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USA v. Microsoft: what the decision does and doesn't mean
Somehow we went from mild interest in December when Microsoft challenged a search warrant over user data stored in Ireland to some kind of frenzy today when Chi…
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UK Parliament's Committee Labelled the "Right to be Forgotten" as Misguided and Unworkable
The European Union Committee of the UK Parliament released a report on the implications of the European Court of Justice’s (ECJ) recent Google Spain decision: &…
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Australian Government's Leaked Proposal to Force ISPs to Monitor Copyright Infringement
A discussion paper from the Australian Government titled "Online Copyright Infringement" leaked a few days ago. The paper included proposals to amend…
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Singapore’s Amended Anti-Piracy Copyright Act Enables Streamlined Site-Blocking
Singapore Parliament just passed an anti-piracy amendment to its Copyright Act, which aims to block “flagrantly infringing online location” such as The Pirate B…
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British Columbia Court of Appeal Refuses to Stay Enforcement in Equustek Solutions v. Google
As reported here, on June 13, 2014, the Supreme Court of British Columbia ordered Google to block a website worldwide in Equustek Solutions Inc. v. Jack. Later,…
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Another Win for Wikimedia in Italy (and Europe)
As reported a few days ago, Italian courts have been very active in the last few weeks in reviewing liability of online intermediaries. Recently, another Italia…
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Reflections on the UK's DRIP Act
It’s not straightforward being a law enforcement officer in the UK in 2014. I often think of how different my working existence is to that of my great-grandfath…
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Jurisdiction over user data - what is the ideal solution to a very real world problem?
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…
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Intermediary Liability News from Italy: Courts block Mega and Mail.ru and Force YouTube to Proactively Monitor its Platform for Copyright Infringement
In the last few days, Italian courts have been busy tackling online copyright infringement and sanctioning platforms that allegedly facilitate infringement. A c…
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Sohu vs Toutiao: Chinese Mobile News App Sued by News Publishers for Copyright Infringement
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…
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Big Data and the Perceptual Divide
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…
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Net Neutrality and the First Amendment Rights of Users of Government-Run Networks
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…