Lumen Database TeamOver thirty thousand DMCA notices reveal an organized attempt to abuse copyright lawThe Lumen Project’s database houses copies of millions of content removal requests originally sent to online service providers. These…10 min read·Apr 22, 2022----
Lumen Database TeamTransparency 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 read·Apr 5, 2022----
Lumen Database TeamNotice 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 read·Mar 10, 2022----
Lumen Database TeamBig Tech expresses business-viability concerns in Europe over transatlantic data transfer deadlockIn 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 read·Feb 16, 2022----
Lumen Database Team(Ab)use of Copyright law as the tool of choice for censorship and reputation managementThe purpose of copyright law is to induce and reward authors for their original work by extending property rights to the copyright holder…9 min read·Jan 17, 2022----
Lumen Database TeamRohingya 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 read·Dec 13, 2021----
Lumen Database TeamUse of Facial Recognition Technologies on a steep rise in IndiaIn November 2021, Amnesty International, along with the Internet Freedom Foundation and Article 19, drew attention to Hyderabad, a city in…6 min read·Dec 9, 2021----
Lumen Database TeamThe EU Copyright Directive’s Neighboring Rights for Press Publishers: A work in progressItaly 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 read·Nov 22, 2021----
Lumen Database TeamApple’s proposed new child safety features and the problems with privacy tradeoffsOn September 3, 2021, Apple paused the implementation of two highly controversial new child safety features that would both algorithmically…5 min read·Sep 8, 2021----
Lumen Database TeamGermany’s Apex Federal Court voids parts of Facebook’s Term of ServicesOn July 29, 2021, the Bundesgerichtshof, Germany’s Federal Supreme Court, invalidated parts of Facebook’s Terms of Service (ToS) relating…4 min read·Aug 23, 2021----