Special Advisor to CJEU Confirms It’s a VPN’s World
For what is probably the first time, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), the EU's top court, is considering a case about the use of VPNs. When…
Copyright
How New Copyright Laws Threaten Privacy and Freedom of Speech
There’s a new US bill that everyone in the privacy world should know about — it goes by the name of “Strengthening Measures to Advance Rights Technologies Copyright Act of…
The USMCA, international trade and your digital rights
After months of negotiations and significant political tension, the United States, Canada and Mexico announced a new trade agreement earlier this week. The "new NAFTA" will be known as the…
Articles 11 and 13 in the New EU Copyright Directive Enable More Surveillance
Privacy activists were caught off guard last week when the EU passed its controversial copyright legislation. The new law has far reaching consequences that technical experts and internet companies alike…
Trading more than horses: Threats to privacy, net neutrality in international trade negotiations
When we're discussing the internet, it's not surprising that legislation and policy can have an impact that extends far beyond one country's borders. While many of us are aware of…
TV Addons: Legal battle against Canadian media giants demonstrates severe consequences facing developers accused of copyright infringement
Earlier this year, a coalition of Canadian media groups including Bell, Rogers, Quebecor, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, presented a controversial proposal to the Canadian telecommunications regulator to implement a…
Politicians, about to vote in favor of mandatory upload filtering in Europe, get channel deleted by YouTube’s upload filtering
French politicians of the former Front National are furious: their entire YouTube channel was just taken down by automatic filters at YouTube for alleged copyright violations. Perhaps this will cause…
Julia Reda sounds the alarm: Two weeks until Censorship Machine vote in the European Parliament
Julia Reda sounds the alarm that the European Parliament will vote on mandatory upload filtering in two weeks, with nowhere near enough attention to this issue from the public at…
European Commission expands planned copyright auto-censorship machines to also include censorship of unwanted political opinions
The European Commission is expanding its plans for proposed automated censorship: from only having concerned copyright infringements, which is bad enough and cannot nearly be determined by a machine, the…
The European Commission’s “Upload Censorship for Copyright” is already obsolete
As Julia Reda has continuously reported from inside the European Parliament, the European Commission is pushing for an update to copyright monopoly laws that would introduce upload-time censorship on copyright…