GAMES

1. Trendy sues Studio Wildcard over origins of Ark: Survival Evolved – Former creative director Jeremy Stieglitz violated non-compete and non-interference clauses, says Dungeon Defenders dev
2. Dev explains why he copyright claimed ‘That Dragon, Cancer’ Let’s Plays
3. That Dragon, Cancer dev says Let’s Play videos took away sales
4. Sim racing enthusiasts ordered to take down unlicensed Formula 1 mods: F1’s commercial rights holder is notoriously protective of its intellectual property.
5. Formula E And Virtually Live Partner To Bring Fans Unique Sports VR Experience
6. The Ars review: Oculus Rift expands PC gaming past the monitor’s edge
7. The biggest non-VR stories at GDC 2016
8. Roundtable: What we learned about VR at GDC – Virtual reality is a current reality, but its future remains a question mark 
9. Legal Issues in VR
10. Valve loses Australian legal battle, found guilty of breaking consumer law
11. Valve misled Australian consumers, says court: Valve found to be in violation of Australian consumer law because Steam didn’t have a refund policy
12. Female gamers and the difference between trash talking and sexual harassment
13. Blizzard pulls “sexualised” victory pose from Overwatch: “This wasn’t pandering or caving, though. This was the right call from our perspective”
14. Muslim fighter given Christian celebration in UFC 2: EA apologizes to Khabib Nurmagomedov, pledges to fix issue in game’s next update
15. Capcom cops to wonky Street Fighter Vlaunch—then delays paid download store: Offers pair of measly fighter costumes as “thanks for… patience and understanding.”
16. Sony plans to bring PlayStation IP to mobile
17. More confirmation, speculation on “PlayStation 4K” rumors
18. The Future of Data Analysis: Better games, better players, and AI interpretation?
19. Your kids want to make Minecraft YouTube videos – but should you let them?
20. Pratchett: AAA becoming braver at tackling serious subjects – Award-winning writer believes we’ll see a “trickle up” of maturity in content from indies and mid-level studios
21. Harvard Team Is Disqualified for Cheating in College Video-Game Competition
22. Nintendo Korea restructuring results in massive layoffs

DIGITAL

1. Microsoft’s teenage AI shows I know nothing about millennials: But like all teenagers, she seems to be angry with her mother.
2. Microsoft terminates its Tay AI chatbot after she turns into a Nazi: Setting her neural net processor to read-write was a terrible mistake.
3. Tay, the neo-Nazi millennial chatbot, gets autopsied: Microsoft apologizes for her behavior and talks about what went wrong.
4. Who turned Microsoft’s chatbot racist? Surprise, it was 4chan and 8chan
5. It’s Your Fault Microsoft’s Teen AI Turned Into Such a Jerk
6. Here’s How We Prevent The Next Racist Chatbot: Tay.AI Is The Consequence Of Poor Training
7. Can a Computer Get a Patent?
8. A Computer Wrote A Novel — And Nearly Won A Literary Prize For It
9. Budget 2016: Is It The End of a Canadian Digital Strategy? (Michael Geist)
10. Trump’s Incomprehensible ‘Cyber’ Policy: ‘Make Cyber Great Again’
11. The state has lost control: tech firms now run western politics (Evgeny Morozov)
12. Why Are People Using Ad Blockers? Ads Can Eat Up To 79% Of Mobile Data Allotments
13. Notice and Takedown in Everyday Practice (Jennifer M. Urban, Brianna L. Schofield & Joe Karaganis)
14. The Hidden Cost of Signing Up for Internet in Spain: Your Sanity
15. The Unseen Threat of Digital Warfare
16. Indian Migrant Worker Arrested in Saudi Arabia For Denouncing Working Conditions on Facebook
17. Rage-quit: Coder unpublished 17 lines of JavaScript and “broke the Internet” – Dispute over module name in npm registry became giant headache for developers.
18. Social media “influencers”: the do’s and don’ts of disclosure 
19. Donald Trump’s Social Media Ties To White Supremacists
20. Landmark Daily Fantasy Sports Settlement between DraftKings, FanDuel and New York
21. The Sharing Economy’s Dirty Laundry: Sharing economy companies like Uber and Airbnb aren’t helping local economies — they’re just helping themselves.
22. In foam-arrow patent fracas, Newegg swoops in to aid LARPer defendant – Newegg lawyer Lee Cheng: “We geeky types like to stick together.”
23. Record companies made $2.4B last year from streaming, but it’s not enough
24. Report: “YouTube Connect” will be a livestreaming Periscope competitor – News of yet another live YouTube service surfaces.
25. Most young viewers feel it’s OK when YouTube stars shill for sponsors, study says
26. Demolition company says a Google Maps error led them to tear down the wrong house
27. It’s Not Just You: Netflix’s Movie Catalogue Keeps Getting Smaller – It seems to be part of the company’s plan.
28. How well online dating works, according to someone who has been studying it for years
29. Clickbait Obsession Devours Journalism
30. 4 Reasons America’s Laws Governing Robots Are Terrifyingly Outdated: Robots are evolving faster than the laws that rule their existence.

CREATIVITY

1. The Mandatory Tariff Issue – The Follow Up and the Future – Implications for the Access Copyright v. York University Case. etc. (Howard Knopf)
2. Despite Massive Streaming Revenue Gains, RIAA Still Lying & Crying
3. Time Warner, Defenders Of Copyright, Forced To Pay Up For Copyright Infringement
4. House Of Cards Sued Over Trademark Regarding Themed Slot Machines
5. Patent that cost Microsoft millions gets invalidated: For over a decade, Uniloc pursued royalties for various anti-piracy schemes.
6. Court To Film Director: You Must First Create An Infringing Work Before We Can Discuss Whether Or Not It’s Actually Infringing
7. Judge Rejects Film Producer’s Bid to Have Buck Rogers Character Declared in Public Domain
8. Brothers in Law: A Photographer’s Artistic Freedom v. an Individual’s Rights to Privacy
9. Video rental past due for 14 years leads to arrest of NC man: Rental store is defunct. Format is obsolete. Movie is bad.

