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Intermediary liability and platforms

The European Commission has now published its conclusions from the consultation on platforms it carried our earlier this year. This included notice-and-takedown: an issue we’ve been working on for many years. When universities and colleges receive an allegation that information on their website breaks the law, they’re forced to choose between supporting free speech (a […]

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Wifi location data

More than a decade ago the e-Privacy Directive mentioned “location data” in the context of telecommunications services. At the time that was almost entirely about mobile phone locations – data processed by just a handful of network providers – but nowadays many more organisations are able to gather location data about wifi-enabled devices in range […]