Category: Legislation and Government Regulation
"Massachusetts Net Neutrality Law Would Name and Shame Terrible ISPs"
"Massachusetts Just The Latest State to Embrace Net Neutrality"
"Here’s How Much Money Anti-Net Neutrality Members of Congress Have Received from the Telecom Industry"
"Congressman Coffman Crosses Party Lines, Proposes Reversal of FCC Net Neutrality Repeal"
"Why California’s Data Privacy Law Is Set for U.S. Roll Out: Q&A"
"HHS Plans to Delete 20 Years of Critical Medical Guidelines Next Week"
"California’s Net Neutrality Bill Is Strong Again Because You Spoke Out"
"European Lawmakers Delay Controversial Copyright Law Over Concerns It Could Censor Memes, Articles"
"Wikipedia Italy Blocks All Articles in Protest of EU’s Ruinous Copyright Proposals"
"California’s New Data Privacy Law the Toughest in the US"
"California’s Quest For Tough Net Neutrality Not Dead Yet"
"Bill to Save Net Neutrality Is 46 Votes Short in US House"
Digital Privacy: "California Has 48 Hours to Pass This Privacy Bill or Else"
"Internet Privacy Deal Nears as Initiative Qualifies For California’s November Ballot"
"Will Europe Lead a Global Flip to Open Access?"
"Can Weakened California Net Neutrality Bill Be Saved?"
"GitHub: Changes to EU Copyright Law Could Derail Open Source Distribution"
"California Lawmakers Accused of ‘Corruption’ After Gutting Net Neutrality Bill"
"European Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee Gives Green Light to Harmful Link Tax and Pervasive Platform Censorship"
Timothy Vollmer has published "European Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee Gives Green Light to Harmful Link Tax and Pervasive Platform Censorship" in the Creative Commons Blog.
Here's an excerpt:
Today, the European Parliament the Legal Affairs Committee voted in favor of the most harmful provisions of the proposed Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market. . . .
The committee voted 13-12 in favor of Article 11, the provision known as the "link tax," which grants an additional right to press publishers requiring anyone using snippets of journalistic content to first get a license or pay a fee to the publisher for its use online. Article 11 is ill-suited to address the challenges in supporting quality journalism, and it will further decrease competition and innovation in news delivery. Similar efforts have already failed miserably in Germany and Spain.
The committee voted 15-10 in favor of Article 13, the provision that would require online platforms to monitor their users' uploads and try to prevent copyright infringement through automated filtering. Article 13 will limit freedom of expression, as the required upload filters won't be able to tell the difference between copyright infringement and permitted uses of copyrighted works under limitations and exceptions. It puts into jeopardy the sharing of video remixes, memes, parody, and code, even works that include openly licensed content.
Read more about it: "EU Takes First Step in Passing Controversial Copyright Law That Could 'Censor the Internet'," "Europe Takes Another Step towards Copyright Pre-Filters for User Generated Content," and "We Can Still Win: Next Steps for the Copyright Directive."
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"A Democrat Funded by AT&T Could Sabotage California’s Net Neutrality Law"
"The GDPR and Browser Fingerprinting: How It Changes the Game for the Sneakiest Web Trackers"
"Keeping Up With. . . General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)"
ACRL has released "Keeping Up With. . . General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)" by Margaret Heller.
Here's an excerpt:
Anyone who holds data must make sure their practices and tools work with GDPR. . . .Librarians have been deleting data about people for a long time. It is standard practice to delete the borrowing records for patrons when the book was returned or a fine paid. . . . But since then, the trails people leave through libraries have become easier to track as more and more reading happens online. A lot of the systems we use haven't offered the ability to delete search logs or other information about individuals, but as of right now are starting to roll out those tools to be compliant with GDPR. Some of the tools are blunt instruments: for example, Ex Libris offers the option to delete patrons from Primo entirely, but this doesn't really address issues like search logs [2].
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