Google opened a centre to tackle harmful online content, in a move also designed to ease regulatory concerns about how the company and other tech giants police a growing problem on the internet. Read more on Reuters.
On March 12, 2018, the European Commission's independent High Level Expert Group on Fake News and Online Disinformation released its final report.
Read more at I&J Retrospect.
On March 1, 2018, the European Commission issued the Recommendation on measures to effectively tackle illegal content online, which provides guidelines on how internet platforms should handle illegal content, including “information relating to terrorism, child sexual abuse, illegal hate speech or...
Read about the report on the Google Blog.
On February 15, 2018, EU Commissioner for Justice Vera Jourova said that social media platforms Facebook, Google and Twitter should do more to make their terms and conditions compliant with EU consumer rules.
Read more at the I&J Retrospect.
Last Tuesday (14 November), the EU voted to pass the new Consumer Protection Cooperation Regulation, which gives consumer protection agencies in EU member states more power against online breaches. From Silicon Republic.
Today, 16 October, European Digital Rights (EDRi), together with 56 other civil society organisations, sent an open letter to EU decision makers. The letter calls for the deletion of the Article 13 of the Copyright Directive proposal, pointing out that monitoring and filtering of internet content...
The media and political debate continues to rage: should new obligations be put on online platforms and other internet intermediaries to try to limit the availability of unlawful content online, and if so what should those obligations look like? From Lexology.
In a recent blog post, I discuss the role of EU Member State laws in defining and enforcing the “Right to Be Forgotten” (RTBF) under the EU’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). I talk about these GDPR provisions in more detail in my forthcoming article. Because in the future RTBF may be...
“Loaded” Kodi set-top boxes are back in the copyright news again this week. (If you’re wondering what Kodi boxes are, and what they have to do with copyrights, here’s a backgrounder.) The CJEU has decided BREIN v. Wullems, a case involving the rights of communication to the public and reproduction...