News of the Week; June 28, 2017

GAMES

  1. Texas judge calls for an end to Oculus and ZeniMax’s “big, hairy fight”: Injunction hearing started this week, with Zenimax asking for $500 million additional damages and a 20% cut of Oculus’ revenue
  2. Facebook Fights to Prevent Oculus Rift Sales Ban
  3. Rockstar clarifies Grand Theft Auto V modding policy
  4. Rockstar: GTA single-player mods are “generally” safe from legal action – Take-Two and Rockstar have agreed to focus on GTA Online mods, an updated version of OpenIV is now available
  5. Single-player modding returns to GTA V after publisher takedown: Popular OpenIV tool restored after discussions, changes to protect multiplayer.
  6. Pokémon Go’s New Gyms Are Off To A Rocky Start 
  7. Here’s why ‘deliberate Switch shortages’ is a ridiculous notion: Nintendo has regularly said it’s ramping up production, so why are people so worried the platform holder is holding out on us?
  8. Nintendo: Switch shortages are “definitely not intentional” – In an Ars interview, exec also addresses issues with NES Classic, 3DS, and fan games.
  9. Nintendo apologises for Japanese Switch shortages as sales pass 1m: Company pledges increased shipments in July and August
  10. Nintendo Announces SNES Classic, Which Comes With 21 Stellar Games
  11. SNES Classic Edition Announced And Dated
  12. Plug-and-play SNES Classic coming Sept. 29 for $80 with two controllers: Unreleased Star Fox 2 among 21 16-bit classics included; Japanese version now confirmed.
  13. Fears of limited SNES Classic supply lead to 150% online resale markup: One eBay listing for the $80 system already sold for a whopping $390
  14. Nintendo Will Produce ‘Significantly More’ SNES  Classic Editions Than Nes Classic: Nintendo is currently only planning to ship the SNES Classic through the end of 2017.
  15. Nintendo plans to produce ‘significantly more’ than 2.3M SNES Classic Editions
  16. Nintendo Confirms SNES Classic Controller Cord Length Is Longer Than NES Classic’s
  17. Nintendo’s Market Value Climbs Past Sony Corp: Nintendo’s stock value is the highest it’s been since 2008.
  18. Nintendo Switch Helps Company Surpasses Sony In Market Cap: For the second time in 11 months, Nintendo’s market cap passes Sony’s.
  19. Super Mario Odyssey wins big at Game Critics Awards
  20. Sega Forever brings retro games to iOS and Android for free: Sonic the Hedgehog, Phantasy Star II, Comix Zone, Kid Chameleon, and Altered Beast launch.
  21. Botched Sega Forever launch blighted by poor emulation: Sega defends Unity emulation saying it wants games to reach “largest audience possible.”
  22. Mobile fragmentation to blame for Sega Forever launch woes: But publisher’s Mike Evans promises updates on the way that should get nostalgia assault back on track
  23. Q&A: How Microsoft is pitching the Xbox One X to devs (and consumers)
  24. Xbox One X to sell 17m by 2021 – DFC: Even with 4K TV sales on the rise, Xbox One X will only appeal to a narrow demographic, says David Cole
  25. PlayStation Emerging Filmmakers Program launched to create multiple new TV series: Sony seeking original video content with plans to make five pilots for potential shows
  26. With Sony’s indie support in question, developers at E3 weigh in
  27. Guillemot family raise Ubisoft stake to fend off Vivendi
  28. Ubisoft’s Guillemot family acquires larger stake in company: Attempts to thwart Vivendi takeover ongoing as founders now own 13.6% of shares, 20% of voting rights
  29. Paradox undoes global price increase in the name of transparency
  30. Paradox insists price hikes “create a more equal price point”
  31. Digital games up 9% in May to $7.8 billion – Superdata: Research firm finds steep drops in premium PC and console spaces offset by mobile, free-to-play growth
  32. Virtual Reality Can Teach Altruism, Empathy — and Why You Should Use Less Toilet Paper
  33. Survey: 31% of VR/AR devs are working on a platform exclusive
  34. One in three VR/AR projects in development will be platform-exclusive: HTC Vive remains developers’ headset of choice in VRDC survey
  35. New VRDC VR/AR Innovation Report reveals the HTC Vive is devs’ top target
  36. Report: Valve’s former augmented reality system is no more – CastAR creators have yet to confirm Polygon report of downturn, liquidation.
  37. Report: Augmented reality startup CastAR has closed its doors
  38. Twitch Overhauls App, Adds Native Mobile Streaming And ‘Dark Mode’
  39. Twitch Affiliates will soon reap the rewards of paid subscription tiers
  40. Corona 2D game engine is now ‘completely free’
  41. Blizzard announces major changes to loot systems in Overwatch & Hearthstone
  42. Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds has banned 25k cheaters since launch
  43. Child protection and Esports
  44. Splatoon dev: ‘Being an eSport wasn’t something that we were ever really considering’
  45. AbleGamers’s Player Panels aim to give game devs insight on accessibility
  46. How Naughty Dog broke Sony’s hardware rules to create Crash Bandicoot
  47. Rust dev shares Steam refund data: ~330k copies, $4M+ revenue refunded
  48. In a bid for better transparency, G2A will strip anonymity from key sellers
  49. Destiny 2’s guns won’t recoil on PC as they do on consoles: Project lead says aiming drift “doesn’t feel good” when using a mouse.
  50. Wargaming opens mobile game development and publishing division
  51. The memory optimization struggle in Unity3d
  52. Unity showcases new camera and Timeline tech ahead of 2017.1 release
  53. Unity launches graduate research program to fuel innovation in games
  54. German chancellor Angela Merkel to open Gamescom 2017: First time the country’s leader will open long-running video games expo
  55. Ready Player One: Video Game Oral Histories: Did you know that “Ms. Pac-Man” started out as a character named “Crazy Otto”? Or that “Halo: Combat Evolved” was originally going to be a real-time strategy game? Here are the companies, consoles and titles that ate your quarters and bruised your thumbs.
  56. iPhone at 10: How Apple changed gaming for the better and the worse – For gaming, the iPhone sparked a gold rush and burst of creativity still felt today.
  57. Dev rescues ’80s text adventure source code by baking tapes in an oven
  58. John Romero’s Doom II floppy disks sell for over $3,000: A small price to pay?

