On May 11, 2022, the Fifth Circuit reinstated Texas state law HB 20 which allows private parties to sue tech platforms with 50M+ MAUs for their censorship of user-generated content based on “the viewpoint of a user or another person”. On May 13, technology lobbying groups NetChoice and the Computer...
Several bills pending before the Brazilian Congress seek to institute harsher penalties for crimes against honor and reputation when perpetrated through social networks. Below, you find a summary of the proposed changes to the present Brazilian legal framework and how those changes may impact...
This article is cross-posted with author's personal blog.
On Thursday, the German Federal Supreme Court issued a press release informing that it has decided two long-excepted website blocking cases (I ZR 3/14, I ZR 174/14). Although we still have to wait couple of months for the text of the decision...
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 Dutch Court today ruled that Facebook has a duty to identify a person who has uploaded a revenge porn video on its social network. In this case, the video displays a woman, Chantal, performing oral sex on her now ex-boyfriend. A fake account bearing Chantal’s name was created and used to share the...
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...
Today, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) delivered a long-awaited decision in Delphi AS v. Estonia. Confirming an earlier judgment rendered on October 10, 2013 by the Fifth Section of the ECHR, the Grand Chamber held that finding Delfi liable for comments posted by third...
The controversy over the so called “right to be forgotten” recently surfaced in Mexico. A few months ago, the Mexican National Institute for the Access to Information (INAI) ordered Google Mexico to remove embarrassing—but true—search results about a prominent businessman. Free speech advocates...
Welcome news today from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. By a vote of 11 to 1, the court overturned its injunction against the controversial video called Innocence of Muslims that it had ordered off YouTube back in February 2014.
Here's the background. Actress Cindy Lee Garcia was cast...
European courts are beginning to sort through one of the most important follow-up questions to last spring’s “Right To Be Forgotten” ruling in Google v. Costeja: what does the case mean for hosting services? The answer matters for the Twitters, Facebooks and YouTubes of the world – not to mention...