Venezuela has blocked access to Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, becoming only the second country after Turkey to do so, an internet watchdog claimed Sunday. From Haaretz.
Venezuela has blocked access to Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, becoming only the second country after Turkey to do so, an internet watchdog claimed Sunday. From Haaretz.
In April 2018, the OAS’ Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and the UN’s Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression issued a joint communication to the Argentinean Government in support of the bill on intermediary liability. This bill...
On April 5, 2018, a Brazilian court fined Facebook Inc. 111.7 million reals (over 26 million euros), for having failed to hand over WhatsApp messages to prosecutors, as part of a corruption investigation.
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Legislative Proposals 1865-S-2015 and 942-S-2016 were discussed together as a joint Proposal, which was approved by the Senate in 2016. This project states that ISPs should not be liable for content created by third parties, unless they are duly notified by a judicial order of the removal or...
Argentina has opened a public consultation at Plataforma Justicia 2020 to update its Data Protection Law. This Platform offered civil society the possibility to submit contributions, suggestions and comments in order to improve the design, performance and evaluation of public policies. Moreover...
The latest episode in the Google litigation story has been written by the Colombian Constitutional Court. In the case of Fierro Calcedo v Google Inc (Judgment T-063A/17, in Spanish) that court ordered Google Inc, as the owner of “Blogger.com” to delete a blog which anonymously alleged that the...
On September 25, 2017, for the first time in the country’s history, a Peruvian prosecutor ordered that three copyright-infringing websites popular in Latin America be raided, their physical assets seized, as well as the domain names associated with the platforms.
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Amidst an economic and political turmoil, Brazil gave a significant step towards protection of network neutrality – the principle that keeps the Internet an open space, free from undue control by Internet service providers (ISPs). A Presidential Decree issued right before Dilma Rousseff was...