Copyright
Deal to combat piracy in UK with alerts is ‘imminent’. | BBC News | http://bbc.in/Ql2bgo
How Disney learned to stop worrying and embrace copyright infringement. | The Salon | http://bit.ly/1nzMu09
Copyright troll demands Comcast’s six strikes data for lawsuit. | Torrentfreak | http://bit.ly/Rs6d7f
Spotify chief hits back over piracy. | Australian Financial Review | http://bit.ly/1lMHnY4
Defamation & media law
Ireland: Court tells Sharkey to take down his tweet. | Independent | http://bit.ly/1iadCiR
E-libel laws the new front line in Pacific battles for freedom. | The Conversation | http://bit.ly/1jIRksV
Defamation should be law reform focus not racial discrimination: Richard Ackland. | Sydney Morning Herald | http://bit.ly/1j0oPBT
Privacy & information security
Photos of a NSA “upgrade” factory shows a Cisco router getting an implant. | Ars Technica | http://bit.ly/1jIRksV
Worst day for eBay, multiple flaws leave millions of users vulnerable to hackers. | Hacker News | http://bit.ly/1vUAxbi
We kill people based on metadata. | The New York Review of Books | http://bit.ly/1mNuIq0
The right response to the right to delete. | Re/code | http://on.recode.net/1ozc7j6
US cybersecurity expert warns against metadata storage. | Australian Financial Review | http://bit.ly/1mwFd0N
Technology
Snowden’s first move against the NSA was a party in Hawaii. | Wired | http://wrd.cm/1noPAEj
The little conference that kickstarted the Web: Mark Pesce. | The Drum | http://ab.co/1oYUQCi
Why I was forced to shut down Lavabit. | The Guardian | http://bit.ly/TqwHb7
Computer mice: still a thing. | The Atlantic | http://bit.ly/1mzCfNa
Living on Bitcoin a year later: dropping digital dollars at a strip club. | Forbes | http://onforb.es/1jwrpoj
Giants behaving badly: Google, Facebook and Amazon show us the downside of monopolies and black-box algorithms. | GigaOm | http://bit.ly/1mfCoSW
Social media
Can an algorithm solve Twitter’s credibility problem? | The New Yorker | http://nyr.kr/1j8rA8Z
With update, Snapchat gets a little less private. | The New York Times |http://nyti.ms/1khgzCO
Alleged insider trading case cracked through LinkedIn. | SMH | http://bit.ly/1nHkdWp
A platform and a blogging tool, Medium charms writers. | The New York Times | http://nyti.ms/1nnYrrI
26 May 2014
