GAMES
- In Legal Warfare Over HUMVEE Trademarks, the First Amendment Goes Beyond the Call of Duty in Dismissing AM General’s Claims
- Judge Daniels: Video Game “Call of Duty” Is Allowed to Feature Humvees
- Call of Duty streamer accidentally fires gun on-air, lands Twitch ban: Glock and awe.
- Chinese Government Bans ‘Animal Crossing’ After Hong Kong Gamers Stage Protests Inside The Game
- Amid in-game Hong Kong protests, Chinese retailers drop Animal Crossing sales
- Chinese e-commerce sites Pinduoduo, Taobao delist Animal Crossing: New Horizons – The game hasn’t been approved in China, and government regulator is now enforcing the ban
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons pulled from online stores in China
- Roundtable: The unique allure of Animal Crossing: New Horizons
- Duke Nukem Goes Retro in Music Copyright Suit
- Cooking Mama: Cookstar drama thickens as publisher asserts right to publish
- Cooking Mama license holder threatens legal action against Cookstar publisher
- Cooking Mama IP holder taking legal action against Cookstar publisher Planet Entertainment: Planet Entertainment responds, saying it was “fully within its rights” to publish Cookstar
- ESRB ratings will now note if in-game purchases involve random items
- Australian Parliamentary committee recommends loot box regulation: Also suggests mandatory age verification for purchases toward any simulated gambling elements in games
- Court Dumps Almost All Of A New York Sax Player’s Lawsuit Against Fortnite Over Use Of His ‘Likeness’
- Epic Games Does a Victory Dance Over Dismissal of Right of Publicity, Privacy, and Trademark Claims but False Endorsement Levels Up
- Who Owns an Athlete’s Tattoos? The Player? The Tattoo Artist? A Licensor?
- Washington State’s Nexus Blitz Against Riot Games
- Ring 0 of fire: Does Riot Games’ new anti-cheat measure go too far?
- ESRB intros new label for loot boxes: “In-Game Purchases (Includes Random Items)” designation created in response to concerns of players, not parents
- Zynga Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Data Breach: Lawsuit seeks to certify a subclass of young users of the company’s social games claiming that the minors aren’t bound by contractual terms forced on users upon sign-up.
- Pokemon Rumble Rush is being shut down one year after launch
- Nintendo’s latest Switch update ushers in system-level button remapping
- Switch firmware update adds controls remapping: Nintendo’s latest feature welcomed as “a great first step for accessibility” by AbleGamers founder
- Nintendo spent over $14m on TV ads in March: No other gaming brand cracked $1 million in TV ad spend last month
- COVID-19: The state of the games industry – From esports and events to development and retail, it’s a mixed bag for the games industry in the middle of a global upheaval
- Esports May Be the Best Play During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- All Sports Are Esports Now: The MLB The Show, Players Tournament Edition
- NASCAR driver fired for idiotic behavior in esports
- Formula E starts a new “battle royale” online series this weekend
- Esports Gets Local With Facebook’s New DIY Tournament Tool
- League of Legends players raised $6m for charities they’ll pick: Players will vote to determine which nonprofits the money raised in their region will support
- What does a year without events mean for indies?: A slew of cancellations due to COVID-19 has dealt a blow to smaller developers that depend on events to improve their chances of success
- The games industry must protect its vulnerable businesses | Opinion: People are buying lots of games, but the health of the games business is still in jeopardy
- Striking Distance in the era of social distance: Glen Schofield says shifting the PUBG-owned studio to remote work has changed his perspective on telecommuting
- Capcom implementing work-from-home policy until early May
