Posted in data protection, data retention, privacy

The Slovak Constitutional Court on Risk Profiling and Automated Decision-Making by the Tax Authority
The Slovak Constitutional Court just published its eKasa decision, dealing with the constitutionality of indiscriminate data collection of store receipts and their subsequent re-use for risk profiling of companies. Context Some years ago, the Slovak legislature adopted a law mandating the collection of all store receipts in the country. Every receipt issued by a sole
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Posted in Art 10 ECHR, collateral censorship, freedom of expression, overblocking, website blocking

[ECtHR] Kharitonov v Russia: When Website Blocking Goes Awry
The European Court of Human Rights will soon hear a key case on website blocking and freedom of expression online – Kharitonov v Russia (app no. 10795/14). The case raises tons of important questions. It should be therefore closely watched by scholars, advocates and policy makers. As a part of Internet Policy Clinic at TILT,
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Posted in Art. 11 EnforD, Art. 8(1) EnforD, blocking, CJEU

[New Paper] Website Blocking, Injunctions and Beyond: View on the Harmonization from the Netherlands
I have recently uploaded on SSRN a new draft of a paper about harmonization and blocking (forthcoming in GRUR Int) that I co-authored with my student, Lisa van Dongen. It is an extension of the talk that I gave in Berlin last year during the JIPLP/GRUR event. I hope you will find it useful. As
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Posted in call for papers

Intermediary Liability as a Human Rights Issue [Call for Papers]
Call for Papers (abstracts due November 30, 2016)  Intermediary Liability as a Human Rights Issue  An issue of Journal of Intellectual Property, Information Technology and Electronic Commerce Law (JIPITEC) (link)  Edited by: Martin Husovec (Tilburg University) Overview Intermediaries are backbones of Internet economy. Increasingly, they are also becoming unavoidable gatekeepers to
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