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Newly Released "Domain Name Arbitration" Book Offers Guide for Navigating UDRP
Domain Name Arbitration: Asserting and Defending Claims of Cybersquatting Under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy, by Gerald M. Levine (Publication date print edition August 1, 2015...
View ArticleGoogle Ordered to Remove Search Results of 'Right to Be Forgotten' Removal...
Samuel Gibbs reporting in the Guardian: Google has been ordered by U.K.'s Information Commissioner's office to remove nine links to current news stories about older reports which themselves were...
View ArticleThe ICANN Accountability End Game
It was predictable, and inevitable, I suppose, that the end game of a search for a more accountable ICANN would devolve to a lawyer's contest. When there is money on the table, and when global politics...
View ArticleEU Launches Inquiry on Whether Online Companies Should be Regulated
The European Commission on Thursday launched an inquiry into the behavior of online companies such as Google, Facebook and Amazon to try to gauge whether there is a need to regulate the web… It is not...
View ArticleDecoding the WSIS Message - ISOC Releases Matrix of Countries' WSIS+10 Positions
Over the next few months, major discussions at the United Nations will shape the future of Internet governance. In order to prepare with our community for the ten-year Review of the World Summit on the...
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European Court Invalidates EU-US Data Pact
The personal data of Europeans held in the United States by Internet companies is not safe from US government snooping, the European court of justice ruled today, in a landmark verdict that hits...
View ArticleNew Bill Bans Internet Companies From Offering Unbreakable Encryption
Companies such as Apple, Google and others will be banned from offering encryption so advanced that even they cannot decipher it when asked to under the UK's Investigatory Powers Bill. "Measures in the...
View ArticleInternet Society's New Policy Brief Series Provides Concise Information On...
Have you ever wanted to quickly find out information on key Internet policy issues from an Internet Society perspective? Have you wished you could more easily understand topics such as net neutrality...
View ArticleThe TPP and the DNS
On November 5, 2015 the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) released the official text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). That text consists of 30 separate Chapters totaling more than...
View ArticleZero Rating, a Poisoned Chalice for the Developing World
A very Interesting meeting The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) with an ambitious theme of connecting the worlds next billion people to the Internet took place in early November 2015 in a beautiful...
View ArticleFrench Police Pushing to Outlaw Anonymous Web Browsing
According to reports today, French police is planning to develop tough laws following the Paris terror attacks to help crack down on anonymous web browsing technology Tor, as well as free WiFi in...
View ArticleEncryption = good : Backdoor = bad
Every time there is a tragic attack on people or property, there is a cry from various authorities or politicians for law enforcement to get unfettered access to all kinds of communication tools. But...
View ArticleCheers! Registries and Registrars Doing the Right Thing by Patients
Domain name registration is a hot industry. Registrars represent a growing multi-billion dollar industry with the keys to the Internet for any organization hoping to have a web presence. Further,...
View ArticleU.S. Senators Introduce SEC Cybersecurity Disclosure Legislation
U.S. Senators Jack Reed (D-RI) and Susan Collins (R-ME) have introduced the bipartisan Cybersecurity Disclosure Act of 2015 on Thursday, a bill that seeks to encourage the disclosure of cybersecurity...
View ArticleProposed UK Bill Will Make it Criminal Offence for Tech Firms to Warn Users...
Yahoo recently become the latest company to join Twitter, Facebook and Google for promising to alert users suspected of being spied on by state-sponsored actors. However "UK ministers want to make it a...
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Which Way Does Your Data Flow?
Understanding the impact of cross-border routing of data during an era of emerging geographic restrictions. Data may be moving to the cloud, but understanding the physical geography underlying the...
View ArticleFederal Data Crisis: Unreliable Federal Databases are Destroying...
Databases are the infrastructure of the modern administrative state and data is its lifeblood. When the data is contaminated with errors, federal agencies have difficulty performing even the most basic...
View ArticleIs the DMCA an Effective Way to Take Down Infringing Content?
As promised at an end-of-the-year (2015) announcement, the U.S. Copyright Office has now launched a comment submission process about the "safe harbor provisions" of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act...
View ArticleUS Senate Gives Final OK to Ban Internet Taxes
The U.S. Senate today passed legislation placing a permanent ban on states' taxing Internet access, sending the measure to President Obama for signing into law. Richard Cowan reports in Reuters: "By a...
View ArticleInternet Society Responds to FBI vs Apple Encryption Debate
The Internet Society today expressed concern over the recent order from the United States District Court for the Central District of California requiring Apple to bypass or disable the auto-erase...
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