pay TV system a hit with Canadians, nearly one third bought solo channels: report – Although the vast majority of subscribers continue to buy larger packages, MTM’s research suggests a massive jump in interest in the smaller packages
2. Judge Kills AT&T’s Attempt To Thwart Google Fiber Competition In Louisville
3. AT&T’s attempt to stall Google Fiber construction thrown out by judge: AT&T sued Louisville over pole attachment rule, but judge says rule is valid.
4. Trump’s DOJ not trying to stop AT&T/Time Warner merger: AT&T and DOJ “discussing merger conditions” that would let deal go forward.
5. Former FCC Commissioner Tries To Claim Net Neutrality Has Aided The Rise Of White Supremacy
6. Stop hiding 47,000 net neutrality complaints, advocates tell FCC chair: FCC now says it will release net neutrality complaints “as soon as we can.”
7. Crowdfunded Billboards Shame Politicians For Selling You Out On Net Neutrality
8. FCC’s claim that it was hit by DDoS should be investigated, lawmakers say: FCC hasn’t shown proof that it was attacked, Democrats say in call for probe.
9. Lawmakers Want The GAO To Investigate The FCC’s Flimsy DDoS Claim
10. Cox starts charging $50 extra per month for unlimited data: Or you can get another 500GB for an extra $30 every month.
11. Verizon Begins Throttling Wireless Users, Effectively Bans 4K Streaming
12. Verizon to start throttling all smartphone videos to 480p or 720p: No 4K video allowed—new bandwidth limits apply to mobile hotspots, too.
13. Patent-licensing company loses its $30M verdict against Sprint:Prism Technologies saw through three  jury trials against big cell carriers.
14. This is Sinclair, ‘the most dangerous US company you’ve never heard of’: Sinclair is the largest broadcast company in America. But its partisan politics – and connections to the White House – are raising concerns
15. James Murdoch donates $1 million to the Anti-Defamation League following events in Charlottesville
16. James Murdoch Rips Trump: “Standing Up to Nazis Is Essential” – In a memo, he also pledged a donation of $1 million to the Anti-Defamation League.
17. Looking at Music Royalty Issues for Radio and TV Broadcasters
18. Tech Journalists Keep Completely Missing The Point Of Cord Cutting

DIGITAL

1. Judge sides with YouTubers Ethan and Hila Klein in copyright lawsuit
2. YouTubers Ethan And Hila Klein Win Copyright Case, Court Says h3h3Productions’ Use Of Video Is Fair Use
3. Appeals Court Grapples With Digital Files, and the Business of Selling “Used” Songs
4. Uber’s Contract Upheld in Second Circuit–Meyer v. Uber
5. Legal ruling in: Facebook ‘friends’ aren’t necessarily real friends
6. Browsewrap/Clickwrap Distinction Vexes Another Court–Nevarez v. Ticketmaster
7. Aspiring Actor Forges Court Order To Delist Content, Gets Busted By Judge, Forges Court Order To Delist Article About Contempt Charges
8. Supreme Court asked to nullify the Google trademark: The case comes two months after court’s “offensive” trademarks ruling.
9. Failed Cybersquatter Asks Supreme Court To Declare ‘Google’ A Generic Term
10. Federal Judge Upholds Magistrate’s Ruling, Says Google Must Hand Over Data From Overseas Servers
11. How the tech sector can legally justify breaking ties to extremists: Generally speaking, private enterprise may refuse service on ideological grounds.
12. Code for tolerance: How tech companies can respond to hate but respect human rights
13. The Tor Project Defends the Human Rights Racists Oppose
14. Tor “can’t build free and open source tools” and stop racists from using them: “We are everything they claim to despise,” but Tor won’t prevent vile usage of its tools.
15. Neo-Nazi Daily Stormer loses its Russian domain, too: Russian official cites “strict regime” for combatting extremism online.
16. After bouncing around the Web, Daily Stormer lands a new CDN provider – BitMitigate founder: “I thought it would really get my service out there.”
17. Spurned by Major Companies, The Daily Stormer Returns to the Web With Help From a Startup: The 20-year-old founder of BitMitigate said he had taken on the neo-Nazi website because he believes in free speech and because, “I thought it would really get my service out there.”
18. Unable to get a domain, racist Daily Stormer retreats to the Dark Web: “We can’t keep trying random registrars,” site’s admin writes.
19. After years of investigation, feds bust one of AlphaBay’s largest drug rings
20. So, just how guaranteed is your freedom of speech online?
21. Google explains why it banned the app for Gab, a right-wing Twitter rival: Gab’s free-speech stance makes it popular with right-wing trolls and racists
22. Here’s a way to silence Trump on Twitter: Buy the microblogging service – White House says it’s a “ridiculous attempt” to silence Trump’s 1st Amendment rights.
23. YouTube Briefly Nukes Video Of Nazi Symbol Destruction For Violating Hate Speech Rules
24. Defining ‘Hate Speech’ Online Is An Imperfect Art
25. OkCupid bans white supremacist “for life,” asks daters to report others: A white supremacist featured in a Charlottesville documentary can’t use OKC any
26. One-Time Allies Sour On Joining Trump’s Tech Team
27. Mnuchin’s Wife Mocks Oregon Woman Over Lifestyle and Wealth
28. Mnuchin’s Wife Goes Full Marie Antoinette In Instagram Meltdown: The millionaire wife of the millionaire Treasury secretary bragged about how much they pay in taxes and accused a critic of being “adorably out of touch.”
29. Before she was poor-shaming on Instagram, Louise Linton wrote a “white savior” Africa memoir
30. Killer robots are coming, and Elon Musk is worried: Technology leaders warn autonomous drones could become “weapons of terror.”
31. Sorry Elon Musk, the machines will not win – Weblog: Cyber expert Ryan Calo writes paper to demolish belief in looming AI apocalypse
32. Killer robots: Experts warn of ‘third revolution in warfare’
33. We can’t ban killer robots – it’s already too late
34. Sorry, Banning ‘Killer Robots’ Just Isn’t Practical
35. Taryn Southern Shares First YouTube Music Video For Album Composed Entirely By AI
36. Dunce’s App: How Silicon Valley’s brand of behaviorism has entered the classroom
37. Reddit Launches An In-House Video Player In Beta
38. Now you can post videos directly to Reddit, no third-party service required: Upload .mp4 and .mov files directly from your phone or computer.
39. Whatever Your Side, Doxing Is A Perilous Form Of Justice
40. Fighting Neo-Nazis and the Future of Free Expression (EFF)
41. The Great Free Speech Online Debate (Andres Guadamuz)
42. Moving On From Obviously Fake News To Plausibly Fake News Sites
43. Mapping The Most And Least Troll-Ridden Places In The U.S.
44. We Live in Fear of the Online Mobs: Internet shaming spreads everywhere and lives forever. We need a way to fight it.
45. Woman: My Uber driver went wrong way, I said something, he pushed me out – According to Courthouse News Service, Uber has been sued at least 433 times in 2017.
46. SEC Report Asserts Cryptocurrency Tokens Are Securities Under US Law
47. A Very Dumb Mistake Costs Cryptocurrency Investors Big Time
48. Not a Token Gesture: Compensating Service Providers with Virtual Property
49. A Google Tax Isn’t Going To Give Publishers The Payout They Think It Will
50. Sharp sues Hisense over a foreign “gag order”: Sharp files a lawsuit in order to talk about the TVs being made in its name.
51. Lawsuit revived over Apple retail workers’ pay during security checks: Dispute has widespread ramifications about pay for time spent in security checks.
52. Proposed California Law Targets Sexual Harassment In Venture Capital
53. Machines Taught By Photos Learn A Sexist View Of Women
54. Quebecker files class action against Netflix over fee hike
55. Insights: Breaking Up is Easy To Do—Netflix Rolls On After Disney Announcement
56. Netflix Is Using The Defenders To Understand Its Audience­­
57. This is how Netflix’s top-secret recommendation system works: Netflix splits viewers up into more than two thousands taste groups. Which one you’re in dictates the recommendations you get
58. Why You Can’t Download All The Streaming Media You Want
59. Roku Increases market share ahead of Amazon, Google, Apple
60. Amazon’s Turker Crowd Has Had Enough
61. Wisconsin lawmakers vote to pay Foxconn $3 billion to get new factory: State taxpayers could end up paying Foxconn $500,000 per job, or more.
62. YouTube Music Chief Lyor Cohen: Promoting And Breaking New Artists Is A Top Priority
63. YouTube, Facebook and Moral Rights
64. ‘They could destroy the album’: how Spotify’s playlists have changed music for ever – Custom playlists on the streaming site can bring unknown artists to millions. But are they altering how songs get written?
65. CNN launches daily news show on Snapchat
66. Facebook really is losing teen users to Instagram and Snapchat
67. Snapchat to Move Into Scripted Content by Year’s End
68. Facebook, NASA To Host 4K, 360-Degree Live Stream Of Total Solar Eclipse
69. Solar Eclipse Brings 3.1 Million Views To NASA’s Facebook Live Stream, Takes 10% Of Netflix Audience
70. Facebook Takes New Steps To Crack Down On Video Clickbait
71. Facebook’s evolutionary search for crashing software bugs: Ars gets the first look at Facebook’s fancy new dynamic analysis tool.
72. Twitter To Stream From Inside Race Cars During NASCAR Playoffs
73. Disney Tops BuzzFeed In Monthly Social Video Views For First Time In A Year (Study)
74. Turner To Launch OTT Sports Platform, Live Games On Bleacher Report
75. YouTube TV Adds 14 New Markets To Reach 50% Of US Households
76. Angela Merkel Discusses Gender, Emojis During Studio71-Produced YouTube Stream
77. YouTube Rolls Out ‘Breaking News’ Feed On Desktop Site And Mobile Apps
78. Studio71 Sues Bethany Mota And Her Dad/Manager Over Brand Deal Gone Awry
79. Moviepass Wants To Save Moviegoing – If Theaters Will Let It
80. Australia blocks another 59 popular pirate sites
81. Cambridge University Press backs down over China censorship: Publisher will reinstate articles to which it blocked online access in China in the face of international protests by academics
82. ‘Smart’ Lock Vendor Locks Hundreds Out Of Their Home With Bungled Firmware Update
83. “Bing is bigger than you think,” Microsoft boasts, at 33% of US searches: It turns out that “But nobody uses Bing!” isn’t actually true.
84. Microsoft’s Speech Recognition is Now as Good as a Human Transcriber
85. Intel first 8th generation processors are just updated 7th generation chips: No Coffee Lake or Cannonlake here; these are doubled up Kaby Lake parts.
86. NAFTA Negotiations: Authors Alliance Joins Public Interest Groups In Support Of Transparency And Balanced Copyright Policy
87. Civil society urges trade decision-makers to consider the impacts of NAFTA on digital rights
88. Who Falls for Fake News? The Roles of Analytic Thinking, Motivated Reasoning, Political Ideology, and Bullshit Receptivity (Gordon Pennycook & David  Rand)
89. The NAFTA E-commerce Chapter: Ensuring the New Chapter Reflects Canadian Priorities (Michael Geist) 

