Terabytes of sensitive financial data have been stolen by cyber hackers and supplied, on a massive scale, to large numbers of journalists who appear to believe that there is a public interest in trawling through private information. Continue reading
The International Forum for Responsible Media Blog
Month: October 2021 (Page 3 of 3)
On 4 October 2021, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp suffered an outage for nearly six hours, stimulating debate over taking a break from the social networking sites. Continue reading
Columbia Global Freedom of Expression seeks to contribute to the development of an integrated and progressive jurisprudence and understanding on freedom of expression and information around the world. It maintains an extensive database of international case law. This is its newsletter dealing with recent developments in the field. Continue reading
The Campaign for Freedom of Information (“CFOI”) has been fighting government secrecy since 1984. Now it urgently needs financial support to help make up a serious shortfall in its funding. Continue reading
In the case of Sanchez v France [2021] ECHR 724 (available only in French) the Fifth Section of the Court of Human Rights held that the conviction of a politician for failing to promptly delete unlawful comments published by third parties on the public wall of his Facebook account did not breach his Article 10 rights despite his apparent lack of knowledge of the comments. Continue reading
Suddenly and inexplicably, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and Oculus services were gone. And it was no local disturbance. In a blog post, Downdetector.com, a major monitoring service for online outages, called it the largest global outage it had ever recorded — with 10.6 million reports from around the world. Continue reading
The Telegraph has suspended cartoonist Bob Moran following a tweet he made targeting an NHS doctor. Moran encouraged his followers to publicly abuse a palliative care doctor who posted about wearing masks on public transport to stop the spread of COVID-19. Doctor Rachel Clarke reported the tweet to the police and has threatened to sue Moran for defamation. Continue reading
The News Media Bargaining Code is a piece of legislation drafted by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) in early 2020 for the purpose of supporting local Australian news and journalism businesses. It is supposed to serve as a balance of powers between large global social media companies such as Facebook, Google, etc and Australian businesses such as SBS, ABC, Nine, etc. Continue reading
Columbia Global Freedom of Expression seeks to contribute to the development of an integrated and progressive jurisprudence and understanding on freedom of expression and information around the world. It maintains an extensive database of international case law. This is its newsletter dealing with recent developments in the field. Continue reading
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