Publications

Article L. 333-10 of the French Sport Code enables rightsholders to request blocking measures against named pirate sites if they can demonstrate “serious and repeated infringement” of their exploitation rights. To prevent pirate sites from being ac...

A few months ago, Italy paved the way to issue fines against subscribers of pirate IPTV services. A memorandum of understanding between the Prosecutor’s Office, Guardia di Finanza, and AGCOM, established a “collaboration protocol” where information o...

This week, the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee moved forward with a proposal that would allow the Secretary of the Treasury to strip any U.S. nonprofit of its tax-exempt status by unilaterally determining the organization is a “Terrorist Supporti...

Lawmakers and regulators around the world have been prolific with passing legislation restricting freedom of expression and privacy for LGBTQ+ individuals and fueling offline intolerance. Online platforms are also complicit in this pervasive ecosyste...

After multiple delays of the REAL ID Act of 2005 and its updated counterpart, the REAL ID Modernization Act, in the United States, the May 7th deadline of REAL ID enforcement has finally arrived. Does this move our security forward in the skies? The...

In May last year, the Paris Judicial Court ordered Google, Cloudflare, and Cisco to block access to several pirate websites by effectively poisoning their DNS. The order, requested by Canal+, compelled the tech giants to modify their resolvers or tak...

Digital innovation can make it easier for governments to spy on and control queer people’s intimacies, expressions, and existence — violating their human rights. In countries across Sub-Saharan Africa, entrapment is one of the main tactics that autho...

The UK government is being challenged in court this week over its decision to keep exporting fighter jet parts that can be used by Israel’s fleet of F-35 warplanes. Declassified has discovered that one of the key witnesses has accepted hospitality fr...

This is the final part of a three-part series about age verification in the European Union. In part one, we give an overview of the political debate around age verification and explore the age verification proposal introduced by the European Commissi...

We’ve covered a lot of federal and state proposals that badly miss the mark when attempting to grapple with protecting young people’s safety online. These include bills that threaten to cut young people off from vital information, infringe on their F...