[…] In a judgment delivered on Tuesday, the ECJ, Europe’s highest court, declared that the [data retention] directive is « invalid » because it « interferes in a particularly serious manner with the fundamental rights to respect for…

Facebook has removed a page entitled « Soldiers deserve to be raped and murdered » – but not because of its subject matter. […]

Facebook’s Community Standards state that it will remove content where it perceives there to…

Paris, 8 avril 2014 — Dans un arrêt rendu ce matin, la Cour de Justice européenne (CJUE) vient de s’opposer au fichage systématique de nos communications en ligne en invalidant la directive européenne sur la…

Interesting article describing some of the reasons why it’s hard to start an ISP (in the USA), including tactics that bigger companies use to make it harder. Describes business models which touches on the question…

It’s pretty hard to enrage free software advocates, the Creative Commons movement, and anti-overreaching copyright and anti-censorship camps with a single move, so ‘congratulations’ to Sony for managing that today. Thanks to a bogus DMCA…

[…] Businesses that stand to benefit from the agreement have better access to both the documents and our representatives, and yet, the USTR continues to protest that it’s open and transparent.

[…] [USTR Michael] Froman listed…

It was a closely-fought contest, but Europe’s crucial telecoms package has passed through its first European Parliament vote, as have amendments that remove loopholes that would have clashed with the open internet. […]

Paris, 4 avril 2014 — En octobre 2013, les ONG Big Brother Watch, Open Rights Group, English Pen ainsi que Constanze Kurz ont engagé un recoursPour plus d’information sur l’initiative de Big Brother Watch, Open…

La reconduction d’Aurélie Filippetti devrait huiler quelque peu les prochains rendez-vous attendus Rue de Valois. Mais la locataire du ministère de la Culture devra composer aussi avec un environnement qui n’est pas nécessairement au beau…

Nothing sucks more than a great new technology with old-world thinking attached to it. Such has been the case with ebooks, unfortunately, with antiquated views on DRM, pricing, and storefront protectionism resulting in pissed off…