DIGITAL

  1. Pakistan Sentences First Person To Death Over Social Media Posts
  2. China just banned livestreaming because it’s too hard to censor
  3. Google must alter worldwide search results, per orders from Canada’s top court: Vancouver tech company seeks to de-list a website selling alleged counterfeits.
  4. Supreme Court Case Upholds Order Against Google
  5. Supreme Court of Canada states “The Internet has no borders” in upholding global injunction in search results case
  6. Google Inc. v. Equustek Solutions Inc. (SCC)
  7. Section 230 Protects Google’s Decision Not To De-Index Content–Bennett v. Google
  8. Canadian Supreme Court Says It’s Fine To Censor The Global Internet; Authoritarians & Hollywood Cheer…
  9. Ominous: Canadian Court Orders Google To Remove Search Results Globally
  10. Google Suffers Severe Setback from the Supreme Court of Canada (Howard Knopf)
  11. Global Internet Takedown Orders Come to Canada: Supreme Court Upholds International Removal of Google Search Results (Michael Geist)
  12. Without telling media, Arizona judge orders dozens of articles to be deleted: An NFL cheerleader and US Army officer was celebrated—until she was arrested.
  13. Canada’s Supreme Court clears way for Facebook privacy lawsuit
  14. Supreme Court turns down EFF’s “Dancing Baby” fair use case: The law against bogus DMCA takedowns will remain tough to enforce.
  15. Copyright Office Admits That DMCA Is More About Giving Hollywood ‘Control’ Than Stopping Infringement
  16. Supreme Court of Canada finds Facebook’s Forum Selection Clause is Unenforceable; Privacy class action can proceed in Canadian Court
  17. Few “likes” for Facebook Forum Selection Clause: Supreme Court Finds “Strong Cause” to Not Enforce Forum Selection Clause 
  18. Douez v. Facebook, Inc. (Supreme Court of Canada)
  19. Law on Jurisdiction Clauses Changes in Canada
  20. Facebook Must Face the Fact That Its Forum Selection Clause is Unenforceable in Canadian Privacy Class Action
  21. Supreme Court Rules Facebook Can’t Contract Out of B.C. Privacy Law (Michael Geist)
  22. Why clicking ‘I agree’ may no longer mean you agree to everything (Michael Geist)
  23. Supreme Court of Canada Leaves Forum Selection Clauses in a State of Uncertainty
  24. Man drives into Ten Commandments monument in Arkansas Capitol, streams it on Facebook: Replicas of the Ten Commandments on public property always spark controversy.
  25. Zillow is threatening to sue a blogger for using its photos for parody: McMansion Hell becomes legal hell
  26. Zillow Sends Totally Ridiculous Legal Threat To McMansion Hell
  27. Zillow Still Doesn’t Get It: Second Letter About McMansion Hell Is Still Just Wrong
  28. “McMansion Hell” used Zillow photos to mock bad design—Zillow may sue: “It is my sincere hope that this issue is resolved as amicably as possible.”
  29. Ill-Advised Copyright Lawsuit Over Facebook Live Video Becomes Costly For Plaintiff–Konangataa v. ABC (Eric Goldman)
  30. Court Orders Man Who Sued News Orgs For Clipping His Facebook Video To Pay Everyone’s Attorney’s Fees
  31. Cops Sent Warrant To Facebook To Dig Up Dirt On Woman Whose Boyfriend They Had Just Killed
  32. Facebook’s Secret Censorship Rules Protect White Men from Hate Speech But Not Black Children: A trove of internal documents sheds light on the algorithms that Facebook’s censors use to differentiate between hate speech and legitimate political expression.
  33. Facebook’s secret rules mean that it’s OK to be anti-Islam, but not anti-gay: “The policies do not always lead to perfect outcomes,” top Facebook official says.
  34. Judge rips lawyers in IP rift over viral Facebook childbirth video: Judge says media should be paid the “costs of defending this frivolous litigation.”
