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...
Cross-posted to the Internet Policy Review News & Comments and Inforrm blogs.
A big new law is coming, and a lot of companies doing business online aren’t going to like it. Neither will many advocates of civil liberties for Internet users. Europe’s pending General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)...
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...
August 2015 in Retrospect is available here:
http://www.internetjurisdiction.net/observatory/retrospect/2015-august/
Retrospect is the monthly newsletter of the Internet & Jurisdiction Project - a global multi-stakeholder dialogue process that explores the tension between the cross-border nature of...
I’ve just posted a new paper titled “The Shaky Ground of the Right to Be Delisted” to the ssrn website, which deals with the so called “right to be forgotten” as it was crafted by the Court of Justice of the European Union in its landmark Google Spain ruling.
Here is the abstract:
It has long been...
July 2015 in Retrospect is available here:
http://www.internetjurisdiction.net/observatory/retrospect/2015-july/
Retrospect is the monthly newsletter of the Internet & Jurisdiction Project - a global multi-stakeholder dialogue process that explores the tension between the cross-border nature of the...
June 2015 in Retrospect is available here:
http://www.internetjurisdiction.net/observatory/retrospect/2015-june/
Retrospect is the monthly newsletter of the Internet & Jurisdiction Project - a global multi-stakeholder dialogue process that explores the tension between the cross-border nature of the...
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...