A federal court in New York found that the online e-commerce giant eBay bears no liability for products sold on its platform by merchants when these products are banned by federal laws. The decision was handed down in the Justice Department’s lawsuit against eBay, which alleged that eBay has been allowing businesses to use its platform to sell banned engine ...
The Internet Archive, an American non-profit organization, suffered a major defeat in copyright litigation that book publishers asserted against it regarding the National Emergency Library (NEL) project.
In March 2020, at the onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the Internet Archive launched the National Emergency Library (NEL), an online library of around 1.4 million books, many of which are copyright-protected ...
Following a five-year-long investigation, A €91 million fine was sanctioned by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) in late September, due to Meta’s data breach incident keeping hundreds of millions of user passwords in an unencrypted, readable ‘plaintext’ format. The DPC found that Meta violated its obligations as a controller according to the GDPR, reprimanded the company, and issued a ...
California’s governor signed three state bills in a legislative flurry to combat election-related online misinformation and AI-generated deep Fakes especially. One of these laws, AB-2839, bans the creation and publication of election-related ‘Deep Fakes’ during the period between 120 days prior to election day and 60 days after it and was adopted as an emergency measure, was set to enter ...
A company's board of directors must supervise and ensure the company's compliance with privacy laws and related regulations, according to guidelines issued by the Israeli Privacy Protection Authority (PPA).
The guidelines state that the board of directors must ensure that the company drafts, adopts, and implements policy documents required by privacy law. The board of directors must also ensure that ...
Federal courts in Texas, California, and Utah issued preliminary injunctions blocking controversial state laws directed at social networks, focusing on provisions that the courts deemed to negatively affect the platforms’ right to free speech.
A federal court in Texas accepted industry groups’ petition and blocked several provisions of the state’s Securing Children Online Through Parental Empowerment Act (SCOPE ACT), signed ...
Israel signed the Council of Europe’s Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights. The treaty was finalized in May 2024. It was drafted with multinational representatives, including numerous Israeli officials representing the Ministries of Science, Technology and Space, Justice, and Foreign Affairs, the Innovation Authority, and the National Digital Agency. The USA and Canada acted as observer states in the ...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), rejecting a First Amendment challenge brought by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). Section 1201 prohibits circumventing technological protections on copyrighted works and distributing tools for such circumvention. It also empowers the Librarian of Congress to grant temporary exemptions through ...
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