CREATIVITY

1. The Tragedy Of Charlottesville In Two Powerful Photos
2. Op-Ed: Speech in America is fast, cheap and out of control
3. NFL Tells ICE That Parody Shirts Are Counterfeits
4. Freedom of panorama in Portugal: content and scope of the exception
5. Why the CJEU cheese copyright case is anything but cheesy
6. Is 2 seconds of television time too much to be a fair use? 
7. Toblerone shape not distinctive enough for trademark, Poundland claims: Defending its right to launch Twin Peaks bar, budget chain cites Toblerone version with fewer chunks brought out last year
8. Chateau Marmont, Hotel For Celebrity Humans, Sends Trademark C&D To Cateau Marmont, Hotel For Cats
9. Comparative advertising using P’s logo is nominative fair use (Rebecca Tushnet)
10. Forgetting Functionality (Christopher Buccafusco & Jeanne Fromer)
11. Court Rules Ford Trucks’ Claim Is Puffery: A false advertising suit against Ford Motor Co. was limited after a federal court judge found the company’s “Built Ford Tough” claim is non-actionable puffery.
12. Directing a Spotlight on the Feud over Ownership of Château Miraval’s Lights
13. Because Of Course There Are Copyright Implications With Confederacy Monuments
14. Louisiana’s Criminal Defamation Law Abused Again, But This Time The Gov’t Gets Away With It
15. What Europe Can Teach America About Free Speech: In an unregulated marketplace of ideas, private citizens need to take up the burden of holding the line against racist extremism.
16. The Right to Attention in an Age of Distraction
17. Canada’s Diva of Doodlers has Definitively Distilled in this Divine Depiction the Diverging Directions of Debate on Canadian Copyright

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Feds drop demand for 1.3 million IP addresses that visited anti-Trump site: Despite warrant’s language, feds say they didn’t want disruptj20.org visitor logs.
2. Another staged body cam leads to 43 more dropped Baltimore prosecutions: Latest video “was self-reported as a re-enactment of the seizure of evidence.”
3. Australian Gov’t Accessed Domestic Metadata Thousands Of Times, Shared Some Of It With China
4. Federal Judge Upholds Magistrate’s Ruling, Says Google Must Hand Over Data From Overseas Servers
5. Wanted: Weaponized exploits that hack phones. Will pay top dollar – Exploit broker Zerodium ups the ante with $500,000 to target Signal and WhatsApp.
6. Border Device Searches Continue To Increase, Threatening More Than Just The 4th Amendment
7. Indians have right to privacy, Supreme Court rules
8. Spyware backdoor prompts Google to pull 500 apps with >100m downloads: Google killed secret plugin download capability after being alerted by researchers.
9. Court Says Gov’t Needs More Than The Assumption Someone Owns A Cellphone To Justify A Search
10. FOIA Lawsuit Filed Over DOJ Data Complainant Is Pretty Sure Doesn’t Even Exist
11. Sonos Users Forced To Choose Between Privacy And Working Hardware
12. As HBO Screams About GoT Episodes Leaking From A Hack, HBO Leaks Next GoT Episode Early
13. Breaking Down HBO’s Brutal Month Of Hacks
14. North Carolina Election Agencies First Learned They’d Been Hacked From Leaked Documents Published By The Intercept
15. ICE: We don’t use stingrays to locate undocumented immigrants – Letter adds that, even when you’re targeted via stingray, you can still call 911.
16. GCHQ Knew FBI Wanted To Arrest MalwareTech, Let Him Fly To The US To Be Arrested There
17. Palantir’s Law Enforcement Data Stranglehold Isn’t Good For Police Or The Policed
18. Contractor Exposes Personal Information Of 1.8 Million Chicago Voters On AWS
19. Code chunk in Kronos malware used long before MalwareTech published it: Marcus Hutchins, the researcher who stopped WCry, complained his code was lifted.
20. Secret chips in replacement parts can completely hijack your phone’s security: Booby-trapped touchscreens can log passwords, install malicious apps, and more.
21. Welcome To The Technological Incarceration Project, Where Prison Walls Are Replaced By Sensors, Algorithms, And AI
22. Driver’s license facial recognition tech leads to 4,000 New York arrests: “We will continue to do everything we can to hold fraudsters accountable.”
23. When Government Rules By Software, Citizens Are Left In The Dark

Jon

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. Good Politics, Bad Policy: Melanie Joly Sends TV Licensing Cancon Decision Back to the CRTC (Michael Geist)
2. The Future of Canadian “TV”
3. Trump Cribbed His Charlottesville Press Conference Straight From Fox News
4. Fox News Host Files SLAPP Suit Against Reporter Who Exposed His Sexting
5. Alex Jones’ Infowars supplements are overpriced, mundane vitamins – watered down: BuzzFeed reports results after sending supplements to an independent lab for testing.
6. How a Conservative TV Giant Is Ridding Itself of Regulation
7. Ajit Pai accused of conflict for helping former client, a prison phone company: Pai should recuse himself from inmate calling decisions, prisoners’ advocate says.
8. FCC giving special help to right-wing TV news company, Democrats allege: Pai is helping Sinclair expand its reach into TV-owning homes, lawmakers say.
9. FCC Begins Weakening The Definition Of Quality Broadband Deployment To Aid Lazy, Uncompetitive ISPs
10. FCC faces backlash for saying Americans might not need fast home Internet: Everyone should have fast home Internet and mobile access, commenters tell FCC.
11. New FCC Broadband ‘Advisory Panel’ Stocked With Telecom Consultants, Allies & Cronies
12. GOP lawmakers shamed on billboards for trying to repeal net neutrality rules: Republicans want a “slower, censored, and more expensive Internet,” group says.
13. FCC seemingly forgot about a net neutrality complaint filed against Verizon: There’s only been one formal net neutrality complaint, and FCC hasn’t ruled on it.
14. One Man’s War Against Verizon’s Long History Of Lies, Anti-Competitive Behavior, And Nonsense
15. Mozilla Study: Zero Rating Isn’t The Miracle Broadband Duopolies And Facebook Pretend It Is
16. Broadband ISP Cox Will Now Charge You $50 More To Avoid Usage Caps, Overage Fees
17. The Nation’s Telcos Are Hemorrhaging Customers Because They Refuse To Upgrade Their Networks
18. Will radio kill the internet star?
19. Newspapers Essential To Community