- Capcom implements work-from-home policy through early May: Osaka, Tokyo now under state of emergency, but no government mandate to work from home
- WWE 2K21 reportedly cancelled in favour of new game: Former developer claims 2K will publish a different title following 2K20’s woes, 2K22 will skip next-gen
- Virtual racing series has injured Canadian driver Robert Wickens back on the ‘road’
- Xbox Game Pass to launch in Japan on April 14: Subscription service will go live in Japan next week for both PC and console
- Sony invests $400 million in Chinese entertainment platform Bilibili
- Sony takes $400 million stake in Bilibili: PlayStation maker picks up almost 5% of Chinese video and mobile game company
- PlayStation is pulling together a $10 million fund to support indie devs during COVID-19
- PlayStation reveals $10m fund to support indie developers during COVID-19: It’s also giving away Journey and Uncharted The Nathan Drake Collection as part of the Play At Home Initiative
- TurboGrafx-16 Mini review: Mostly best-in-class retro gaming, sometimes WTF
- The biggest ray-traced game yet: Minecraft RTX Beta debuts April 16 on PC
- CD Projekt Red: Cyberpunk 2077 “in a complete form,” further delays unlikely – Aside from minor localization difficulties, studio says development “business as usual” despite COVID-19
- CD Projekt reports yearly gains in sales as it looks toward Cyberpunk 2077 launch
- With well over 2.5 million sold, 2019 was The Witcher 3’s best-ever year on PC
- The Witcher 3’s second-biggest year drives CD Projekt revenues to $124.7m: Downloads drive RPG’s ongoing success, company still confident of September launch for Cyberpunk 2077
- Avalanche restructures, brands self-publishing unit Systemic Reaction: Just Cause creator will now operate as three units under the Avalanche Studios Group name
- Nordisk Film invests $4.5 million into Finnish mobile studio Nitro Games
- Nordisk Film invests $4.5m in Nitro Games: Investor’s funding will establish it as the studio’s largest shareholder
- Nifty Games secures over $12 million to develop sports titles for mobile
- Mobile sports startup Nifty Games raises another $12M, reveals NFL game
- Nifty Games raises $12m in Series A funding: Funding so far totals $15m, will support new, licensed NFL mobile title
- Valorant makes you watch before you play—that’ll change online games forever
- Valorant breaks Twitch single-day viewership records: It also ties League of Legends, Fortnite for concurrent viewership record
- Esports entertainment platform Players Netwrk launches today: Serial entrepreneur Stratton Sclavos lines up big names from the worlds of traditional sports and esports
- Twitch Rolls Out ‘Watch Parties’ Feature, Letting Partner Creators Livestream Amazon Prime Video Content
- Ecommerce Upstart NTWRK Leads FaZe Clan’s Latest Funding Round, Including Merch Pact
- New video game enlists players to help advance scientific research: Free downloadable content gives gamers the chance to contribute to the study of the gut microbiome
- Indie Megabooth winding down operations due to coronavirus
- Valve Explains the Deceptively Simple Design Process That Made ‘Half-Life: Alyx’ Excellent
- Resident Evil 3 remake ships 2 million in five days: Digital sales account for half of total as Capcom’s latest zombie shooter trails pace of last year’s Resident Evil 2 remake
- UK Charts: Final Fantasy 7 Remake is No.1 as boxed market grows again – But Square Enix’s new release sells half of Final Fantasy XV’s launch week
- Latest iteration of EGM ceases publication of daily features
- The industry mines for ’90s nostalgia | Opinion: Between Resident Evil 3 and Final Fantasy 7, we’re playing like it’s 1999 — but few other PlayStation-era titles justify this high-budget treatment
- Final Fantasy XIV Online delays next patch due to COVID-19: Director Naoki Yoshida says team is testing new remote work tools to help resume normal development times
- A bevy of COVID-19 issues lead to delay in planned Final Fantasy XIV update