COMMUNICATIONS & BROADCASTING

1. Dissenting Commissioner Thinks Corus Has Too Sweet A Deal
2. Memorandum of Understanding between the United States Federal Trade Commission and the CRTC on mutual assistance in the Enforcement of Laws on commercial email and telemarketing (CRTC)
3. ‘March 1 is the new January 1’ – A ‘new year’ in Canadian television services
4. Netflix throttles video on AT&T and Verizon to keep users under data caps: Netflix limits video to 600kbps and 360p, says “data caps are bad for consumers.”
5. Netflix Reveals It Throttles AT&T, Verizon Customers To Save Them From Usage Caps, Overage Fees
6. Netflix should be investigated for throttling itself, FCC Republican says
7. The Cable Industry Wants Netflix Investigated… For Throttling Itself
8. Zero-rating by major ISPs “threatens open Internet,” advocates tell FCC: FCC urged to stop data cap exemptions at Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile.
9. Google Fiber makes phone service official, starts at $10 a month: A “cloud based” phone number brings Google Voice features to landlines.
10. Prison Telco Claims Prisoners Will Riot If Company Can’t Keep Overcharging Inmate Families

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. FBI Denies It Lied About Ability To Crack iPhone, Also Suggests Cellebrite Rumor Is Wrong
2. Apple Asks Judge Overseeing NY iPhone Case To Wait Until More Is Known About FBI’s New Magic Unlocking Trick
3. Apple likely can’t force FBI to disclose how it got data from seized iPhone: “It is an important test for the government’s disclosure policy.”
4. Influencers: FBI should disclose San Bernardino iPhone security hole to Apple
5. FBI hacks into terrorist’s iPhone without Apple
6. Feds break through seized iPhone, stand down in legal battle with Apple: DOJ won’t say how, but its mysterious new method to bust through iPhone 5C worked.
7. DOJ Says That The Crack Of Syed Farook’s iPhone Only Applies To That Model Of iPhone
8. FBI Breaks into iPhone. We Have Some Questions. (EFF)
9. FBI Is Pushing Back Against Judge’s Order to Reveal Tor Browser Exploit
10. Your iPhone just got less secure. Blame the FBI.: When Johns Hopkins discovered a different security flaw, it notified Apple so the problem could be fixed. The FBI is keeping its newly found breach a secret from everyone.
11. Some Thoughts On What, Exactly, The DOJ’s ‘Inaccurate Assertion’ Might Be Concerning Secret Legal Opinion
12. If FBI Can Get Into A Device Running iOS 9, Why Does It Say It Still Needs Apple’s Help To Get Into One Running iOS 7?
13. Encryption Is a Luxury: The people that most need privacy often can’t afford the smartphones that provide it.
14. Under Surveillance: Examining Facebook’s Spiral of Silence Effects in the Wake of NSA Internet Monitoring (Elizabeth Stoycheff)
15. France Still Thinks It Regulates Entire Internet, Fines Google For Not Making Right To Be Forgotten Global
16. American Big Brother: A Century of Political Surveillance and Repression

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GAMES

1. Judge Allows Lindsay Lohan to Advance in ‘Grand Theft Auto’ Lawsuit: The actress says the game publisher used her image in violation of New York civil rights laws.
2. Conspiracy Theories Over Steam Game Suddenly Crashing Wrong; Just More Broken Anti-Piracy Code
3. French politics places hard regulations over the esports industry
4. Kim Kardashian banks $80 million from Glu Mobile’s game
5. 16 years later, Blizzard is still patchingDiablo II: New update helps the game run on modern operating systems
6. Fake ‘Minecraft’ app puts spotlight on coding marketplaces that are “fuelling pirate community on app stores”
7. How free-to-play has evolved game marketing
8. Supercell books record sales of over €2bn for 2015
9. Riot Games acquires Radiant Entertainment
10. Nexon to acquire Big Huge Games
11. Paradox-Ruffian partnership “amicably terminated”
12. Steam Early Access is hitting its stride – EEDAR
13. Microsoft needs to clearly articulate its vision for PC gaming
14. Xbox Live adds cross-network multiplayer: Microsoft allowing developers to make Xbox One games that can connect with other console networks
15. Why Microsoft is finally pushing for cross-platform online gaming: The Xbox One can’t afford to lock out competing consoles, and gamers stand to benefit.
16. Xbox indie gaming opens the door to playing against PlayStation owners: MonoGame is also welcomed to the Xbox One, finally filling the XNA hole.
17. The Division Isn’t Just Ubisoft’s Next Game, It’s The Company’s Future
18. Ubisoft calls The Division a record breaker: Doesn’t share numbers, but says its first 24 hours are unprecedented
19. Inside the new book, ‘Sex, Drugs and Cartoon Violence: My Decade as a Video Game Journalist’VR devs call for restraint on horror games and jump scares
20. My virtual living room: Setting up a social VR space in the house – Drilling, furniture-clearing, ceiling-testing, and Pictionary hacking.
21. PlayStation VR surprises with $399 price point
22. Crytek announces CryEngine 5, adopts “pay what you want” model
23. Group Explorations of User-Generated Worlds with VRChat
24. “Our brains essentially are always screwing with us”: Radial Games’ Dr. Kimberly Voll tells devs the weird ways our brains work, and how that can be used (or abused) in VR
25. You Don’t Have as Much Control in Videogames as You Think
26. Google’s AI beats world Go champion in first of five matches
27. Google AI goes 3-0, wins Go match against Lee Se-dol: The last two games will still be played, but DeepMind’s AlphaGo has officially won.
28. In the Age of Google DeepMind, Do the Young Go Prodigies of Asia Have a Future?
29. The Sadness and Beauty of Watching Google’s AI Play Go

DIGITAL

1. DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis on how AI will shape the future: Beating Go was just the start — DeepMind has designs on healthcare, robots, and your phone
2. You can Google it: Supreme Court of Canada grants leave to appeal global injunction
3. Supreme Court of Canada to hear Google Injunction Appeal
4. FTC Announces Settlement With Lord & Taylor After Accusing Retailer of Deceptive Advertising
5. Google loses appeal against Russian search engine over Android bundling: Search and ad giant has to tweak contracts with smartphone makers in the country.
6. Microsoft upgraded users to Windows 10 without their OK
7. Baltimore school cops charged with beating boy after video goes online
8. Don’t Post About Me on Social Media, Children Say
9. Customer Loses Suit Over Employees’ Disparaging Facebook Posts–Howard v. Hertz
10. Google Defeats Lawsuit Over Duplicate Content Penalty–D’Agostino v. Appliances Buy Phone
11. New Zealand Expert paper #7 TPPA: Intellectual Property and Information Technology
12. White House’s Claims that the TPP Would Curb Internet Censorship are Fantasy (EFF)
13. Man accused of jamming passengers’ cell phones on Chicago subway: Windy City commuters were complaining for months about dropped phone service.
14. Big-name sites hit by rash of malicious ads spreading crypto ransomware
15. Searching Places Unknown: Law Enforcement Jurisdiction on the Dark Web (Ahmed Ghappour)
16. Inside Instacart’s fraught and misguided quest to become the Uber of groceries
17. The creepy, inescapable advertisements that could define virtual reality
18. The Intersection of Big Data and Antitrust Law − Finally a Case in the EU 
19. Adobe issues emergency patch for actively exploited code-execution bug: Critical bug was used to take control of vulnerable computers.
20. Botched Java patch leaves millions vulnerable to 30-month-old attack: Oracle said the flaw was fixed. Newly released exploit code shows otherwise.
21. Is Twitter Making Us More Productive?
22. Why we use adblockers: ‘We need to have more control over what we’re exposed to’
23. Inside the Artificial Intelligence Revolution: A Special Report, Pt. 1: We may be on the verge of creating a new life form, one that could mark not only an evolutionary breakthrough, but a potential threat to our survival as a species
24. Inside the Artificial Intelligence Revolution: A Special Report, Pt. 2: Self-driving cars, war outsourced to robots, surgery by autonomous machines – this is only the beginning
25. The Early History Of The Streaming Media Industry and The Battle Between Microsoft & Real
26. Internet of Things Bill Introduced 
27. Anti-swatting Representative leads first-ever SXSW Online Harassment Summit
28. SPJ ‘president-elect’ headlines SXSW panel about gaming
29. The disturbingly simple way dozens of celebrities had their nude photos stolen

