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Berners-Lee: EU Should Ban Zero Rating
"World Wide Web pioneer Sir Tim Berners-Lee has joined with others on an open letter to European regulators and lawmakers warning them they have four days…
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Berners-Lee Urges Citizens to Comment: "Four Days to Save the Open Internet in Europe"
"In an open letter released today, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Professor Barbara van Schewick, and Professor Larry Lessig are urging citizens, lawmakers and regul…
Four Days to Save the Open Internet in Europe: An Open Letter
Cross-posted from the World Wide Web Foundation. The post below is an open letter to European citizens, lawmakers and regulators, from our founder and Web inve…
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EU, U.S. sign data privacy umbrella agreement
"Industry professionals warn of the economic consequences that the lack of certainty involving data sharing agreements could create. International Associat…
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EU’s Online Hate Speech Deal Prompts Fears Of Censorship
"When platforms are made responsible for determining what speech is illegal, those intermediaries tend to over-remove content, out of an abundance of cauti…
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EU hate speech deal shows mounting pressures over internet content blocking
""Other countries will look at this and say, 'This looks like a good idea, let's see what leverage I have to get similar agreements,'"…
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Getty Images Takes Google Grievances to EU
"The type of claim Getty is making "failed in the United States in Perfect 10 v. Google," noted Ben Depoorter, Sunderland Chair at UC Hastings Co…
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Europe Tried to Rein In Google. It Backfired.
"“If governments were handling ‘right to be forgotten,’ they would have to publish data,” said Martin Husovec, a professor at the Tilburg Institute for Law…
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EU rulings on whistleblowers and right-to-be-forgotten laws puts press freedom at risk
"The regulation continues to put a heavy onus on Internet companies, which are threatened with fines if they do not comply immediately with takedown reques…
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US businesses: Start preparing for the EU's new privacy regulation
"Businesses are definitely taking note, said Omer Tene, vice president of research and education at the nonprofit International Association of Privacy Prof…
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Policing Online Comments in Europe: New Human Rights Case Law in the Real World
This is the second of four posts on real-world consequences of the European Court of Human Rights’ (ECHR) rulings in Delfi v. Estonia and MTE v. Hungary. Both c…
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New Intermediary Liability Cases from the European Court of Human Rights: What Will They Mean in the Real World?
Last summer, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) delivered a serious setback to free expression on the Internet. The Court held, in D…