CDA Section 230 explained: The important and often-misunderstood legal foundation of the social internet
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US President Donald Trump signs executive order designed to limit the legal protections that shield social media companies from liability for the content users post on their platforms
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Nearly two years after Europe's GDPR privacy law came into effect, supporters are frustrated by lack of enforcement, poor funding, limited staff resources and stalling tactics by the tech companies
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Sweden fines Google $8 million for right-to-be-forgotten violations – a failure to comply with Europe's GDPR after they failed to adequately remove search results
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Policy vs technology
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I’ve fought for a free internet for thirty years. Here’s where I think we went wrong, and right
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Re-evaluating the DMCA twenty-two years later: Let’s think of the users
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Modern copyright law is a joke
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California’s new privacy law is off to a rocky start
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The law that helped the internet flourish now undermines democracy
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New Hampshire lawmaker blocks device repair bill, tells constituents to just buy new $1k phones
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EU passes “Right to repair” Law to make large appliances easier to repair starting from 2021
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Alex Stamos on legal issues for US tech companies sharing with foreign governments
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Web scraping doesn’t violate anti-hacking law, appeals court rules
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Microsoft 365, Google cloud and Apple cloud deemed illegal in Schools of Hesse
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Hackers, farmers, and doctors unite! Support for right to repair laws slowly grows
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8chan is raided by the FBI regarding California synagogue shooter
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Nextcloud signs public letter, opposing German plan to force decryption of chat
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Maine Governor signs strictest internet protections in the US
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France bans judge analytics, five years in prison for rule breakers
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We should opt into data tracking, not out of it, says DuckDuckGo CEO Gabe Weinberg
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YouTubers and record labels are fighting, and record labels keep winning
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Soon you may not even have to click on a website contract to be bound by its terms
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"It's not play if you're making money": How Instagram and YouTube disrupted child labor laws
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WhatsApp has become a hotbed for spreading Nazi propaganda in Germany
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Report: Twenty-six states now ban or restrict community broadband
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Europe’s controversial overhaul of online copyright receives final approval
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Kentucky approves bill to make 'doxing' illegal after Covington student's online backlash
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Revealed: Facebook’s global lobbying against data privacy laws
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Right to repair legislation is officially being considered in Canada
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Emoji are showing up in court cases exponentially, and courts aren’t prepared
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Facebook charged with misleading users on health data visibility
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The text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has just been finalised
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Potential impact of two IoT security and privacy laws on tech industry
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How I changed the law with a GitHub pull request
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What do you legally “own” with Bitcoin? A short introduction to krypto-property
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US Federal Communications Commission Republican claims municipal broadband is threat to First Amendment
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Cellphone unlocking, jailbreaking and repairing now legal in US
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Why are African governments criminalising online speech? Because they fear it.
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Justice Department sues to stop California net neutrality law
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In test case, US fails to force Facebook to wiretap Messenger (voice) calls
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The European Union versus the Internet
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Nearly 600 Russia-linked accounts tweeted about the health law
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Tomorrow, the EU will vote on the future of the internet (again)
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Help defend Australian encryption laws
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California lawmakers pass nation’s toughest net neutrality law
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An ISP based in Texas has complained to a judge that the music industry to trying to turn internet providers into the "copyright police"
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The twenty-year patent on Teledildonics has expired
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Internet publication of 3D printing files about guns: Facts and what's at stake
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Law of new new media platforms
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