CREATIVITY

1. Americans scooping up key jobs on Canadian film sets thanks to new rules from Ottawa
2. There Are Many, Many Things the Chinese Communist Party Doesn’t Want Shown on TV
3. Russia’s Paranoid Patriotism Gets a Cartoon Movie
4. Harry Potter Author Offends Native American Scholars With New Story 
5. Free Speech Protection for Critical Online Review
6. ‘Happy Birthday’ settlement terms made public
7. The Mass-Market Edition of To Kill a Mockingbird Is Dead: Harper Lee’s estate will no longer allow publication of the inexpensive paperback edition that was popular with schools.
8. Music Licensing Shop Harry Fox Agency Appears To Be Scrambling To Fix Its Failure To Properly License Songs
9. Can’t Make This Up: Paramount Says Star Trek Fan Flick Violates Copyright On Klingon And ‘Uniform With Gold Stars’
10. Paramount, CBS list the ways Star Trekfanfic Axanar infringes copyright: Suit cites Warp Drive, Klingon High Council, Uniform with Gold Shirt, more.
11. The Gloves Are Off: Competing Biopics Battle For Hollywood Purse 
12. I don’t go into yours, you don’t go into mine: copyright preempts Dirty Dancing trademark claim (Rebecca Tushnet)
13. ESPN Sends Cease & Desist Letter To Barstool Sports Over “Pardon My Take” Podcast
14. Middle Earth Enterprises Attempts To Block Wine Importer From Using The Word ‘Hobbit’
15. Glee Spins Us Wrong Way Round
16. The Registrability of the Trademark Consisting of an Acronym
17. Professor Rebecca Tushnet Says the CAFC’s Reasoning in In re Tam Was Wrong 
18. The First Amendment Walks Into A Bar: Trademark Registration And Free Speech (Rebecca Tushnet)
19. Supreme Court Declines To Hear Batmobile Copyright Case
20. Supreme Court won’t tinker with ruling giving copyright to the Batmobile: The Batmobile is for Batman and Robin, unless you get a license from DC Comics.
21. Should All Research Papers Be Free?
22. Silicon Valley writer: The show’s lack of diversity is accurate
23. The price of Hollywood whitewashing: How this complex drama about a Latina woman became just another Keanu Reeves cop movie: I watched “Daughter of God,” the original film that was mangled beyond recognition into “Exposed”
24. The Saga of Kesha, Dr. Luke and a Mother’s Fight: ‘He Almost Destroyed Us’ 
25. Ai Weiwei brings white grand piano to muddy refugee field 

COMMUNICATIONS & BROADCASTING

1. ‘Skinny Basic’ Cable Will Reduce Consumer Choice? Claim Earns Rating Of ‘Some Baloney’
2. “Drop Comcast today,” Yankees network tells baseball fans: Comcast won’t pay for Yankees games, so network urges viewers to switch.
3. ISPs won’t be allowed to serve targeted ads without customers’ permission: FCC chair proposes new privacy rules for fixed and mobile broadband.
4. Broadband Industry Has A Hissy Fit As FCC Unveils Some Fairly Basic New Broadband Privacy Protections
5. Canada lags U.S. privacy rules for ISPs
6. You Didn’t Notice It, But Google Fiber Just Began the Golden Age of High Speed Internet Access: Its “dark fiber” project in Huntsville creates a model that might finally thrust US Internet access into the 21st Century (Susan Crawford)
7. Verizon to Pay Nearly $1.4M Over Use of ‘Supercookie’
8. FCC Fines Verizon Wireless US$1.35 Million for Use of Tracking Cookies Without Consent
9. 5 Things You Should Know About the FCC’s Proposed Privacy Rules: It stops Verizon’s zombie cookie in its tracks, but allows AT&T to keep charging customers extra if they want privacy.
10. There Are Many, Many Things the Chinese Communist Party Doesn’t Want Shown on TV
11. Why Russian Television Said Nothing When a Nanny Beheaded a Four-Year-Old Girl
12. The Dragonslayer: A year ago, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler saved the internet. In this exclusive interview, he tells us what’s next.
13. The Cord Cutting The Pay TV Sector Keeps Saying Isn’t Happening — Keeps Happening
14. How Donald Trump Proves the Equal Time Rule Is a Joke

