In that quiet time of the year between developer conferences and the back-to-school sales, product announcements are scarce — but the hazy, lazy days of summer are no vacation for the legal world! As El Kaiser and J.D. discover on this week’s episode, court rulings and decisions by lawmakers dominated the news this week, with a few bug revivals thrown in for good measure. J.D. also explores the new Windows 10 Timeline feature in Microsoft’s latest operating-system update, so beat the heat and find a cool place to settle in with Episode 279!
Links to News Stories on This Week’s Episode
- EU lawmakers vote against tough line on copyright reform (Reuters)
- Kim Dotcom loses latest appeal against US extradition (BBC News)
- Yelp can’t be forced to take down libelous reviews, court rules (The Verge)
- Why California Privacy Law Promises Chaos by 2020 (eWeek)
- Third-party developers could have been reading your Gmail messages – here’s what to do about it (London Evening Standard)
- Ensuring your security and privacy within Gmail (Google Blog)
- New Facebook privacy mishap: A software bug that ‘unblocked’ people (Recode)
- Letting People Know About a Blocking Bug (Facebook Newsroom)
- Facebook’s Political Rule Blocks Ads for Bush’s Beans, Singers Named Clinton (Bloomberg)
- Facebook Ads Offer Peek at Looming Supreme Court Fight (The New York Times)
- Ugandans Aren’t Happy With New Tax for Using Social Media (Time)
- Akamai Releases Summer 2018 State of the Internet Security Report (Akamai)
- This password-stealing malware just added a new way to infect your PC (ZDNet)
- Tech-support scammers revive bug that sends Chrome users into a panic (Ars Technica)
- Samsung Note 9 Premium Smartphone to Debut on Aug. 9 (eWeek)
- Amazon Takes a Page From Toys ‘R’ Us With a Holiday Catalog (Bloomberg)
- An Archive of Radio Shack Catalogs
Windows 10 Timeline
- Introducing Windows Timeline (Windows channel on YouTube)
- Get help with timeline (Microsoft)
- How to Use Timeline With Windows 10 (The New York Times)