DIGITAL

1. Tech Has The Tools To Fight Hate. It Just Needs To Use Them
2. Racist Daily Stormer moves to Russian domain after losing .com address: The site was barely offline for 24 hours.
3. GoDaddy Severs Ties With Daily Stormer After Charlottesville Article
4. Google Domains, GoDaddy blacklist white supremacist site Daily Stormer: Two domain registrars say the Daily Stormer violated their terms of service.
5. After Getting Its Website Banned, Neo-Nazi Site Daily Stormer Gets Kicked Off YouTube, Too
6. Racist Daily Stormer goes down again as CloudFlare drops support: Tech companies face intense pressure not to work with the hate site.
7. CloudFlare CEO says his Daily Stormer takedown was “arbitrary” and “dangerous”: “I woke up this morning in a bad mood and decided to kick them off the Internet.”
8. Why We Terminated Daily Stormer
9. The Daily Stormer’s Last Defender In Tech Just Dropped It
10. After losing Patreon account, crowdfunded anti-refugee ship is adrift—literally: “Defend Europe” ship rescued by refugee relief agency’s ship after engine trouble.
11. Charlottesville White Supremacists Begin to Lose Jobs, Web Hosting Platforms
12. Web hosting, CDN companies torn as to how to respond to racist websites: Dreamhost, meanwhile, “will host any website as long as its content is legal.”
13. Internet turns on white supremacists and neo-Nazis with doxing, phishing: Many fear being outed from photos, but now the real cyber game against “alt-right” begins.
14. Trump’s Retweets Were Especially Batty This Morning
15. Trump tweets cartoon of train hitting CNN reporter
16. One Twitter Account’s Mission To Make White Supremacists Very, Very Famous
17. The Online Radicalisation Of Young Men (Andres Guadamuz)
18. Nazi Crybaby Films His Own Meltdown After Threatening to Kill Charlottesville Counter-Protesters
19. Before Getting Banned From OkCupid, White Supremacist Chris Cantwell Wrote Tips for Dating Online
20. After Charlottesville, Grief And Humor Go Hand In Hand On Twitter
21. Did the Army Chief of Staff Just Subtweet President Trump?
22. Trump can block people on Twitter if he wants, administration says: As president, Trump can use Twitter however he sees fit, Justice Department says.
23. New Media And The Messy Nature Of Reporting On The Alt-Right
24. Intel CEO Brian Krzanich quits Trump manufacturing council: Intel boss says “divided political climate” is causing “serious harm.”
25. Social Media Efforts to Identify Charlottesville Marchers
26. Partisanship, Propaganda, and Disinformation: Online Media and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election (Rob Faris, Hal Roberts, Bruce Etling, Nikki Bourassa, Ethan Zuckeman, Yochai Benkler)
27. Defending Hateful Speech Is Unpleasant But Essential, Even When Violence Is The End Result
28. Hacking Hate and Extremism
29. Perspectives on Harmful Speech Online (Berkman Klein Center)
30. Florida City Ignores All Legal Precedent As It Attempts To Silence & Identify Mild Critic
31. Saudi Government Looking To Jail More Citizens For ‘Harming Public Order’ With Their Religious Tweets
32. A Guide To Russia’s High Tech Tool Box For Subverting US Democracy
33. Biohackers Encoded Malware In A Strand Of DNA
34. Researchers encode malware in DNA, compromise DNA sequencing software: It’s a proof-of-principle, done after making DNA analysis software vulnerable.
35. The Ultimate Virus: How Malware Encoded In Synthesized DNA Can Compromise A Computer System
36. Google Abruptly Cancels Town Hall About That Memo
37. Google cancels all-hands diversity meeting over safety concerns: Google feared questioners would face threats if their names leaked online.
38. Fired Google Engineer James Damore Takes His Case to Reddit
39. The Actual Science Of James Damore’s Google Memo
40. Weekend ‘March on Google’ canceled, organizer says: Firing of engineer spurred calls for right-wing rally at Google offices; local counter-protest will go on as planned
41. We Need to Talk About Online Harassment: The public forum is taking place on social media, a place where women are being systematically silenced.
42. One Of Uber’s First Investors Sued Travis Kalanick For Fraud
43. Investors hit Uber ex-CEO hard, sue over alleged “gross mismanagement”: Before ouster, Travis Kalanick pushed for 3 new board seats—and he still controls them.
44. Before Getting Banned From OkCupid, White Supremacist Chris Cantwell Wrote Tips for Dating Online
45. In wake of lawsuit, Uber investors are now publicly sniping at each other: Shervin Pishevar, other investors worry of “escalation of this fratricidal course.”
46. The Uber Dilemma
47. FTC says Uber took a wrong turn with misleading privacy, security promises
48. Uber agrees to 20 years of privacy audits following FTC charges: News reports of Uber employees using “God View” got the feds’ attention.
49. Lawyers clash over an imaged hard drive as Waymo v. Uber hurtles toward trial: “He was ordered to come clean and did not come clean.”
50. The ‘corporate governance nightmare’ that is Snap: Social media company’s disregard of shareholder rights is wrong, says Peter Smith
51. Snapchat’s New Feature Stitches Together Concert Videos From Multiple Stories
52. 46% Of Influencers Say They Would Give Up Snapchat If They Were To Abandon One Platform
53. Everything About Disney and ABC’s ‘Pink Slime’ Settlement Should Scare the Hell Out of You
54. Social media use should comply with securities law
55. How Section 230 Helps Sex Trafficking Victims (and SESTA Would Hurt Them)
56. Appeals Court Mostly Fixes Bad CDA 230 Ruling Over Publicity Rights
57. Lawyer: Yahoo Lost Sec. 230 Immunity Because It Didn’t Hand Over Personal Info; Court: GTFO
58. What Does The New CDA – Buster Legislation Actually Say?
59. The MPAA Narrative About Piracy Flips To Danger From Pirate Sites Now That It Has Lost The Moral Argument
60. Judge Preska: Widespread Pirating Makes Music Price Fixing Case Unsuitable for Class Treatment
61. Apple going all-in on original programming, to the tune of $1 billion a year: Apple could “procure and produce” as many as 10 new shows next year.
62. Apple To Spend $1 Billion On Original Shows Over Next Year (Report)
63. Apple Takes Bite From Data Security False Ad Suit
64. London Mayor Fingers The Culprit In Increased Knife Crime: YouTube
65. Warner/Chappell Issues Copyright Claim Over YouTube Video Deliberately Containing None Of Its Music
66. How Cults Use YouTube for Recruitment
67. Once Again, Rather Than Deleting Terrorist Propaganda, YouTube Deletes Evidence Of War Crimes
68. Where is the YouTube left? There, elsewhere and unfocused: Not all mediums are created equal
69. Verizon Returns Its Ads To YouTube After A Five-Month Freeze
70. Elvis Presley Racks Up 2.8 Billion YouTube Hits To Eclipse Kanye West, Lana Del Rey
71. Nielsen To Incorporate Views On YouTube, Facebook, And Hulu Into Digital Ratings
72. The Toxic Drama on YA Twitter: Young-adult books are being targeted in intense social-media callouts, draggings, and pile-ons — sometimes before anybody’s even read them.
73. Investors rescue embattled SoundCloud with $170 million lifeline: The company laid off 40 percent of its workforce in July.
74. SoundCloud, now Vimeo of Sound, instead of YouTube of Sound?
75. CBS, Citing The NFL, Says Broadcasters And Streamers Can Coexist
76. As A Streaming Future Looms, ESPN Is Damned If It Does, Damned If It Doesn’t
77. Can Oath, The Arranged Media Marriage Of Yahoo And Aol, Avoid A Rough Divorce?: Can two once-great Internet behemoths come together harmoniously in an age of mergers, roll-ups, and distribution plays? The early returns suggests that Oath has some work cut out for itself.
78. Netflix lured TV superstar Shonda Rhimes away from ABC
79. How A.I. Is Creating Building Blocks to Reshape Music and Art
80. All This Bitcoin Stuff Is Fake
81. Bitcoin cash plunges as investors look to dump their coins
82. Should We Ban Bitcoin to Curb Illegal Activities?
83. Howard Marks, who has called past market bubbles, says ‘I don’t understand what’s behind bitcoin’
84. Bitcoin and the Uniform Commercial Code (Jeanne Schroeder)
85. New Civil and Criminal Consequences for ‘Revenge Porn’
86. Secret Service agent, corrupted by Silk Road case, cops to second heist: Shaun Bridges, who already was given 71 months in prison, awaits a new sentence.
87. American accused of faking eBay sales to fund US terror pleads guilty: It’s “first known time ISIS had given money to someone in the US for an attack.”
88. The quiet war against ownership: A major conflict is shaping up between the owners of smart devices and the companies that produced them.
89. Digital provisions turn farmers into hackers: Canada’s strict digital lock provisions mean farmers and other businesses cannot fully benefit from the market access provided by trade agreements.
90. How The DMCA’s Digital Locks Provision Allowed A Company To Delete A URL From Adblock Lists
91. Should Social Media Sites Be Forced To Pull Pastor Calling For War With North Korea?
92. Why Everyone Is Hating on IBM Watson—Including the People Who Helped Make It
93. Disney wants to make a huge shift in its business model — but it’s not ready to do it yet: Streaming movies to consumers is one thing. Streaming sports is something else. Bob Iger will wait on that one.
94. Disney’s Building Its Own Netflix. Everyone Else Might, Too
95. Disney and CBS mark milestones in streaming’s march to conquer cable
96. Netflix, Disney In “Active Discussions” About Streaming Rights To Future Marvel, ‘Star Wars’ Films
97. Netflix should be afraid of Disney’s OTT play
98. Star Wars and Iron Man may not disappear from Netflix in 2019 after all: Netflix and Disney are still having “active discussions.”
99. Ted Sarandos: Netflix’s Content Budget Will Ascend To $7 Billion In 2018
100. The Messy, Confusing Future of TV? It’s Here
101. Facebook’s original video platform will launch with Mike Rowe, MLB, and more: The new Watch platform will nurture original series and themed shows.
102. Facebook Defeats Lawsuit Over Failure to Remove User Pages–Cross v. Facebook (Eric Goldman)
103. Facebook Defeats Another Case Over Not Removing User Comments–La’Tiejira v. Facebook (Eric Goldman)
104. Facebook’s Hate Speech Policies Censor Marginalized Users
105. How Your Phone Number Became The Only Username That Matters
106. Patreon will help fans pay their favorite artists more than $140 million this year: CEO Jack Conte explains what’s next — and why he really, really hates the term “tip jar” 
107. SpaceX is launching a supercomputer to the International Space Station: “If this experiment works, it opens up a universe of possibility.”
108. AI and CGI will transform information warfare, boost hoaxes, and escalate revenge porn
109. If an AI creates a work of art, who owns the rights to it?
110. Nokia’s New Phone Ushers In The Unfortunate Era Of The ‘Bothie’
111. Mr. Nice Guy: Instagram’s Kevin Systrom Wants To Clean Up The &#%$@! Internet.
112. Your Instagram Posts May Hold Clues to Your Mental Health
113. Instagram photos reveal predictive markers of depression (Andrew Reece & Christopher Danforth)
114. Appeals court: Lawsuit over wrong info on Spokeo should move ahead – Search site must face allegations that it broke fair credit reporting laws.
115. Giving Legal Effect to Emails – Can Emails Satisfy the Requirements to Extend Limitation Periods Under The Limitations Act?
116. Great minds moji alike?
117. We’re rewiring the Internet for freedom.
118. Re-Shaming the Debate: Social Norms, Shame, and Regulation in an Internet Age (Kate Klonick)
119. Golf App Uses AI To Account For Wind In Making Distance Calculations
120. Robot Umpires Advocated By Chicago Cubs’ Ben Zobrist
121. Update gone wrong leaves 500 smart locks inoperable: Fatal error leaves customers scrambling for fixes that can take a week or longer. 

CREATIVITY

1. The Chilling Effects of Openly Displayed Firearms: Charlottesville marks a new era of even bolder assertion of the right to threaten violence for political purposes.
2. Lions denounce use of their logo by racists at Charlottesville rally
3. Taylor Swift Spoke Up. Sexual Assault Survivors Were Listening.
4. Kesha and Taylor Swift Find New Voices
5. Taylor Swift’s Best Comebacks During Her Cross-Examination at Her Sexual-Assault Trial
6. Jury Sides With Taylor Swift Over DJ In Groping Case
7. The Kardashian Decade: How a Sex Tape Led to a Billion-Dollar Brand
8. Hollywood’s China Money Heartbreak: Is the Love Affair Really Over? – Billions have been thrown into turmoil as Chinese regulators crack down on investments, Paramount’s backer skips a payment, and both Trump and some Dems adopt a protectionist stance.
9. DC’s transit agency rejected ads touting the First Amendment (really): The DC transit agency banned “issue ads.” It hasn’t gone well.
10. Bob Murray To Court: The ACLU Is Too Biased To File Its Brief
11. Court Sends John Oliver, HBO Back To State Court To Fight Bob Murray
12. Trademark Injunction Issued Against Print-on-Demand Website–Harley Davidson v. SunFrog
13. White-on-White Trademark Usage Might Constitute Initial Interest Confusion–Agdia v. Xia (Eric Goldman)
14. Five Reasons NOT to Register Your Trademark
15. Lawsuits against media outlets are piling up
16. How Royalty Exchange Has Transformed the World of Music Publishing
17. Songwriter Groups Hit Out At RIAA For ‘Betrayal’ Over Moral Rights Issue
18. AMC Theaters Is Not Happy About the New Super Cheap MoviePass Service
19. The protection of the ‘eco-friendly’ Falabella bag by Stella McCartney in a recent decision of the Court of First Instance of Milan
20. HBO hackers release Curb Your Enthusiasm episodes: HBO reportedly offered hackers $250,000 as a “stall tactic.”
21. HBO Owns Itself in Latest Game of Thrones Leak
22. Public Consultation on Reform of the Copyright Board of Canada Launched 
23. How Canada Can Use NAFTA’s IP Chapter to Level the Innovation Playing Field (Michael Geist)
24. No Time for Tinkering: How a “more progressive” NAFTA could break the vicious circle of global inequities in the ownership of knowledge (Ariel Katz)
25. Intellectual Property in a Renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement: A Canadian Perspective
26. Danish University And Industry Work Together On Open Science Platform Whose Results Will All Be Patent-Free
27. Tracking the spread of culture through folktales: Genomic, geographical, and cultural data join forces.
28. How Jeff Koons, 8 Puppies, and a Lawsuit Changed Artists’ Right to Copy 