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. China is building a big data platform for “precrime”: Using online profile and movements, government aims to catch “terrorists” in advance.
2. We Now Have Algorithms To Predict Police Misconduct: Will police departments use them?
3. France votes to penalize companies for refusing to decrypt devices, messages: But UN official warns: “Without encryption tools, lives may be endangered.”
4. Where European countries stand on privacy versus security
5. UN tells UK to “desist from setting a bad example” with Snooper’s Charter: Says Investigatory Powers Bill “runs counter” to key European court rulings on privacy.
6. Time for Change: Reform of the Federal Privacy Act
7. In Apple vs. the FBI, There Is No Technical Middle Ground
8. There are ways the FBI can crack the iPhone PIN without Apple doing it for them: Getting Apple to write new firmware is the easiest route—but probably not the only one.
9. Feds fire back on San Bernardino iPhone, noting that Apple has accommodated China
10. Apple General Counsel Blasts Justice Department For Crazy Filing
11. We Read The DOJ’s Latest Apple Filing To Highlight All Of Its Misleading Claims
12. DOJ Keeps Pointing To A ‘3 Factor Test’ In Its Cases Against Apple; Except No Such ‘Test’ Exists
13. Obama weighs in on Apple v. FBI: “You can’t take an absolutist view”
14. President Obama Is Wrong On Encryption; Claims The Realist View Is ‘Absolutist’
15. Former cyber czar says NSA could crack the San Bernadino shooter’s phone: Richard Clarke tells NPR that the FBI just wants precedent and could have data already.
16. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Encryption
17. John Oliver explains why iPhone encryption debate is no joking matter: Comedian dissects FBI technical and legal fallacies without lionizing Apple.
18. John Oliver Explains Why You Should Side With Apple Over The FBI Better Than Most Journalists
19. Florida sheriff pledges to arrest CEO Tim Cook if Apple resists crypto cooperation: If Apple wouldn’t comply with a court order, sheriff vows: “I’ll lock the rascal up.”
20. Apple fires back: “Government is adept at devising new surveillance techniques”: In final filing before hearing, Apple says gov’t hasn’t shown “necessity.”
21. Apple’s Response To DOJ: Your Filing Is Full Of Blatantly Misleading Claims And Outright Falsehoods
22. Senator Lindsey Graham Finally Talks To Tech Experts, Switches Side In FBI V. Apple Fight
23. FBI v. Apple is a security and privacy issue. What about civil rights? – Jesse Jackson: “Activities of civil rights organizations and activists” at stake.
24. White House Begins To Realize It May Have Made A Huge Mistake In Going After Apple Over iPhone Encryption
25. John McAfee tells Ars he’s fighting a lonely battle, but that he’s not lying: The dangers of government overreach are real—and he just wants you to see them.
26. Encrypted WhatsApp messages frustrate new court-ordered wiretap: DOJ and Facebook, WhatsApp’s parent company, may clash just like in iPhone case.
27. Facebook, Google and WhatsApp plan to increase encryption of user data: Spurred on by Apple’s battles against the FBI, some of tech’s biggest names are to expand encryption of user data in their services, the Guardian can reveal
28. Go ahead, make some free, end-to-end encrypted video calls on Wire: Switzerland-based startup trumpets its strong security and pro-privacy stance.
29. Google says it won’t Google jurors in upcoming Oracle API copyright trial: Oracle worried Google might research jurors’ Gmail, ad-viewing, browsing history.
30. Surveillance and Our Addiction to Exposure

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GAMES

1. PS4 to sell 100 million – DFC: Research firm predicts Sony to hold dominant lead in console space; Xbox One and PS4 revenues to be 50% digital by 2019
2. PlayStation TV over in North America and Europe too
3. Stream PS4 games to your PC or Mac with next system update: PS4 version 3.5 expands the useful feature past Vita, PlayStation TV.
4. Moon Studios CEO calls out console firms for hardware secrecy: Thomas Mahler says Nintendo NX will “just not have any software support” at launch due to lack of devkits
5. Cratering portable sales can’t prop up Nintendo’s business anymore: With 3DS sales declining rapidly, Nintendo needs NX to succeed fast.
6. Microsoft needs to stop forcing console-like restrictions on Windows Store PC games: With the upcoming Quantum Break a Windows Store exclusive, users are up in arms.
7. Rock group says Final Fantasy XIV song is “a straight up rip off”
8. EA abandons “ghost” trademark application: Ubisoft’s objected due to the existence of its Ghost Recon franchise
9. Capcom taking aim at Street Fighter V rage quitters
10. Naughty Dog apologizes for Ubisoft art in Uncharted 4 trailer
11. Ubisoft seeks Canadian investors to help stave off Vivendi takover
12. Gameloft board advises against selling stock to Vivendi
13. Harmonix launches Fig campaign for Rock Band 4 on PC
14. Halo World Championship sports $2.5 million prize pool
15. Valve raises Counter-Strike eSports prize to $1 million
16. Valve boss Gabe Newell fires host and production company after problems at the $3 million Dota 2 Shanghai Major
17. Lawyer’s perspective: A legal evaluation of Riot’s new competitive penalty policy
18. ESL and Intel launch eSports diversity initiative
19. YouTube dominating Twitch in gaming videos – Newzoo
20. Inside the Artificial Universe That Creates Itself: A team of programmers has built a self-generating cosmos, and even they don’t know what’s hiding in its vast reaches.
21. Decades later, players are still unlocking secrets in classic Mortal Kombat: Ed Boon’s arcade diagnostic menus have remained hidden since the early ’90s.
22. You wouldn’t be able to pause your video games today without Jerry Lawson: Lawson was a pioneering black engineer back when it was even harder in Silicon Valley.
23. McDonald’s is trialling Happy Meals that can turn into VR goggles
24. VR could make games a political scapegoat again – Capps
25. Second annual Chicago Video Game Law Summit set for April 16th

DIGITAL

1. Silk Road 2.0 Court Docs Show US Government Paid Carnegie Mellon Researchers To Unmask Tor Users
2. Judge confirms what many suspected: Feds hired CMU to break Tor
3. Tidal Sued For Unpaid Royalties And Cooking The Streaming Counts
4. Stupid Patent of the Month: 100+ companies sued over “personalized content” – Patent owner says EFF “calls inventors names” to help the “anti-patent movement.”
5. China Imposes New Restrictions on Online Publishing
6. Saudi Arabia Sentences Twitter User to 10 Years in Prison and 2,000 Lashes for Apostasy
7. US military launches cyber attacks on ISIS in Mosul, and announces it: Secretary of defense reveals cyber attacks in advance of ground battle for city.
8. White House Asked Google & Facebook To Change Their Algorithms To Fight ISIS; Both Said No
9. Patreon Moves To Give Users A Chance To Respond To DMCA Notices Before Taking Down Content
10. Can YouTube’s Video Claiming Policy Be Improved?
11. YouTube Addresses Concerns About Its Video Claiming Policy, Promises Changes
12. Top 100 Most Subscribed YouTube Channels Worldwide • January 2016
13. “Privacy Shield” proposed to replace US-EU Safe Harbor, faces scepticism: Unlikely to satisfy Europe’s data protection watchdogs—or the EU’s top court.
14. Bitcoin Is “Property,” Rules California Judge in Pivotal Bitcoin Case 
15. Machinima Pays NYAG $50,000 Over Undisclosed Endorsements
16. Clickwrap, Browsewrap and Mixed Media Contracts: A Few Words Can Go a Long Way 
17. Prize-Winning Novelist’s Facebook ‘Joke About White Guys’ Is Gone—and Back—in Less Than 24 hours
18. NLRB Rejects Employer’s Attempt to Restrict Content of Employees’ Emails Sent Over the Employer’s Email System
19. Appeals Court Dumps Apple’s Slide To Unlock Patent, Tosses Massive Jury Award Against Samsung In The Trash
20. Apple’s $120M jury verdict against Samsung destroyed on appeal: Autocorrect and “slide to unlock” patents are invalid in light of prior art.
21. The Trouble With the TPP, Day 37: Breaking Digital Locks For Personal Purposes (Michael Geist)
22. Tyler, TX Brags About Its “Friendliness” to Patent Trolls
23. Deadpool face-animation tech now embroiled in Hollywood legal battle: Company hopes to block distribution of films using Mova, a tech it claims to own.
24. Op-ed: The international politics of VPN regulation – Repressive nations are pursuing increasingly diverse strategies for curbing VPN use.
25. Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Resigns Amid a Community Revolt
26. 50 Cent Breaks the Golden Rule of Social Media Posting
27. NY Times recommends ad blockers after CEO mulls ad-block ban: CEO says apps “ask for extortion to allow for ads;” paper says they conserve battery.
28. Can a Blind Person Read Your Website?
29. The nightmare of watching Netflix while battling PTSD
30. Google’s Artificial Brain Is Pumping Out Trippy—And Pricey—Art

