Privacy, Risk and Revenue
The nation's leading organization of government, corporate and academic privacy executives — the International Association of Privacy Professionals — recently did what good groups do, it issued a...
View ArticleGoogle Shutting Down Engineering Office in Russia Amid Tighter Data Law
Google is closing its engineering office in Russia as a result of new law coming into force next year requiring foreign firms to store Russian users' personal data on servers located in Russia. Alec...
View ArticleDomain Name Case Under ACPA Failed Because Trademark Was Not Distinctive
Federal appeals court holds that plaintiff failed to satisfy all elements of the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act in action against competing airline The federal Anticybersquatting Consumer...
View ArticleAm I Safer Within an Organization or by Myself?
An Internet Bill of Rights may or may not be a good idea. The point here is that, besides highly commendable topics such as net neutrality and privacy, some of them seem to mandate cybersecurity....
View ArticleYour App Is Increasingly Paranoid
In Canada at the moment a fight has been engaged between Bell Canada, a major carrier, and a recent decision of its regulator, the CRTC, concerning whether the CRTC (the Commission) made the correct...
View ArticleCanadian Regulator CRTC Issues $1.1 Million Penalty to Compu-Finder for Spamming
Neil Schwartzman writes: "The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission's (CRTC's) Chief Compliance and Enforcement Officer today issued a Notice of Violation to Compu-Finder, which...
View ArticleSimplifying Legalese
I attended a conference last week on Data Protection and one of the prime issues that cropped was that on the immanent complexity of legalese that prevents users from understanding the Terms &...
View ArticleISPs to Enforce Copyright Law
A group of major ISPs and major content providers have agreed on a a mechanism to enforce copyright laws in the network. While full details have not yet been released, the basic scheme involves using...
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ICANN Asks U.S. Federal Trade Commission Whether .SUCK is Violating Any Laws
"Asking the FTC and OCA for their assistance in this matter is one example of how we can work with others to strengthen our consumer and business protections and enhance our ability to meet public...
View ArticleICANN and a Lot of Other People Outsmart Themselves With .SUCKS
Good taste has never been a criterion in ICANN's new domains program, and domains including .fail and the remarkably vulgar .wtf have become part of the DNS with little comment. Now we have .sucks,...
View ArticleAsking a Better Question to Uncloak the Online Copyright Debate
The proverbial Pandora's box that is opened whenever the topic of online copyright infringement is raised throws into sharp relief a host of challenges that have confounded policy makers, internet...
View ArticleLive Streaming Apps: Piracy Trends Are-A-Changing
Until recently, digital pirates have used both P2P sites and cyberlockers to upload and share pirated content. But as Internet connection speeds have increased, the piracy landscape has changed, and...
View ArticleShould Barclays Lose the .Barclays Top-Level Domain?
According to Reuters, Barclays has plead guilty to trying to manipulate foreign exchange rates, and has agreed to pay substantial fines, along with other major banks. Barclays is also the operator of...
View ArticleCompeting Processes Obfuscate Internet Policy-Making in India
Net Neutrality has become a hot topic in India, following a brief but high-profile national debate instigated by a consultation paper from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) that...
View ArticleLaw and Disorder: When .Brand Meets .Crime
Barclays Bank is a .brand pioneer, having recently announced plans to migrate its primary online presence to two new gTLDs it will operate on its own behalf. But Barclays Bank has also just plead...
View ArticleIs Sharing the Answer to .BRAND Top Level Domain Disputes?
In opening up for the .BRAND top level domain, ICANN has artificially created a scarce resource of great commercial value. Indeed, the values of the .BRAND TLDs may be astronomical due to the...
View ArticleManaging (in)Security Through Regulation: A Key Phase for Nation States
Not so long ago, the notion of introducing laws and other regulatory responses to address cyber security issues was regarded with significant hesitation by governments and policy makers. To some...
View ArticleICANN 53 - Guaranteeing Accountability in Internet Governance
I recently attended the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers' (ICANN) 53rd meeting in Buenos Aires to further discuss the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) transition process....
View ArticleICANN Wins a Very Weak TLD Lawsuit
Back in the 1990s as the Internet was starting to become visible to the world, several people had the bright idea of setting up their own top level domains and selling names in competition with what...
View ArticleICANN Should Curb Anonymous Domain Name Abuses
E-commerce has revolutionized how businesses sell to consumers — including those involved in illicit activities, such as websites peddling illegal narcotics, pirated movies and music, or counterfeit...
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