A June 2018 decision rendered by the Supreme Court of the United States established an interesting principle on digital privacy in a case related to a criminal proceeding. Read the rest of this entry »
The legal implications of digital privacy – Florencio Travieso
16 01 2019Comments : Leave a Comment »
Tags: Florencio Travieso, The Conversation
Categories : Internet, Legal, Privacy
Internet legal developments to look out for in 2019 – Graham Smith
29 12 2018
A bumper crop of pending litigation and legislative initiatives for the coming year (without even thinking about Brexit). Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Cyberleagle, Graham Smith
Categories : Internet, Social Media, Surveillance
Case Law, Strasbourg: Magyar Jeti Zrt v. Hungary: ECtHR rules on hyperlinking to defamatory content – Oliver Fairhurst
14 12 2018
On 4 December 2018, the European Court of Human Rights provided some helpful clarification on the potential liability for posting hyperlinks to defamatory content in the case of Magyar Jeti Zrt v. Hungary. In doing so, the Court referred to the ever-growing corpus of European Union law concerning the concept of “communication to the public” contained in Article 3(1) of the InfoSoc Directive 2001/29/EC. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Hyperlinking, Oliver Fairhurst, Strasbourg
Categories : Caselaw, Freedom of expression, Human Rights, Internet
(Don’t) Think Before You Retweet? – Ed Klaris and Alexia Bedat
20 11 2018
Every second, on average, 6,000 tweets are published on Twitter – that’s 500 million tweets per day. Of these millions of tweeters, how many are considering defamation law when they retweet? Probably not many. And yet, one click of a button could land you into legal trouble. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Alexia Bedat, CDA, Ed Klaris, Retweets
Categories : Internet, Libel, Social Media
Entering the Era of Internet Accountability: The Implications for Copyright – Hugh Stephens
7 11 2018
I recently had the honour to be invited to give a guest lecture to the Copyright Society of Australia in Sydney. My talk focussed on how the Internet has evolved over the past twenty years, leading to a severe imbalance between Internet platforms and the creative community because of the abuse and misuse of safe harbours, and how recent events have put the big platforms in the spotlight—indeed in the crosshairs of the public and politicians. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Copyright, Hugh Stephens Blog, Platforms
Categories : Government and Policy, Internet
Big Fail: The internet hasn’t helped democracy – Robert Diab
24 10 2018
Hardly a week goes by without news of another data breach at a large corporation affecting millions, most recently Facebook. In 2016, the issue became political with evidence of Russian interference in the U.S. election and the spectre of foreign control over public opinion. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Democracy, Robert Diab, The Conversation
Categories : Government and Policy, Internet
Google and the Right to be Forgotten, Four Case Studies – My Clean Slate
17 10 2018
When dealing with Google, it is good to bear in mind that their erasure policy is both erratic and random. The Right to be Forgotten seems to depend on the individual who is dealing with a request and whether they have had a good or bad day. There have been a number of odd – indeed, downright inconsistent decisions over the past six months which illustrate the problem. Learning on the job does not quite capture it. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Google, My Clean Slate, Right to be Forgotten
Categories : Data Protection, EU, Internet