CREATIVITY

1. Fairness Confirmed: Copyright Board Deals Another Blow to Access Copyright (Michael Geist)
2. Access Copyright and Absent Universities & Colleges – As the Mandatory Elephant in the Room Patiently Waits and Watches (Howard Knopf)
3. Quebec Court Dismisses Copibec Copyright Class Action Against Laval University (Michael Geist)
4. Why Kesha’s Case Is About More Than Kesha: Lena Dunham + Lenny stand with Kesha, because we will not “accept shame and fear as the status quo.”​
5. The Saddest Thing About the Kesha/Dr. Luke Lawsuit: It’s how familiar it all is.
6. Pop music desperately needs more female producers
7. This is everything Chris Rock said about race during his Oscars monologue
8. Disney CEO asks employees to chip in to pay copyright lobbyists: Letter boasts of beating Aereo, getting TPP—and wants workers’ help in 2016.
9. OMDC Response Confirms Minister Coteau’s Music Fund Claims Inaccurate (Michael Geist)
10. Same Fears, Different Century: Stage Adaptation Of Orwell’s ‘1984’ Still Ominously Relevant
11. China Won’t Broadcast the Hong Kong Film Awards Because of Dystopian Nominee ‘Ten Years’
12. Egyptian Writer Ahmed Naji Sentenced to Two Years in Prison for his “Sexually Explicit” Novel
13. Democracy warning as Canadian media outlets merge and papers close: Federal minister convenes talks as union calls for action over increasingly centralised ownership and publishers warn of threat to public interest journalism
14. Court Beats Down Another Competitive Keyword Advertising Lawsuit–Beast Sports v. BPI (Eric Goldman)
15. The Trouble With the TPP, Day 38: Limits on Canadian Digital Lock Safeguards (Michael Geist)
16. The Trouble With the TPP, Day 39: Quiet Expansion of Criminal Copyright Provisions (Michael Geist)
17. Canadian Libraries’ Response to Chapter 18 of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
18. Disney CEO asks employees to chip in to pay copyright lobbyists: Letter boasts of beating Aereo, getting TPP—and wants workers’ help in 2016.
19. Statutory rights to terminate copyright grants
20. As Netflix Soars, HBO Comes Under Increasing Pressure
21. 19 Reasons to be Thankful for “Fair Use”
22. MashUp: The Birth of Modern Culture (Vancouver Art Gallery)
23. Measuring Creativity: Learning from Innovation Measurement (WIPO)

 COMMUNICATIONS

1. Bell tells staff to downplay new $25 basic TV package ordered by CRTC: Company is trying to make new, cheap TV package unattractive, Bell employee believes
2. CBS Broadcasting Inc. v. FilmOn.com, Inc.
3. ‘Wireless propaganda’ and the lame denials it inspires: Cellphone industry supporters and executives are trumpeting price studies that don’t mean anything. (Peter Nowak)
4. Canada Forcing Cheaper, More Flexible Pricing On TV Industry March 1. Will It Work?
5. Will ‘skinny packages’ tempt cable customers to stay connected?: Cheaper TV packages, ‘pick-and-pay’ channels available today
6. FCC ‘Probing’ Whether Cable Companies Have Sabotaged Internet Video
7. AT&T gave $62K to lawmakers months before vote to limit muni broadband: Missouri bill would make it difficult for cities to offer Internet service.
8. AT&T Sues To Keep Google Fiber Competition Out Of Louisville
9. AT&T sues Louisville to stop Google Fiber from using its utility poles: Lawsuit could delay Google construction, give AT&T head start in fiber race.
10. When Comcast’s Business As Usual Turns Out to Limit Minority Access: What happens when a plutocrat’s “rational” decisions wind up affecting minority areas? Take a look at Hartford.
11. One year later, net neutrality still faces attacks in court and Congress: FCC’s Title II and muni broadband rulings face uncertain future.
12. Like the Internet itself, this policy debate should be open
13. It took Verizon seven months to fix Internet outage in NYC building
14. The Trouble With the TPP, Day 40: Mobile Roaming Promises Unfulfilled (Michael Geist)

