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...
On April 23, 2014, Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff enacted the country’s long awaited Internet Bill of Rights, locally known as “Marco Civil da Internet”.
First introduced to the legislature in 2011, the bill was finally approved by Congress and submitted to the Senate in late March this year...
Today the Fourth Circuit refrained from deciding the first legal challenge to government seizure of the master encryption keys that secure our communications with web sites and email servers. Nevertheless, the Court upheld contempt of court sanctions, because of the Lavabit owner’s foot dragging...
If US law enforcement officers want to access your private emails, they need to follow the requirements in the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. ECPA is an old and imperfect piece of legislation. Industry and civil society have long been pushing to update ECPA so that it is “technology...
Today, Turkish authorities lifted the ban on Twitter. See http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/03/us-turkey-twitter-idUSBREA320E...The decision comes after the Turkish Constitutional Court spelled out that the ban violated freedom of expression and individual rights in Turkey. “This is a major...
We have recently reported on the ban of Twitter and Youtube by the Turkish Presidency of Telecommunications and Communication (TIB). The Turkish Constitutional Court has unanimously decided today that TIB's blocking of Twitter is unlawful and should be lifted as it violates freedom of expression and...
The Turkish Presidency of Telecommunications and Communication (TIB) has put Turkish Internet legislation enacted a few weeks ago to immediate use. As we discussed in a previous blog post, TIB now enjoys enhanced powers to issue blocking orders, even without judicial review. Under this new legal...
Despite fierce opposition from civil society and industry, the Turkish parliament recently amended Law no. 5651, entitled “Regulation of Publications on the Internet and Suppression of Crimes Committed by means of Such Publications”. The amendment was included in two omnibus bills (available here an...
The next meeting of the Stanford Intermediary Liability Lab (SILLab) will take place on Friday, February 14 at 11am in Room B13 at Stanford Law School.
Professor Dan Svantesson from Bond University in Australia will join us for an informal discussion about recent intermediary liability updates in...
Content platforms are under fire in Brazil. The Brazilian Superior Tribunal of Justice (“STJ”) recently found Google liable for copyright infringement for YouTube-hosted videos parodying a well-known commercial. The case raises concerns that copyright enforcement is interfering with freedom of...
Cross posted from ISPLiability blog
In a recent ruling issued by the 15th Section of the Barcelona Court of Appeals – a Section specializing on IP – the Spanish ISP R Cable y Telecomunicaciones Galicia has been ordered to suspend, immediately and for good, the Internet connection of a user who...