On May 13, 2014, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued a landmark decision that allows EU citizens the “right to be forgotten” – basically, the right…
Category: Human Rights Issues
The Right to Be Forgotten, A “Bad Solution to a Very Real Problem”
Jonathan Zittrain[1] calls the right to be forgotten a “ bad solution to a very real problem.” This article sets out to answer two questions. Firstly, what is the problem…
Social Networks and Fundamental Rights: Last Developments In The Cyberspace
The re-posting of this analysis is part of a cross-posting collaboration with MediaLaws: Law and Policy of the Media in a Comparative Perspective. “Dear User, your Facebook account has been temporary…
in Access to Medicines, Human Rights, Human Rights Issues, Innovation, Internet, IP, Social Justice, Tech Transfer, Technology0by Editor
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The Future of Rights: Intellectual Property, Economic Inequality and the ‘Digital Divide’
A quarter century since he helped to create it, the man widely regarded as the creator of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, has renewed calls for a Digital Bill…
in Canada, Cloud Services, Electronic Databases, European Union, Feature Post, Human Rights Issues, Identity Theft, Innovation, Internet, IP, IP Course Topic, Jurisdiction, Open-Source, Privacy, UK, US0by Editor
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An Interview with James Williams and Michael Power: Putting Privacy and Data Protection Under the Lens
The course Comparative Law: Privacy and Data Protection is offered this coming term at Osgoode Law School. IP Osgoode interviewed the course co-professors, James Williams (Osgoode site, personal site) and…
in Canada, Contracts, Copyright, Copyright Reform, Fair Dealing, Human Rights, Human Rights Issues, Identity Theft, Image, Internet, Personality Rights, Privacy, Regulatory Policy, Reputation Management, Social Justice, Social Media, Technology, UK, US0by Editor
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Dating Sites Scrape Internet for Women’s Photos, Including Those of Deceased
Dubious and likely illegal image scraping is alive and well. And outside of particularly public, harmful cases like Rehtaeh Parsons’ photo ending up on a dating site, few organizations or…