When that little white box on Facebook asks you, "What's on your mind?", could Facebook be responsible for what you have to say?
A group representing French Muslims is suing the French branches of Facebook and YouTube for hosting the video of the Christchurch attack in New Zealand. From Mashable...
The French government is to "embed" a team of regulators inside Facebook to work out how best to tackle online hate speech, President Emmanuel Macron announced on Monday. From Euronews.
On March 21, 2018, French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said that “French law should be amended to strengthen the obligations of detection, reporting and deletion of illegal content on the Internet,” and that the French government was considering measures akin to the German NetzDG, which imposes...
British Prime Minister Theresa May will be joined by the leaders of France and Italy in calling for terrorist content to be removed from the internet within one to two hours after it has been posted. From CBS News.
Today the French Data Protection regulator, CNIL, reaffirmed its position that Google must apply European “Right to Be Forgotten” (RTBF) law globally, by removing content from its services in all countries. Europe’s RTBF laws are rooted in citizens' rights to data protection and privacy. They are...
A few days ago, the Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (CNiL), the French data protection authority, ordered Google to apply the right to be forgotten (RTBF) on all domain names of Google's search engine, including the .com domain.
As many other national data protection...
The long standing saga of Max Moseley’s sexual images has recently offered European decision makers a new opportunity to strike a balance between freedom of expression and the right of privacy in light of the ubiquitous and unstoppable distribution of information propelled by the power of Internet...