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> [How to Protect the Future Web From Its Founders’ Own Frailty](http://boingboing.net/2016/06/24/how-to-protect-the-future-web.html) (June 24, 2016) – Cory Doctorow. See also: [The Web’s Creator Looks to Reinvent It](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/08/technology/the-webs-creator-looks-to-reinvent-it.html?_r=1) (June 7, 2016) – New York Times, and [The Fathers of the Internet Revolution Urge Today’s Software Engineers to Reinvent the Web](http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/telecom/internet/the-fathers-of-the-internet-revolution-urge-todays-pioneers-to-reinvent-the-web) (June 13, 2016) – IEEE Spectrum

> [Open Access: All Human Knowledge is There—So Why Can’t Everybody Access It?](http://arstechnica.co.uk/science/2016/06/what-is-open-access-free-sharing-of-all-human-knowledge/) (July 6, 2016) – Glyn Moody at ArsTechnica

> [Researchers Sue the Government Over Computer Hacking Law (CFAA)](https://www.wired.com/2016/06/researchers-sue-government-computer-hacking-law/) (June 29, 2016) – Kim Zetter in Wired; See the ACLU’s [complaint](https://www.aclu.org/legal-document/sandvig-v-lynch-complaint) (pdf available at the link; 47 pages) and the ACLU [release](https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-future/aclu-challenges-computer-crimes-law-thwarting-research-discrimination-online)

> [Section 1201 of the DMCA Cannot Pass Constitutional Scrutiny](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/07/section-1201-dmca-cannot-pass-constitutional-scrutiny) and [Research and Remixes the Law Won’t Allow](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/07/research-and-remixes-law-wont-allow) (July 21, 2016) – EFF; See also [Statement on DMCA lawsuit](http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2016/07/statement-on-dmca-lawsuit.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AFewThoughtsOnCryptographicEngineering+%28A+Few+Thoughts+on+Cryptographic+Engineering%29) by cryptographer and Johns Hopkins professor Matthew Green, who is one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, and the [complaint](https://www.eff.org/document/1201-complaint) (pdf; 32 pages) in the lawsuit. Related: [A Dozen Bad Ideas That Were Raised At The Copyright Office’s DMCA Roundtables](https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160517/17541834469/dozen-bad-ideas-that-were-raised-copyright-offices-dmca-roundtables.shtml) (May 18, 2016) – TechDirt

> [Tech Companies Fight Back After Years of Being Deluged With Secret FBI Requests](https://theintercept.com/2016/06/21/tech-companies-fight-back-after-years-of-being-deluged-with-secret-fbi-requests/) (June 21, 2016) – Jenna McLaughlin at The Intercept

> [Why Notice-and-Takedown is a Bit of Copyright Law Worth Saving](http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-sprigman-lemley-notice-and-takedown-dmca-20160621-snap-story.html) (June 21, 2016) – Los Angeles Times Op-Ed by law professors Chris Sprigman and Mark Lemley

> At JustSecurity, a series of July posts on “secret law”: [It’s Time to Come to Terms With Secret Law: Part I](https://www.justsecurity.org/32120/time-terms-secret-law-part/) and [Part II](https://www.justsecurity.org/32142/time-terms-secret-law-part-ii/) by Dakota S. Rudesill, and [Secret Law, Targeting, and the Problem of Standards: A Response to Dakota Rudesill](https://www.justsecurity.org/32179/secret-law-targeting-problem-standards-response-dakota-rudesill/) – Jonathan Hafetz

> [The Intriguing Legal Ramifications of Pokémon GO](http://brettterpstra.com/2016/07/25/the-intriguing-legal-ramifications-of-pokemon-go/?utm_source=loopinsight.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+loopinsight%2FKqJb+(The+Loop)&utm_content=FeedBurner) (July 25, 2016) – Bretterpstra.com; Also see The University of Washington Tech Policy Lab’s white paper – [Augmented Reality, a Technology and Policy Primer](http://techpolicylab.org/augmented-reality-technology-policy-primer/) (pdf at the link; 12 pages)

> Mary Meeker’s [2016 Internet Trends Report](http://www.kpcb.com/internet-trends)

> [Reweaving the Web; A Slew of Startups is Trying to Decentralize the Online World](http://www.economist.com/news/business/21700642-slew-startups-trying-decentralise-online-world-reweaving-web?fsrc=scn/tw/te/pe/ed/reweavingtheweb) (June 18, 2016) – The Economist

> EU-related developments (other than Privacy Shield): [Apple Joins Wide Array of Tech Companies in Fight to Kill EU’s ‘Cookie Law’](http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/07/06/apple-joins-wide-array-of-tech-companies-in-fight-to-kill-eus-cookie-law) (July 6, 2016) – AppleInsider; [European Union’s First Cybersecurity Law Gets Green Light](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-06/european-union-s-first-cybersecurity-law-gets-green-light) (July 6, 2016) – Bloomberg; and [The European Union is Updating its Electronic Signature Laws](http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/30/12066886/eu-european-union-electronic-signature-laws-eidas) (June 30, 2016) – The Verge. See also the [EU release](https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/building-online-trust-and-confidence-electronic-signatures-seals-and-trust-services-now-valid) on the new electronic signature laws.

> [MIT Researchers Unveil New Anonymity Scheme That Could Rival Tor](https://www.grahamcluley.com/2016/07/mit-researchers-unveil-new-anonymity-scheme-rival-tor/) – David Bisson at GrahamCluley.com

> #### General Interest