In March of this year, the European Commission (EC) created guidelines and recommendations for the removal of “illegal content”...

Facebook has released its first-ever transparency report, outlining the amount of content it has identified as breaking Community...

For the first time ever, Facebook has released the guidelines its internal content review teams use to determine whether or not to remove...

Most people will agree that online sex trafficking should be stopped. However, a new bill aimed at doing that, which is likely to be...

The European Commission (EC) earlier today issued guidelines and recommendations for the rapid removal of “illegal content” from websites...

As of yesterday, Germany began to enforce its anti-hate speech and illegal content law (“NetzDG”), originally passed in mid-2017. It...

Do no evil. Make the world more open and connected. These have been Google and Facebook’s respective tag lines or mantras, if you will;...

A case involving Yelp and a “default judgment” against someone (defendant Bird) who wrote a critical Yelp review about a San Francisco...

On Tuesday, European officials approved data protection regulations that formalize many of the court decisions and other regulatory...

Janice Duffy has been vindicated by the Supreme Court of South Australia in her case against Google. While that’s good for Dr. Duffy, the...

Europe is effectively becoming the internet’s privacy cop, with implications for any company doing business in Europe and many outside...

The clock is ticking for Google to comply with a demand by the French privacy regulator CNIL to implement Right To Be Forgotten...

It’s a decision that should send chills throughout the European webmaster community. In a 15-2 vote, the European Court of Human Rights...

For over a decade, Google has successfully convinced various governments that it is censoring its search results when it actually wasn’t....

As discussed in my companion article, it has been a year since the “right to be forgotten” (RTBF) was established in Europe by the EU...

Many non-lawyers are unaware that it’s legally possible for consumers to waive their free speech rights to negatively review or otherwise...

Last fall, Google sued Mississippi State Attorney General Jim Hood in federal court to quash a “punitive and burdensome subpoena.” The...

The New York Times reports TripAdvisor, the large travel reviews site, has been fined by Italian authorities for not preventing fake...

State Attorneys General are the top cops in every state and have traditionally been regarded as public officials of the highest...

The entertainment industry has fought long and hard to get Google and other search engines to combat piracy and promote legitimate...