User:AlexHaydock
Hi, I'm Alex Haydock - a legal officer at ORG.
You can email me at alex.haydock@openrightsgroup.org, or find me on Twitter.
Pages I Look After
ORG's Current Legal Actions
ORG's Past Legal Actions
Legal Topics
Age Verification
- AgeID/Privacy policy
- Digital Economy Act 2017/Part 3
- Online age verification
- Online age verification/BBFC Consultation
- Online age verification/DCMS Guidance to Regulator
- Online age verification/Report of Expert Panel for the DCMS
- Pornography (general legal situation)
Intermediary Liability
Intermediary Liability Case Law
- Appleby v UK - Free Expression does not guarantee a right to be given a platform.
- Bunt v Tilley - ISPs cannot be held liable for defamatory comments as publishers.
- Delfi v Estonia - A site, as publisher of defamatory comments, can be held in equal liability to the author of defamatory comments where such a site exercises some degree of control over those comments. (i.e. A site that moderates user-authored comments can become liable for them as a publisher.)
- L’Oréal v eBay - Sites can be held liable for third-party content if they take an active role in processing it to promote it.
My Parliamentary & Policy Updates
- ORG policy update/2017-w47
- ORG policy update/2017-w48
- ORG policy update/2017-w49
- ORG policy update/2017-w50
- ORG policy update/2018-w02
- ORG policy update/2018-w03
- ORG policy update/2018-w04
- ORG policy update/2018-w05
- ORG policy update/2018-w06
- ORG policy update/2018-w07
- ORG policy update/2018-w08
- ORG policy update/2018-w09
- ORG policy update/2018-w10
- ORG policy update/2018-w11
- ORG policy update/2018-w12
- ORG policy update/2018-w13
- ORG policy update/2018-w14
- ORG policy update/2018-w15
- ORG policy update/2018-w16-17
- ORG policy update/2018-w18
- ORG policy update/2018-w19
- ORG policy update/2018-w20
- ORG policy update/2018-w21
- ORG policy update/2018-w22