February 2020 WILMap Updates

You probably feel antipathy towards Facebook and Google. Most people do. Yet, as incumbents with extraordinary amounts of wealth, it sometimes feels like Facebook and Google are impervious both to

INTERNET COMPANIES have today outlined a number of ways in which the government’s Online Harms White Paper can be improved. In a new submission to government, Internet Association (IA) sets

The Indian government made 20,805 requests for user data – including 861 emergency requests – to Facebook between July and December 2018, the company’s revealed in its latest Transparency Report

Facebook said Thursday that it took down roughly 900,000 posts related to attempted drug sales or otherwise linked to drugs in the first quarter of 2019. From Axios .

After Facebook’s and other social media companies’ recent moves to ban Louis Farrakhan, Alex Jones, Milo Yiannopoulos and other extremists some pundits are calling for the end of the safe

Media freedom watchdogs and journalists’ associations are expressing concern over a bill aimed at combating Russian disinformation. From Radio Free Europe .

New Delhi is inching closer to recommending regulations that would require social media companies and instant messaging app providers to help law enforcement agencies identify users who have posted content

So that's the price of a US trade deal. The authorities from the other side of the pond have made it clear what they're looking for as the UK enters

Attempts to rein in the internet will take a step closer later this month when the UK government gives its official response to its Online Harms White Paper published in

Online targeted political ads create enormous opportunities for undetected abuse. These ads might be racially or socially inflammatory or materially false, and no one but their intended audience is likely

In a landmark ruling earlier this month, India’s Supreme Court held that citizens’ right to freedom of speech and rights to carry out business using the internet are constitutionally protected.

The Shreya Singhal judgment of the Supreme Court of India in 2015 was a seminal case with respect to intermediary liability law in the country. The court ordered that online

In brief: While most critics of social media giants agree that we need better regulation to increase accountability, Joe Biden thinks an easier route would be to repeal Section 230

Jewish advocates on Wednesday called on social media companies and Congress to take more steps to regulate online anti-Semitic speech after the number of anti-Semitic incidents has increased in the

Security and encryption experts from around the world are joining a number of organizations to call on India to reconsider its proposed amendments to local intermediary liability rules. From TechCrunch

The Carnegie UK Trust have recently produced a draft Online Harm Reduction Bill led by William Perrin, Professor Lorna Woods and Maeve Walsh which sets out how a statutory duty

It’s increasingly hard to find good news in Internet law, so I organized this year’s Internet Law roundup by categories of doom. Trigger warning: you should grab some tissues before

Last October and November , I sketched the evolution of the government’s proposals for a digital safety commissioner. From Cearta.ie .

A top Russian official has said the government will do its best to defend the internet giant Yandex, which is reportedly under pressure from security services to hand over its

US regulators are seriously questioning whether companies like Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook have too much power . This new push to curb the might of Big Tech has a

Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, among others, are platforms enabling free expression of information and ideas, but they are also increasingly used to spread fake news and hate speech - making serious

In recent years, lawmakers around the world have proposed a lot of new intermediary liability (IL) laws. Many have been miscalibrated – risking serious collateral damage without necessarily using the

The idea of an open "global" internet keeps taking a beating -- and the worst offender is not, say, China or Russia, but rather the EU. We've already discussed things

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Indian government, in its first term, began by positioning India as a global technology hub. From The Diplomat .

The Sri Lankan government is looking at imposing new laws to regulate the use of social media, the Daily News reported Member of Parliament Lasantha Alagiyawanna as saying. From Medianama

Conservatives remain convinced that the tech industry is biased against them. From Yahoo Finance .

Lawmakers negotiating a national privacy bill are clashing over whether to allow consumers to sue companies like Facebook and Google over privacy violations — in what's shaping up to be

How do we regulate online hate/terrorist speech? Daphne Keller, an expert in platform regulation and Internet users’ rights, discusses how the law is developing particularly in the European Union. From

Terrorism has gone viral. The livestreaming on Facebook of the March attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand that news reports said left more than 50 people dead was

Dylan Voller, the Aboriginal man who was shown restrained and wearing a spit hood at age 17 in shocking CCTV footage from an adult prison, has been given the green

From internet time immemorial the UK government has adhered to the principle of online-offline equivalence. No Ministerial speech or government paper has been complete without reaffirming that what is illegal

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), who has sought to make a name for himself as one of the Republican Party's sharpest tech critics, is introducing legislation that would chip away at

Singapore's Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act (POFMA) has been invoked for the first, second, and third time, all in the space of one week. The government issued two

Three years after rights owner Sohu sued Baidu for both direct and indirect copyright infringement of Sohu's hit web series 匆匆那年 (namely, the fleet of time, 2014), Baidu won on