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Apple prevails in pre-San Bernardino forced iPhone unlock case in New York: All Writs Act can’t be used to achieve legislative goal that US Congress hasn’t granted.
2. Apple prevails in forced iPhone unlock case in New York court – Ruling: All Writs Act can’t be used to achieve goal that Congress hasn’t granted.
3. Judge In Different Apple Case Says That All Writs Act Doesn’t Mean Apple Needs To Help Feds Break Into Phone
4. Federal Judge Says Third Party Doctrine A Perfectly ‘Good Law;’ No Warrants Needed To Obtain Cell Location Records
5. Why the FBI’s Apple iPhone Demands Are Rotten to the Core (Michael Geist)
6. We cannot trust our government, so we must trust the technology: Apple’s battle with the FBI is not about privacy v security, but a conflict created by the US failure to legitimately oversee its security service post Snowden (Yochai Benkler)
7. Forcing Apple to Hack That iPhone Sets a Dangerous Precedent (Darrell Issa)
8. Bill Gates refutes reports that he sided with FBI in Apple privacy fight
9. Police chief: There’s a “reasonably good chance” not much is on seized iPhone – Top San Bernardino cop tells NPR there’s “low probability” unlocking it will reveal more.
10. John McAfee better prepare to eat a shoe because he doesn’t know how iPhones work
11. Apple tells court it would have to create “GovtOS” to comply with ruling: Claims in 65-page motion to vacate that it would have to build on-site FBI forensic lab.
12. What’s At Stake In Apple/FBI Fight: Who Gets To Set The Rules That Govern Your Privacy & Security
13. Apple CEO prepared to fight the FBI all the way to the Supreme Court
14. The technology at the heart of the Apple-FBI debate, explained (Christopher Soghoian)
15. FBI vs. Apple Establishes a New Phase of the Crypto Wars (Dan Froomkin & Jenna McLaughlin)
16. Preliminary thoughts on the Apple iPhone order in the San Bernardino case: Part 3, the policy question (Orin Kerr)
17. FBI is asking courts to legalize crypto backdoors because Congress won’t: The most lawmakers have done is float bill to create a “commission” to study issueApple’s encryption fight against the U.S. government could spill into Canada
18. Why Canada isn’t having a policy debate over encryption
19. Want To Report A Dangerous Drug Dealer? Just Enter Your Personal Info Into The DEA’s Unsecured Webform
20. Most software already has a “golden key” backdoor: the system update – Software updates are just another term for cryptographic single-points-of-failure.
21. Courts, DOJ: Using Tor Doesn’t Give You A Greater Expectation Of Privacy
22. WikiLeaks Publishes NSA Target List (Bruce Schneier)
23. Why Don’t Tech Reviews Discuss Gadget Security and Privacy? (Dan Gillmor)
24. Online Privacy and the Invisible Market for Our Data (Rebecca Lipman)
25. South Korea Embraces Ridiculous Right To Be Forgotten As Well
26. 8th Circuit finds copyright preemption of publicity claim (Rebecca Tushnet)
27. Eighth Circuit Tosses NFL Players’ Lawsuit

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GAMES

1. Apple Rejects Game Based On Bible Story Due To Content Including Violence Against Children
2. Apple’s Binding of Creativity
3. Hatred Devs Next Game Has You Fighting An ISIS Invasion
4. Bethesda gets appeal of German Fallout 3 ban
5. Yes, you can rely on Amazon’s new game engine during the zombie apocalypse: Lumberyard terms of service features a carve-out in case of reanimated human corpses.
6. Kids, forget console gaming—play the FBI’s browser-based game instead: “Slippery Slope to Violent Extremism” is an awful game unworthy of even pirating.
7. War Stories: What It’s Really Like Working on AAA Games at Ubisoft – Or why I quit my dream job to go indie
8. Zoe Quinn drops harassment suit against ex
9. US game industry pulls in $23.5 billion in 2015
10. Mad Catz axing 37% of staff as Q3 profit dips 10%
11. Play 1,000 Windows 3.1 games for free on Internet Archive
12. Twitch’s Users Watch More Video In A Month, On Average, Than Typical YouTube Users Do
13. Activision Blizzard gunning for NFL-scale eSports revenue
14. It’s Time To Think About Protecting Nicknames In Esports
15. Zynga posts $117 million full-year loss
16. King’s profit and sales fall in 2015
17. Kickstarter “maturation means more money, but not for more people” – ICO
18. Rise of the Tomb Raider wins Writers Guild award
19. Mattel gets Halo master license
20. Who Really Conceived Guitar Hero Live?: A former Activision developer says the game was his concept and he ought to be credited.
21. Headshot: A visual history of first-person shooters
22. Study: As gamers age, their competitive instincts wane
23. ESA mourns Scalia: Industry trade group remarks on passing of Supreme Court Justice who wrote majority opinion in 2011 game legislation case

DIGITAL

1. Women are better at coding than men—if they hide their gender
2. High Schooler’s “Murder” Tweet Isn’t “Cyberstalking”–State v. Kohonen
3. Wikimedia Takes Down Diary Of Anne Frank, Uses It To Highlight Idiocy Of DMCA Rules, Copyright Terms
4. Embattled copyright lawyer uses DMCA to remove article about himself: Marc Randazza tells WordPress that the unflattering story “is not fair use.”
5. Six Strikes gets another extension
6. Dish Agrees To Cripple Its Ad-Skipping DVR To Settle Fox Lawsuit
7. BT ad claims that the Internet was invented in the UK: Surely the telco giant should know the difference between Al Gore and Tim Berners-Lee?
8. Viacom and Snapchat strike bigger ad and content deal
9. Microsoft looks to be retreating from EU antitrust fight against Google – ICOMP lobby group’s long-running campaign against search and ad giant collapses.
10. Judge: Google dominance didn’t hurt online maps competitor – StreetMap traffic fell after Google began showing map previews in search results.
11. France says Facebook must face French law in nudity censorship case – Paris court says Facebook cannot mandate that its French users sue in California.
12. Why Journalism is not Dying in the Digital Age (Michael Geist)
13. This woman is sharing millions of research papers online—and making some major enemies
14. Kids will soon make their own toys with Mattel’s $300 ThingMaker 3D printer
15. One Year In: Why A Die-Hard Mechanical Watch Lover Can’t Get The Apple Watch Off His Wrist (And Why That Matters)
16. Warning: Bug in Adobe Creative Cloud deletes Mac user data without warning
17. The incredibly sad world of niche dating apps
18. Moore’s law really is dead this time: The chip industry is no longer going to treat Gordon Moore’s law as the target to aim for.
19. Barry Diller: Data is the new cable
20. Cryptopolitik and the Darknet (Daniel Moore & Thomas Rid)
21. Robot Art Raises Questions about Human Creativity
22. On the Ethics of Online Shaming

CREATIVITY

1. Sony Music Issues Takedown On Copyright Lecture About Music Copyrights By Harvard Law Professor
2. Children’s show in tribute to Frozen cancelled after legal threat from Disney
3. “Happy Birthday” is public domain, former owner Warner/Chapell to pay $14M – Winning lawyer says more bogus copyrights may come under legal attack.
4. “Rime” Graffiti Case Against Moschino Survives Dismissal 
5. It’s a Bird… It’s a Plane… It’s…Superdad? California District Court Rules That DC Comics Can Pursue Its Trademark Infringement Lawsuit Against T-Shirt Maker
6. Without Copyright Infringement, Deadpool Doesn’t Get Made
7. Pirates in your neighbourhood: How new online copyright infringement laws are affecting Canadians one year later
8. It’s not just the Oscars. The Grammys are incredibly white, too.
9. Unbelievable: Saudi Arabia’s Vice Police Arrests a “Female” Mascot
10. After Revealing Workplace Sexual Harassment, an Iranian Newscaster Says It’s ‘Time to Break Free’
11. Cross-Border Copyright Guide 2016 (RPC)
12. The Good, the Bad and the Strange of the Department of Commerce’s White Paper on Copyright
13. International Intellectual Property Alliance wants more countries on USTR’s ‘Watch List’
14. Copyright Protection in Canada for Artists
15. The Perils of Going Native: Why Canadians Should Heed US Guidelines on Native Advertising 
16. NY Attorney General Announces 4 Settlements Over False Endorsements 
17. Why student journalists at University of Kansas filed a federal lawsuit
18. What Vanna White, Albert Einstein, and Johnny Carson have in common: the right of publicity 
19. Lights, Camera, Love: From ‘The Dating Game’ to ‘The Bachelor,’ TV dating shows have reflected, and even influenced, how we date in real life
20. Which Comes First in Contemporary Music Technology: the Musician or the Machine?
21. Why messaging is the future of the news brand
22. The Digital Dirt: How TMZ gets the videos and photos that celebrities want to hide.