  35. YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft Form New Group to Fight Terrorist Content
  36. Facebook launches UK initiative to counter online extremist material
  37. Macedonian Publishers Are Panicking After Facebook Killed Their US Political Pages: Over 30 Facebook pages being run from Macedonia have been removed by Facebook in the past two months.
  38. Facebook Is Launching A Standalone App Exclusively For Video Creators
  39. Facebook Surpasses Insane Milestone Of 2 Billion Worldwide Users
  40. We desperately need a way to defend against online propaganda: Despite years of fake news online, we still have no idea how to protect against it.
  41. United Airlines wins suit against founder of Untied.com complaint site
  42. Patriots’ owner says NFL’s future is through livestreaming
  43. Fox Sports Pacts With Facebook to Live-Stream European Soccer Champions League Matches
  44. FOX Sports To Stream Champions League Matches On Facebook In U.S
  45. China’s Central Bank Has Begun Cautiously Testing a Digital Currency: The People’s Bank of China has developed a digital currency that’s designed to scale to the number of transactions made every day across the country.
  46. Wikileaks Attempts To Bully Wikileaks Documentary With C&D Notices
  47. Google hit with record EU fine over Shopping service
  48. Google Slapped With $2.7 Billion EU Fine Over Search Results: EU orders Google to treat rival comparison-shopping services equally in its search results
  49. Google fined $2.7B by European Commission for abusing search monopoly: EU also rules that Google must stop demoting competitors in search results.
  50. Google’s Big Eu Fine Isn’t Just About The Money
  51. Three Thoughts On EU’s $2.7 Billion Antitrust Google Fine
  52. Google’s Elite Hacker SWAT Team vs. Everyone: Brash. Controversial. A guard against rising digital threats around the globe. Google’s Project Zero is securing the Internet on its own terms. Is that a problem?
  53. Aspiring YouTuber, 22, Fatally Shot While Filming Ill-Conceived Prank Video
  54. Black Pigeon Speaks: The Anatomy of the Worldview of an Alt-Right YouTuber
  55. Trump Accuses Amazon of Not Paying ‘Internet Taxes,’ Which Aren’t a Thing
  56. No, Donald Trump Isn’t Calling For An Internet Tax
  57. Does the Packingham Ruling Presage Greater Government Control Over Search Results? Or Less? 
  58. As Predicted, Cox’s Latest Appeal Points To SCOTUS’ Refusal To Disconnect Sex Offenders From Social Media
  59. London police arrest four in Windows support scam bust: India-based scam callers pose as ISP employees.
  60. New York Attorney General Unveils Latest Ticket Bot Enforcement Actions against Ticket Vendors and Software Developer 
  61. Instagram Stories Crushes Snapchat, Offers Downloadable Live Streams
  62. Investigation Shows That FTC’s Reminder Letters Are Ineffective at Disclosing Paid Posts on Instagram – Groups to the FTC: Enforcement Action Needed to Change Influencer Behavior on Instagram
  63. Adventure cat goes viral : Cat has nearly 22,000 Instagram followers
  64. Baby Ariel, Joanne The Scammer Named Most Influential On The Internet By ‘Time’
  65. FTC Updates Children’s Online Privacy Protection (COPPA) Compliance Plan to include Connected Toys 
  66. Cracking YouTube In 2017: The New Research That Cracks The Code On YouTube’s Algorithms
  67. YouTube Adds Machine Learning To Comments, Rebuilds Its Desktop Creator Studio
  68. YouTube Claims 1.5 Billion Monthly Users in Latest Ad Sales Pitch
  69. YouTube Announces New VR Video Format, App Revamp At VidCon Keynote
  70. YouTube’s Ad-Supported Originals Are Directly Competing For TV Ad Dollars
  71. YouTube Red Originals Have Received 250 Million Views So Far, And 2017 Will Bring 13 New Releases
