Your Daily Digital Digest for Friday, February 16th, 2018

Here's your Daily Digital Digest for Friday, February 16th, 2018. Thanks to @acurrie for compiling!

Your news links for today:

• FCC Boss Ajit Pai’s Own Agency Is Investigating Him For Potential Corruption - Motherboard
• FCC report finds almost no broadband competition at 100Mbps speeds - Ars Technica
• Don’t use Huawei phones, say heads of FBI, CIA, and NSA - The Verge
• German court rules Facebook use of personal data illegal - Reuters
• Facebook’s ‘Protect’ feature on iOS essentially installs spyware on iPhone and iPad - 9to5Mac
• The first-ever independent audit of whistleblower retaliation in US spy agencies was looking bad for the agencies, so it was shut down - Cory Doctorow
• How Google's Sidewalk Labs has outmaneuvered Toronto in its bid to build a "smart city" - Cory Doctorow
• Public Mobile Price Increase: $40/4GB Plan Jumps 25%, Koodo Switcher Promo Offered - iPhone in Canada
• CRTC denies PIAC request to look into unsavoury telecom sales practices - Mobile Syrup
• The Case Against the Bell Coalition’s Website Blocking Plan, Part 4: Absence of Court Orders Would Put Canada At Odds With Almost Everyone - Michael Geist
• The Case Against the Bell Coalition’s Website Blocking Plan, Part 5: The Inevitable Expansion of the Block List Standard for “Piracy” Sites - Michael Geist
• Will Canada Be the New Testing Ground for SOPA-lite? Canadian Media Companies Hope So - EFF

All links compiled by OpenMedia community member and volunteer Andrew Currie.