NCAA fights California over new law that helps athletes get paid
New state law says NCAA can't ban endorsement payments for student athletes.
Policy // Civilization & Discontents
German police seize “bulletproof” hosting data center in former NATO bunker
Data center in former military complex hosted drug, child porn sites.
Musk broke the law with anti-union tweet, judge rules
Judge orders Tesla to reinstate a fired union worker with back pay.
Feds say Boeing 737 needs to be better designed for humans
NTSB review suggests pilots may have been overwhelmed by multiple alerts and warnings.
Nonprofit fights TV networks in court to keep free TV service alive
Locast says ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC limit reach of broadcasts to boost profits.
Vimeo collected detailed facial scans without consent, lawsuit alleges
Service Vimeo acquired in April allegedly collects facial data in violation of Illinois law.
DOJ reportedly launches its own Facebook probe at AG Barr’s urging
Overlap with FTC is rare, but it's one more investigation for the growing pile.
Microsoft: Customers are entitled to know about federal data requests
"The secrecy order was too broadly drawn," Microsoft lawyer writes.
Facebook confirms its “standards” don’t apply to politicians
Politicians are officially exempt from both hate speech rules and fact checking.
Per “transcript,” Trump seems to think DNC-hired security firm is from Ukraine
CrowdStrike, "one of your wealthy people," mentioned in rambling reconstruction of phone call.
Google takes hard line, refuses to pay French news sites despite new law
Google is taking a hard line in negotiations with European news sites.
Inside the campaign that tried to compromise Tibetans’ iOS and Android phones
Remember the 2-year campaign targeting iPhones? Here's the rest of the tale.
Google wins case as court rules “right to be forgotten” is EU-only
Europeans have the right to be forgotten, but only on one continent.
Sprint took FCC cash for “serving” 885,000 people it wasn’t actually serving
Sprint admits mistake, promises to pay money back but could be punished by FCC.
FCC loses in court, judges say agency would fail “intro statistics class”
Court: FCC repeal of media ownership limits ignored impact on women and minorities.