  72. YouTube Co-Viewing App ‘Uptime’ Officially Exits Beta
  73. YouTube’s “VR180” format cuts down on VR video’s prohibitive requirements: VR in only 180 degrees is easier to stream and fits traditional video content better.
  74. YouTube Unveils Defiant Hero Video For Fifth Annual LGBTQ Pride Campaign
  75. Game Music Composer Goes On DMCA Blitz Against Innocent YouTubers Over Contract Dispute With Game Publisher
  76. Google Will No Longer Scan Gmail for Ad Targeting
  77. Scroogled no more: Gmail won’t scan e-mails for ads personalization – Google kills Gmail’s most controversial feature.
  78. Google Unveils An AI Investment Fund. It’s Betting On An App Store For Algorithms.
  79. Football’s Next Frontier: The Battle Over Big Data – NFL players have signed a five-year deal with WHOOP, a biometric performance company that measures workout strain, recovery, and quality of sleep via a wearable band. If teams want to see the data, they’re going to have to pay up . . . but they won’t be the only customers
  80. Should robot artists be given copyright protection (Andres Guadamuz)
  81. Has human communication become botifed?
  82. IBM To Provide Wimbledon Highlights Using Artificial Intelligence
  83. AI and the Law: Setting the Stage (Urs Gasser)
  84. Artificial Intelligence for good
  85. Reddit Hails Advertisers With Announcement Of Video Ads
  86. Disney Is Reviving ‘Mickey Mouse Club’ With New Class Of Influencer Mouseketeers
  87. Vimeo Decides To End Plans For SVOD Service
  88. Vimeo Kills Plans For Subscription-Video Service
  89. BlackBerry’s no-phone business model isn’t working out as planned: Stock falls 13 percent in one day after bad sales numbers.
  90. Amazon’s latest Prime Exclusive Phones range from $79 to $199: In exchange for lockscreen ads, Amazon is offering up to an $80 discount on some phones.
  91. Sean Parker Leaves Spotify Board as Company Brings in Heavy Hitters
  92. Inside Spotify’s Financials: Is There a Path to Profitability Or an IPO?
  93. Over 1000 Uber Employees Have ‘Demanded’ Travis Kalanick’s Return In Letter To Board
  94. Waymo tells judge: Uber’s ex-CEO knew about Google files – Levandowski had “five discs in his possession containing Google information.”
  95. Fake online stores reveal gamblers’ shadow banking system
  96. Judges refuse to order fix for court software that put people in jail by mistake – Defender: Switch to Odyssey Court Manager remains at the heart of the problem.
  97. The tragedy of FireWire: Collaborative tech torpedoed by corporations: “Show us that it’s being adopted in the industry, and we’ll put it in.”
  98. Social media has changed TV, for better and worse
  99. The Industry of Virality (or what a raccoon video can teach us about the Internet)
  100. The Pirate Bay – A Communication to the Public
  101. How 7 words unfit for TV fostered an open Internet 20 years ago today: “When we decided to bring the case, none of us had been online.”
  102. How The ACLU’s Fight To Protect ‘Indecent’ Speech Saved The Internet From Being Treated Like Broadcast TV
  103. Inside Apple’s 6-Month Race To Make The First iPhone A Reality
  104. The iPhone’s Turning 10. What Will It Look Like At 20?
  105. A touch of Cocoa: Inside the original iPhone SDK – Back in 2008, Ars took its first look at what Apple provided for iPhone developers.
  106. Back to the iPhone future: Lessons from a decade of Apple influence in medicine: iPhones spurred big changes in learning and practicing medicine—and there may be more
  107. Brain Drain: The Mere Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity
  108. Samsung’s fiery Galaxy Note 7 to rise from the ashes as the “Fandom Edition”: The Note 7 FE hits South Korea (and some other countries) on July 7.

