Todays slides….
And in the sometimes “life imitates school” category, we have the podcast in the article below which arrived in my inbox just around halfway through class.
Jon
US House Votes in Favor of Letting ISPs Sell Users’ Browsing History
Today, the US House of Representatives voted to repeal a set of rules passed by the FCC last year which required ISPs to get a user’s explicit consent before selling their personal data (including browsing history). The legislation still needs presidential approval, although the White House has stated that it “strongly supports” the repeal.
Critics of the repeal argue that ISPs will now have “free rein to hijack your searches, sell your data, and hammer you with unwanted advertisements” [EFF]. Those in favour of the repeal argue that the FCC rules were “additional and duplicative regulation[s]” that undermined the jurisdiction of the Federal Trade Commissioner (FTC), and that technology companies like Google aren’t subject to the same restraints in collecting user data, putting ISPs at a competitive disadvantage.
Here’s a selection of news sources of varying political orientations – pick your poison, or try them all:
http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/house-set-vote-whether-isps-can-sell-your-data-without-n739166
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/03/congress-sides-cable-and-telephone-industry
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2017/03/28/house-votes-to-block-obama-era-online-privacy-rule.html
http://www.breitbart.com/radio/2017/03/28/rep-marsha-blackburn-fcc-rule-change-vote-eliminates-obama-admin-internet-tax-regulatory-power-grab/
How Yahoo Was Hacked
Hi everyone,
This article explains how Russian hackers were able to compromise Yahoo e-mails. Thought it was an interesting read.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/russian-yahoo-hackers-indictment-500-million-emails-how-1.4029532
Course Evaluations
To the extent possible, please bring your laptops to class tomorrow as course evaluations will take up the first 15 minutes of the class. If you want to do the evaluations in advance they are available at: https://eval.ctlt.ubc.ca/law
You will be able to complete evaluations until 11:59 pm on Sunday, April 9.
Thanks,
Jon
News of the Week; March 22, 2017
MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY
- The Netflix Effect?: Foreign Sources Outspend Canadian Broadcasters and Distributors for English TV Production (Michael Geist)
- Court of Appeals Rules that Over-the-Top Video Service is Not a Cable System Entitled to Statutory License to Retransmit TV Station Programming
- Hope fades for cheap TV-over-Internet as FilmOn loses copyright fight: TV networks’ expert witness: “The Internet is not a communications channel.”
- Federal Court of Appeal upholds interlocutory injunction directed at retailers of set-top boxes loaded with copyright-infringing applications
- Let’s Talk Broadband Fund: The CRTC’s New Initiative
- Bell and Rogers offer sports bars unpleasant choice: Give us more money or lose TSN and Sportsnet
- Despite Gigabit Hype, Comcast Is Facing Less Broadband Competition Than Ever
- FCC Approves First 100% Foreign Owner of US Broadcast Stations
- ISPs say your Web browsing and app usage history isn’t “sensitive”: ISP lobby groups make case against the FCC’s broadband privacy rules.
- The Ad Industry Is Really Excited About Plans To Gut Broadband Privacy Protections
- DirecTV admits screwing up regional sports fees, starts issuing credits: Customers get credits after being charged different prices for the same network.
- Donald Trump’s presidency is shaped by Fox News.
- Google Fiber’s About-Face Provides Useful Lessons For A Broken Broadband Industry
- How Netflix Wants to Rule the World: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at a Global TV Network
- A timeline of Netflix’s conflicting stances on net neutrality
- TV’s Dead Zone: How the Cable Sector Is Killing Off Struggling Networks
- Charter’s Trying To Kill Recent Merger Conditions Banning Usage Caps, Net Neutrality Violations
- Charter Tries To Tap Dance Out Of Lawsuit Over Substandard Broadband
- The President’s Regulatory Agenda and the FTC
- Senators Fighting Online Privacy Rules Take Money From Industry: Analysis shows the 22 Republican senators behind a controversial resolution have received more than $1.7 million from the industry in recent years
DIGITAL
- Appeals Court Rules TV Streamers Don’t Get Compulsory License to Broadcast Networks
- YouTube’s Restricted Mode Is Hiding Some LGBT Content
- How YouTube’s Block Of LGBTQ Videos Could Hurt Kids: The platform has helped many teens come to terms with their sexuality, but lately videos are harder to access
- YouTube faces social media storm over LGBT-blocking ‘restricted mode’
- LGBT community anger over YouTube restrictions which make their verideos invisible: #YouTubeIsOverParty trends on Twitter after users say videos referencing same-sex relationships are being filtered out
- Unless online giants stop the abuse of free speech, democracy and innovation is threatened
- A Tweet to Kurt Eichenwald, a Strobe and a Seizure. Now, an Arrest.