- Ubisoft delays next For Honor season after sudden shift to work-from-home
- The evolution of Ape Out: Gabe Cuzzillo explains how a song helped defined the aesthetic for his BAFTA-winning action game
- Journey into the mysterious and unknown with Gothic 2: Why I Love – Gisle Sølvberg explains the appeal of playing an ambitious example of a genre he wasn’t familiar with in a language he barely understood
- Ethical community management in a struggling world: Kitfox Games’ Victoria Tran on the positive role of community management during times of stress and upheaval
- The five deadly sins of game attractiveness
- Blog: The likelihood of making $10,000 in your first month on Steam
- Blog: Animal Crossing in the age of social distancing
- Blog: The making of Warcraft II
- Blog: Inside the development of The Riftbreaker’s AI system
- Blog: Lessons learned from reviewing indie games
- Blog: Composing the interactive music of SPYDER
- Don’t Miss: Designing and structuring great boss battles
- Don’t Miss: How Maxis put the ‘sim’ in SimCity
- Don’t Miss: Firaxis Games’ classic postmortem of XCOM: Enemy Unknown
- Don’t Miss: The afterimage of Final Fantasy VII
- Deep Dive: The subtle art of building tension in Yes, Your Grace
- Video: Understanding the rules of Baba Is You
- Video: Understanding how people shop for games on Steam
DIGITAL
- Federal government open to new law to fight pandemic misinformation: It’s one of several measures the government is considering to counter fake news about the virus online
- Puerto Rico Decides The 1st Amendment Doesn’t Apply To Its Citizens; Criminalizes ‘Fake News’
- French Government Says Google Must Pay French News Agencies For Sending Traffic Their Way
- French regulator says Google must pay news sites to send them traffic: Officials rejected Google’s plan to stop using snippets in news search results.
- YouTube Schools PragerU on Lanham Act in Censorship Case
- A First Amendment Win for YouTube!
- YouTube May Be An Enormous Town Square, But It’s Still Not Subject to The First Amendment
- Lessig Withdraws ‘Clickbait Defamation’ Lawsuit Against NY Times After Changed Headline
- Instagram’s TOS Authorizes Third-Party Embedding of Photos–Sinclair v. Mashable (Eric Goldman)
- Another Court Significantly Limits the Scope of Criminal CFAA–Sandvig v. Barr (Eric Goldman)
- Amazon fires at least 3 employees who criticized workplace conditions
- Nine Amazon workers describe the daily risks they face in the pandemic
- The pandemic is playing to almost every one of Amazon’s strengths
- Amazon was already powerful. The coronavirus pandemic cleared the way to dominance.: The global health crisis has forced 250,000 US stores closed, clearing the way to Amazon’s dominance.
- Amazon isn’t accepting new grocery customers while it strains to meet current demand
- Amazon pauses new grocery signups, hires another 75,000 workers
- Unsanitized: Why Amazon May Not Emerge From the Crisis Dominant
- Even Google and Facebook May Face an Ad Slump: Though ad sales at the two companies are expected to be down, they are likely to fare better than smaller peers and publishers.
- Senator Tillis Angry At The Internet Archive For Helping People Read During A Pandemic; Archive Explains Why That’s Wrong
- Florida Governor Responds To Lawsuit Over Coronavirus Infection Documents By Pressuring Newspaper’s Law Firm To Drop The Suit
- Alphabet CEO tells employees the company will slow hiring and other investments
- Judge Rakoff: MLB Broke the Hearts of All True Baseball Fans, But Did Not Break the Law
- Twitter will now give more of your user data to advertisers
- Oncologists Say The Absolute Best Information They’re Getting These Days Comes From Twitter
- How Steak-umm Became The Tweeting Voice Of Reason In A Pandemic
- Kate Klonick and Alina Polyakova on Pandemics, Platform Governance and Geopolitics
- Computer Service Providers Face Implied Limits on CDA Immunity
- Canadian Maker of Smart Locks Settles with FTC Over Deceptive Security Claims
