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…
"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…
"That doesn’t mean shaming will always have the intended effect. There’s always a chance the public won’t latch onto a given case. And even if officials wa…
A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by CIS Affiliate Scholar David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technolo…
The General Data Protection Regulation — a once-in-a-generation overhaul of Europe’s data protection laws — has landed, after a grueling four years of negotiat…
""Every developed country in the world has a general privacy law — except us," said Neil Richards, a law professor at Washington University in St…
The probably-really-almost-totally final 2016 General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is here! Lawyers around the world have been hunkered down, analyzing it…
"If Google rejects a request for removal of a link, the requestor can appeal to his or her country’s regulators or the courts, Keller says. “But there’s no…
Privacy and free speech aren't fundamentally opposed, but they do have a tendency to come into conflict — and recent developments in Europe surrounding the…
Americans have long been ignoring European data protection law, but it has not been ignoring us. Last year’s so-called “right to be forgotten” case from the EU’…
"And lack of awareness may not be the only reason for the apparently low number of appeals, said Martin Husovec, a Slovak-born assistant professor at the T…
Cross-posted to the Internet Policy Review News & Comments and Inforrm blogs. A big new law is coming, and a lot of companies doing business online aren’t…
Co-authored by Evan Selinger. Google’s recent decision to delist “revenge porn” from its search results is a big deal, and not just for victims. Beyond opposin…