Hey there, What's Next readers! We often look at ways in which innovation, law, and user expectation fail to match up, and this week we've got a lot of that. Kicking off, we'll dive into a bot's big fail in issuing DMCA notices and what it means for automation and web platform responsibility. We'll also look at how yet another bad news week for Google may lead to greater regulatory scrutiny. Plus: Why Twitter may be the next hot legal tech… for serving complaints; and how an 11 year old hacker may have uncovered vulnerabilities in Florida's election system.

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Does Not Compute: Topple Track Bot Goes Berserk with Bogus DMCA Notices

Automation may be touted as a saving grace for the legal industry's more mind-numbing tasks, but even robots make mistakes. Case in point: self-described “content protection service” Topple Track was called out for some big blunders last week over what appeared to be bogus Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown notices. The bot targets included a New Yorker article, musician Ed Sheeran's website, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation — which judging by a piece by EFF attorney Daniel Nazer, isn't too happy with “copyright robots run amok.”