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What is the law regarding declaration of cryptology services and tools?
The French Prosecutor has released details of the investigation resulting in Pavel Durov's arrest, which ends with these three points:
Providing cryptology services aiming to ensure confidentiality ...
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Does Google routinely form contracts by accessing web sites with their crawler?
Many web sites contain terms of service, where the web site puts a link to "Terms" or similar, and anyone who accesses the web site forms a contract with the web site operator under those ...
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Could a streaming service be liable for paywalling lyrics under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
According to regulatory guidance from the US Department of Justice, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires that public-facing websites provide equal access to people with disabilities, ...
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What barriers to the public internet do police have that citizens do not?
The Guardian reports in reference to police action against the far right instigators of the recent violence:
The strict rules on evidence gathering for police and government bodies made it harder for ...
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The Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market, also known as EU Copyright Directive and file 2016/0280(COD)
Going to WikiPedia, I have been drawn attention to a new EU directive on Copyright.
The Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market, also known as EU Copyright Directive and file 2016/0280(...
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Does the repeal of net neutrality remove monopoly protections from ISPs?
The repeal of net neutrality was done (in part) by declassifying ISPs as title II common carriers. As I understand it, being a title II common carrier implies being treated like a utility under a ...
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Returning goods bought online in Poland as foreigner
I am a Czech national living just at the Polish border. I want to buy a laptop online at Polish online store called Morele.net. The store offers the goods to be sent to a Polish post office for pickup ...
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What is the contractual situation in the case of quishing?
QR code scams, termed "quishing", are being reported. This involves placing a QR code sticker directing to a scam site over a legitimate parking sign. This article has a legible image of ...
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Is the BBC website out of compliance with the UK cookie regulations regarding consent and nudging techniques?
The United Kingdom's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) requires websites to make it as easy to reject non-essential cookies as to accept them and also outlaws "nudging techniques", ...
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In which cases has a Wikipedia editor's identity been subpoenaed?
In any jurisdiction, I'm looking for names of cases for either or ideally both of the following:
Where Wikipedia has been subpoenaed for information on an editor, complied with the subpoena, and ...
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Sanctions against Russia and Internet subscriptions
Sanctions against Russia become heavier by the day, and an answer to that question might not fit the situation in a few weeks. Please consider the situation as of today.
Say a website located in the ...
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Can I sell unofficial "names" for bathroom stalls at a public university?
For a $20m+ donation, you can put your name on my university's new recreational facility. This got me thinking, could I do the same thing?
As a satirical joke I'm thinking of setting up a website ...
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How to notify the use of cookies (Cookie Law Notice)
I have been investigating notifications about the use of cookies and a question has come up:
Why 99.9% of websites do not report correctly about the use of cookies and nothing happens?
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What standards must US ISPs currently uphold in the quality of their speed and ping?
I'm curious. After a generous amount of googling, I couldn't find any laws or codes from the FCC regarding the standards of quality regarding internet speed and access.
What laws are currently in ...
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Legality of manual counterattacks vs counterattacks executed autonomously by a self-defense bot
There is a new twist on the DDOS (distributed denial-of-service) attack vector which has been used for taking down servers on the internet.
This newest version sends data packets targeting memcached ...
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