Mark Bergen, Lucas Shaw, and Ben Brody report: A group of online video creators is protesting the Federal Trade Commission’s plan to regulate kids’ videos on YouTube, claiming new rules will hurt them financially and reduce the quality of programs on the world’s largest video site. On Tuesday, producers of prominent children’s YouTube channels will…
Category: Laws
ISPs lied to Congress to spread confusion about encrypted DNS, Mozilla says
Jon Brodkin reports: Mozilla is urging Congress to reject the broadband industry’s lobbying campaign against encrypted DNS in Firefox and Chrome. The Internet providers’ fight against this privacy feature raises questions about how they use broadband customers’ Web-browsing data, Mozilla wrote in a letter sent today to the chairs and ranking members of three House of Representatives…
China Enacts Encryption Law
Yan Luo, Eric Carlson and Zhijing Yu of Covington & Burling write: On October 26, 2019, China enacted a landmark Encryption Law, which will take effect on January 1, 2020. The Encryption Law significantly reshapes the regulatory landscape for commercial encryption, including foreign-made commercial encryption products, but leaves many questions to be answered in future implementing…
Tech Companies Seek India Govt’s Help For Solving Aadhaar-PF linking Issue of Employees
Aman Rawat reports: Following a tussle between employees and employers regarding the linking of Aadhaar number with provident fund (PF) accounts, a group of technology and back end companies has turned to the government seeking help on the clarification of norms related to Aadhaar linking with PF accounts. In March 2018, a data breach through Employees’…