- Man accused of sending a seizure-inducing tweet charged with cyberstalking: Allegations are a first for an online attack with an epileptogenic image.
- Internet warriors: inside the dark world of online haters – Why do people vent such toxic opinions online? Filmmaker Kyrre Lien spent three years travelling the world to find out who these anonymous ‘internet warriors’ are and why they do it
- How online hate infiltrates social media and politics: For hate groups, there’s unprecedented opportunity to finally plug their fringe movements into a mainstream circuit
- Dissecting Trump’s Most rabid Online Following
- Twitter uses software to ban 377,000 accounts advocating violence
- Fake News and Fake Solutions: How Do We Build a Civics of Trust?
- ‘Who shared it?’: How Americans decide what news to trust on social media – This research was conducted by the Media Insight Project — an initiative of the American Press Institute and the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research
- UK government halts its YouTube ads after some appear on extremist videos: Doesn’t like taxpayer-funded ads showing up before David Duke videos.
- Danger in the internet echo chamber: To combat endless feeds of one-sided data, Sunstein suggests an ‘architecture of serendipity’
- Platforms, Networks, and Information Literacy
- It’s Time to Stop Blaming Social Media for Political Polarization: New research shows that spending less time online is just as bad.
- The Like Button Ruined the Internet: How “engagement” made the web a less engaging place
- Pope cautions youths about social media’s “false image of reality”: “Don’t let yourselves be led astray,” Francis says.
- Convicting cybercriminals no easy task, UBC prof says: Amanda Todd case shines light on how Canadian justice system deals with cybercrime
- Facebook Sued In Israel For Blocking All Links To Site Critical Of Facebook & Suggesting Site Was ‘Unsafe’
- Google, Facebook, Twitter must amend ToS for EU users or face fines: Trio given one month to clean up fraud, scams, and make other fixes.
- This Won’t Be Abused At All: Google Offers Tool To Flag And Downrank ‘Offensive’ Search Results
- Big Hollywood Studios Win Injunction Against Streamer VidAngel in Copyright Infringement Case
- Hey That’s Me Drinking That Beer! UGC Rights at Issue in Beer/Photo Lawsuit
- eBook Pirates Tend To Be Older And Well Off, Which Means They Pirate Because Of Human Intuition On Economics
- University Puts 20,000 Lectures Behind A Registration Wall In Response To DOJ Pressure On Website Accessibility Compliance
- Judge Balks At Section 230 Protection For Email Forwarding–Samsel v. DeSoto County School District (Eric Goldman)
- Chinese Website Operator Dismissed from Copyright Infringement Suit in United States
- Australia’s Prime Minister Supports Expanded Safe Harbor Protections Down Under
- Bill Gates And Other Major Investors Put $52.6 Million Into Site Sharing Unauthorized Copies Of Academic Papers
- Ed Sheeran Vs. The CopyBots: Artist Goes To Bat For Musician That Covered His Song On Facebook
- How Drones Help Transparency Activists To See Things The Hungarian Government Wants To Hide
- Class-action lawsuit targets LG over legendary G4, V10 bootloop issues – Suit: LG replaced phones with faulty ones—didn’t replace out-of-warranty devices.
- Keyword ads — Only infringing if they’re confusing
- Apple illegally fixed prices of iPhones in Russia, investigation finds: Apple contacted retailers who were selling the iPhone at “inappropriate” prices.
- Apple sold $4.2 billion of product in New Zealand, paid $0 local taxes: “Their tax department is even more innovative than their product designers.”
