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News of the Week; May 30, 2018
DIGITAL Google Fails To Amend Canadian De-Indexing Injunction Despite California Court Order: Equustek Solutions Inc. v. Jack, 2018 BCSC 610 Court Says It’s Unconstitutional For Trump To Block People On Twitter, But Doesn’t Actually Order Him To Stop U.S. District Court Rules President Trump Can’t Block Critical Followers President Trump Violated the First Amendment by […]
News of the Week; May 23, 2018
DIGITAL Media can’t be an arm of the police, Vice lawyer tells Supreme Court hearing: Reporter Ben Makuch challenging ruling he must hand over info on terrorists to RCMP Trump’s Twitter blocking violates First Amendment, court rules: The “interactive space” around Trump tweets is a public forum, judge rules. Trump feels presidential smartphone security is […]
News of the Week; May 16, 2018
DIGITAL It’s Over: The Podcast Patent Troll’s Patent is Officially And Completely Dead Supreme Court declines to hear “podcasting patent” case, handing win to EFF Here are the Russian-made Facebook ads that tried to shake American politics 7 Takeaways from the Latest Batch of Russian-Bought Facebook Ads: House Democrats released over 3,000 Facebook and Instagram […]
News of the Week; May 9, 2018
DIGITAL New Québec “Netflix / Amazon Tax” Will Affect Non-Canadian Businesses Report: Chinese government is behind a decade of hacks on software companies As Iran Joins Russia’s Block On Telegram, The Echoes Of The Arab Spring Begin To Sound House Democrats Release 3,500 Russia-Linked Facebook Ads Facebook security analyst is fired for using private data […]
News of the Week; May 2, 2018
DIGITAL Equustek again: BC Supreme Court upholds injuction despite US refusal to enforce Google worldwide injunction will not change Foreign Broadcaster Infringed US Copyright Through Online Streaming Man Fined $60,000 For Streaming Live Sports Illegally Another Court Says Competitive Keyword Advertising Doesn’t Cause Confusion Iranian activist awarded defamation damages after anonymous web harassment Iran blocks […]
News of the Week; April 25, 2018
DIGITAL Google Fails to Amend Canadian De-indexing Injunction Despite California Court Order B.C. Court Leaves Google Global Takedown Order Intact Pending Full Trial (Michael Geist) U.S. Falls To 45th On Press Freedom Index, Trump Labeled ‘Media-Bashing Enthusiast’ Michael Cohen Drops Ridiculous Lawsuit Against Buzzfeed After Buzzfeed Sought Stormy Daniels’ Details It’s Spreading: Lindsey Graham Now […]
News of the Week; April 18, 2018
DIGITAL Teen charged in Nova Scotia government breach says he had ‘no malicious intent’: 19-year-old says he believed documents were ‘free to just download’ from province’s FOIPOP web portal Digital Disruption: How Should Canadian Regulators Respond? 19-Year-Old Canadian Facing Criminal Charges For Downloading Publicly-Accessible Documents Facebook must face class action over facial recognition, judge rules […]
News of the Week; April 11, 2018
DIGITAL Was Facebook’s Work With the Trump Campaign Illegal? The Questions Zuckerberg Should Have Answered About Russia Facebook admits Zuckerberg wiped his old messages – which you can’t do: Ordinary Facebook users can’t delete their messages from recipients’ inboxes. Facebook Admits Mark Zuckerberg and Top Execs Have Deleted Their Sent Messages Remotely Hours after Zuck […]
News of the Week; April 4, 2018
DIGITAL Trump admin wants to track 14 million US visitors’ social media history Republican governor forced to stop blocking Facebook users who criticize him: Maryland gov. settled free speech lawsuit – Trump is still fighting a similar suit. US Might Start A Nuclear War… Because Iranians Wanted Access To Academic Papers Locked Behind A Paywall? […]
News of the Week; March 28, 2018
DIGITAL Appeals court revives Oracle’s billion-dollar copyright claim against Google The Case That Never Ends: Oracle Wins Latest Round vs. Google Oracle America Inc. V Google LLC Insanity Wins As Appeals Court Overturns Google’s Fair Use Victory For Java APIs The Federal Circuit’s Judicial Hypocrisy In Overturning Jury Concerning Java API Fair Use Question 9th […]