Emsie Ferreira reports: The contentious Protection of Information Bill is heading for a redraft to narrow its scope, but the new version will not see the light this year, MPs said on Friday. Parliament’s ad hoc committee processing the bill agreed to take as a starting point for a new draft, proposals by State Security…
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German court sets file sharing damages at €15, not €300
A German court has said that a teenager who was guilty of posting copyrighted material to a file sharing network must pay €15 in damages per track and not the €300 the rights holders were demanding. The court said that the basis for a fine should be the amount that reasonable parties would agree as…
Privacy Law In India Is Urgently Required
Techtalk writes: Indian government’s hunger for e-surveillance as well as the pressure from the industrial bodies for weak and ineffective cyber laws is costing Indians their privacy and data protection law. The truth is that privacy rights in India are at sale. The e-surveillance projects include unique identification project of India (UID project) or Aadhar project…
China Revises State Secrets Law: State Asks Internet and Phone Firms for More Complicity in Censorship
Meggin Thwing Eastman writes: On October 1, a revised version of China’s State Secrets Law went into effect. Although little reported in the West, the revised law has serious implications for information and communications technology companies operating in China. The update includes an article holding network operators and internet service providers (ISPs) responsible for censoring…