The House of Lords Communications Committee has launched an inquiry into how the regulation of the internet should be improved. Oral and Written evidence has been provided to the Committee by a very wide range of companies, NGOs and individuals from a variety of perspectives. Read the rest of this entry »
House of Lords Communications Committee Inquiry “The Internet: to regulate or not to regulate?”, An overview of the evidence, Part 1 – Oscar Davies
15 07 2018Comments : 1 Comment »
Tags: Communications Committee, Facebook, Google, Oscar Davies
Categories : Internet, Media Regulation
Case Law, Australia, Trkulja v Google LLC, The return of Trkulja, Episode IV – Justin Castelan
27 06 2018
The Trkulja defamation franchise is into its fourth instalment, with the latest victory against the Google Empire coming with a stirring outcome arising from Mr Trkulja’s debut appearance in the High Court ([2018] HCA 25). Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Defamation Watch, Google, Justin Castelan
Categories : Australia, Internet, Libel
Google “Thumbs its Nose” at New Zealand’s Courts: Kiwis Should Look to Canada for a Precedent – Hugh Stephens
6 06 2018
Google is at it again. According to press reports in the New Zealand Herald, Google refused to comply with a New Zealand court order to suppress details and remove content related to a local murder trial because, according to a representative of Google NZ, “Google LLC, was a separate legal entity incorporated in the US, meaning New Zealand’s courts and laws held no power over it.” Tell that to the Supreme Court of Canada. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Google, Hugh Stephens Blog
Categories : Canada, Injunction, Internet, New Zealand
Is the Era of “Permissionless Innovation” and Avoidance of Regulation on the Internet Finally Over? It’s High Time – Hugh Stephens
16 05 2018
It would be the ultimate under-statement to say that recent events concerning the appalling breaches of privacy permitted and indeed orchestrated by Facebook have raised public awareness to new heights over what happens when internet intermediaries are allowed to do just about whatever they want. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Facebook, Google, Hugh Stephens Blog
Categories : Internet, Media Regulation
Defamation take-down requests to Google – Max Campbell
12 05 2018
The right to be forgotten has been in the news again recently following the decision in NT1 & NT2 v Google LLC [2018] EWHC 799 (QB) (read our blog on that decision here), but Google will often voluntarily remove content from its search engine results on a variety of other grounds, including that the content is defamatory. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Brett Wilson Media Law Blog, Google, Max Campbell
Categories : Internet, Libel
Is it time to regulate targeted ads and the web giants that profit from them? – David Glance
24 04 2018
In the wake of Facebook’s massive breach of personal data of 87 million users, CEO Mark Zuckerberg answered questions from US politicians over two days of congressional hearings. These questions mostly focussed on the tight link between Facebook’s business model of selling targeted personalised advertising and its need to capture, and exploit, large amounts of personal information from its users. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Facebook, Google, Targeted Advertisements
Categories : Australia, Social Media
News: High Court orders “delisting” by Google in “right to be forgotten” case
13 04 2018
In a judgment handed down at the High Court today, Mr Justice Warby has ordered Google LLC to delist eleven URLs referring to a spent conviction of a businessman known as NT2. The claim brought by the other claimant, NT1. A joint public judgment was given in both cases ([2018] EWHC 799 (QB)). Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Google, Google Spain, Mr Justice Warby, Right to be Forgotten
Categories : Data Protection, Internet
