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Lumen Database Team

Over thirty thousand DMCA notices reveal an organized attempt to abuse copyright law

The Lumen Project’s database houses copies of millions of content removal requests originally sent to online service providers. These…

10 min readApr 22, 2022

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Over thirty thousand DMCA notices reveal an organized attempt to abuse copyright law

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Lumen Database Team

Transparency Initiatives in the Digital Services Act: An Exciting Step Forward in Online Content…

In January 2022, the European Parliament voted in favor of the Digital Services Act (DSA), a horizontal legislation for the EU’s digital…

8 min readApr 5, 2022

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Lumen Database Team

Notice in Lumen reveals that EU mandated removal of Russian state-sponsored news from Google’s…

On March 04, 2022, the European Commission sent a content removal request to Google requiring all content by RT and Sputnik, Russian…

3 min readMar 10, 2022

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Notice in Lumen reveals that EU mandated removal of Russian state-sponsored news from Google’s…

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Lumen Database Team

Big Tech expresses business-viability concerns in Europe over transatlantic data transfer deadlock

In its 2021 annual report to the U.S Security and Exchange Commission, released earlier this February, Meta noted that the present lack of…

4 min readFeb 16, 2022

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Big Tech expresses business-viability concerns in Europe over transatlantic data transfer deadlock

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Lumen Database Team

(Ab)use of Copyright law as the tool of choice for censorship and reputation management

The purpose of copyright law is to induce and reward authors for their original work by extending property rights to the copyright holder…

9 min readJan 17, 2022

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(Ab)use of Copyright law as the tool of choice for censorship and reputation management

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Lumen Database Team

Rohingya refugees file $150 billion lawsuit against Facebook for alleged content moderation…

On December 6, 2021, a refugee who fled Myanmar when she was sixteen, filed a class action lawsuit against Facebook in California’s…

4 min readDec 13, 2021

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Rohingya refugees file $150 billion lawsuit against Facebook for alleged content moderation…

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Lumen Database Team

Use of Facial Recognition Technologies on a steep rise in India

In November 2021, Amnesty International, along with the Internet Freedom Foundation and Article 19, drew attention to Hyderabad, a city in…

6 min readDec 9, 2021

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Use of Facial Recognition Technologies on a steep rise in India

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Lumen Database Team

The EU Copyright Directive’s Neighboring Rights for Press Publishers: A work in progress

Italy and Spain are latest in the line of European countries to adopt the European Union’s Directive on Copyright. The EU finalized the…

6 min readNov 22, 2021

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The EU Copyright Directive’s Neighboring Rights for Press Publishers: A work in progress

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Lumen Database Team

Apple’s proposed new child safety features and the problems with privacy tradeoffs

On September 3, 2021, Apple paused the implementation of two highly controversial new child safety features that would both algorithmically…

5 min readSep 8, 2021

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Apple’s proposed new child safety features and the problems with privacy tradeoffs

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Lumen Database Team

Germany’s Apex Federal Court voids parts of Facebook’s Term of Services

On July 29, 2021, the Bundesgerichtshof, Germany’s Federal Supreme Court, invalidated parts of Facebook’s Terms of Service (ToS) relating…

4 min readAug 23, 2021

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Germany’s Apex Federal Court voids parts of Facebook’s Term of Services

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Lumen Database Team

Lumen Database Team

Collecting and facilitating research on requests to remove online material. Visit lumendatabase.org and email us if you have questions.

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