Recommended:

> #### Law, Tech and Policy

> [FTC Report on Internet of Things Urges Companies to Adopt Best Practices to Address Consumer Privacy and Security Risks](http://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2015/01/ftc-report-internet-things-urges-companies-adopt-best-practices) ([pdf](http://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/reports/federal-trade-commission-staff-report-november-2013-workshop-entitled-internet-things-privacy/150127iotrpt.pdf) of the Report) – FTC

> [Will the Internet of Things Finally Kill Privacy; Why the FTC’s New Report Doesn’t Go Far Enough](http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/11/8016585/will-the-internet-of-things-finally-kill-privacy) – The Verge

> [Will the FCC’s New Net Neutrality Rules Hold Up in Court?](http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/11/8019261/fcc-net-neutrality-title-ii-possible-trial-comcast-verizon) – Jacob Kastrenakes in The Verge

> The College Art Association (CAA) has released its [Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for the Visual Arts](http://www.collegeart.org/fair-use/) ([pdf](http://www.collegeart.org/pdf/fair-use/best-practices-fair-use-visual-arts.pdf))

> [Facebook’s March to Global Domination is Trampling over Net Neutrality](http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/13/8024993/facebook-internet-org-net-neutrality) – Vlad Savov at The Verge; and [Millions of Facebook Users Have No Idea They’re Using the Internet](http://qz.com/333313/milliions-of-facebook-users-have-no-idea-theyre-using-the-internet/) – Leo Mirani in Quartz

> [All-Seeing, All-Knowing; Since Imperial Times Chinese Governments Have Yearned for a Perfect Surveillance State – Will Big Data Now Deliver It?](http://aeon.co/magazine/technology/will-china-use-big-data-as-a-tool-of-the-state/?utm_source=Aeon+newsletter&utm_campaign=72803ab0f2-Daily_newsletter_Monday_February_16_20152_16_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-72803ab0f2-68671829) – James Palmer in Aeon

> [Suite of Sophisticated Nation-State Attack Tools Found with Connection to Student](http://www.wired.com/2015/02/kapersky-discovers-equation-group/) – Kim Zetter in Wired

> #### General Interest

> [The Shape of Things to Come; How an Industrial Designer (Jony Ive) Became Apple’s Greatest Product](http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/23/shape-things-come) – Ian Parker in The New Yorker

> [The Stanford Undergraduate and the Mentor](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/magazine/the-stanford-undergraduate-and-the-mentor.html) – Emily Bazelon in The New York Times Magazine