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News of the Week Top 5; February 18, 2015
1. Why the Copyright Board of Canada Needs a Leafs-Style Tear-Down 2. The Canadian Privacy Cases of 2014 3. How “omnipotent” hackers tied to NSA hid for 14 years—and were found at last: […]
Conference version of “Relating Memes of Justice & Technology”
Though most but far from all of the slides in this presentation to the 2015 SLS Conference at TRU Law on February 5, 2015 have made it into some the […]
Tuesday Presentation Materials
Ahead of my presentation on Tuesday, please check out the following: Glen Greenwald: Why privacy matters Sarah Lewis: Creativity and Privacy Go Hand in Hand Chapter 11 of Code […]
“Press Start: Culture, Industry, and Innovation in Japanese Gaming” conference @ UBC – February 27 & 28, 2015
Video games are within the purview of this course but because of the “other” course we have generally stayed away from the subject. That said the conference at UBC t […]
Jon Ronson on public shaming
Jon Ronson will be coming out with a new book next month entitled So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed. As one of my classmates has pointed out in a previous blog […]
The ‘Reddit exodus’
Currently in the news: “… In a strange twist that perfectly illustrates the current culture-wide debate around online speech, a group of disgruntled users have begun an exodus off the […]
Utilitarian Justifications at the Grammys
Recording Academy president Neil Portnow used the Grammys as an opportunity to highlight the importance of copyright protection, using a argument you might recognize as utilitarian: “What if we’re all watching the […]
News of the Week Top 5; February 11, 2015
1. An Open Letter to Prime Minister Cameron: 20th-century solutions won’t help 21st-century surveillance (Jonathan Zittrain) 2. US’s ‘Naughty List’ Of Countries Whose Intellectual Property Rules We Don’t Like Is A Joke […]
Class 5 & 6 Slides; February 3 & 10, 2015
Have remixed the last two sets of slides into one (hopefully coherent) whole… jon
Impact of twitter’s “mass shaming” problem
This article does a great job of showing the real-life impact of online harassment in the context of “naming and shaming” people on Twitter (it focuses on people who have […]