News of the Week; December 25, 2013

1. Investor sues EA over Battlefield 4 bugs

2. Zynga founder asks President to pardon Snowden

3. Chinese Wow Hackers Get Prison Time, Fines

4. Texas Judge Rules LoL Player’s ‘Terrorist Threat’ Case Will Move Forward

5. Think your game is exempt from COPPA? Think again.

6. Flights of fancy: Inside the intense world of virtual pilots

7. Resurgent Game Console Market Keeps Supplies Sparse

8. A YouTube Powerhouse Looks Beyond Its Gamer Base

9. Turn Off the Data Vacuum NY Times Editorial

10. GCHQ, NSA Spied On Known Terrorist Haven… UNICEF

11. Smooth operators: why phone companies don’t fight the NSA

12. What Surveillance Valley knows about you

13. Daniel Clowes Pursuing His Legal Options Regarding Shia LaBeouf’s Plagiarism

14. Bitcoin, Magical Thinking, and Political Ideology

15. Inside the Web’s $156 Billion Invisible Industry

16. Government Requests to Remove Online Material Increase at Google

17. Top Dozen Tech Events of 2013

And in the isn’t this a huge liability issue department:

18. Report: NSA paid RSA to make flawed crypto algorithm the default

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