June 2022 WILMap Updates

The European Parliament passed the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive on April 17, 2019. One of its most controversial provisions is Article 17 (formerly Article 13), which requires

On March 24, 2021, the Zambian parliament enacted its first data protection law when it went into effect in April 2021. The Data Protection Act No. 3 of 2021 regulates

On December 3, 2021, Zimbabwe enacted its first data protection law, the Data Protection Act [Chapter 11:12], which addresses the controlling, processing, and cross-border transfer of personal data. The law

On March 24, 2021, the Zambian parliament enacted the Cyber Security and Cyber Crimes Act which went into effect on April 1, 2021. The law creates protections for individuals against

On April 13, 2022, a group of 31 international human rights and civil liberties organizations urged Twitter, Meta, Google, Telegram and Tik Tok to address a double-standard for content moderation

On March 22, 2022, Russian lawmakers amended the “fake news” laws with fines and prison sentences. The law, signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin on March 4, criminalized specific types

On March 24, 2022, EU lawmakers reached a compromise on drafts of the Digital Markets Act. The EU Regulation awaits final adoption by the EU Parliament and Council. It will

On March 17, 2022, lawmakers introduced the Online Safety BIll to Parliament. The proposed regulation would grant Ofcom the power to fine non-compliant companies, force them to improve their practices

A French mayor, Julien Sanchez, is seeking review of the Sanchez v. France decision in the European Court of Human Rights’ Grand Chamber which extended online intermediary liability rules to

On April 23, the European Parliament and EU Member States agreed on a final draft of the Digital Services Act (“DSA”), proposed by the European Commission in December 2020. Building

On April 18, 2022, the Delhi High Court held that Domain Name Registrars are intermediaries under sec. 2(1)(w) of India’s 2000 Information Technology Act. Justice C. Hari Shankar rejected the

On February 3, 2022, the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) published the first draft of the ‘Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission Regulation for Digital, Social Media and OTT Platforms, 2021’. The

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

The Copyright (Amendment) Bill 2021 currently before the Kenyan parliament seeks to repeal the Copyright Act’s sections 35B, 35C and 35D which have been in place since 2019. Respectively, the

On May 10, whistleblower Daniel Motaung filed a lawsuit in Nairobi against Meta and Sama, Meta’s main content moderation subcontractor in Africa. In 2019, Sama recruited Motaung from South Africa

Vietnam’s Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh is expected to sign into law amendments that would require social media platforms to remove illegal content within 24 hours and block illegal livestreams

By June, Indonesia's finance and communications ministries are expected to finalize new rules permitting the government to fine and criminally charge social media companies. These rules follow the November 2020

On March 30, the Minister of Canadian Heritage, Pablo Rodriguez, and the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, David Lametti, announced a new expert advisory group on online

Australia's federal government has been pushing for new ‘anti-trolling legislation’ that would see defamation liability shift from owners of social media pages onto social media platforms as it believes the