COMMUNICATIONS

1. Why watching online video in Canada sucks
2. Comcast begs Atlanta customers not to switch to Google Fiber – Comcast touts more on-demand video, voice remote; leaves out price and data caps.
3. CRTC CASL Compliance and Enforcement Update 
4. The Trouble With the TPP, Day 29: Cultural Policy Innovation Uncertainty (Michael Geist)
5. Do customers still want landlines? Telecom industry doesn’t want anyone to hear the answer
6. Here’s Why CBS Is The Future Of Television No One Saw Coming (Except Les Moonves)
7. Full Copyright Royalty Board Decision on Webcasting Royalties Now Public 
8. Current Telecom Developments

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Judge: Apple must help FBI unlock San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone – Specifically, Apple must create custom firmware file so FBI can brute force passcode.
2. No, A Judge Did Not Just Order Apple To Break Encryption On San Bernardino Shooter’s iPhone, But To Create A New Backdoor
3. It’s legal for GCHQ to break into computers and install spyware, tribunal rules: Investigatory Powers Tribunal also says “thematic warrants” to hack an entire city are fine.
4. AT&T Does Not Care about Your Privacy (Bruce Schneier)
5. Apple: Dear judge, please tell us if gov’t can compel us to unlock an iPhone
6. ISPs want “flexible” privacy rules that let them “innovate” with customer data – ISPs should be able to choose how they protect customer data, they tell FCC.
7. O2 customers will have their Underground journeys tracked, analysed by advertisers – O2 will sell anonymised bulk data of about 1 million Tube journeys per day to Exterion.
8. Google Partially Caves To French Demands For More Global Censorship Of ‘Forgotten’ Links
9. Internet of Things to be used as spy tool by governments: US intel chief – Clapper says spy agencies “might” use IoT for surveillance, location tracking.
10. Pressure grows to rethink Snooper’s Charter as Labour winds back its support: Opposition’s initial enthusiasm for the Investigatory Powers Bill has apparently cooled.
11. The Limits of Tower Dump Privacy Protections
12. New report contends mandatory crypto backdoors would be futile: With two-thirds of crypto developed abroad, crooks have plenty of non-US alternatives.
13. The Trouble With the TPP, Day 28: Privacy Risks From the Source Code Rules (Michael Geist)
14. The dark side of big data

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GAMES

1. Take-Two sued over portrayal of player tattoos in NBA 2K16
2. Who owns the word “Ghost”? Ubisoft, EA fight it out: Ubisoft worries EA’s Ghost Games will be confused with “Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon”
3. Atari and Haunted House Tycoon square off at upcoming USPTO hearing
4. Sony’s “Let’s Play” Trademark Application Denied For A Second Time
5. Sony is trying – and failing – to trademark “Let’s Play”
6. PlayStation’s move to America won’t change its DNA
7. Sony sold 8.4 million PS4s in Q3: 15.4 million after nine months, already higher than the whole of the last fiscal year
8. Don’t look now, but the PC is the world’s biggest gaming platform: But it’s free-to-play and social gaming that’s driving the most revenue.
9. EA lets slip lifetime Xbox One and PS4 consoles sales: 55 million units combined, minus Sony’s 36 million, leaves 19 million for Microsoft.
10. EA goes solo for E3 Expo
11. EA’s absence from E3 is not a death knell
12. Star Wars Battlefront passes 13m shipped as EA exceeds Q3 guidance: GAAP net revenues were flat, however, and the publisher lost $45 million [UPDATE: physical sales dominated digital for Star Wars]
13. EA: We’re on a “journey to regain trust of the PC gamer”
14. GameStop makes publishing debut with Insomniac’s Song of the Deep
15. Hearthstone’s new formats and the rise of digital scarcity: Old downloadable goods aren’t hard to produce, but they could soon be hard to get.
16. USC to start publishing label focused on “innovative work”: USC Games Publishing aims to become the industry’s equivalent of the MIT Press
17. Blizzard launches Heroes Of The Dorm 2016
18. Icejam raises $3 million to develop “Playable Data” platform
19. MGS V sells 6m, pushes Konami digital profits up by 150%
20. Niantic’s Ingress has over 14m downloads
21. Gameloft will have to return $3 million New Zealand grant: Closure of Auckland studio prompts government agency to “claw back” R&D grant
22. Stump The Trump 2016 lets players squash Donald Trump
23. Survival Island 3: Australia Story 3D game that encourages players to bludgeon Aboriginal Australians to death causes outrage
24. ‘Tomahawk’ class in Bravely Second: End Layer altered for Europe, North America
25. YouTube Personalities Use ‘Minecraft’ to Prey on Underage Fans

