Tech Legal World - Web Law - Legal Predictions for 2013
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As we come to the fag end of 2012, Tech Legal World (TLW) takes a look at the potential Internet Legal Issues that can emerge in the year 2013.
Social Media Evangelists will continue to be persecuted throughout the world for their tweets, retweets, comments, likes etc on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter.
Governments throughout the world will keep a close watch on these social media platforms and innocent Netizens will be “Facebooked” and arrested without following the due process of law – remember the case in India where two girls were “Facebooked” and arrested for "Commenting" and “Liking” on Facebook.
There will be tighter legal control and monitoring of the social media by Governments and other authorities, namely twitter, Facebook and other social networking platforms. Legal actions against individuals will continue increase.
Internet Freedom and Anonymity will be a relic of the past. Governments throughout the world will try to gain control over the Internet and frame tighter laws thereby making it a potential legal landmine!
Internet libel and defamation cases will continue to grow exponentially throughout the world especially in the highly litigious United States. In England's first Twitter libel case, New Zealand cricketer Chris Cairns was awarded £90,000 in damages.
Tech savvy youngsters and Netizens downloading music and other stuff illegally will be booked by the authorities and prosecuted under copyright laws – The Finnish police recently set off a precedent by confiscating the laptop of a nine year old girl for allegedly illegally downloaded a music album from The Pirate Bay Website.
Dark cloudy days await cloud computing users - Cloud users will have no other option but to settle for a one sided agreement (Terms of Use a.k.a Terms of Service) with Internet Giants like Microsoft, Apple, to name a few. Cloud computing would continue to raise legal issues on Data Security, Privacy, Data Retention, Data Protection and other emerging grey areas.
Arrival of the 4G- the emerging legal issues. The growth spurt in 4G, smartphones and tablet devices would mean leakage of personal and other sensitive data from mobile platforms and devices. This would include personal photos, videos, GPS data, credit card data etc. Privacy would still remain at risk and a distant dream.
Happy holidays and best wishes for a prosperous new year!
www.techlegalworld.com
www.techlegalworld.com
As we come to the fag end of 2012, Tech Legal World (TLW) takes a look at the potential Internet Legal Issues that can emerge in the year 2013.
Social Media Evangelists will continue to be persecuted throughout the world for their tweets, retweets, comments, likes etc on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter.
Governments throughout the world will keep a close watch on these social media platforms and innocent Netizens will be “Facebooked” and arrested without following the due process of law – remember the case in India where two girls were “Facebooked” and arrested for "Commenting" and “Liking” on Facebook.
There will be tighter legal control and monitoring of the social media by Governments and other authorities, namely twitter, Facebook and other social networking platforms. Legal actions against individuals will continue increase.
Internet Freedom and Anonymity will be a relic of the past. Governments throughout the world will try to gain control over the Internet and frame tighter laws thereby making it a potential legal landmine!
Internet libel and defamation cases will continue to grow exponentially throughout the world especially in the highly litigious United States. In England's first Twitter libel case, New Zealand cricketer Chris Cairns was awarded £90,000 in damages.
Tech savvy youngsters and Netizens downloading music and other stuff illegally will be booked by the authorities and prosecuted under copyright laws – The Finnish police recently set off a precedent by confiscating the laptop of a nine year old girl for allegedly illegally downloaded a music album from The Pirate Bay Website.
Dark cloudy days await cloud computing users - Cloud users will have no other option but to settle for a one sided agreement (Terms of Use a.k.a Terms of Service) with Internet Giants like Microsoft, Apple, to name a few. Cloud computing would continue to raise legal issues on Data Security, Privacy, Data Retention, Data Protection and other emerging grey areas.
Arrival of the 4G- the emerging legal issues. The growth spurt in 4G, smartphones and tablet devices would mean leakage of personal and other sensitive data from mobile platforms and devices. This would include personal photos, videos, GPS data, credit card data etc. Privacy would still remain at risk and a distant dream.
Happy holidays and best wishes for a prosperous new year!
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