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. US government demands details on all visitors to anti-Trump protest website: Privacy advocates call warrant for IP addresses of 1.3 million people who visited inauguration protest website an unconstitutional ‘fishing expedition’
2. Feds Demand ‘1.3 Million IP Addresses’ Of Visitors To Trump Protest Website
3. Feds demand 1.3 million IP addresses of those who visited Trump protest site: DreamHost said the warrant is “a clear abuse of government authority.”
4. We Fight for the Users
5. DOJ Goes Way Overboard: Demands All Info On Visitors Of Anti-Trump Site
6. Building America’s Trust Act would amp up privacy concerns at the border: Civil libertarians tell Ars they’re worried about “mass surveillance expansion.”
7. Court Says CFAA Isn’t Meant To Prevent Access To Public Data, Orders LinkedIn To Drop Anti-Scraper Efforts
8. LinkedIn Enjoined From Blocking Scraper–hiQ v. LinkedIn
9. LinkedIn Connection Request Doesn’t Violate Non-Solicitation Clause—Bankers Life v. American Senior Benefits
10. Tech companies, law profs agree: The Fourth Amendment should protect data – Filings argue support for convicted robber’s position in Carpenter v. United States.
11. Russia’s ‘Fancy Bear’ Hackers Used Leaked NSA Tool To Target Hotel Guests
12. Russian group that hacked DNC used NSA attack code in attack on hotels: Fancy Bear used Eternal Blue 3 months after it was leaked by a mysterious group.
13. In Ukraine, a Malware Expert Who Could Blow the Whistle on Russian Hacking
14. Ukraine malware author turns witness in Russian DNC hacking investigation: “Profexor” turns self in to Ukrainian authorities, assists FBI in DNC hack investigation.
15. Stories Claiming DNC Hack Was ‘Inside Job’ Rely Heavily On A Stupid Conversion Error No ‘Forensic Expert’ Would Make
16. Court Tells Government Sticking FOIA Waivers In Plea Agreements Is Probably A Bad Idea
17. Salesforce “red team” members present tool at Defcon, get fired: “Red Team” members were fired as they stepped off stage after presenting internal attack tool.
18. Researchers report >4,000 apps that secretly record audio and steal logs: SonicSpy family of apps pose as benign programs. Behind the scenes, they spy on users.
19. 3 Big COPPA Class Action Suits Prove Privacy Tsunami is Coming
20. VIZIO Can’t Switch Channel on Consumer Privacy Complaint
21. NAFTA, Trump and the cloud: What the negotiations mean for your personal data
22. How My Instagram Hacker Changed My Life
23. Researcher who neutralized WCry pleads not guilty to writing banking malware: Marcus Hutchins is accused of creating software that became the malware Kronos.
24. Verizon—Yes, Verizon—Just Stood Up For Your Privacy
25. “Pretty egregious” security flaw raises questions about Pacer: Is the service used by a million journalists and lawyers doing enough for security?
26. Mr. Know-It-All: When Someone Melts Down In Public, Can I Record It? (Please?)
27. Mental health and the media: when privacy trumps getting the story: At what point, when the initial story is over, do news outlets and social media need to continue to stalk, hound and dig for every tiny detail?
28. Those Free Stingray-Detector Apps? Yeah, Spies Could Outsmart Them
29. Former NSA Official Argues The Real Problem With Undisclosed Exploits Is Careless End Users

Jon

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. Canadian Telcos Take Aim At Kodi Addon Site With Shocking Search: True Purpose to “Destroy Livelihood of the Defendant” (Michael Geist)
2. Canadian Telcos Lose Their Minds Over TVAddons
3. Canadian Telcos Want To Play Police In War On Piracy: They’ve already raided a Montreal man’s home.
4. Secret court order that let telcos search a Montrealer’s home a growing trend
5. The Diminishing Value of Simsub: CBS Streaming Service Coming to Canada Next Year (Michael Geist)
6. CRTC and UK Agency to Fight Spam and Unwanted Telemarketing Calls
7. Cable’s New Brilliant Idea: Charging You More Money To Skip Ads
8. Charter has moved millions of customers to new – and often higher – pricing: Pricing changes accelerate as Charter tries to boost revenue per customer.
9. Data cap analysis found almost 200 ISPs imposing data limits in the US: Examination of 2,500 home Internet providers finds sizable minority with caps.
10. Journalist Sues FCC For Hiding Details About Its Alleged, Phantom DDOS Attack
11. Ajit Pai’s anti-net neutrality plan gets the facts and law wrong, lawmakers say: FCC accused of prioritizing “raw dollars” over small businesses and consumers.
12. Congress Gives The FCC An Earful On Its Despised Plan To Kill Net Neutrality
13. As net neutrality dies, one man wants to make Verizon pay for its sins: Alex Nguyen filed the only formal net neutrality complaint, and he’s still waiting for an answer
14. The Ghostly Radio Station That No One Claims To Run: “Mdzhb” Has Been Broadcasting Since 1982. No One Knows Why.
15. These Lawmakers Are Speaking out Against the FCC’s Plan to Dismantle Net Neutrality
16. The FCC is full again, with three Republicans and two Democrats: 3-2 Republican majority likely to overturn net neutrality rules.
17. Maybe Americans don’t need fast home Internet service, FCC suggests: By saying mobile is good enough, FCC could find that deployment problem is solved.
18. FCC Proposes $82 Million Fine for Illegally “Spoofed” Robocalls 
19. FCC To Hold Hearing to Determine Whether to Deny License Renewal of Radio Station that was Silent for Most of its License Term 
20. $17,500 Settlement by TV Broadcaster for Not Identifying Educational and Informational Children’s Programming – Reminder that the FCC is Still in the Enforcement Business 
21. AT&T Lies Again, Insists Net Neutrality Rules Will Hurt First Responders
22. Comcast Tries, Fails To Kill Lawsuit Over Its Hidden, Bogus Fees
23. We analyzed 17 months of Fox & Friends transcripts. It’s far weirder than state-run media.: How the Fox morning show evolved into Donald Trump’s posse.
24. Fox Exec Says She Won’t Make Excuses for Lack of Diversity, Proceeds to Make Tons of Excuses

DIGITAL

1. Voltage Picture’s Lawyer Sues Copyright Trolling Participants, Calls Lawsuits Unethical
2. “Podcasting patent” is totally dead, appeals court rules: Federal Circuit stands by 2015 ruling that knocked out Personal Audio’s patent.
3. Five Ways NAFTA Talks Can Level the Innovation Playing Field: After years of ceding to US demands for tough anti-piracy rules, it’s time for Canada to fight for its interests (Michael Geist)
4. Canada Can Stand Its Ground on Copyright in NAFTA Renegotiations: It’s all about knowing when to say no (Howard Knopf)
5. Appeals Court Agrees: Awful Patent Used To Shake Down Podcasters Is Invalid
6. Section 230 Helps Yahoo Defeat Lawsuit Over Online Harassment Campaign–Hall v. Yahoo (Eric Goldman)
7. Section 230 Helps VRBO Defeat Claim Over Fraudulent Listing – Hiam v. Homeaway (Eric Goldman)
8. Sen. Portman Says SESTA Doesn’t Affect the Good Samaritan Defense. He’s Wrong (Eric Goldman)
9. Judge Rules Kickass Torrents Founder Properly Charged With Criminal Copyright Conspiracy
10. Kickass Torrents Creator Can’t Get Criminal Case Tossed Out
11. Douez v. Facebook: Are courts finally tuning into the reality of consumer contracts?
12. ‘Blatant Sales Pitch’ on LinkedIn Likely Violates Non-solicitation Clause–Mobile Mini v. Vevea
13. Why Apple and other tech companies are fighting to keep devices hard to repair: A new report says the tech industry is using its outsized influence to combat environmental product standards
14. How Apple Is Putting Voices In Users’ Heads – Literally
15. Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?: More comfortable online than out partying, post-Millennials are safer, physically, than adolescents have ever been. But they’re on the brink of a mental-health crisis.
16. Turkish regime jails IT trainers in encryption clampdown: We discuss alarming move to target techies who help activists stay safe online.
17. Facebook’s top global hires remain overwhelmingly white and male
18. Inside The Partisan Fight For Your News Feed: How ideologues, opportunists, growth hackers, and internet marketers built a massive new universe of partisan news on the web and on Facebook.
19. Facebook’s Latest Move to Fight Fake News Might Finally Be the Right One
20. How Instagram Stories Have Changed Dating Forever
21. Google Fires Engineer Who Wrote Memo Questioning Women in Tech
22. Google fires engineer who “crossed the line” with diversity memo: Google says the post “advanced incorrect assumptions about gender.”
23. Internal Messages Show Some Googlers Supported Fired Engineer’s Manifesto
24. A Meme Shared on an Internal Google Meme Network Depicted a Leaker Being Beaten
25. So, about this Googler’s manifesto.
26. Memo to the Google memo writer: Women were foundational to the field of computing
27. Susan Wojcicki Calls Google Anti-Diversity Memo A “Tragic” Display Of “Unfounded Bias”
28. Segregated Valley: the ugly truth about Google and diversity in tech – Silicon Valley says it is committed to racial diversity in its workforce. But the numbers tell a different story
29. How to End Google’s Monopoly
30. Women Engineers On The Rampant Sexism Of Silicon Valley
31. Elon Musk Once Fired His Assistant Of 12 Years For Wanting A Raise
32. Inside the world of Silicon Valley’s ‘coasters’ — the millionaire engineers who get paid gobs of money and barely work
33. After phishing attacks, Chrome extensions push adware to millions: Compromised accounts push fraudulent extension updates to unsuspecting users.
34. The Mystery Of Nicole Mincey
35. Microsoft Chatbot Trolls Shoppers For Online Sex
36. London Mayor Urges YouTube To Remove Videos Espousing Gang Violence
37. Google Preferred Advertisers Return To YouTube Months After ‘Adpocalypse’ (Study)
38. New icons are YouTube’s latest way to alert creators of video demonetization: Plus, there’s now a quicker way to ask for a review of demonetized videos.
39. YouTube Expands Appeals To Cover Videos That Lost Revenue After The Adpocalypse
40. Native Video-Sharing And Chat Feature Rolls Out To YouTube App Globally
41. Twitter Suspends Popehat For Writing About Violent Threats He Received From Another Twitter User
42. Facebook, Twitter Consistently Fail At Distinguishing Abuse From Calling Out Abuse
43. In Protest, Artist in Germany Re-Purposes Hate Speech From Twitter
44. Exploring the Role of Algorithms in Online Harmful Speech
45. Defendant who texted teen to commit suicide sentenced to 15 months in jail: Punishment stayed to allow appeals in a novel prosecution testing 1st Amendment.
46. Facing libel lawsuit, Techdirt takes large donations to broaden coverage: Charles Koch Foundation and a charity from the Craigslist founder are among the donors.
47. Psychiatrist Files Lawsuit Over Wordless One-Star Review
48. China to Start Using Blockchain to Collect Taxes and Send Invoices
49. Media scholar on Trump TV: “This is Orwellian, and it’s happening right now, right here” – The president has launched an online TV network. He’s calling it “real news.”
50. Australian Public Servants Warned Against Liking Social Media Posts That Are Critical Of Government Policies
51. Russia Wants Innovation, but It’s Arresting Its Innovators
52. Stumbling “Blocks”: When Is Social Media Moderation a First Amendment Violation? 
53. The Long, Hot Summer Of Netflix’s Ever-Accelerating Expansion
54. Netflix Buys Comics Publisher Behind Kingsman, Kick-Ass
55. Disney Will Cease Distribution Deal With Netflix To Launch Its Own Streaming Service
56. Disney Pulls Content From Netflix As Users Face An Annoying, Confusing Rise In Streaming Exclusivity Silos
57. Inside Patreon, The Economic Engine Of Internet Culture
58. Game of Thrones Star Says She Got Acting Role Because She Has Millions of Social Media Followers
59. HBO Hackers Release Ransom Note And New Trove Of Stolen Data
60. Game of Thrones script for “Spoils of War” leaks after HBO hack: No spoilers: Leak contains GoT info, unaired episodes of other shows, and internal docs.
61. Augmented Reality Apps Could Pollute The Skies With Advertising
62. Risks of Artificial Intelligence
63. AI and music: will we be slaves to the algorithm? – Tech firms have developed AI that can learn how to write music. So will machines soon be composing symphonies, hit singles and bespoke soundtracks?
64. New administrative notice-and-takedown procedure in Greece
65. Inception Raises $15 Million Series A Funding Led By EU Media Conglomerate RTL Group
66. VR-based Treatment for Vision Disorders Shows Positive Results in Peer-reviewed Study
67. Researchers Induce Artificial Movement Sensation in VR Using Four-Pole Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation: Creators believe system could be “easily adapted to conventional VR systems”
68. CBS is launching a streaming sports channel this year: It’s headed to internet-only TV providers.
69. Radio navigation set to make global return as GPS backup, because cyber: GPS killed the radio nav in 2010, but a high-def version is set to return
70. Mozilla’s new file-transfer service isn’t perfect, but it’s drop-dead easy: For less high-stakes uses, Send offers reasonable security and privacy assurances.
71. Uber’s search for a female CEO has been narrowed down to 3 men
72. Uber’s ex-CEO: Given reason for alleged Waymo data heist is “dumb”: Kalanick also said that Levandowski “should say what happened” rather than clam up.
73. How one hot sauce seller hauled Uber into small-claims court and won $4,000: A driver took off with Dane Wilcox’s laptop, and Uber refused to pay him back.
74. Amazon Halts Blu Phone Sales Amid Spyware Concerns 
75. SEC Warns That Digital Tokens May Be Securities
76. An Oral History Of The DARPA Grand Challenge, The Grueling Robot Race That Launched The Self-Driving Car
77. You’d Have To Click A Mouse 10 Million Times To Burn One Calorie
78. From blockchain to drones, we need to stop obsessing about tech megatrends: If more men did the laundry, washing machines would be as hyped and alluring as drones
79. The Guy Who Invented Those Annoying Password Rules Now Regrets Wasting Your Time
80. 1H 2017 Quick Links, Part 9: Justice System, Social Media, Miscellaneous (Eric Goldman)

