PRG News Roundup, December 1, 2021
The Privacy Law Scholars Conference is inviting submission of abstracts for its 15th annual conference (PLSC 2022), which will be held in person on Thursday and Friday, June 2 and…
PRG News Roundup, November 17, 2021
The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University filed an amicus brief in a case challenging a Florida law limiting the power of social media companies to moderate speech on…
PRG News Roundup, November 10, 2021
A bipartisan group of House lawmakers has introduced the filter bubble Transparency Act which requires companies like Meta (then known as ‘Facebook’) and YouTube to offer a version of their platforms that…
PRG News Roundup, November 3, 2021
Upcoming Events Guarini Colloquium: Regulating Global Digital Corporations – Monday November 8, 2021, 17:20 – 18:20. In this NYU Law School colloquium, Hong Shen, the author of Alibaba: Infrastructuring Global…
PRG News Roundup, October 27, 2021
Donald Trump’s new social network, Truth Social, has been reported to be a thinly disguised variant of the Mastodon social network codebase. Mastodon is free software that anyone can use…
PRG News Roundup, October 20, 2021
The Guarini Center will host a colloquium on the global data economy. They will seek legal solutions to deal with data as a new type of asset in order to…
PRG News Roundup, October 13, 2021
The Brazilian National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) and the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) – the administrative authorities responsible for data protection in Brazil and Spain, respectively – signed a…
PRG News Roundup, October 6, 2021
Russia is seeking a fine from Facebook totaling 5-10% of its annual turnover in the country. In 2020 Russia passed legislation that allows regulators to fine internet providers if they…
PRG News Roundup, September 29, 2021
The “Facebook Files,” a series of articles about internal Facebook research reports that were revealed recently to the Wall Street Journal, has provided a window into Facebook’s understanding of many…
PRG News Roundup, September 22, 2021
Upcoming Events Guarini Colloquium: Regulating Global Digital Corporations – Monday September 27, 2021, 17:20 – 18:20 In this NYU Law School colloquium, participants will read and discuss a recent paper…