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content regulation / hate speech / illegal content / immunities / Intellectual Property / Internet intermediaries / notice-and-take down / terrorism

The EU Commission and its official Communication on Online Platforms: is the e-commerce Directive being attacked by the back door?

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As you might remember, a draft version of the European Commission’s Communication on Online Platforms and the Digital Single Market was leaked at the end of April. From digesting it at that time, it seemed to be clear that the Commission had taken the view that content regulation should be sectorial and the liability exemptions … Continue reading →

Data protection / Data transfer / safe harbour

The CJEU in Schrems v Data Protection Commissioner: Commission Decision 2000/520 is invalid!

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Here we are: less than 2 weeks after the issuance of the opinion of the Advocate General (AG) Bot in the case Schrems v Data Protection Commissioner (see my post here) the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) declared today that the US-EU safe harbour framework was invalid! While this is definitely one … Continue reading →

content regulation / immunities / injunction / Internet intermediaries

Why CG v Facebook Ireland et al might be less odd than anticipated… On Internet intermediaries and monitoring obligations

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CG v Facebook Ireland and Joseph McCloskey delivered on 20/02/2015 by the High Court of Justice in Northern Ireland has not always been warmly welcome… in particular by those concerned about the roles and responsibilities of Internet intermediaries in relation to distribution and access to information. Oh Well… Strangely, the CG v Facebook litigation seems … Continue reading →

Internet intermediaries / Privacy

Facebook misued private information of convicted sex offender in not removing threatening posts containing his personal information, despite not receiving their web addresses

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Facebook “has considerable resources at its disposal and does not require to have spelled out to it on each occasion with inappropriate precision the particular laws of the UK which are in issue and which are being contravened” – Ouch! The High Court of Justice in Northern Ireland recently held that Facebook Ireland misused the … Continue reading →

Data protection / Internet intermediaries / safe harbour / Surveillance

On surveillance, safe harbour and Schrems…Are we that stuck?

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Readers of this blog will almost certainly be aware that the European Union (EU) was the first regional organisation on the international stage to adopt a comprehensive, and relatively stringent, data protection regime. Yet, as the Internet is a global communications infrastructure, the EU has had to find ways to dialogue with non-EU (‘third’) countries … Continue reading →

Data protection / facebook / Privacy / Privacy policies

Facebook needs to re-revise its privacy policy says recent Belgian report.

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On January 30th 2015, Facebook revised its Data Use Policy (DUP) and Terms of Services. At the request of the Belgian Privacy Commission, ICRI/CIR (KU Leuven) and iMinds-SMIT (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) have conducted an extensive analysis of the revisions. So what does the current version of their report (dated 23rd February 2015) find? Emma Cradock, … Continue reading →