Lawmakers in the European Union are today focused on regulating online content, and compelling online services to make greater efforts to reduce the illegal and harmful activity on their services. … Read more
On the morning of 12 December, Mozilla will host the first of our Brussels Mozilla Mornings series – regular breakfast meetings where we bring together policy experts, policy-makers and practitioners … Read more
In September the European Commission proposed a new regulation that seeks to tackle the spread of ‘terrorist’ content on the internet. As we’ve noted already, the Commission’s proposal would seriously … Read more
Lawmakers in the EU have proposed a new legal framework that will make it easier for police in one country to get access to user data in another country (so-called … Read more
After nearly a decade of debate, the Brazilian Congress has just passed the Brazilian Data Protection Bill (PLC 53/2018). As a company that has fought for strong data protection around … Read more
As we’ve previously blogged, lawmakers in the European Union are reflecting intensively on the problem of illegal and harmful content on the internet, and whether the mechanisms that exist to … Read more
On 20 June the European Parliament’s legal affairs committee (JURI) approved its report on the copyright directive, sending the controversial and dangerous copyright reform into its final stages of lawmaking. … Read more
For many years we have sought to lead the way in developing an internet that promotes human dignity, civil discourse, individual expression and collaborative problem-solving. Unfortunately, illegal content online – … Read more
We’ve long been concerned about Aadhaar, the Indian national biometric identity database. Despite Supreme Court of India directives to the contrary, the Government of India has been pushing aggressively for … Read more
Last week, I participated in the European Parliament’s Technical Roundtable regarding the draft e-Privacy Regulation currently under consideration – specifically, I joined the discussion on “cookies”. The Roundtable was hosted … Read more
Creativity and innovation do not occur in a vacuum. The greatest songs, movies, and art are frequently at least inspired by and sometimes borrow heavily from predecessors and contemporaries. Software … Read more
This January, the European Commission introduced a proposal to update the current EU-wide legal framework regarding the privacy and security of communications online, known as the ePrivacy Directive. This effort … Read more