Park Si-soo reports: A law that provided the legal grounds to indict “Minerva,” a well-known Internet commentator, for spreading “misleading” information on the Internet was ruled unconstitutional, Tuesday. The Constitutional Court’s ruling immediately brought an end to the 49-year-old law, which opposition legislators claimed had been abused to gag anti-government bloggers amid concerns about the…
Category: Laws
Indian Parliament, Aadhar Project, UIDAI And Privacy Rights
Praveen Dalal, Managing Partner of Perry4Law, has shared his personal views regarding Aadhar Project, UIDAI and the corresponding responsibility of Parliament of India in this regard. India is perhaps the only country of the World whose Agencies and Instrumentalities are working without any law supporting their existence. Whether it is the Aadhar Project/ UID Project,…
Invading our privacy on the Internet (op-ed)
An op-ed by Jamie Court, President of Consumer Watchdog: Internet companies track and sell advertisers virtually everything we do online. That’s why a ‘do not track me’ system is vital. If Washington fails to act, California should create its own system. […] The “do not track me” movement is so important because it sets the…
“Privacy Regulation and the ‘Free’ Internet”
by Adam Thierer, Mercatus Center at George Mason University Would you like to pay $20 a month for Facebook, or a dime every time you did a search on Google or Bing? That’s potentially what is at stake if the Obama administration and advocates of stepped-up regulation of online advertising get their way. The Internet…