CREATIVITY

1. Canadian Government Puts Copyright Board Overhaul on Fast Track With Consultation Launching Tomorrow (Michael Geist)
2. Why fears about ‘fair use’ copyright law are unfounded
3. Canada’s intellectual property strategy must play to the country’s strengths
4. Canadian Man Somehow Gets Trademark On His Own County’s Name, Govt. Says Legal Action Is The Only Remedy
5. Post-Axanar, CBS unveils first official fan filmmaking initiative in Trek history: Star Trek Film Academy grants fan filmmakers access to training, New Voyages facilities.
6. Judge Rules MGM Must Face Lawsuit Over James Bond Box Set Missing Two Bond Films
7. Citing Free Speech, A.C.L.U. Sues Washington Metro Over Rejected Ads
8. Monkey selfie animal rights brouhaha devolves into a settlement: Every conceivable joke has been made of this Planet of the Apes-styled litigation.
9. Monkey Selfie Case May Settle: PETA Knows It’ll Lose, And The Photographer Is Broke
10. “Thinking Out Loud” About Copyright Infringement (Again)
11. Word on the street: McDonald’s has been accused of cultural appropriation, using without permission the work of street artists in an advertising campaign in Europe.
12. Film Director’s Op-Ed Ignores Reality To Push Hollywood Lobbying Talking Points
13. The Grinch that stole fair use? 
14. Copyright Suit Requires Fair Use Analysis: A fair use analysis is required before a copyright suit against “appropriation artist” Richard Prince can be dismissed, a New York federal court judge decided this week, declining to grant a quick win.
15. Commercial Photography in Public Parks–Is Police Presence Required?
16. Commercial Brochure not Protected by Copyright in Spain
17. Lookalike Case: Max Verstappen’s Management Unsuccessful for Now
18. Peter and the Test Tube Babies singer refused entry to the USA for mocking Donald Tump
19. How Hulk Hogan & Peter Thiel Almost Made Sure That The Story Of R. Kelly’s ‘Cult’ Stayed Unpublished
20. How Peter Thiel’s Secretive Data Company Pushed Into Policing
21. Jeff Sessions Suggests He’s Steering The DOJ Towards Prosecuting More Journalists
22. Deputy Attorney General Walks Back Attorney General’s Threat To Journalists
23. Professors as Targets of Internet Outrage: Death threats and protests as statements about race and politics go viral.
24. North Carolina Passes An Entirely Misguided Restore Campus Free Speech Act
25. Inside NFL Cheerleaders’ Legal Fight for Better Pay
26. NY Mets Oppose Trademark For Medical Exam Tracking System (METS) Claiming Potential Customer Confusion
27. Inside Trump’s Global Trademark Trove
28. Former Professional Wrestler Sues Van Morrison for Using his Likeness without Authorization
29. Billy Two Rivers, former pro wrestler, to settle lawsuit against Van Morrison: Settlement details are still being finalized, according to lawyer Michael Graif
30. We’re in the early stages of a visual revolution in journalism: It’s more than a pivot to video — it’s an evolution of text.
31. Peter Bart: Will Time Warner’s Creative Energy Survive AT&T Takeover?
32. Is There A Right Way To Put Slavery Onscreen? 

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Salesforce fires red team staffers who gave Defcon talk: “As soon as they got off the stage, they were fired.”
2. Body Cam Footage Of A Cop Planting Evidence Leads To Dozens Of Dismissed Cases
3. House Oversight Head Still Concerned Surveillance He Approves Of Is Being Used Against His Party
4. US Senators Unveil Their Attempt To Secure The Internet Of Very Broken Things
5. Man used DDoS attacks on media to extort them to remove stories, FBI says: “If you do not remove it immediately, more severe attacks will hit your website.”
6. Suspected sextortionist hiding behind Tor is outed by booby-trapped video: “Brian Kil” terrorized minors for years. Last month, a hack gave agents a big break.
7. Convicted Fraudster Uses DDoS Attack To Clean Up Search Results, Fails Spectacularly
8. Slayer of WCry worm charged with creating unrelated banking malware: Marcus Hutchins was hailed as a hero. Federal prosecutors say he was a criminal.
9. Hacker Who Stopped Wannacry Charged With Writing Banking Malware
10. The Indictment Against Malware Researcher Marcus Hutchines Is Really Weird
11. Security researcher who neutralized WCry to be released on $30,000 bond: Prosecutors say Marcus Hutchins admitted he wrote alleged malware. Defense disagrees.
12. WannaCry operator empties Bitcoin wallets connected to ransomware: Bot set up by Quartz reporter Keith Collins catches linked wallets being emptied.
13. Researchers say WannaCry operator moved bitcoins to “untraceable” Monero: Wallets’ BTC exchanged for XMR, anonymous cryptocash favored by Shadowbrokers.
14. Meet Alex, The Russian Casino Hacker Who Makes Millions Targeting Slot Machines
15. Federal prosecutor struggles to describe stingray use in attempted murder case: Questions remain as to how Oakland cops, FBI used stingrays after a 2013 shooting.
16. ACLU: Absent warrant standard, police could monitor anyone via location data – Opening brief filed in Carpenter, an important privacy case pending at Supreme Court.
17. Protect The White Hat Hackers Who Are Just Doing Their Jobs
18. Once Again With Feeling: ‘Anonymized’ Data Isn’t Really Anonymous
19. The Attack On Global Privacy Leaves Few Places To Turn
20. FTC Asked to Investigate Google’s Matching of “Bricks to Clicks” 
21. The FTC’s Latest Bid to Blacklist Telemarketers
22. FTC must scrutinize Hotspot Shield over alleged traffic interception, group says: VPN service “can intercept and redirect HTTP requests to partner websites.”
23. Complaint Filed Over Sketchy VPN Service
24. FTC Schools “Smart” Toys with Updated COPPA Compliance Guidance 
25. FTC Increases Focus on Smart Toys with COPPA Update
26. FTC Regulation of Cybersecurity and Surveillance (Chris Jay Hoofnagle)

Jon

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. Inconsistent Arguments and Questionable Claims: Bell Launches Yet Another Action Over CRTC’s Super Bowl Simsub Ruling (Michael Geist)
2. TVAddons Returns, But in Ugly War With Canadian Telcos Over Kodi Addons
3. Millennials Unearth an Amazing Hack to Get Free TV: the Antenna – Cord-cutters accustomed to watching shows online are often shocked that $20 ‘rabbit ears’ pluck signals from the air; is this legal?
4. Republicans try to take cheap phones and broadband away from poor people: $9.25 monthly subsidy for mobile service would be eliminated by Republican bill.
5. Sprint seeks merger with Charter to create wireless and cable giant: Comcast could have veto power over deal because of agreement with Charter.
6. Sprint still seeks merger partner after being rejected by Charter: Sprint wanted to merge with Charter—or T-Mobile.
7. Comcast fails to get hidden fee class-action suit thrown out of court: Comcast claims it can tack on Broadcast and Sports fees after order is submitted.
8. FCC Extends TCPA Liability to Technology Platform Provider 
9. FCC says its specific plan to stop DDoS attacks must remain secret: Revealing technical details would “undermine our system security,” FCC says.
10. Over 190 Engineers & Tech Experts Tell The FCC It’s Dead Wrong On Net Neutrality
11. The Worst Internet In America
12. Fox v. Aereokiller: Another Nail in the Internet “Cable” Coffin
13. West Virginia Tries To Improve Broadband Competition, Incumbent ISPs Immediately Sue
14. Cable lobby claims US is totally overflowing in broadband competition: NCTA touts data based on outdated broadband speed benchmark of 3Mbps.
15. What Does Net Neutrality Mean for the Future of Cryptocurrency?