DIGITAL

1. YouTube mobile reach ‘outstrips US cable nets’
2. Alphabet’s market cap tops Apple, is now the world’s most valuable company
3. Facebook prohibiting private firearms sales from unlicensed sellers: The company will remove posts reported by its users that violate the policy.
4. Google to divert extremist searches to anti-radicalisation websites: Search engine giant reveals plans for pilot scheme to home affairs committee hearing, with Facebook and Twitter also probed over extremism policies
5. Go, Marvin Minsky, and the Chasm that AI Hasn’t Yet Crossed: An expert in AI separates fact from hype in the wake of DeepMind’s victory over humans in the most challenging game of all
6. Google’s AI beats Go champion, will now take on best player in the world: Google sets a neural network loose on the ancient Chinese game Go.
7. The Internet of Emotions: Putting the person back into personalization
8. Future of VR is social, say Steam VR developers
9. The End of Twitter
10. How India Pierced Facebook’s Free Internet Program
11. Indonesian Carrier Blocks Netflix Streaming Service
12. The esoteric debate that’s tearing the Bitcoin world apart, explained
13. Has a Royalty Change Doomed Small Webcasters?
14. YouTube community ‘reacts’ to questionable trademark filing
15. Fine Bros back down, rescind trademark claim on the word “react”: Claim was for “programs… in the field of observing, interviewing groups of people.”
16. How Two of YouTube’s Biggest Stars Became Its Biggest Villains Overnight
17. The Fine Bros Plan Is Actually Pretty Cool If You Get Past How They Announced It
18. Anti-swatting US Congresswoman targeted in swatting attack: Computer-generated voice called in threat to author of Internet Swatting Hoax Act.
19. What’s stupid this month: Xerox patents sharing documents online
20. DOJ Lies To ‘FOIA Terrorist’ Jason Leopold; Claim They Have No Documents On Aaron Swartz
21. What’s the Legal Definition of a “Social Media Site”? Uh… (People v. Lopez) (Eric Goldman)
22. The Twitter trial you never heard about: Toronto man found guilty of harassing Michelle Rempel
23. Writer Claims Libel, Copyright Infringement When Screencap Of Her Tweet Is Used In An Online Article
24. Newegg sues patent troll that dropped its case: “They started the litigation, and it would be irresponsible to not finish it.”
25. Ecuador Continues To Use US Copyright Law To Censor Critics
26. Ruling creates a ‘bizarre scenario,’ says lawyer: A flawed Small Claims Court decision vindicates critics who said digital lock amendments to the Copyright Act enacted in 2012 were too broad, according to a Toronto intellectual property lawyer. 
27. Lawyer facing discipline for internal e-mails
28. The Trouble with the TPP, Day 19: No Canadian Side Agreements to Advance Tech Sector (Michael Geist)
29. Inside The Most Vicious Conflict On The Internet: When the internet’s pit bull obsessives grab ahold of something, they don’t let go.
30. The Tragic Data Behind Selfie Fatalities
31. Wikimedia’s newest board appointment steps down amid editor hostility: In a non-binding vote, 290 editors had asked for Geshuri to be removed.
32. Closing the Tech Industry Gender Gap
33. Hacking Technology’s Boys’ Club
34. Nest Thermostat Goes From ‘Internet Of Things’ Darling To Cautionary Tale
35. First-person drone racing is much harder than I expected: Apparently, strapping goggles to your face is the best way of piloting a drone.
36. Can Robot Racing Win Human Hearts?
37. Tech Companies Are Leading The Rise Of Crowdsourced A&R
38. Will Machines Eliminate Us?: People who worry that we’re on course to invent dangerously intelligent machines are misunderstanding the state of computer science.
39. Surveying Ten Years Of Top Internet Law Developments (Eric Goldman)
40. Modern Grief: Confronting my husband’s digital ghosts—one email at a time

CREATIVITY

1. The Trouble with the TPP, Day 18: Failure to Protect Canadian Cultural Policy (Michael Geist)
2. Hasbro Sued For Font Piracy On My Little Pony Merchandise
3. Monkey See, Monkey Do, But Judge Says Monkey Gets No Copyright
4. Pick A Side: Video Of Creepy Girls Singing To Donald Trump Taken Down Over Copyright On WWI Song
5. Commerce Department Wants To Fix Some Of The Worst Problems Of Copyright Law: Reform Crazy Damages
6. New York Times Sues Publisher Over War Photos, Fair Use At IssueSeventh Circuit: Water Scientist Gagged By Lobbying Group’s Bogus Copyright Injunction
7. USPTO white paper on remix, first sale, and statutory damages
8. Party Raising “First Sale” Defense to Copyright Infringement Bears Initial Burden of Proof
9. The S—–ness Of IP Law Has Taught The Public That Everything Is Stealing And Everyone Is Owed Something
10. For Canadian innovators, will TPP mean protection – or colonialism?
11. State of the Netflix union discussion with chief content officer Ted Sarandos
12. Why ‘Kung Fu Panda 3’ Might Be The Most Important Hollywood Movie Of 2016
13. The Future of the Humanities: Reading – As technology advances, doomsaying remains constant.

COMMUNICATIONS

1. Canadian wireless bills: that’s a lot of coffee!
2. CRTC executes another raid in malware investigation
3. New Report To FCC Details How Binge On Violates Net Neutrality
4. Lest there be doubt (Timothy Denton)
5. The Trouble with the TPP, Day 20: Unenforceable Net Neutrality Rules (Michael Geist)
6. Why Canadian Telecom Companies Must Defend Your Right to Privacy (Michael Geist)
7. Ignoring cable industry protest, FCC says it will “unlock the set-top box”: Cable TV customers could save a lot of money on set-top box rental fees.
8. Tom Wheeler fires back at cable lobby, says cable box fees are too high
9. Cable lobby is really mad about FCC’s set-top box competition plan
10. Inside the FCC’s audacious plan to blow up
11. MLB Settles, Leaving Unanswered Questions: Do Sports Leagues’ Regional Blackout Agreements Violate Antitrust Laws?

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Ontario Superior Court creates new privacy tort in revenge porn case
2. Ontario court explicitly adopts new privacy tort: public disclosure of private facts
3. New Privacy Tort: Public Disclosure of Embarrassing Private Stuff 
4. Canada Temporarily Drops Out Of Five Eyes Spying Coalition, After Realizing It Wasn’t Properly Protecting Information
5. Last-gasp Safe Harbor “political deal” struck between Europe and US: Draft EU-US Privacy Shield framework won’t be drawn up for several weeks, however.
6. EU And US Come To ‘Agreement’ On Safe Harbor, But If It Doesn’t Stop Mass Surveillance, It Won’t Fly
7. Interview: Safe Harbour 2.0 will lose again, argues Max Schrems – “Silicon Valley doesn’t rule world. Respect laws in each country,” says privacy campaigner.
8. U.S. takeover of network carrying sensitive federal data raises security concerns
9. How an Overreaction to Terrorism Can Hurt Cybersecurity: Encryption could have prevented some of the worst cyberattacks. Giving back doors to law enforcement will make matters worse (Bruce Schneier)
10. Felon’s lifetime GPS monitoring upheld by US federal appeals court: Burden on privacy “must in any event be balanced against the gain to society.”
11. Feds don’t need crypto backdoors to spy—your TV and toothbrush will do: Internet of Things opens government access to real-time, recorded communications.
12. Uber has started monitoring smartphones to see when drivers are speeding
13. Security And Privacy Standards Are Critical To The Success Of Connected Cars
14. Databases create access to police misconduct cases and offer a handy tool for defense lawyers
15. Employee GPS Tracking – Is it Legal? 
16. Does property owner have the right to shoot down hobbyist’s hovering drone?
17. “Don’t Panic”: Making Progress on the “Going Dark” Debate (Berkman Center)
18. Protecting Children Vs. Protecting Privacy

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