Internet & Social Media Law Blog
Amazon adjusts its TOS to account for a zombie apocalypse; Apple and Facebook ponder different roads for VR and its devices; the BBC will scan your face to see how you feel about what you’re viewing; and more …
- The Drone Racing League (DRL) launches at 80 mph and “wreck aplenty.” (Tim Moynihan, Wired)
- Analyst believes Apple likely to incorporate virtual reality into its iOS in the next two years. (Mikey Campbell, AppleInsider)
- U.S. inteligence chief sees the Internet of Things as a potential entryway for spying by foreign governments. (David Kravets, Ars Technica)
- Could Livestreaming be the key to better treatment of emergency trauma? (Katie Collins, c|net)
- Startup Eyefluence claims to have cracked the code for using one’s eyes to control virtual reality. (Scott Stein, c|net)
- Amazon writes a zombie apocalypse clause into its TOS. (Elizabeth Weise, USA Today)
- Google is developing a virtual reality headset. (Jack Nicas & Alistair Barr, The Wall Street Journal) (For a non-subscription user, check out the brief Reuters summary.)
- Tech Tent finds Facebook in India, toy safety and an AI that can read underneath its canvas. (Rory Cellan-Jones, BBC News)
- The “right to be forgotten” will expand to Google.com in the EU (Stephanie Mlot, PC Magazine)
- The BBC plans to use face-scanning tech to see how viewers really feel about what they watch. (Adam Sherwin, Independent)