Over the past ten days, civil society has been having kittens over the UK Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Bill, partly because of its extraterritorial e…
In the last few days, Italian courts have been busy tackling online copyright infringement and sanctioning platforms that allegedly facilitate infringement. A c…
Recently, a 120 million users mobile application, Toutiao (“headline” in Chinese), got on the nerves of traditional and Internet news publishers in China. In la…
There's an old joke that goes like this: “There are only 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don't.” Like most ol…
Yesterday my Elon Law colleague Enrique Armijo, who writes about the application of the First Amendment to new technologies, filed a comment in the FCC's ne…
The Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School is excited to announce the official launch of the World Intermediary Liability Map (WILMap).The WILMa…
TL;DR: A little bit, but not enough. Yesterday, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) issued a massive report about the legally and technolog…
Recently, the United Sates Supreme Court decided American Broadcasting Cos. v Aereo, holding that “Aereo publicly performs copyrighted works, in violation of th…
For those following or researching the NSA disclosures by Edward Snowden (or privacy issues in general) this interactive chart will be a useful tool both for re…
Today, the Argentine National Communications Commission (NCC) ordered Internet Service Providers to block access to The Pirate Bay websites in the country withi…
It turns out that searching through the digital contents of a person’s mobile phone is more intrusive than rifling through an address book, wallet, or purse. Co…
May 2014 in Retrospect is available here: http://www.internetjurisdiction.net/observatory/retrospect/2014-may Retrospect is the monthly newsletter of the Inte…