EU: Privacy Policies Defy User Understanding

A large-scale, longitudinal comparison of privacy policies in the EU pre- and postGDPR found that privacy policies increased in lengthwithout demonstrating improvements in sentence structure complexity. Defining Privacy: How Users Interpret Technical Terms in Privacy Policies, Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies ; 2021 (3):70–94 This study shows the difficulty in drafting privacy and data reforms …

Future Worlds 2050 by UK Law Society

The main regulator of the legal profession has issued its predictive report on where the practice of law is headed by 2030. Not surprisingly, the future of the legal profession will be dominated by Data, AI, Tech, and Climate Change. https://www.lawsociety.org.uk/en/topics/research/future-worlds-2050-images-of-the-future-worlds-facing-the-legal-profession-2020-2030 These areas of expertise are almost entirely outside the scope of law societies\’ exclusivity …

India Ends Twitter\’s Immunity For 3rd Party Content

Section 79 of India\’s IT Act appears to be the equivalent of s.230, Communications Decency Act. The provision protects online service providers from liability flowing from unlawful content posted on their platforms. Twitter is so far the only American platform to have lost this safe-harbor in India. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/twitter-loses-legal-shield-in-india-for-3rd-party-content

Biden v. Knight, Twitter Is Not a”Protected Public Forum”

In 2017 the Court of Appeal of the 2nd circuit ruled that the president of the United States Twitter account is a constitutionally protected public forum limiting the President\’s power to block users who criticize him on the platform. In 2021 Twitter proved the Court of Appeal 100% wrong by asserting absolute control over several …