- FTC The Latest To Discover ‘Smart’ Locks Are Dumb, Easily Compromised
- Your COVID-19 Internet problems might be COVID-19 Wi-Fi problems
- The Law of E-Signatures in the United States and Canada
- The Pandemic Sparked A 75% Jump In Views For YouTube’s News Content, Chief Product Officer Says
- As YouTube Traffic Soars, YouTubers Say Pay Is Plummeting: Advertising rates on the platform have dropped significantly during the coronavirus pandemic
- YouTube Testing ‘Chapters’ Feature To Help Users Better Navigate Lengthy Videos
- YouTube launches a free, DIY tool for businesses in need of short video ads
- YouTube Drops Free ‘Video Builder’ Ad Tool To Aid Small Businesses Amid Pandemic
- Coronavirus Survivors Tell Their Stories In Anthony Padilla’s New YouTube Series
- Andrea Bocelli’s Easter Concert Breaks YouTube Record For Biggest Classical Stream To Date
- Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 4/13/2020
- David Dobrik, Donald Trump, Charli D’Amelio Are Teens’ Top Social Influencers, Study Finds
- What Google and Facebook need to do to fight disinformation
- ‘Infodemic’ puts social media platforms under heightened regulatory scrutiny
- Hunting down the rumours of COVID-19
- Coronavirus Drives 30% Surge in Video on Demand Viewing for March
- 3D Printers Recast Virus-Weary Supply Chains
- Instagram has plans to help artists monetise livestreams
- Instagram announces new features for small businesses including gift cards, food orders and fundraisers
- Hearst pivots to Instagram Live while audiences are cooped up at home
- New Research Suggests Spotify Is Pulling Away From Apple Music: Despite having the largest user base, Spotify is growing faster than its peers.
- Spotify signs licensing deal with Indian company Shemaroo
- In 1 Week, ‘Parasite’ Becomes Hulu’s Most-Streamed Foreign-Language Film Ever
- Say goodbye to Samsung’s S-Voice—the servers shut down June 1, 2020
- IGTV Redesign Puts Creators Center Stage, Adds New ‘Discover’ Tab, Hands-Free Recording
- One Week After Launching In India, Disney+ Hits 50 Million Paying Subscribers
- Disney+ surpasses 50 million subscribers in just 5 months
- Remember: When Creatively Engaging With Socially Distanced Kids, Be Sure to Avoid Creating COPPA or CCPA Compliance Concerns
- Airbnb now offers virtual ‘travel’ experiences to keep you entertained at home: Virtually visit a goat farm or get your fortunes read
- Is virtual travel really a thing?
- Facebook is adding a Quiet Mode that silences push notifications on mobile: A new digital well-being feature for Facebook’s main mobile app
- Facebook Ad Rates Fall as Coronavirus Undermines Spending: Advertisers can reach more users per dollar – or save money for whatever is ahead
- Google wants to dump Qualcomm, launch smartphone SoC as early as next year
- Has Apple finally bitten off way more than it can chew?: Apple used to be about changing the world one magic box at a time. Now it’s fighting to conquer TV drama, healthcare, money, news and much else besides
- IBM scrambles to find or train more COBOL programmers to help states
- We Can’t Let Tech Companies Use This Crisis to Expand Their Power
- Navigating the ‘infodemic’: how people in six countries access and rate news and information about coronavirus
- Netflix Has Tripled Its Digital Ad Spend Since COVID-19 Hit The U.S. (Report)
- Netflix Hits All-Time Stock High, Making It Temporarily More Valuable Than Disney
- In Light Of Quarantine, Instagram Makes Live Streams Viewable On Desktops
- TikTok TikTok Boom! The ticking time bomb threat of copyright infringement claims for the burgeoning social media platform
- TikTok Pledges $250 Million For Coronavirus Relief, $125 Million In Ad Credits For Small Businesses And NGOs
- “Tech, lies and video-conferencing”: The Court’s implementation of remote hearings
- It’s Time for Online Dispute Resolution (a.k.a Virtual Mediation)
- Mark Carrigan Asks If We’re All Digital Scholars Now?
