UPDATE: An appeals court in Milan acquitted today three Google executives of violating the privacy of an Italian boy with autism, in the so-called "Vividown" case. “We’re very happy that the verdict has been reversed and our colleagues’ names have...
Padraig Reidy: Social media guidelines: Nice start, but still a long way to go
In November 2009, after months of research and reporting on England’s anti-free speech libel laws, Index, in association with our partners, launched the Libel Reform Campaign. Months later, as Britain prepared for a general election, over 50,000...
Belarus is Europe’s last dictatorship. Its people have suffered under president Alexander Lukashenko since 1994. Opposition media and activists are silenced by the former Soviet republic’s KGB On 19 December 2010, thousands gathered to protest...
Dominique Lazanski: WCIT12 — The UK stood up for internet freedom
Miren Gutierrez: Look who is cooking the news… not women
If there was ever any doubt that the UN’s International Telecommunications Union (ITU) was the wrong body to run the internet, you only needed to look at its handling of its own World Conference on International Telecommunication (WCIT), which...
Today is International Human Rights Day, so with the UN’s International Telecommunications Union (ITU) meeting in Dubai to reframe its guiding texts, adding a few lines reminding states of their human rights obligations should be both desirable and...
Index's own Head of Advocacy Mike Harris discussed the issue of hate speech and free expression at Cambridge Union's annual Free Speech debate on 29 November. Also speaking were Cambridge Union President Austin Mahler and celebrated philosopy...
The gay community is one of the most vulnerable minorities in Russia, and homophobia is one of the country’s most rampant prejudices. According to Levada centre research, around 74 per cent of Russian citizens consider members of the Lesbian, Gay,...