June 2020 WILMap Updates

In February 2017, the petitioner filed a petition in the Islamabad High Court praying that the Court take action into rampant blasphemy online by bloggers. On February 27, 2017, the

Safe Harbour Provision: The Act stipulates that no service providers would be longer liable for civil or criminal violations committed by their users, unless there is evidence that they had

Update (March 2020) : The Rules remain on the statute books however the Pakistani authorities have now pledged to review the regulations and undertake an ‘extensive and broad-based consultation process

In a progressive judgment, the Delhi High Court held on December 23, 2016, that MySpace, a social networking platform was liable to take down copyright infringed content within 36 hours

The manufacturer of goods using the trademark/brand Beverly Hills Polo Club filed an application for an injunction in the Delhi High Court to take down URLs of sellers marketing counterfeit

On November 2, 2018, the Delhi High Court laid down detailed conditions for an e-commerce intermediary needed to meet in order to claim safe harbour protection under Section 79 of

On September 27, 2018, the High Court of Uttarakhand directed Internet Service Providers to block the publication/transmission of all obscene material in electronic form, including child pornography under Rule 3(2)(b,c)

On July 8, 2019, the Delhi High Court passed an order that had major implications for online intermediaries who served as e-commerce platforms. The Court held that e-commerce platforms were

Note: This case originated in July 2008 and is based on the Intermediary Liability framework prior to the 2008 Amendment to the Information Technology Act, 2000. The 2008 Amendment had

On October 23, 2019, the Delhi High Court issued an injunction against Facebook, Google, YouTube and Twitter (Defendants) and other online intermediaries, directing them to globally take down a list

In December 2018, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology released the Intermediary Liability Guidelines (Amendment) Rules, which would significantly alter the intermediary liability regime in India. The Rules for

In early December 2019, Vladimir Putin signed a law that will allow Russia to declare journalists and bloggers as “foreign agents” in a move critics say will allow the Kremlin

It outlaws “ the spreading of information which shows blatant disrespect for society, the government, official state symbols of the Russian Federation, the Constitution of the Russian Federation or authorities

A civil judge partially admitted the claim of the model and tv host Natalia Denegri and ordered Google to "deindex" all the images and videos related to the widely known

The Supreme Court of Justice overturned a judgment of the Civil Court of Appeals, which ordered Google to remove a search suggestion that involved the General Secretary of a public

Amendments to the Federal Law of 27 July 2006 No. 149-FZ “On information, information technologies and the protection of information”, under which the publication of fake news and information showing

The law banning the sale of certain devices that are not pre-installed with Russian software. The law will come into force in July 2020 and cover smartphones, computers and smart