A legal case against Facebook, which will involve a 14-year-old taking the company to court in Belfast over naked images published on the social network, could open the floodgates for other civil claims, according to lawyers who work with victims of revenge pornography. Facebook’s forthcoming trial, which centres on the claim that it is liable for the...
David Kaye, the top UN expert on free expression, stated [press release] Friday that reports that Yahoo allowed the US government to search hundreds of millions of customers’ e-mails “raise serious human rights concerns.” According to recent reports [NYT report], Yahoo is alleged to have created software to scan all incoming e-mail for specific criteria provided by either the...
Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers’ incoming emails for specific information provided by U.S. intelligence officials, according to people familiar with the matter. The company complied with a classified U.S. government demand, scanning hundreds of millions of Yahoo Mail accounts at the behest of the...
The UK has failed to meet many human rights recommendations made by the United Nations and should do more to prevent prison overcrowding, tackle hate crimes and restrict stop and search powers, a coalition of 175 civil society organisations claims. Their report, coordinated by the British Institute of Human Rights (BIHR) and submitted to the UN in...
The Romanian High Court is expected to rules Tuesday on whether to recognize the marriage of a same-sex couple. US citizen Claibourn Robert Hamilton and Romanian activist Adrian Coman were married in Belgium and have sued to have their union recognized in Romania . read more
The EU is proposing strict new copyright rules aimed at making it easier for musicians, TV makers and publishers to make money out of their work online. Google could be especially hard hit by the rules, which could force both YouTubeand Google News to pay out more for hosting content or showing parts of it. Many...
Vulnerable victims and witnesses will no longer have to appear in court to give evidence and fare dodgers will be able to plead guilty and pay fines online under new reforms. The radical changes to court procedures in England and Wales are part of a £1bn programme to modernise the courts announced jointly by the...
If you have poked around on the internet or even used a few apps on your phone before reading this article, do you know what rights you have forfeited? With the proliferation of online transactions and new gadgets that we use in our businesses, we’ve been seeing a proliferation of “terms and conditions” agreements...
US President Barack Obama signed Senate Bill No. 764 into law on Friday, which requires labeling of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in food products under a single national standard. The law requires the Department of Agriculture(USDA) to write the rules for a “national mandatory bioengineered food disclosure standard” no later than two years after the signing of this bill...
A passport applicant who identifies as neither male nor female is asking a federal judge to direct the State Department to issue a gender-neutral passport. On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge R. Brooke Jackson of Denver appeared to side with the plaintiff, Dana Zzyym, the Associated Pressreports. ZZyym was denied a passport after refusing to check a...
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