Google report shows steady rise in government surveillance
US internet giant Google has released a report showing a steady climb in government surveillance online. Google’s latest Transparency Report details the number of requests the company received from U.S. law enforcement from July through December — for the first time breaking down the total number of requests to show which requests came with judicial warrants, issued ... Read the full post ...
Argentinian court rules on search engine liability
The Argentina Court of Appeals in Civil Matters, Division D, has ruled that unless web search engines have been duly notified about the existence of illicit content indexed by them, they are not liable for the content of third-party websites. As Obligado & Cia reports, the Court of Appeals overturned a first instance ruling that Google and ... Read the full post ...
European Human Rights Court: Internet restriction violates Freedom of Expression
The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg has ruled that “restriction of Internet access without a strict legal framework regulating the scope of the ban and affording the guarantee of judicial review to prevent possible abuses amounts to a violation of freedom of expression”, reports IP Watch. ... Read the full post ...
Substituted service of Australian legal documents via Facebook
Over recent years, a trend has emerged where Australian courts are permitting the service of documents to be effected through Facebook and other social networking sites, reports Colin Biggers & Paisley. ... Read the full post ...
UN official stresses importance of Civil Society in Internet future
The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to freedom of opinion and expression, in a statement about the 2012 WCIT, has underlined the importance of civil society in discussions about the future of the Internet, IP Watch reports. ... Read the full post ...
New gTLDs preliminary prioritisation list released by ICANN
The preliminary prioritisation list of applications for new gTLDs is available here. ... Read the full post ...
Internet defamation claims on the rise as online reviews impact the bottom line
Internet defamation suits will increase in frequency as review sites become more prevalent in our everyday consumer transactions, explains Fredrikson & Byron. ... Read the full post ...
Is virtual property real or intellectual?: Second Life class action moves forward
A class action lawsuit is proceeding against the owners of Second Life, alleging that it lured users with false promises of user ownership rights, which it then broke by unilaterally closing their accounts without compensating them for the value of their virtual land, items, and currency, reports Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton. ... Read the full post ...
German Federal Council requests revisions to the EC’s cloud computing strategy
The German Federal Council has published its comments on the European Commission’s strategy on cloud computing, claiming that the strategy in its current form does not deal adequately with several issues unique to cloud computing, reports Hunton & Williams. ... Read the full post ...
WCIT split after split “vote” on Internet governance resolution
A mere resolution, not part of the future International Telecommunication Regulations (ITR), led to yet another escalation at the ongoing World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) in Dubai, reports IP Watch. ... Read the full post ...
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