DIGITAL

1. Online newspaper articles and libel do not toll notice and limitation periods
2. Courts Keep Shredding Online Contract Formation Processes–McGhee v. NAB; Applebaum v. Lyft (Eric Goldman)
3. Federal Court: Public Officials Cannot Block Social Media Users Because of Their Criticism
4. Politicians’ social media pages can be 1st Amendment forums, judge says: Officials retain right to moderate comments to combat online trolls, judge says.
5. Court Rules Temporary Ban Of Facebook Commenter By Gov’t Official Violates The First Amendment
6. Politician Can’t Ban Constituent From Her Official Facebook Page–Davison v. Loudoun County Supervisors (Eric Goldman)
7. Judge Tosses Vexatious Litigant Brett Kimberlin’s Lawsuit Against Conservative Blogger
8. How an Ontario mom fended off a $120K libel lawsuit over her Facebook posts
9. Stouffville woman awarded damages in SLAPP case
10. Internet Censorship Bill Would Spell Disaster for Speech and Innovation
11. Going to California—Google Asks U.S. Court to Declare Supreme Court of Canada’s Global Injunction Unenforceable
12. Google’s US Challenge To The Canadian Global Delisting Order
13. Google Asks US Court To Block Terrible Canadian Supreme Court Ruling On Global Censorship
14. What Google’s New Autoplay Experiment Means For The Future Of Search
15. U.S. Court Declares GPL Is A Contract (Andres Guadamuz)
16. France: 13 million in damages awarded for linking to downloadable copyright works
17. LinkedIn: It’s illegal to scrape our website without permission – A legal scholar calls LinkedIn’s position “hugely problematic.”
18. New Web tool tracks Russian “influence ops” on Twitter: Hamilton 68 tracks Russian state news and Twitter trolls, shows propaganda trends.
19. What They’ve Said About Russian Election Interference
20. Russia Has Banned VPNs
21. Putin bans VPNs to stop Russians accessing prohibited websites
22. Unstoppable Force, Immovable Object: Iranian Resilience in a Censored Society
23. How May 35th Freedoms Have Blossomed With China’s Martian Language
24. Meet Mia Ash, The Fake Woman Iranian Hackers Used To Lure Victims
25. Maybe the A.I. dystopia is already here
26. Artificial Intelligence Develops Its Own Language
27. The Internet Will Not Break: Denying Bad Samaritans Section 230 Immunity (Danielle Citron, Benjamin Wittes)
28. Pointing at the Wrong Villain: Cass Sunstein and Echo Chambers
29. Senate’s “Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act of 2017”–and Section 230’s Imminent Evisceration (Eric Goldman)
30. A ‘potentially deadly’ mushroom-identifying app highlights the dangers of bad AI: The app’s creator says it’s just a guide, but experts aren’t happy
31. State attorneys general team up to scare you from “content theft sites”: PSA is titled “Be safe on the Internet to Protect Your Family.”
32. Apple Removes Apps From China Store That Help Internet Users Evade Censorship
33. Apple Removes All VPN Apps From Its Chinese App Store
34. Apple’s Silence in China Sets a Dangerous Precedent
35. Apple Caved To China, Just Like Almost Every Other Tech Giant
36. Apple paid Nokia $2 billion to escape fight over old patents: It’s on the hook for more payments down the line, too
37. Apple must pay $506M for infringing university’s patent: University of Wisconsin may collect $4.35 apiece for millions of iPads and iPhones.
38. Apple can’t end lawsuit over “breaking” FaceTime on iPhone 4, judge rules: “FaceTime is a ‘feature’ of the iPhone and thus a component of the iPhone’s cost.”
39. Company: Apple TV’s “what did she say” feature infringes our patent – Patent claims the concept of skipping back and enabling subtitles.
40. Apple Sales Exceed Expectations as Buyers Wait for New iPhones
41. A Super-Expensive iPhone Is Good News, Even If You Can’t Afford It
42. After three years, iPad sales are up again for Apple
43. Apple discontinues iPod Nano and Shuffle, updates iPod Touch models: Say goodbye to the tiny music makers of 2005.
44. Goodbye iPod, And Thanks For All The Tunes
45. Apple Glasses Are Inevitable
46. Joining Apple, Amazon’s China Cloud Service Bows to Censors
47. How An IOS Developer Just Uncovered The Next iPhone
48. UK WiFi Company Uses Overlong TOS To Trick Hotspot Users Into Cleaning Toilets, Hugging Stray Cats
49. Kim Dotcom set to receive seized funds, “4 containers full of seized property”: Megupload founder adds he plans to move his family to Queenstown, New Zealand.
50. AG Wahl says that, at certain conditions, suppliers of luxury goods may prohibit retailers from selling on third-party online platforms
51. How Threats Against Domain Names Are Used to Censor Content (EFF)
52. Fact Checking Snopes On Its Own Claims Of Being ‘Held Hostage’ By ‘A Vendor’: Well, It’s Complicated
53. Uber drivers gang up to cause surge pricing, research says
54. How Arby’s Dealt With Their Greatest Twitter Troll By Being Awesome; Also Sandwiches And Puppies
55. Frank Ocean T-Shirt at Center of Debate Over Tweet Copyright: After singer’s Panorama Fest tee goes viral, creator of shirt and teen who first tweeted the quote wrestle over compensation and credit
56. This U.S. Company Is Offering to Put Microchips in Their Employees
57. A New Way for Therapists to Get Inside Heads: Virtual Reality
58. Models of Consciousness Transformation & Unlocking Latent Human Potentials with VR
59. No, Facebook Did Not Panic and Shut Down an AI Program That Was Getting Dangerously Smart
60. Science Says 13 Reasons Why may Be The Public Health Scare People Thought
61. Sex History Educational Site Wants To Know If It’s Going To Be Bricked Up Behind UK’s Porn Wall
62. We need to take a vacation from social media: Various platforms – and Facebook especially – are, weirdly, both a kind of diary and a public performance.
63. Facebook’s Complicity in the Silencing of Black Women
64. ‘It’s digital colonialism’: how Facebook’s free internet service has failed its users – Free Basics, built for developing markets, focuses on ‘western corporate content’ and violates net neutrality principles, researchers say
65. Lionsgate Launches Spanish-Language Streaming Service ‘Pantaya’ For U.S. Viewers
66. Reddit Has $1.8 Billion Valuation After Chat-Room Site Banks $200 Million in Funding
67. Reddit Raised $200 Million And Is Redesigning to Look More Like Facebook
68. Spotify Surpasses 60 Million Subscribers
69. Twitter Finds Meaning (and Madness) Under Donald Trump: The social platform was in bad shape last year, but it found an unlikely support system in an antihero
70. Trump’s Radical Immigration Crackdown Won’t Help Tech
71. A Gop Staffer Crowdsourced A Resolution From A Conspiracy Subreddit
72. Bitcoin Exchange and Operator Charged With Money Laundering
73. Feds say they caught a key figure in the massive Mt. Gox Bitcoin hack: Feds say a Russian man laundered criminal proceeds through the BTC-e exchange.
74. Why the Bitcoin network just split in half and why it matters
75. Bitcoin Is Splitting In Two. Now What?
76. Here’s What CEOs Around the World Are Saying About the Bitcoin Fork
77. Is the Party Over? SEC Concludes Cryptocurrency Offering Required Registration
78. PewDiePie, YouTube’s biggest star, is leaning into his new, far-right following
79. Here’s Why It Looks Like PewDiePie Has Lost 90% Of His Income: An annual report from his company suggests Pewdiepie’s income has dropped dramatically.
80. NCAA Rules Football-Playing YouTuber Ineligible Due To Ad Revenue
81. NCAA Strips UCF Kicker Of Eligibility After He Refuses To Stop Being An Athlete That Posts YouTube Videos
82. UCF kicker ruled ineligible, loses scholarship after monetizing YouTube videos: Athletes can make YouTube videos, but they can’t make money off sports videos.
83. Singing With Saquon? Current Stars Should Take NCAA at Its Word and Cash in Now on YouTube
84. Amazon To Self-Distribute First Film In Theaters, Woody Allen’s ‘Wonder Wheel’
85. Move Over, Bill Gates. Jeff Bezos Gets a Turn as World’s Richest Person.
86. Streisand Effect Helps Sci-Hub To Acquire Almost All Scholarly Literature, Dooms Traditional Academic Publishing
87. Jewish woman sues Andrew Anglin over ‘troll storm’: Suit against Daily Stormer’s neo-Nazi blogger raises questions about free speech and online harassment.
88. YouTube Will Place Flagged “Supremacist” Videos That Don’t Violate Its Guidelines In A “Limited State”
89. Following 10-Market Expansion, YouTube TV App Clocks 2 Million Downloads
90. ‘Offline-First’ YouTube Go App To Launch In Nigeria
91. YouTube Kids Lands “Eight-Figure” Upfront Commitment From Toy Brand Mattel
92. Ars picks the top YouTube video of all time: We top off our look at the 10th anniversary of YouTube with the best video ever.
93. YouTube Unveils First Country-Specific ‘Spotlight’ Channel In Canada
94. YouTube throws more support behind Canadian creators with spotlight channel
95. ViaSport, Microsoft Canada Team Up On Tech For More Inclusive Sports
96. Redfin set out to disrupt real estate—it was harder than it looked: CEO once called real estate “by far the most screwed up industry in America.”
97. America’s Competitors Angle for Silicon Valley’s Business
98. Deceptive Online Marketing Practices: Intermediaries, what is your legal exposure?
99. The complete history of the IBM PC, part one: The deal of the century: Bill Gates, mysterious deaths, and the business machine that sparked a home revolution.
100. The complete history of the IBM PC, part two: The DOS empire strikes: The real victor was Microsoft, which built an empire on the back of a shadily acquired MS-DOS.

CREATIVITY

1. York University to appeal recent copyright decision
2. Why Fair Dealing is Not Destroying Canadian Publishing (Michael Geist)
3. When life gives you Lemonade: court preserves copyright complaint against Beyoncé (Rebecca Tushnet)
4. Photographer’s Copyright Suit Gets Mixed Results:  A New York federal court judge handed a photographer a mixed result when it dismissed her copyright infringement claim but allowed her Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) allegations to move forward in a dispute that began on Instagram.
5. Premier League scores second ‘live’ blocking injunction 
6. Cabin Fever: Is Reconstructing a Work to Preserve It Copyright Infringement?
7. When can publishing newspaper articles amount to harassment?: The High Court has struck out part of a harassment claim against the publisher of the Daily Mail and Mail Online. Unless the Judge’s order is successfully appealed, the remaining harassment claim will proceed to trial.
8. Cigar City Brewing Sues Cigar City Salsa Over Trademark Despite Being In Different Marketplaces
9. E And J Gallo Sends Cease And Desist Trademark Notice To E And B Beer
10. Would You Confuse ‘Pierogi Fest’ With ‘Edwardsville Pierogi Festival’? Neither Would We
11. Titleist Tees Up Lawsuit Against Parody Clothier Because Golf Doesn’t Have A Sense Of Humor
12. Michelin Bursts Continental’s Trade Mark Application
13. Seen around town(s), TM and right of publicity issues (Rebecca Tushnet)
14. Copyright. Act of State Doctrine. Fifth Circuit holds that the act of state doctrine does not forbid U.S. courts from considering the applicability of copyright’s first sale doctrine to foreign-made copies when the foreign copier was a government agency
15. EU’s draconian new copyright law puts an expiration date on startups
16. NAFTA and a made-in-Canada IP framework
17. Regulating the Internet of Toys 
18. Copyright Licences for Television and Film Content in Hotels
19. Sony Pictures TV Networks to Acquire Funimation, Valuing Anime Distributor at $150 Million
20. The ACLU filed a comical brief in defense of free speech and John Oliver’s satire
21. Marshall County Coal Company v. John Oliver (Amicus Curiae Brief of ACLU to U.S. Dist. Ct., Northern District of West Virginia)
22. 1H 2017 Quick Links, Part 5 – Advertising, Contracts (Eric Goldman)
23. 1H 2017 Quick Links, Part 6 – Defamation, Section 230, Consumer Reviews (Eric Goldman)
24. 1H 2017 Quick Links Part 7 – Fake News, RTBF, Censorship, Extremist Content (Eric Goldman)
25. Innovation, Intellectual Property, and Development: A Better Set of Approaches For The 21st Century. (Dean Baker, Arjun Jayadev and Joseph Stiglitz)

