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News of the Week; August 7, 2019
DIGITAL European Court Of Justice Rules On Three Big Copyright Cases Have You Heard? If You Spread ‘Hurtful’ Rumors In China, You’ll Be Thrown Off The Internet For Years The ‘cesspool of hate’ message board 8chan was taken offline after being linked to 3 mass shootings this year Online providers knock 8chan offline after mass […]
News of the Week; July 31, 2019
DIGITAL Sites could be liable for helping Facebook secretly track your web browsing, says EU court Court of Justice of the European Union Press Release No 99/19 Luxembourg, 29 July 2019 Judgment in Case C-40/17 Fashion ID GmbH & Co. KG v Verbraucherzentrale NRW eV Russian Interference and Data Privacy: Facebook Stockholders Demand Section 220 […]
News of the Week; July 24, 2019
DIGITAL FTC fines Facebook $5 billion, imposes new privacy oversight Facebook Agrees to New FTC Privacy Oversight, Will Pay $5 Billion Fine Under 20-Year Settlement FTC’s Privacy Settlement With Facebook Gets Pretty Much Everything Backwards; Probably Helps Facebook Facebook Knows More About You Than The CIA Facebook: Hypothetical Risk Factors are Insufficient Disclosure When the […]
News of the Week; July 17, 2019
DIGITAL Facebook Embeds ‘Hidden Codes’ To Track Who Sees And Shares Your Photos Facebook To Face Record $5 Billion FTC Settlement Related To Cambridge Analytica Scandal Facebook’s FTC fine will be $5 billion—or one month’s worth of revenue: Fine will settle privacy investigation triggered by Cambridge Analytica scandal. FTC Approves Record $5 Billion Settlement with […]
News of the Week; July 10, 2019
DIGITAL Once Again, Russian Internet Propaganda Efforts Shown To Be Much Bigger Than Originally Believed Report: Russian intel started the Seth Rich rumor to cover for DNC hack – Yahoo News’ Michael Isikoff claims SVR was the source of story in “ConspiracyLand” podcast. Appeals Court Affirms: Trump Can’t Block Followers On Social Media Pres. Trump […]
News of the Week; July 3, 2019
DIGITAL Twitter Will Now Hide, Suppress Spread Of Government Officials’ Tweets That Violate Its Guidelines Twitter clarifies special rules for tweets by world leaders like Trump Boris Johnson, UK’s Answer To Trump, Offers A Masterclass In How To Use The Dead Cat Strategy Combined With A Google Bomb Chinese Border Agents Now Installing Malware On […]
More on “To Regulate or Not to Regulate”: Law Society of B.C.’s 2019 Rule of Law Lecture
The third annual LSBC Rule of Law Lecture took place on Tuesday, June 25, 2019 at UBC Robson Square. The speakers addressed a number of subjects covered during our course, particularly “To Regulate or Not to Regulate?”, and how privacy law fits (or not) in a digital world. Given that the speakers were the Right […]
News of the Week; June 26, 2019
DIGITAL Once Again: It’s Not Clear The Internet Needs Creepy Targeted Ads Facebook usage falling after privacy scandals, data suggests: Actions such as shares and likes down nearly 20%, though user numbers still growing Facebook adds new limits to address the spread of hate speech in Sri Lanka and Myanmar Facebook to identify French hate […]
“To Regulate or Not to Regulate?”: Some final (personal) thoughts.
This past semester, we talked a fair bit about the core question of “To Regulate or Not to Regulate” in the context of Foundations of Digital Media. Originally, in this and other courses, the question was really just a useful way to “sharpen the saw” (apologies to Stephen Covey), allowing space for the possible self-renewal […]
Thank you. That was really fun (adjectival meaning)!
A belated, heart-felt thank you to the 2nd cohort of UBC Foundations of Digital Media. You were great individually and as a group. Which makes teaching easy and fun. And hopefully does something similar for learning. Your presentations and papers were terrific. Obviously we were helped by the times we are in, where news about […]