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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 […]
News of the Week; March 21, 2018
DIGITAL Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal, explained: Trump operatives got private data from 50 million Facebook users. Canada’s privacy watchdog launches investigation into Facebook after allegations of data leak: ‘If true, the allegations raise a major challenge for privacy rights,’ says Daniel Therrien Both Facebook And Cambridge Analytica Threatened To Sue Journalists Over Stories On CA’s […]