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Privacy rights on the NAFTA agenda: Will the new NAFTA allow Canadian governments to ensure that private data collected from Canadians will not be stored outside this country?
2. First Playpen FBI Spyware Warrant Hits The Appeals Court Level; Is Upheld On ‘Good Faith’
3. Second body cam video of Baltimore cops manufacturing evidence discovered: Second video prompts another dropped case—bringing it to nearly three dozen so far.
4. Police body cam footage of man tased in back prompts $110K settlement: However, police board said tasing was “reasonable, appropriate, and within policy.”
5. Baltimore police commissioner orders cops not to stage body cam footage: Prosecutors dropping 41 cases, and more on the way, because of body cam scandal.
6. Another Federal Court Says No Warrants Needed To Obtain Historic Cell Site Location Info
7. Georgia To Roll Out Tens Of Thousands Of CCTV Cameras With Real-Time Facial Recognition Capabilities
8. Viacom Faces Children’s Privacy Class Claims Over Gaming App
9. Federal Court Holds Noodles & Co. Has No Independent Duty of Care to Card Issuers For Data Breach
10. New Nevada Law Requires Notice for Online Collection and Disclosure of Personally Identifiable Information
11. Google’s new scheme to connect online to offline shopping scrutinized: “Consumers cannot easily avoid Google’s tracking of their in-store purchase behavior.”
12. Australian Prosecutors Want To Make It Illegal To Refuse To Turn Over Passwords To Law Enforcement
13. UK Home Secretary Doesn’t Want Backdoors; She Just Wants Companies To Stop Offering Encryption Because No One Wants It
14. Privacy Isn’t Dead. It’s More Popular Than Ever
15. How A Bug In An Obscure Chip Exposed A Billion Smartphones To Hackers
16. Broadcom chip bug opened 1 billion phones to a Wi-Fi-hopping worm attack: Wi-Fi chips used in iPhones and Android may revive worm attacks of old.
17. Your Own Pacemaker Can Now Testify Against You In Court
18. Stealthy Google Play apps recorded calls and stole e-mails and texts: Company expels 20 advanced surveillance apps installed on ~100 devices.
19. When sextortion suspect refused to unlock her iPhone, the FBI stepped in
20. Released Documents Show More Section 702 Violations By The NSA
21. Someone Hacked Into HBO and Is Now Releasing Game of Thrones Info
22. Hackers Threaten ‘Game of Thrones,’ as HBO Confirms Cyberattack
23. Hack Brief: HBO Shows And A Game Of Thrones Script Land Online
24. HBO confirms hack that reportedly included script to upcoming GoT episode: Video for episodes of Ballers and Room 104 also reportedly stolen.
25. How Netflix DDOS’d Itself To Help Protect The Entire Internet
26. Hackers descend on Las Vegas to expose voting machine flaws
27. Every Voting Machine at This Hacking Conference Got Totally Pwned
28. “E-mail prankster” phishes White House officials; hilarity ensues: Tom Bossert gave up personal e-mail in response to fake Kushner dinner invite.
29. Privacy warnings spell trouble for millions of low-cost Android phone owners: Blu says the data its phones collect is standard. Experts disagree.
30. Using a fitness app taught me the scary truth about why privacy settings are a feminist issue
31. How a hacked Amazon Echo could secretly capture your most intimate moments: Hack isn’t simple and doesn’t work on all devices, but it’s definitely doable.
32. How a podcaster managed to confront his tech support scammer, in person: “Alex, we have seen that your IP address has been compromised.”

Jon

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. $89 Billion AT&T, Time Warner Merger Approval Looking Likely Despite Trump Pledge To Block Deal
2. Has Trump Turned CNN Into A House Of Existential Dread?: After relentless attacks from Trump and his allies, a series of journalistic problems, and in the shadow of a possible merger, the network’s C.E.O., Jeff Zucker, is feeling the heat. “I think there’s a real chance that Zucker is being forced out,” said one employee. “That’s going to blow up this organization like nothing in the history of CNN.”
3. Break up the cable monopolies? Democrats propose new competition laws: Democrats’ plan would “break up big companies if they’re hurting consumers.”
4. FCC has no documentation of DDoS attack that hit net neutrality comments: Records request denied because FCC made no “written documentation” of attack.
5. FCC Won’t Release Data To Support Its Claim A DDOS Attack, Not John Oliver, Brought Down The Agency’s Website
6. The FCC Is Full of S–t
7. Senator Wyden Argues FCC Is Either Incompetent Or Lying About Alleged DDoS Attack
8. Senator blasts FCC for refusing to provide DDoS analysis: FCC is either too secretive or is unprepared for future attacks, senator says.
9. Why Net Neutrality Matters Even In The Age Of Oligopoly
10. FCC Chair Ajit Pai Can’t Come Up With a Single Plausible Reason Not to Screw Up the Entire US Internet
11. Democrat asks FCC chair if anything can stop net neutrality rollback: Ajit Pai ignoring evidence that net neutrality helps businesses, lawmaker says.
12. Lawsuit seeks Ajit Pai’s net neutrality talks with Internet providers: FCC accused of not complying with FoIA request for Pai’s talks with ISPs.
13. Net neutrality faceoff: Congress summons ISPs and websites to hearing – Lawmaker schedules hearing with goal of replacing FCC’s net neutrality rules.
14. FTC Staff Supports FCC’s Proposal to Reverse Broadband Enforcement Authority 
15. Senator Doesn’t Buy FCC Justification For Killing Popular Net Neutrality Protections
16. Verizon accused of throttling Netflix and YouTube, admits to “video optimization”: Verizon claims mobile video experience not affected; some customers disagree.
17. Verizon Now Says That Throttling Video Is Totally Cool
18. Verizon accused of violating net neutrality rules by throttling video: FCC has no comment on petition to investigate Verizon slowing video to 10Mbps.
19. Verizon Says It Was Totally Just Testing How to Throttle Video
20. Lawsuits Pile Up For CenturyLink After Years Of Bogus Fees, Fraudulent Billing
21. Commissioner O’Rielly Again Targets Pirate Broadcasters and Their Supporters to Walk the Enforcement Plank 
22. A short history of the right-wing politics of Sinclair Broadcasting
23. The Sinclair Revolution Will Be Televised. It’ll Just Have Low Production Values: Small-time management is getting in the way of big ideas at the conservative broadcaster.
24. When everything else fails, amateur radio will still be there—and thriving: Ham is now a full-fat fabric that can provide Internet access. Why aren’t you using it?
25. The State of Traditional TV: Updated With Q1 2017 Data

