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Google has released a tool , to much media and legal interest, which allows the public to see what requests are made by governments for information about users and, in particular, what requests were made to “take down” or censor content altogether. We have…

Lots of the blogosphere exploded in indignation yesterday at the revelation that an Italian court had found Google execs, including privacy chief Fleisher, criminally liable for publishing an amateur vid on You Tube which invaded the privacy of the special needs child depicted…

Since I wrote my last post suggesting (rather speculatively) that Google’s apparent willingness to pull out of China might be linked to US state fears of (and pressure concerning?) cyber espionage against data held by Google about US citizens instead of/as…

So what do we think about the Google China affair then? For anyone who has been hiding under a rock on Pluto lately, Google announced on January 13th that it “may end its operations in China following a “sophisticated and targeted” cyber attack originating from the…

Pangloss is pretty bushed after the excellent SCL Policy Forum (thanks to co-chairs Chris Reed, Judith Rauhofer, and gracious hosts Herbert Smith) but just has to bring this breaking news; the Advocate General’s opinion has come out (via Joris Hoboken), in the hotly awaited ECJ…

France continues to be an entertaining source of Internet law. The Guardian reports (13 May 2009) that

“The world’s largest online auctioneer, eBay, was today claiming a “victory for consumers” after a court…

Well, kinda.

As Boing-Boing says:

“When The Pirate Bay was ordered shut down by the Swedish courts because it linked to infringing torrents on the Internet, many people pointed out that Google links to whole mountains’ — whole planets’ — worth of infringing stuff. Now…