- When school is online, the digital divide grows greater
- Digital hoarders: “Our terabytes are put to use for the betterment of mankind”
- Do you even 10-key, bro? Our homage to the classic keyboard standard
- Community building on crowdwork platforms: Autonomy and control of online workers? (Christine Gerber)
- Navigating the ‘infodemic’: how people in six countries access and rate news and information about coronavirus (Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Richard Fletcher, Nic Newman, J. Scott Brennen, Philip N. Howard)
- Federal Rules of Platform Procedure (Rory Van Loo)
- The coronavirus pandemic turned Folding@Home into an exaFLOP supercomputer
A.I.
- AI Update: FTC Provides Guidance on Use of AI and Algorithms
- Robots Welcome to Take Over, as Pandemic Accelerates Automation: Broad unease about losing jobs to machines could dissipate as people focus on the benefits of minimizing close human contact.
- IP Protection of Artificial Intelligence in Europe: Tailor-Made Solutions Required
- Meet humanity’s new ally in the coronavirus fight: Robots
- Update from LitLand: Vermont Attorney General Sues Clearview AI
- When artificial intelligence is the inventor or creator: who claims the rights?
- Facebook is building a hidden, bot-only platform to learn about trolls and scammers
COMMUNICATIONS
- Fox News Set the Stage for America’s Poor Coronavirus Response: The network has conditioned its viewers to hate experts and to trust miracle cures for 25 years.
- Charter still hates broadband competition, asks FCC to help prevent it
- Citing BGP hijacks and hack attacks, feds want China Telecom out of the US
- Trump Administration Establishes the Committee for the Assessment of Foreign Participation in the United States Telecommunications Services Sector
- President Trump Has Issued an Executive Order Formally Establishing a Committee to Assess Foreign Participation in the US Telecommunications Services Sector
- White House Clarifies and Expands Executive Branch Review of Foreign Participation in FCC Regulated Telecom Services
- A Formalized Team Telecom: White House Establishes Committee to Review Foreign Ownership or Control in U.S. Telecom Sector
- Canada’s Communications Regulators Take Action in the Fallout from COVID-19
- Shaw Communications temporarily lays off 10% of workforce
- TeamTelecom Recommends that the FCC Revoke China Telecom’s Authorizations to Provide International Telecommunications Services to and from the United States
- FCC Waives Gift Rules for Rural Health Care, E-Rate Entities in COVID-19 Response
- FCC Takes Action Against COVID-19-related Scam Robocalls
- It Shouldn’t Have Taken A Pandemic To Make Us Care About Crappy U.S. Broadband
- Dish’s Wireless Network, A Cornerstone of the T-Mobile Merger, Is Already On Shaky Ground
- Celebs share rumors linking 5G to coronavirus, nutjobs burn cell towers
- Dutch telecommunications towers damaged by 5G protestors: Telegraaf
- 5G coronavirus conspiracy theory driven by coordinated effort: Earlier this year, as COVID-19 began to spread, fringe groups began claiming the virus was linked to 5G technology.
- What’s New in 5G – April 2020
- Frontier bungles redaction of network audit that it doesn’t want you to see
- Want To Know Why U.S. Broadband Is A Bad Joke? Take a Close Look at Frontier Communications
- Frontier files for bankruptcy, says its broadband service won’t get any worse
- Major US ISP Frontier Files For Bankruptcy, Monopolistic Apathy Isn’t A Business Model.
- Verizon Quietly Stops Doing Broadband Installs, Repairs During COVID-19
- Why you’re still paying for sports on cable when there’s no live sports
- Corporations Not Happy Innovators Have ‘Hacked’ The Crappy U.S. Binding Arbitration System
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
- Canadian Federal Court Decides Patent Action by way of Summary Trial
- Canadian patents claiming a formulation for a medicinal ingredient may be eligible for patent term extension
- Federal Court Considers the Availability of Certificates of Supplementary Protection for Vaccines
- As Record Labels Still Are Demanding Mandated Filters; Facebook’s Copyright Filter Takes Down A Guy Playing Bach
- Did the Supreme Court Just Give States License to Pirate Copyrights? Protecting Copyrights Post Allen
- U.S. Supreme Court Confirms that States Have Sovereign Immunity from Copyright Infringement Suits–Allen v. Cooper (Eric Goldman)
- Judge smacks down copyright suit over Instagram embedding: Ruling could provide a stronger legal basis for embedding photos and videos.