DIGITAL

1. Nielsen Now Incorporates YouTube TV, Hulu Viewing Into Television Ratings
2. Sports streaming app DAZN launches in Canada with all NFL games for $20 a month: Will launch with NFL digital rights, company says more will be added
3. Canadian Supreme Court rules against Google in favor of worldwide court orders: The Canadian Supreme Court ruled that Google must remove search results worldwide, dismissing concerns that this may impede freedom of expression for people outside of Canada or inspire other countries to censor speech.
4. Canada’s Supreme Court orders Google to de-index site globally, opening door to censorship: Decision is dangerous to free speech and the free flow of online information.
5. Google Fights Against Canada’s Order To Change Global Search Results
6. Google Files Suit in U.S. Court To Block Enforcement of Canadian Global Takedown Order (Michael Geist)
7. Google tells judge: Don’t let Canada force us to alter US search results: Google says Canadian order is “repugnant” to the First Amendment.
8. Top European Court To Consider If EU Countries Can Censor The Global Internet
9. Google right to be forgotten spat returns to Europe’s top court: French privacy watchdog demands global scrub of certain links—Google says “non.”
10. Clock ticking on Google as $2.7 billion fine takes bite out of earnings: Parent company Alphabet has yet to lodge an appeal against the EU’s penalty.
11. Google Finds And Blocks Spyware Linked To Cyberarms Group
12. Google’s been running a secret test to detect bogus ads — and its findings should make the industry nervous
13. Has Google paid off an army of academic researchers?
14. Judge: Waymo may be in “a world of trouble” if it can’t prove actual harm by Uber – Ex-Waymo engineer Anthony Levandowski can be called to testify at trial, judge adds. 
15. Ontario Court of Appeal Confirms That Online Newspapers Are Still “Newspapers”
16. Backpage.com Sues Missouri Attorney General: Website claims AG’s investigation is barred by the Communications Decency Act
17. Copyright Case Over Richard Prince Instagram Show to Go Forward
18. Appropriation Artist Can’t Win Fair Use Defense on Motion to Dismiss–Graham v. Prince
19. Donald Graham’s Copyright Infringement Suit against Richard Prince Allowed to Go Forward
20. Wikimedia Sweden loses case as court rules against free access to public art online
21. Terrible Ruling Allows Untied To Keep Its Domain But Not Its Soul 
22. A German pirate just saved our right to take public selfies
23. Twitter Working to Limit Fake Stories, Accounts
24. Twitter says it’s making progress battling abusive behavior: The social network says users have encountered significantly less harassment in the past six months.
25. How Twitter Fuels Anxiety: The anxious can often find a supportive community through tweeting, but the nature of the social media site can exacerbate symptoms.
26. Twitter’s stock plunges as user growth stalls: Trump made Twitter more prominent than ever, yet profits are elusive.
27. President Trump sued for blocking dissenting Twitter accounts free speech irony alert
28. Trump’s New Communications Director Might Want to Delete These Tweets Too
29. Exaggerated Claims And Out Of Context Tweets Used By Political Hopeful To Slap Restraining Order On Critic
30. Court Can’t Ban Resident From Discussing HOA Online–Fox v. Hamptons at MetroWest Condos (Eric Goldman)
31. How to get free US military weapons—build fake website and DOD will oblige: The “internal control processes for this program were really broken,” GAO says.
32. United States lifts laptop and electronics ban from Middle East flights: Developers and games firms from the region now able to bring the equipment they need into US
33. How Breitbart media’s disinformation created the paranoid, fact-averse nation that elected Trump: Democrats and progressives turned to wider and more reputable sources
34. New Dot-Sucks Websites Troll Trump: Trump can’t buy up all the new anti-Trump websites ending in .sucks, .wtf, .fail
35. Is Social Media Becoming the New Speech Governors?
36. GDPR – Age Of Digital Consent
37. New book explores how protesters—and governments—use Internet tactics: The protest frontiers are changing. An entrenched researcher explains why they work.
38. Apple must pay $506M for infringing university’s patent: University of Wisconsin may collect $4.35 apiece for millions of iPads and iPhones.
39. Qualcomm, feeling the squeeze as Apple and iPhone manufacturers cut off royalties, moves to the offensive
40. The dramatic details of Steve Jobs’ life are playing out in a new opera: A time-hopping stage production about some of Jobs’ seminal life moments.
41. Using a blockchain doesn’t exempt you from securities regulations: A $150 million Ethereum crowdfunding project broke the law, SEC says.
42. Officials arrest suspect in $4 billion Bitcoin money laundering scheme: Bitcoin’s decentralized architecture makes it popular with criminal groups.
43. Troops, Trolls and Troublemakers: A Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation
44. The Chinese Language as a Weapon: How China’s Netizens Fight Censorship
45. Global Police Spring A Trap On Thousands Of Dark Web Users
46. DOJ announces official takedown of AlphaBay, world’s largest Dark Web market: AlphaBay was “10 times the size of Silk Road,” according to the FBI.
47. Family of dead AlphaBay suspect says he was a “good boy”: Alexandre Cazes, 26, also apparently spent a lot of time in a “pickup artist” forum.
48. We Found Rep. Blake Farenthold’s Early ’90s Internet Message Board Posts
49. Online Terrorist Propaganda: France and UK Put Internet Giants in the Cross-Hairs
50. Our Minds Have Been Hijacked By Our Phones. Tristan Harris Wants To Rescue Them
51. How AI Is Already Changing Business
52. The Business Of Artificial Intelligence: What it can — and cannot — do for your organization
53. Is Anyone Home? A Way to Find Out If AI Has Become Self-Aware: It’s not easy, but a newly proposed test might be able to detect consciousness in a machine
54. The Rise Of AI Is Forcing Google And Microsoft To Become Chipmakers
55. Elon Musk: Mark Zuckerberg’s understanding of AI is “limited”: Tech billionaires have differing views on where AI will take humankind.
56. Zuckerberg and Musk are both wrong about AI: During an impromptu Facebook Live interview, Zuck said there’s no doomsday coming.
57. Beijing Wants A.I. to Be Made in China by 2030
58. AI Fight Club Could Help Save Us from a Future of Super-Smart Cyberattacks: The best defense against malicious AI is AI.
59. Silicon Valley’s First Founder Was Its Worst
60. Why Hollywood Studios Are Slow to Embrace Virtual Reality – VR Special Report: “The big elephant in the room is – How do you monetize this?” one analyst tells TheWrap
61. Is the future VR … or AR?: Google VR boss Clay Bavor explains why the two technologies aren’t so different on the latest Too Embarrassed to Ask.
62. Google Tests Interactive Learning with VR Espresso Machine, “People learned faster and better in VR”
63. VR Ads Are Almost Here. Don’t Act Surprised
64. Are You Prepared for the Legal Issues of Augmented Reality?
65. Fullscreen Unveils Co-Viewing Feature Called ‘Watch Party’
66. Celebrity Influencers Continue to Flout FTC Disclosure Rules
67. Take A Trip To Los Angeles’ New Internet Celebrity Summer Camp: As viral fame becomes more attainable, summer camps may be the next classroom for kids
68. Instagram Is Pushing Restaurants To Be Kitschy, Colorful, And Irresistible To Photographers
69. Diminishing Returns: Online advertising’s dependence on surprise accelerates its own instability
70. The human insights missing from big data
71. A NASA Research Center Is Uploading 500 Archival Videos To YouTube
72. After Alphabet Earnings Report, Analyst Estimates YouTube’s Stock Value At $75 Billion 
73. Why Adam Silver Was Against Suing Over NBA Highlights On YouTube
74. YouTube TV Launches in 10 New Markets, Including Houston, Atlanta and Washington, D.C.
75. YouTube Will Now Redirect Searches For Extremist Videos To Anti-Terrorist Playlists
76. Kodi magazine ‘directs readers to pirate content’ 
77. MGM’s ‘Stargate’ To Get Its Own SVOD Service, And The Niche Get Nicher
78. Adobe Is Finally Killing Flash (For Real, This Time)
79. Snapchat is doing a daily news show with NBC
80. Oxygen To Promote New True Crime Series By Letting Reddit Users Question Famous Jurors
81. Korea’s 3 Largest Broadcasters Launch U.S. Streaming Service For K-Dramas, K-Pop
82. Summer of Samsung: A Corruption Scandal, a Political Firestorm—and a Record Profit: A year after the exploding phones, Samsung is embroiled in the mess that brought down South Korea’s president. How is it still thriving?
83. Mobile Video Ad Spend To Surpass Computer Spend For First Time Next Year (Report)
84. Intel shuts down group working on wearables and fitness trackers: We probably won’t see any more wearables coming from Intel.
85. Inside Cuba’s D.I.Y. Internet Revolution 
86. Where Is Hollywood Looking For Its Next Hit? Podcasts
87. Podcasts Are Awesome But Are They A Business?
88. Musicals (Yes, Musicals) Are About To Shake Up Podcasting
89. Electronic music superhero Aphex Twin unearths massive, free music vault: Includes hours of never-before-released beats over past 20-plus years.
90. Who owns Snopes? Fracas over fact-checking site now front and center: Snopes’ parent company was split—one half may be held by 5 men, or a single company. 
91. The Wearables Giving Computer Vision To The Blind
92. Forget About Fake Artists – It’s Time To Talk About Fake Streams.
93. RIP Microsoft Paint. Thanks For All The Hideous Doodles
94. Windows Paint is now officially not getting updated any more 
95. How Bots Bested the $1 Billion Sneaker Resale Industry
96. The manipulative tricks tech companies use to capture your attention
97. Culture for a digital age: Risk aversion, weak customer focus, and siloed mind-sets have long bedeviled organizations. In a digital world, solving these cultural problems is no longer optional.
98. The right of communication to the public … in a chart (Eleonora Rosati)
99. The CJEU Pirate Bay Judgment and Its Impact on the Liability of Online Platforms (Eleonora Rosati)
100. Defamation Law in the Internet Age (Background Papers from the Law Commission of Ontario)
101. Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age: 2017 Volume I: Perspectives, Trade Secrets & Patents (Peter S. Menell Mark A. Lemley Robert P. Merges)

CREATIVITY 

1.  China Banned Winnie The Pooh for Looking Like President Xi
2. China Bans Justin Bieber
3. Students Deeply Concerned With Federal Court Ruling Against York University 
4. U15Group of Research Universities Statement on Sustainable Publishing
5. The York University Case: Crisis in Copyright Law
6. Access Copyright v. York University – Some Important Comments and Questions from Prof. Ariel Katz (Howard Knopf)
7. Access Copyright v. York University: An Anatomy of a Predictable But Avoidable Loss (Ariel Katz)
8. Access vs York: Fair Dealing is for everybody
9. Why Fair Dealing Is Not Destroying Canadian Publishing (Michael Geist)
10. Jammin Java to Pay IP Damages to Marley Family
11. U2 Seeks Dismissal of “The Fly” Infringement Suit
12. Ninth Circuit: Federal Copyright Pre-empts California Publicity Right
13. Palin v. The New York Times Co.: Newspaper Mounts Robust Defense to Defamation Lawsuit 
14. Vegetarian Ethiopian Cookbook Copyright Lawsuit Turns Sour–Schleifer v. Berns
15. Anti-Logging Ad Protected by First Amendment: An environmental group’s anti-logging advertisement was protected by the First Amendment, the Oregon Court of Appeals has ruled, and the Port of Portland failed to meet the “heavy burden” necessary to prohibit the ad from being displayed at the Portland International Airport.
16. Native Americans End Trademark Dispute With Redskins
17. After Supreme Court Decision, People Race To Trademark Racially Offensive Words
18. Olive Garden Asks Olive Garden Reviewer Not To Refer To Olive Garden Due To Trademarks 
19. Man ridicules Olive Garden’s demand letter over trademark dispute: “If you are asking me to simply add TradeMark® Symbols™ I must also decline.” 
20. Olive Garden apologizes to AllOfGarden blog, offers $50 gift card: “We’ve reached resolution / I received absolution.”
21. San Diego Comic Con Gets Gag Order On Salt Lake Comic Con
22. Microsoft’s secret weapon in ongoing struggle against Fancy Bear? Trademark law: “Redirecting…Strontium domains will directly disrupt current Strontium infrastructure.”
23. Why are celebrities trade marking their children’s names?
24. Two Dead on a Tom Cruise Movie Shoot: A Plane Crash in Colombia, Lawsuits and a Survivor Speaks Out
25. Moneyball for Dead Celebs: This $5 Billion Business Sells Elvis and Michael Jackson – Authentic Brands, which also owns Muhammad Ali and Marilyn Monroe, values dead celebs on their social media presence and the spending power of their fans.
26. Dave Chappelle On Comedy And Politics In The Age Of President Trump
27. The TV That Created Donald Trump: Rewatching “The Apprentice,” the show that made his Presidency possible.
28. Rock on! Hand gestures as trade marks
29. The Life of a Song: ‘Ice Ice Baby’: The problems started with the single’s huge success (it was rap’s first Billboard number one)
30. Wonder Woman Passes Guardians Vol. 2 To Become Summer 2017’s Highest-Grossing Movie At Domestic Box Office
31. We Live In The Peak TV World ‘Mad Men’ Created Ten Years Ago
32. How “Game Of Thrones” Feeds Its Own Thinkpiece Industry: In the era of peak TV, the thinkpiece as a tool to keep us watching has never been more effective.
33. MTV Isn’t What It Used To Be: MTV used to be closely in tune with youth culture, creating cultural phenomena instead of merely covering them. Now, it looks like they’re just trying to catch up.
34. A Balancing Act: Fair Use and Creative Content
35. Courtesy Paratexts: Informal Publishing Norms and the Copyright Vacuum in Nineteenth-Century America (Robert Spoo)

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. NAFTA talks: U.S. proposal for cross-border data storage at odds with B.C., N.S. law: U.S. challenging provincial privacy rules that require personal information to be stored on domestic servers
2. Calls grow for Canada to modernize privacy laws amid EU changes
3. 66 Of Donald Trump’s Pre-Presidential YouTube Videos Have Been Made Private
4. Moscow’s cyber-defense: How the Russian government plans to protect the country from the coming cyberwar
5. Exclusive: Russia used Facebook to try to spy on Macron campaign – sources
6. As Cyberattacks Destabilize The World, The State Department Turns A Blind Eye
7. NZ judge: Our spies surveilled Kim Dotcom for 2 months longer than admitted – “The US extradition case is dying. And someone is going to pay for this mess.”
8. Surveillance Used To Give Poor Students Extra Financial Assistance Discreetly. Is That OK?
9. All Quiet On The Tech Front As The Clock Ticks Down On Section 702 Renewal
10. The failure of police body cameras: Video was supposed to help hold police accountable. But it hasn’t lived up to much of the hype.
11. Ashley Madison Class Accord Raises Question: How Do You Find Claimants Who Don’t Want to Be Found?
12. Politician Uses Bad Cyberharassment Law To Shut Down Critic; Critic Hoping To Have Law Struck Down
13. Court Rejects Cell Site RF Signal Map In Murder Trial Because It’s Evidence Of Nothing
14. Scientists are now using Wi-Fi to read human emotions
15. How Smart Devices Could Violate Your Privacy: With everything from speakers to water meters sending information to the cloud, a murder trial is testing the boundaries of privacy at home
16. Turn Off Your Push Notifications. All Of Them
17. Seeing Like a Network: Don’t call it threat modeling

Jon