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 March 6, 2018, Wikimedia released its eighth transparency report, which highlighted that it received 343 requests to "alter or remove project content", of which none were granted.
Read more at I&J Retrospect.
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC), which oversees the administration and enforcement of data privacy law, is mulling over policy reforms to offer Canadians more regulatory tools to protect their personal information online.
Read more at Reuters.
On February 27, 2018, the US House of Representatives passed the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA), which would make websites criminally liable for hosting content linked to sex-trafficking.
Read more at the I&J Retrospect.
The House on Tuesday passed an online sex trafficking bill in a broad, bipartisan vote that many in the tech industry worry could undermine legal protections afforded to internet platforms. Read more at The Hill.
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On February 9, 2018, YouTube announced in a blogpost that it would implement new policies regarding content "harmful to viewers, others in the YouTube community, or advertisers".
Read more at the I&J Retrospect.
On February 1, 2018, it was reported that FairPlay Canada, a coalition of Canada's largest communications and media companies, had filed an application with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), proposing that the CRTC establish an agency to "identify websites...
On February 1, 2018, the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued its decision in the BMG v. Cox case, ruling that the ISP Cox was not protected by the safe harbor provisions of article 512 the Digital Millennium Copyright Act - which protects ISPs from liability for copyright-infringing...