- Court Decision Dismissing Photographer’s Lawsuit Shows Breadth of Rights Granted to Social Media and Denies Infringement Claim for Instagram Embedded Photo
- Sinclair v. Ziff Davis, LLC
- NY Court Tosses Lawsuit Over Street Art Depicted in Film
- Ninth Circuit Gleefully Rejects Copyright Claims against California High School
- Dark Horse Comes in Just at the Wire! A Music Copyright Analysis
- Retrograde in Taurus: Ninth Circuit Upholds Judgment That Stairway to Heaven Did Not Infringe Taurus
- VARA Lives On: A $6.75M Lesson on Respecting Moral Rights
- Internet Archive’s National Emergency Library: Public Service or Copyright Infringement?
- Shot on iPhone: Media Group Found to Infringe “Simple Picture,” Court Rejects Fair Use Defense
- Update On The “Mandatory Tariff” Issue, Fair Dealing And Copyright Advocacy In Canada (Howard Knopf)
- Photographer Unsuccessful in Copyright Case Over Use of Embedded Instagram Photo
- Embedding Photos from Instagram – Infringement or Licensed Use?
- Intellectual Property rights in the platform economy: A chance to rise or fall
- The esquivalience of mountweazels protecting copyright
- No Red Light: Fed. Circuit Opens Door for Registration of Multi-Color Product Packaging
- Criminal sanctions for trade secret disclosure and the implementation of CUSMA
- JaM Cellars Sues Franzia For Trademark Over ‘Jammy’, An Incredibly Common And Descriptive Term In Wines
- Authors and publishers — which elements of a book can you protect with trade marks?
- Planetart LLC v Photobox Ltd & Anor – Trade Mark Infringement and Passing Off in the context of mobile apps
- The Cold Hard Fact of Arctic Cat: Actual Notice is Necessary to Protect a Damages Claim from the Cold After Unmarked Patented Goods are Sold
- Manufacturers Refuse To Allow Hospitals To Fix Ventilators That Are The Last Hope For Many COVID-19 Patients
- Opening Up Information In A Pandemic, Rather Than Locking It Down: The Open COVID Pledge Is Important
- Copyright & Coronavirus: What You Need to Know
- No Trade Dress Protection for Functional Shape and Color Scheme
- U.S. Supreme Court Denies Review of ABPA v. Ford: Ford’s Win on Enforcing Replacement Parts Design Patents Stands
- Are There Patent Infringement Implications of 3D Printing PPE to Help Health Care Workers in the War Against COVID-19? Yes.
- A Patent Claim is not Indefinite Merely Because Infringement Can’t be Determined in Advance
- “Method of Preparation” Claims Found Patent-Eligible Under §101
- Similar Compounds at Overlapping pH’s Created Prima Facie Case of Obviousness
- Is it possible to patent Bitcoin?
- Belt Fastener Trade Dress Conveyed as Invalid for Being Functional
- Patent Pooling and its Contribution to Collaborative IP Attempts at Targeting Patent Access
- Bad Faith Required to Prevent Speech Regarding Potential Patent Infringement
- Good Friday 2020 and a History of Easter Eggs According to a Patent
- Recent IP Law Highlights
- Why Is The Copyright Office Celebrating That All Our Cute Pet Photos Are Locked Up Under Copyright?
- Happy Birthday, Statute of Anne
PRIVACY
- NSO Fires Back At Facebook, Says It’s Not Responsible For Malware Deployments By Foreign Governments
- Privacy in a pandemic: Privacy laws matter
- Some shirts hide you from cameras—but will anyone wear them?
