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News of the Week; November 14, 2018
DIGITAL ‘Facebook is the new cigarettes,’ says Salesforce CEO Report: Even Facebook Employees Are Bummed About Facebook Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis How Facebook Flags Terrorist Content With Machine Learning: But it’s not perfect. Blame Fox, not Facebook, for fake news Facebook will let French regulators study its efforts to […]
News of the Week; November 7, 2018
DIGITAL As Canadian ISPs Requested, Canada Get Proposed Law To Ban Copyright Settlement Letters AT&T steps up copyright enforcement, kicks customers off network Small And Medium Publishers Protest EU Link Tax, Which Will Harm Them, While Helping Only Large Publishers Section 230 Doesn’t Support Habeus Petition by ‘Revenge’ Pornographer–Bollaert v. Gore (Eric Goldman) Gab is […]
News of the Week; October 31, 2018
DIGITAL Canadian Government Banning Settlement Demands in Copyright Notice-and-Notice System (Michael Geist) Canadian Government Rejects Access Copyright’s Demand for Statutory Damages (Michael Geist) Canadian ISPs Want To Amend Law To Outlaw Settlement Letters This is fine: IBM acquires Red Hat Who owns this AI-generated painting? (Andres Guadamuz) Painting created by Artificial Intelligence goes under the hammer […]
News of the Week; October 24, 2018
DIGITAL This Week’s Bomb Scares Are A Perfect Misinformation Storm Twitter takes down more accounts affiliated with Alex Jones’s Infowars Twitter plays whac-a-mole with Alex Jones, suspends 18 linked accounts Bleacher Report’s House of Highlights Sets Twitter Live Talk Show Debut Uber vice president resigns after sexual misconduct allegations Microsoft making more of the Windows […]
News of the Week; October 17, 2018
DIGITAL Twitter releases archive of 10 million tweets from state-backed troll accounts: Over 9 million of those originated from Russian-backed accounts Twitter Offers Up Semi-Public Database of Known State-Sponsored Accounts New research suggests Twitter’s strategy for fighting misinformation is ineffective Twitter Under Formal Investigation for How It Tracks Users in the GDPR Era Netflix Reminds […]
News of the Week; October 10, 2018
DIGITAL Libel by Tweet: Ontario Court of Appeal Upholds Dismissal of Twitter Libel Claim under Anti-SLAPP Legislation Setting the Standard?: How the USMCA Quietly Reshapes Global Digital Trade Agreements (Michael Geist) Why the USMCA Will Enhance Online Free Speech in Canada (Michael Geist) How Canada Surrendered Policy Flexibility for Data Localization Rules in the USMCA […]