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Chilling Effects Staff, March 26, 2014
Abstract: For those of you who are following the ongoing controversy surrounding Twitter in Turkey, Chilling Effects is pleased to be able to host two new documents recently received by Twitter from various aspects of Turkish law enforcement and government.
You can find the documents here and here
Twitter's blog post on the subject is here
[Update 2013-03-26] A Turkish court has issued a temporary injunction on Wednesday ordering access to Twitter restored until it can deliver its full verdict on the ban.
Facebook Added to Russian Website Blocklist, Joins 30,000 Unofficial Others, Andy, TorrentFreak, September 20, 2013
Abstract: Russia’s Internet blacklist, which can blackhole websites for reasons ranging from copyright infringement through to drug-related information, has welcomed its highest profile addition. Russia’s telecoms watchdog has confirmed that Facebook has been added to the list leaving the site just 72 hours or face being blocked by Internet service providers.
Maura Youngman, August 12, 2013
Abstract: Like many organizations, Google occasionally receives requests from governments around the world to take down various pieces of content. This is a visualization of the Google Transparency Report's court ordered removal request data by country from July-December 2012. Google made their own map, but it seemed worthwhile to visualize the data in a more compelling way to potentially notice patterns. The map indicates the number of court ordered removal requests by country, as well as the percentage of requests with which Google complied, indicated by country shade.
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Maria Serena Ciaburri, July 03, 2013
Abstract: With the aim of observing the climate online we already presented the PRISM case in a previous blogpost . Now that are passed more than two weeks after the revelation about PRISM and now that Obama has all eyes on his nation, we want to collect foreign thoughts and European opinions to go deepen and provide a wider perspective of this case.
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Sanna Kulevska, June 24, 2013
Abstract: “Since the beginning of time, for us humans, forgetting has been the norm and remembering the exception”. Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, professor of Internet governance at the Oxford Internet Institute, discusses in his book Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age, the fact that the rapid development of the Internet and new technology has reversed this thinking, and we are now facing the opposite: “Our pasts are becoming etched like a tattoo into our digital skins”. Who owns your personal data in cyberspace? And which are the greatest challenges we are facing when discussing the globalization of the rules on the Internet, with different approaches to a “right to be forgotten” in the EU and the USA?
Sanna Kulevska, June 17, 2013
Abstract: A big test of the limits of international cooperation is reaching a climax as the global community tries to combat the emerging war against counterfeit pharmaceuticals. What are the greatest challenges and dangers the consumers and the businesses are facing in the fast growing and potentially lethal fake trade of poison pills?
IP Commission: Cut Off WHO Funding If It Doesn't Make IP Protection Priority One, Tim Cushing, May 31, 2013
Abstract: The IP Commission Report on the American IP:
"Recommend to Congress and the administration that U.S. funding to the World Health Organization (WHO) program budget in whole or in part be withheld until (1) the WHO’s process of certifying national regulatory agencies includes attestation that IP protection is an essential part of the regulatory evaluation process, and (2) the WHO refrains from prequalifying any product until the regulating agency of jurisdiction demonstrates and certifies that it does not violate IP rights... "
EU Mandate For TAFTA Leaked: Includes Investor-State Dispute Resolution For Intellectual Monopolies, Glyn Moody, TechDirt, May 31, 2013
Abstract: One of the concerns about TAFTA/TTIP is that it would repeat the mistakes of ACTA and SOPA as far as intellectual monopolies were concerned. This led to a call by a group of public interest organizations for things like copyright and patents to be excluded from TAFTA (disclosure: I was involved in the drawing up of the text.) Needless to say, no notice was taken of that, and a couple of weeks ago the European Parliament duly passed a resolution on TAFTA
Russians Selectively Blocking Internet, Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, March 31, 2012
Abstract: The Russian government in recent weeks has been making use of a new law that gives it the power to block Internet content that it deems illegal or harmful to children.
Spain Considers Making Digital Copyright Law Worse: Pleasing The US Again?, Glyn Moody, TechDirt, March 01, 2013
Abstract: The Spanish Internet Association has just published a leaked draft of proposals to make digital copyright law in Spain even harsher.
"The new proposals have a clear intention: to amend the Criminal Code to allow criminal prosecutions of Websites that provide links. According to the leaked document it will be an offense to provide ordered listings and categorized links to protected content, developed for this purpose and involving an active and non-neutral maintenance and updating of those lists. . . .
the paper seeks to limit the concept of private copying. This will require us to be in possession of the "original media". This is really incompatible with the current reality, since there are legal platforms like Spotify or iTunes where you do not have that "native support"."
