The recently enacted "Civil Rights Framework for the Internet" (Marco Civil), is a Law that has set the grounds for different Internet related rights in Brazil. Among its provisions are the ones related to network neutrality. Due to the importance of the topic, as well as its relevance for the...

Im Internet 2.0 konsumiert man nicht nur Informationen passiv, sondern kann sie selbst als Text, Bild, Video etc. zur Verfügung stellen. Menschen vernetzen sich aktiver als jemals zuvor in und mit "sozialen Medien" - weltweit. Zugleich lassen sich Daten über Nutzer noch leichter gewinnen....

Ineffectual legal-assistance cooperation increasingly prompts governments to apply laws extraterritorially or to force data localisation, with dire consequences for the free flow of data and the global economy. As a result, different layers of national laws counteract and sometimes contradict...

This paper tracks the rapidly evolving landscape for digital trade and e-commerce across five Northeast Asian economies: China, Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan. These five countries are at the cutting edge of the digital revolution with increasingly wired citizens and innovative...

The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) will be renegotiating its binding rules, known as the International Telecommunication Regulations (ITRs) at the World Conference on International Telecommunication (WCIT) in Dubai this December, which will be the first principal update since 1988....