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...
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.
On February 27, 2018, the German Federal Court of Justice ruled that Google cannot be held liable for listing websites containing defamatory material in search engine results.
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.
Legislative Proposals 1865-S-2015 and 942-S-2016 were discussed together as a joint Proposal, which was approved by the Senate in 2016. This project states that ISPs should not be liable for content created by third parties, unless they are duly notified by a judicial order of the removal or...
Argentina has opened a public consultation at Plataforma Justicia 2020 to update its Data Protection Law. This Platform offered civil society the possibility to submit contributions, suggestions and comments in order to improve the design, performance and evaluation of public policies. Moreover...
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In a recent case regarding defamatory comments on Facebook the Austrian Supreme Court was faced with the issue, to what extent is Facebook obligated to remove defamatory content posted by its users.
The plaintiff, Ms Glawischnig-Piesczek - former leader of the Green Party in Austria, requested...
Recently, Guangzhou IP Court” ruled that online streaming platform YY.com (similar to Twitch.tv) has infringed upon the copyrighted works in Fantasy Westward Journey II (hereafter "Westward Journey") that are owned by NetEase, a major video game developer and publisher in China.
During the...