CyberLaw Blog

Archive for April, 2010

UN split on cybercrime conventions: “A United Nations committee on international crime prevention is split on how to deal with cybercrime. Some countries want the existing European convention to be adopted worldwide, while others want a completely new agreement to be created.“

(Via OUT-LAW News.)

Big Brother Watch manifesto makes plea for privacy: “

Look at yourselves, insists pressure group

The latest manifesto into the lists (pdf) comes not from a party standing at election, but from a pressure group.…

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(Via The Register – Public Sector.)

AU – Internet censorship agenda slammed by tech giants: (Sydney Morning Herald)
Australia’s biggest technology companies, communications academics and many lobby groups have delivered a withering critique of the government’s plans to censor the internet. The government published most of the 174 submissions it received relating to improving the transparency and accountability measures of its internet filtering policy. Legislation to force ISPs to implement the policy is expected to be introduced within weeks. The filters will block a blacklist of ‘refused classification’ websites for all Australians on a mandatory basis.

(Via QuickLinks Update.)

ES – Spanish court rules that links to p2p content are legal: “(EDRI-gram)
A civil court in Barcelona has recently ruled against SGAE (the Spanish collective society of authors and editors) in a case brought against Jesus Guerra who was administrating a site with links to P2P content. SGAE accused Guerra of infringing copyrights by having reproduced and communicated to the public works owned by their constituency. The defendant argued that his website was a non-profit site only providing links that could be used by users only through eMule, a P2P application, to connect to other Internet users. No content was actually hosted on that specific website. The judge ruled in favour of the defendant arguing that linking ‘does not suppose distributing, reproducing or making publicly available copyrighted works.’ In the judge’s opinion, the creation of an index of links is not an infringing practice as linking is an integrant part of the Internet.

(Via QuickLinks Update.)

Jail for man who broke into woman’s home to frame husband for child porn: A man has been sent to prison after he attempted to force his way into a female colleague’s life by breaking into her house and framing her husband for downloading child pornography.

(Via Tech and Web from Times Online.)

No one’s secrets are safe from the website Wikileaks: When it comes to uncovering secrets, Wikileaks spares no one. Hollywood celebrities, the Kenyan police and the Church of Scientology have all endured embarrassing disclosures and now it is the US military’s turn.

(Via Tech and Web from Times Online.)

Facebook attacked over refusal to install panic button: Britain’s online child protection agency attacked Facebook yesterday for its continued refusal to install a panic button on its site.

(Via Tech and Web from Times Online.)

Italian judge to Google: Internet not a lawless prairie: “An Italian judge explained in a court document why he found three Google executives guilty of violating privacy laws there.




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(Via Macworld.)

High Court: Moderate user comments and you’re liable: “

Even fixing spelling can see you busted

A blog owner can avoid liability for user-generated content that appears on his site without being checked or moderated, the High Court has ruled. But fixing the spelling or grammar in users’ posts could lose him that protection, it said.…

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(Via The Register – Public Sector.)

A user’s timetable to the Digital Economy Act: “

P2P: What happens next?

Now that the Digital Economy Act has been passed by both Houses, what can internet users expect, and when? Quick answer: nothing much soon.…

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(Via The Register – Public Sector.)