Google Isn’t Liable For Including Unlicensed Locksmiths in Directories–Baldin... Some states, including Virginia, require locksmiths to obtain state-issued licenses.
Baldino’s Lock & Key, a licensed locksmith, is unhappy about being on the same search results pages as unlicensed locksmiths. It sued Google and various business directory providers for commingling licensed locksmiths with presumably illegal unlicensed locksmiths. This is an easy Section 230 win for Google. The court says:
G search data shld be deleted. ISP liability for 1/3 party content. The structure of SE-Grimmelmann. DPI and Internet Freedom. Global IP rights. EFF resource ISP chokepoints. D Kramer successfully pleading against Googe. The issue of Take Down Notice. Twitter publisher or distributor. To regulate Net intermediaries or not is the question. Sunil Abraham, Aug 26, 2012, DHNS : Given the disruption to public order caused by the mass exodus of North-Eastern Indians from several cities, the government has had for the first time in many years, a legitimate case to crackdown on Internet intermediaries and their users.
There was, of course, much room for improvement in the manner in which the government conducted the censorship. But the policy question that becomes most pertinent now is: do we need to regulate Internet intermediaries further? The answer is yes and no. There are areas where these intermediaries need to be regulated in order to protect citizen and consumer interest. It is a common misunderstanding to assume that all civil society organisations that advocate civil liberties on networked technologies are regulatory doves that wish to dismantle regulation of the private sector and allow them complete free hand for innovation and, perhaps, causing harm to public interest.
Iptegrity.com. TechnoLlama. So Gikii!
Call For Papers. Global Voices Advocacy - Posts from Clarinette. Foggy thinking about the Right to Oblivion. I was lucky enough to spend a few days in Switzerland working on Street View.
And I treated myself to a weekend of skiing too. The weather wasn't great, we had a lot of mountain fog, but then, the entire privacy world seems to be sort of foggy these days. In privacy circles, everybody's talking about the Right to be Forgotten. The European Commission has even proposed that the "right to be forgotten" should be written into the up-coming revision of the Privacy Directive. Originally, a rather curious French "universal right" that doesn't even have a proper English-translation (right to be forgotten? More and more, privacy is being used to justify censorship. Most conversations about the right to oblivion mix all this stuff up. 1) If I post something online, should I have the right to delete it again? 2) If I post something, and someone else copies it and re-posts it on their own site, do I have the right to delete it? 5) Should the Internet just learn to "forget"?
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