- 10 media trends for 2017 and beyond
- I used YouTube Red for months—here’s why I cancelled my subscription: Another $10-per-month service that isn’t totally worth it yet.
- Insights: The Great SVOD Land Rush – British Invasions And The OTT Channel Grab
- Researchers Just Unveiled a New Li-Fi System That’s 100 Times Faster Than Wi-Fi
- Netflix CEO Reed Hastings: Movie Theaters Haven’t Innovated Beyond Popcorn
- Tim League Refutes Netflix’s Reed Hastings On Movie Theater Innovation
- The Corrupt Personalization of Netflix: The company embodies one of the most seductive myths of the algorithmic age.
- Tech and Entertainment in the ‘Era of Mass Customization’
- Microsoft and Sony set sights on the Netflix model: A subscription service providing ongoing revenue could be a win-win for creators and platform holders; can MS or Sony make this model work?
- MLB Network Launches On PlayStation Vue With Exclusive World Baseball Classic Coverage
- Microsoft’s silence over unprecedented patch delay doesn’t smell right: Canceling Patch Tuesday at the last minute warrants an explanation, not platitudes.
- Red Flag Windows: Microsoft modifies Windows OS for Chinese government – Chinese government blocked Microsoft product purchases after NSA leaks.
- NFL ‘Intent On Staying Contemporary’ With Technology After Streaming Games On Twitter
- What Your Therapist Doesn’t Know: Big Data has transformed everything from sports to politics to education. It could transform mental-health treatment, too—if only psychologists would stop ignoring it.
- The Long, Weird History Of Companies That Put Your Life Online
- In 2010, The Social Network was searing — now it looks quaint
- Software used to predict crime can now be scoured for bias
- Which lawyers will win or lose in front of which judges? There’s now an app to predict that
- Transhumanism Is the Next Step in Human Evolution
- Kurzweil Claims That the Singularity Will Happen by 2045
- What Rights Should We Give to Sentient Robots?
- When beauty is in the eye of the (robo)beholder: Beauty.AI saw a lucrative problem and tried solving via algorithms. It ended poorly.
- IP for AI: can we patent an artificial human expert?
- SEC Issues Guidance on Robo-Advisers
- How Aristotle Created the Computer: The philosophers he influenced set the stage for the technological revolution that remade our world.
- Budget 2017: Why Canada’s Digital Policy Future Is Up For Grabs (Michael Geist)
- How Navdeep Bains Can Get His #Innovation Groove Back (Michael Geist)
- Law, Virtual Reality, and Augmented Reality (Mark A. Lemley & Eugene Volokh)
CREATIVITY
- Supreme Court Says Decorative Fashion Design Elements Protected By Copyright Law
- Star Athletica, L.L.C. v. Varsity Brands, Inc. (Supreme Court Of The United States)
- Cheerleading company can get copyrights, pursue competitors, Supreme Court says: The high court ponders copyrighted uniforms, Van Gogh, and cat-shaped lamps.
- Supreme Court Says Patent Trolls Can Wait A While Before Suing
- Protect Fair Dealing – Canada’s Upcoming Copyright Act Review
- Filmmaker challenges court injunction on Vancouver Aquarium documentary: BC Civil Liberties says the injunction could endanger free speech
- The Media Scores a “Win” at the Texas Supreme Court
- Judge Decides Free Speech Is Still A Right; Dumps Prior Restraint Order Against Mattress Review Site
- Appeals Court Says Prior Restraint Is Perfectly Fine, Refuses To Rehear 3D-Printed Guns Case
- Released Russian Putin Critic Recalls Prison Torture: Ildar Dadin says he was transferred to a penal colony where prison guards tortured inmates while accompanied to music of Putin’s favorite rock group
- Garry Kasparov on the press and propaganda in Trump’s America
- China Clamps Down On Another Serious Threat To The Middle Kingdom: Western Animal Cartoon Books For Children
- Iconic movie scene allows copyright but not TM claim against multimedia installation: Harold Lloyd Entertainment, Inc. v. Moment Factory One, Inc., No. LA CV15-01556, 2015 WL 12765142 (C.D. Cal. Oct. 29, 2015) (Rebecca Tushnet)
- Disney Hit With Lawsuit Claiming ‘Zootopia’ Ripped Off ‘Total Recall’ Writer
- Jeff Koons LLC and the Centre Pompidou are both found liable for copyright infringement in Paris court case: The lawsuit concerns the reproduction of a sculpture by Koons that resembles a picture by the French photographer Jean-François Bauret
- Spain: The battle around the “Kukuxumusu Universe” and the right of transformation, can the artist’s personal style be limited?
