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The question of what responsibility should lie with Internet platforms for the content they host that is posted by their users has been the subject of debate ar…
In the name of “brand safety,” advertisers these days are working hard to better control where their ads appear online. Programmatic advertising with real-time…
In recent years, lawmakers around the world have proposed a lot of new intermediary liability (IL) laws. Many have been miscalibrated – risking serious collater…
Tool Without A Handle: Guerilla Information Warfare
“The enemies of liberal democracy hack our feelings of fear and hate and vanity, and then use these feelin…
"People would be allowed to use pseudonyms when posting online, but platforms could be forced to hand out the users’ private information to third parties,…
"“What’s not so clear yet is whether G.D.P.R. has had an effect on privacy and on corporate data practices,” said Omer Tene, vice president and chief knowl…
Tighter regulation of social media and other online services in now under discussion in several European countries, as well as in the UK where the government ha…
"“If you want to be more skeptical, the question is does all this activity actually deliver more privacy?” said Omer Tene, Vice President at the Internatio…
"However, Omer Tene, vice president and chief knowledge officer of the IAPP, struck a sober tone in response to the figures, saying that while the numbers…
The Internet was going to set us all free. At least, that is what U.S. policy makers, pundits, and scholars believed in the 2000s. The Internet would undermine…