- Has coronavirus opened the door to mass electronic surveillance in the UK?
- Apple and Google detail bold and ambitious plan to track COVID-19 at scale
- Apple, Google Join Forces To Create Free Tools For Coronavirus Tracking
- Apple and Google’s Coronavirus Tracking Plan Is a Symptom of Their Power: The tech giants power makes them the only available choices during a dire crisis. This influence is an enlarging feature of post-virus capitalism.
- Stop the Apple and Google contact tracing platform. (Or be ready to ditch your smartphone.)
- Apple and Google are launching a joint COVID-19 tracing tool for iOS and Android
- Will Google’s and Apple’s COVID Tracking Plan Protect Privacy?
- Tested positive for coronavirus? Health workers may share your address with police
- Coronavirus contact-tracing apps: What are the privacy concerns? – Special smartphone apps could help to reduce the spread of COVID-19, but they could also have profound implications for privacy in the long term.
- Can mobile contact-tracing apps help lift lockdown?
- The tech ‘solutions’ for coronavirus take the surveillance state to the next level (Evgeny Morozov)
- Public support for Live Facial Recognition and implications for COVID-19 policing
- What are the biggest holes in data privacy that have been exacerbated by coronavirus?: Geolocation services, the mass adoption of niche tools and weak encryption top the list of concerns for experts in Protocol’s Braintrust.
- UK government using confidential patient data in coronavirus response: Documents seen by Guardian show tech firms using information to build ‘Covid-19 datastore’
- Welcome To The Coronavirus Surveillance State: Digital technologies for tracking people and monitoring outbreaks may be the only way out of the crisis – but misuse could aid a slide into authoritarianism.
- Coronavirus: Surge in health surveillance apps in India, concern among privacy advocates
- Kushner’s COVID Task Force Is Looking To Expand The Government’s Surveillance Of Private Healthcare Companies
- Your Boss Is Spying on You
- To Zoom or Not to Zoom—Privacy and Cybersecurity Challenges
- US Senate tells members not to use Zoom
- Will the Pandemic Usher in an Era of Mass Surveillance in Higher Education?
- Coronavirus: As mental health services move online, problems of access and privacy emerge – Even in normal times, mental health services are not easily available to everyone. The coronavirus has deepened the divide.
- For non-intrusive tracking of Covid-19, smartphones have to be smarter: Monitoring the pandemic with personal technology is a thorny issue. We can get results without having our privacy on parade
- Global information governance in pandemic times: In the geopolitics of global health information, international institutional law is more important than ever
- Growth in surveillance may be hard to scale back after pandemic, experts say: Coronavirus crisis has led to billions of people around the world facing enhanced monitoring
- We Should Have a Democratic Debate About Trade-Offs Between Public Safety and Privacy
- Focus on Children’s Privacy Intensifies as Daily Life Moves Online
CREATIVITY
- Study with jazz improv musicians sheds light on creativity and the brain
- Dual-process contributions to creativity in jazz improvisations: An SPM-EEG study
- Knight First Amendment Institute Sues The CDC For Failing To Provide Details Of Its Media Gag Order
- ‘Free Speech’ Supporter Jerry Falwell Jr. Thinks It’s Criminal To Report On His Dumb And Dangerous Response To The Pandemic
- Trump Campaign Actually Sues TV Station Over Anti-Trump Ad
- The mural and the message: How a community advocate and a graffiti artist are spreading facts on the DTES
- Supreme Court Denies Cert in Transit Advertising Case, With Separate Opinion (and Warning) from Gorsuch and Thomas
- In a Bittersweet Victory, Second Circuit Affirms $6.75 Million in Damages to Artists for Destruction of Graffiti Art
- Universities Fill the Void: Working Across Borders to Solve the Pandemic Where International Institutions Have Failed
- ‘We are all Surrealists now’: how life with Leonora Carrington prepared me for coronavirus lockdown
- Counterpoint: MIT scientists translate coronavirus protein structure into music
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