CREATIVITY

  1.  U.S. Lobby Groups Take Aim At Canadian Copyright Law in NAFTA Comments: No Balance, No Fair Use, & No Cultural Exception (Michael Geist)
  2. Re:Sound Resoundingly Loses Judicial Review of Copyright Board Tariff 8 Decision (Howard Knopf)
  3. A Copyright Board for Canada at 150: A well funded Copyright Board with a clear mandate and a regulated process for public input should be central to Canada’s copyright regime.
  4. The great intellectual property trade-off: BBC World Service, 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy
  5. Copyright protection for factual compilations in Singapore: creativity alone is not enough 
  6. Jordan-Benel v. Universal City Studios, Inc.
  7. “Turn Down For What?” How About For Copyright Law!?
  8. Bob Murray’s Lawsuit Against John Oliver Is Even Sillier Than We Expected
  9. Coal Boss Files Total SLAPP Suit Against John Oliver & HBO
  10. Anti-SLAPP law to be tested at Ontario Court of Appeal
  11. A Time magazine with Trump on the cover hangs in his golf clubs. It’s fake.
  12. Why Racially Offensive Trademarks Are Now Legally Protected
  13. Examination Guide 1-17: Examination Guidance for Section 2(a)’s Disparagement Provision after Matal v. Tam and Examination for Compliance with Section 2(a)’s Scandalousness Provision While Constitutionality Remains in Question (Issued June 26, 2017)
  14. King Has ‘Crush’ Trademark Opposed By Dr. Pepper
  15. Forever 21 Slaps Gucci with Strongly-Worded Trademark Lawsuit
  16. AG Szpunar advises CJEU to rule that a red sole may not be just a colour
  17. Christian Louboutin, Christian Louboutin SAS v Van Haren Schoenen BV
  18. Justin Bieber tweets and an international arbitrator listens: court refers defamation claim to arbitration
  19. How Major Lazer Bet on Diversity (and Data) to Make Global Hits: ‘The Audience Controls Music Now’
  20. Don’t use that tone(r) with me: How first sale can exhaust IP rights
  21. Art Fight! The Pinkest Pink Versus The Blackest Black
  22. Antony Gormley asks for ‘vandalised’ beach sculptures to be cleaned: Sculptor’s life-sized iron men in Crosby have been brightly decorated with a polka-dot bikini and other embellishments
  23. Ninth Circuit Upholds Law Against Misleading Anti-Abortion Ads
  24. How ‘The Bachelor’ Franchise Is Exploiting Race For Ratings
  25. The National Enquirer’s Fervor for Trump: The tabloid is defined by its predatory spirit. Why has it embraced the President with such sycophantic zeal?
  26. Goodbye Nonpartisan Journalism. And Good Riddance.
  27. How Countries Around the World Fund Music—and Why It Matters: As President Trump eyes abolishing federal arts funding in the U.S., a survey of tax-supported music from Australia to Iceland reveals a complex, shifting landscape.
  28. Anita Sarkeesian’s astounding ‘garbage human’ moment: Feminist speaker hits back at trolls and haters
  29. The Rise of the Thought Leader: How the superrich have funded a new class of intellectual.
  30. Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science?: It is an industry like no other, with profit margins to rival Google – and it was created by one of Britain’s most notorious tycoons – Robert Maxwell.
  31. The Political Economy of Celebrity Rights (Mark Bartholomew)

