Experts have expressed concern that Russia' largest search engine Yandex has turned into a significant on-ramp for child sexual images and a platform for spreading illicit photographs. While there are various controls which b...
The German parliament has approved several new measures designed to help law enforcement agencies fight against sexual abuse of children online and the darknet. Few of the new changes include "cyber grooming" become punishab...
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the African Union (AU) developed an online tool to remove non-tariff barriers (NTB) to trade in Africa: tradebarriers.africa. The tool, which was run on 13 Januar...
Singapore Ministry of Law has decided to change copyright law in order to boost the creative industry.Proposed changes will strengthen creators' right to attribution to their work, even if the work is not in their ownership anymor...
Facebook removed pages linked to Russian Sputnik news website for having breached the platform's terms of services. The pages mispresented their identities, pretending they were independent news services or fan pages related to ce...
Amidst discussions related to the EU copyright reform, a group of 95 screenwriters and directors formed a lobby group. The group advocates for proportional remuneration in article 14. They addressed their proposals in a letter sta...
According to India Today, Indian authorities are working on amending the IT Act in parts related to liabilities of intermediaries, to allow the government to monitor and remove user content and messages, including encrypted ones. ...
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) asked court to postpone oral arguments, that are scheduled for 1 of February, in a case that will rule on a challenge to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's repeal of net neutrality rules. As the FC...
A recent poll of 202 councillors of London boroughs carried out byYouGov for the Greater London Authority, revealed that digital exclusion is the biggest barrier to digital transformation (50%) in London's boroughs. According to t...
When the Jfranews website accused the Jordanian Finance Minister, Mr Omar Malhas, of tax evasion, the minister filed a complaint against the news website. The general prosecutor arrested the editor-in-chief, Mr Shadi al-...
The Centre for Technology and Society of Funda??o Getulio Vargas Rio de Janeiro Law School (CTS/FGV) carried out a project 'Terms of Services and Human Rights' between September 2014 and March 2016. Within the project they have an...
Yahoo users in Quebec initiated a lawsuitagainst Yahoo! for security breaches in 2013 and 2014. Yahoo claimed that in their contract they have jurisdiction clauses which set jurisdiction of other court. Also they claimed that sinc...