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Our 100th Feature: lawless.tech Is Open to Collaboration

It’s been a while since our last post. For almost a year, we have been doing our best to look closely at the way law impacts the most cutting-edge technologies, how those technologies affect and find their place in law, and how it all affects us.

We have published 99 articles viewed 209 000 times by 28 000 users. Five percent of readers subscribed to our newsletter and followed us on social media. We do feel that our work is needed and appreciated.

Now, lawless.tech, an online magazine about law and technology, is looking for authors and sponsors to move forward. Together we can bridge the conceptual gap between innovators and lawmakers.

More details at https://lawless.tech/our-100th-feature-lawless-tech-is-open-to-collaboration/

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The Petition of Reversing the Net Neutrality Repeal Misses Democratic Votes

Net neutrality advocates are waiting for the support from the House of Representatives by the deadline of December 10 to reverse the Federal Communications Commission's repeal of net neutrality rules.

1. To start with, the Congress has the opportunity to reverse FCC Chairman’s net neutrality repeal by the end of the session. Afterwards, it gets way harder to restore protections against blocking, controlling, and implementing new fees.

2. Without net neutrality rules, monopolistic Internet providers like Verizon and AT&T will have the full power over the online communications of their subscribers. In order to increase awareness of the upcoming deadline, there will be a social media push to direct people to the "deadline for net neutrality” page, where they can sign an open letter to the Congress.

3. In the House, 218 members (a majority) would have to sign a discharge petition to force the US Senate vote, but only 177 have signed it so far with 176 of them being Democrats.

4. Even though the Democrats mean to protect net neutrality when they have the majority in Congress next year, there are still eighteen Democrats left who haven’t signed petition yet. Plus, the greater number of of Republicans in the Senate makes it less likely that the Democrats will get their net neutrality bill through both chambers of Congress.

GDPR vs. Blockchain: The Saga Continues

The popular French privacy watchdog, the CNIL, is on fire these days. After being the first EU authority to issue warnings for the GDPR violations to Teemo and Fidzup, it discovers new playgrounds – this time it’s all about matching blockchain technology and the GDPR. With the recently issued official English translation of the recommendation, let’s dive right in.

https://lawless.tech/gdpr-vs-blockchain-the-saga-continues/

Russian Firm Sues Facebook for Discrimination

A Russian company whose accountant has been charged by prosecutors for attempting to interfere the US elections has retaliated and sued Facebook, affirming that The Federal Agency of News LLC (FAN) is a legitimate news media and its Facebook account should be restored.

1. Everything started back in April, when Facebook deleted FAN’s account due to news media references about St. Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency. It was accused by counsel Robert Mueller of spreading false information in the awe of 2016 election.

2. FAN claimed that they were intentionally targeted in Facebook’ purge together with 270 other Russian-language pages and accounts. FAN’s lawsuit argued that Facebook violated their right to free speech and mentioned the Civil Rights Act of 1964 referring to the fact that Facebook discriminated the news outlet due to its Russian origins.

3. FAN’s accountant who has become the center of federal prosecutors’ attention had day-to-day bookkeeping routine, and had no involvement in editorial content, according to plaintiffs.

4. For now, there are no official comments from Facebook on FAN’s suit, but we will keep you updated with the new flow of official information from counterparts.

Privacy of Things: Which Security Requirements to Consider for the Smart Devices’ Manufacturing

The safety of your data in the world where everything is getting increasingly interconnected is a tough thing that gets challenged too often these days. In his op-ed for lawless.tech, associate of tech at attorneys association Juscutum Vlad Nekrutenko shares his views as to how to attain a greater security in the world of smart devices by law.

https://lawless.tech/privacy-of-things-which-security-requirements-to-consider-for-the-smart-devices-manufacturing/