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

  1. Why Net Neutrality Matters Even In The Age Of Oligopoly
  2. Tumblr Goes Radio Silent On Net Neutrality After Verizon Acquisition
  3. 30 small ISPs urge Ajit Pai to preserve Title II and net neutrality rules – Letter: Title II didn’t hurt investment, is good for small ISPs and customers.
  4. AT&T Promises A Cornucopia Of Broadband Investment…But Only If Trump Gives It A Giant Tax Cut & A Shiny New Merger
  5. AT&T May Soon Return To Charging Broadband Subscribers More For Privacy
  6. AT&T: Forced arbitration isn’t “forced” because no one has to buy service: To avoid AT&T arbitration, your only choice is to not be a customer.
  7. Verizon illegally denied Charter access to utility poles, complaint says: Charter fined for slow Internet rollout but says Verizon delayed construction.
  8. FCC Proposes $120 Million Fine for Spoofed Robocalls 
  9. Thankfully, Marketing Industry Plan For ‘Ringless Voicemail’ Dies a Quiet Death…For Now
  10. Ringless voicemail spam won’t be exempt from anti-robocall rules: After heavy opposition, robocall company gives up attempt to avoid FCC rules.
  11. Scammer who made 96 million robocalls should pay $120M fine, FCC says: Vacation scam preyed on elderly and disrupted medical paging system, FCC says.
  12. Advertiser Fined By FCC For Use Of Emergency Tones in Football Ads 
  13. Frontier Communications Caught (Again) Ripping Off West Virginia Taxpayers
  14. Comcast accused of cutting competitor’s wires to put it out of business: Comcast “systematically destroyed” an ISP with 229 customers, lawsuit claims.
  15. Comcast and Charter could invest in Sprint’s network, resell Sprint data: Sprint is holding “exclusive talks” with the two biggest US cable companies.
  16. Charter promised more broadband but didn’t deliver, now must pay fine: 21,000 NY customers did not get broadband on schedule, despite merger promise.
  17. Wall Street Is Starting To Get Very Nervous About Cable TV Cord Cutting
  18. Cable Industry Quietly Shelves Its Bogus Plan To Make Cable Boxes Cheaper, More Competitive
  19. Taking the pulse of ESPN
  20. What the failure of Star Touch teaches us about a media bailout

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

  1. Election Hackers Altered Voter Rolls, Stole Private Data, Officials Say
  2. Matthew Keys’ guilty verdict and sentence to stand, 9th Circuit rules: “Keys made the CMS far weaker by taking and creating new user accounts.”
  3. A report card on the national security bill: Two of Canada’s foremost experts in national security law give their assessment of Bill C-59: there’s much to like, but also room for improvement. (Craig Forcese & Kent Roach)
  4. Liberals shockingly timid on access-to-information reform
  5. Trudeau government shelves part of anti-spam law that would allow private lawsuits: Provisions to allow Canadians to sue spammers had been due to take effect July 1
  6. The battle over encryption and what it means for our privacy
  7. Tuesday’s massive ransomware outbreak was, in fact, something much worse: Payload delivered in mass attack destroys data, with no hope of recovery.
  8. A new ransomware outbreak similar to WCry is shutting down computers worldwide: Like earlier ransomware worm, new attacks use potent exploit stolen from the NSA.
  9. ‘Petya’ ransomware attack: what is it and how can it be stopped?: Companies have been crippled by global cyberattack, the second major ransomware crime in two months. We answer the key questions
  10. Ohio Gov. Kasich’s website, dozens of others defaced using year-old exploit: “High risk” exploit patch was issued in May of 2016.
  11. Does US have right to data on overseas servers? We’re about to find out: Supreme Court case has ramifications for tech sector, foreign relations, and privacy.
  12. This Windows Defender bug was so gaping its PoC exploit had to be encrypted
  13. Skylake, Kaby Lake chips have a crash bug with hyperthreading enabled: A fix is available for Linux systems; Windows users will have to use firmware updates.
  14. To Avoid Being Cut Out Of The Market, US Tech Companies Are Allowing Russian Vetting Of Source Code
  15. Australia To Push For Encryption Backdoors At Next ‘Five Eyes’ Meeting
  16. Australia advocates weakening strong crypto at upcoming “Five Eyes” meeting: Oz AG to discuss “ongoing challenges posed by terrorists and criminals using encryption.”
  17. UK Law Enforcement Telling Citizens To ‘See Something Say Something’ About Dark Web Use
  18. How the CIA infects air-gapped networks: Sprawling “Brutal Kangaroo“ spreads malware using booby-trapped USB drives.
  19. Some beers, anger at former employer, and root access add up to a year in prison: Ex-tech pleads guilty to smart meter network attack; changed a password.”
  20. NFL Uses Eye-Tracking Technology To Study How Fans Watch Games
  21. Meet the Princeton-Trained Computer Scientists Building a New Internet That Brings Privacy and Property Rights to Cyberspace (New at Reason)
  22. Settlement of Walmart Canada Photo Centre Data Breach Lawsuits – Lessons Learned
  23. Facial Recognition Software Brings Personalized Ads To The Supermarket
  24. Medical records join revenge porn, credit card numbers for Google removal: It’s an elective removal, though. Google will only do it if you ask.
  25. 15 years after ‘Minority Report’: A cautionary film, ignored.

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