- Copyright case against U2 latest to test boundary of originality and creativity
- Scare Tactics Down Under: The Ongoing Global Effort to Mislead on Canadian Copyright (Michael Geist)
- Marrakesh Treaty For Blind Readers Jeopardised By EU Publishing Industry Lobbying, Group Says
- Mormon Church Tries To Censor MormonLeaks Using Copyright, Streisand Effect Takes Over
- Sports Photographer: Don’t Mess with My Copyright
- Photographer hits retailer over photo of player hitting Joey Bats
- How The Grateful Dead Revolutionized Rock and Created Modern Jam Bands
- How News Organizations Inadvertently Spread “Alternative Facts”: The way they construct stories makes it likely that readers will believe things that aren’t true
- How the New York Times’ mobile-first strategy has turned millennials into its biggest audience
- How TiVo Confronted the Disruptor’s Dilemma
- SXSW has been s____ing over artists since way before the visa controversy
- Creating in an Age of Anxiety, Depression, and Dread: Anxiety can lead to better art, but do the two have to be so mutually intertwined?A Transactional Theory of the Reader in Copyright Law (Zahr K. Said)
- Reading the Readers (Andrew Gilden)
SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY
- Man jailed indefinitely for refusing to decrypt hard drives loses appeal: “Our client has now been in custody for almost 18 months,” defense attorney says.
- Third Circuit Appeals Court Says All Writs Orders Can Be Used To Compel Passwords For Decryption
- California court declines request to unmask author of anonymous post
- Just Prior To Hearing Over NSL Gag Orders, Court Allows Cloudflare & CREDO Mobile To Be Named As Plaintiffs
- TSA explains why it won’t allow electronics on some USA-bound flights
- McDonald’s Says Twitter Account Compromised After Anti-Trump Post
- Rep. Devin Nunes’ Hypocrisy On Display In ‘Concerns’ Over NSA Surveillance
- Court Says FBI Doesn’t Have To Hand Over Its Rules For Surveilling Domestic Journalists
- The New Handbook For Cyberwar Is Being Written By Russia: “It’s not that the Russians are doing something others can’t do,” a US intelligence officer said. “It’s that Russian hackers are willing to go there, to experiment and carry out attacks that others countries would back away from.”
- Hackers Stole My Website…And I Pulled Off A $30,000 Sting Operation To Get It Back1
- Smart Vibrator Company To Pay $3.75 Million For Private Data Collection
- Is New York Poised to Adopt a Right to be Forgotten?
- Privacy in VR Is Complicated and It’ll Take the Entire VR Community to Figure It Out
- 6 Great TV Series About Privacy and Security
Jon
Class 11 Slides
For the first time ever my slides maxed over the upload limit even when “Reduce File Size…” was applied maximally. So they had to be split into two parts. First “Logistics & News of the Week” and then the main piece. Here they are…
Jon
Ontario Court of Appeal upheld Vice production order ruling
The Ontario Court of Appeal released a decision today, in which they upheld the lower Court’s ruling that forced a Vice reporter to hand over some materials to the RCMP. Interesting to see if it does end up going to the SCC.
Updated Slide Deck FOR SECURITY
Here is the updated PowerPoint from today’s presentation, with all the functioning hyperlinks.
Enjoy!
Old TV networks get another win against online providers
Here’s a story about a 9th Circuit decision, from Ars. Apparently the internet doesn’t count as a “communication channel,” according to the “expert” from FOX. Those alternative facts are pretty convincing, it would seem.
Electronic device ban when travelling from certain countries
A really interesting article showing how the UK has now followed in the footsteps of the USA, banning most electronic devices from being taken into the cabin on flights from some Muslim majority countries, including Turkey and Dubai.