White House Will Not Support An ITU Treaty That Blurs Infrastructure With Information, Mike Masnick, TechDirt, December 13, 2012
Abstract: Regarding the ITU treaty negotiations in Dubai, the White House put out a statement saying that it will not support an agreement that tries to expand the ITU's mandate beyond telecom infrastructure and into the world of what happens on that infrastructure.
Adam Holland, Chilling Effects, October 26, 2012
Abstract: UPDATED 11/02/12
Following close on the heels of its first ever geo-specific blockage in Germany last week, Twitter has recently received a request from the French Jewish Students Union- L’Union des Etudiants Juifs de France (UEJF), as well as from J’accuse !... - action internationale pour la justice (AIPJ) to suppress any content tagged with the hashtag "#unjuifmort" and to render access to Twitter impossible for those responsible including both the creator of the tag and the founder of the movement.
To wit: "Mes clientes vous demandent en conséquence officiellement par la présente, et au besoin vous mettent en demeure d'agir promptement pour supprimer ces contenus manifestement illicites ou d'en rendre promptement l'accès impossible."
More details can be found in the notice itself.
Chilling Effects will post more information as it becomes available.
UPDATED 11/02/12
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Facebook Asked to Close Page Compiling Details of Undercover Officers, Australian Broadcasting Company, abc.au.net, October 21, 2012
Abstract: Victoria [Australia] Police has complained to Facebook, saying a page dedicated to exposing the state's undercover police cars is putting officers and operations at risk.
The page has more than 12,500 followers and has dozens of photos and comments revealing the number-plates of unmarked police cars.
A News Limited report says Facebook has refused a police request to remove the page, saying it cannot stop people taking photos in public places.
Adam Holland, October 19, 2012
Abstract: For the first time since they announced their ability to do so in January of 2012, Twitter has blocked access to a Twitter user's tweets on a country-specific basis.
As of Thursday October 18, 2012, Twitter users in Germany will not be able to view the tweets from the far right-wing organization "Besseres Hannover".
Twitter's move to block Besseres Hannover comes at the request of the German government, who forced the group to disband, and sought, among other goals, the complete closure of all of the group's social media accounts.
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Saudi Arabia Suggests Global Internet Regulations To Preserve 'Public Order', Jacey Fortin, International Business Times, December 20, 2010
Abstract: Looking ahead to the World Telecommunication/Information and Communication Technology Policy Forum in Geneva next year, Saudi Arabia responded to the Secretary-General's Report by calling for an international discussion to lay down new guidelines for Internet accessibility. This marks a new approach for Saudi Arabia, which has already resorted to drastic measures to limit free communication within its own borders.
“Bearing in mind that countries cannot apply their own laws to acts in another country, there is a crying need for international collaboration to address ‘freedom of expression,’ which clearly disregards public order,” said the comment on the report.
See also: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/9602263/Anti-Islam-film-prompts-Saudi-call-for-net-censorship-body.html
Elizabeth Gonsiorowski, Brooklyn Law School, September 08, 2006
Abstract: In light of the Canadian Parliament's upcoming fall session, Prof. Michael Geist, a Law Professor at the University of Ottawa, has taken on a project to highlight public-interest exceptions that should be addressed if Canada enacts a law like the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
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Wendy Seltzer, Chilling Effects Clearinghouse, July 24, 2005
Abstract: You may have noticed that Chilling Effects has recently begun posting international C&Ds: complaints from people outside the United States to U.S. individuals or companies raising arguments under non-U.S. law. These C&Ds raise some distinct issues from U.S.-based complaints, including jurisdiction, substantive law, and language. They also raise similar issues of transparency for the web hosts and search engines who receive them. Chilling Effects has begun to receive these international complaints from Google, which at times removes results from Google localized searches (e.g., searches on google.fr or google.de instead of google.com).
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Legal setback for music industry in fight against piracy, Heise.de, December 22, 2004
Abstract: news 21.12.2004 14:49
Legal setback for music industry in fight against piracy
The Higher Regional Court in Munich has ruled that providers are not obliged for copyright reasons to make specific information about users suspected of operating illegal FTP servers available. In a ruling of November (file number 6 U 4696/04), which has only now become known, the court of appeal granted the appeal of an Internet provider against a decision by the Regional Court I in Munich (file number 21 O 10372/04) which had specified an obligation to this effect on the part of providers. In the latter ruling in July the label BMG as legal representative of the artists in its care had initially been granted the right in its pursuit of potentially-illegal download offers to demand information from the access provider about the specific circumstances surrounding the suspected breach of the law by a customer or customers of the access provider.
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