[governance] RE: [bestbits] Californian law putting some restrictions on Internet ads

[michael gurstein]

Is that true?  And supposing company X says no, sue me…? Would the teen in BF be able to obtain standing re: this in a US court?

 

M

 

From: Suresh Ramasubramanian [mailto:suresh at hserus.net] 
Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2013 6:30 PM
To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org; michael gurstein; 'parminder'; bestbits at lists.bestbits.net
Subject: RE: [governance] RE: [bestbits] Californian law putting some restrictions on Internet ads

 

If a service claims to be under the jurisdiction of the courts in California, and Californian law orders the service to provide a data scrubbing mechanism to its users.. 

 

I don't see why it matters if a Burkina Faso teen wants to scrub his information, it still does get scrubbed. 

 

 

--srs




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From: michael gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com> 
Date: 10/04/2013 6:54 AM (GMT+05:30) 
To: 'parminder' <parminder at itforchange.net>,governance at lists.igcaucus.org,bestbits at lists.bestbits.net 
Subject: [governance] RE: [bestbits] Californian law putting some restrictions on Internet ads 



I guess a question to ask is what is the overall The "governance"/policy framework which would allow a teenager in Burkina Faso to have content removed about themselves?

 

In some ways that should be the/an objective of our deliberations…

 

M

 

From: bestbits-request at lists.bestbits.net [mailto:bestbits-request at lists.bestbits.net] On Behalf Of parminder
Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 10:08 PM
To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org; &lt,bestbits at lists.bestbits.net&gt,
Subject: [bestbits] Californian law putting some restrictions on Internet ads

 

See

http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB568

It is about putting restrictions on some kinds of ads on Internet services, applications etc that aimed at minors. It also allows minors to remove content about themselves. 

Whatever agreement or disagreement people may have with this particular law, one important issue here is that California can make such law, but not states in other countries, not even national governments. I mean it is so so difficult for them to enforce it, that it may not be worth attempting it. At other places, big companies may simply blackmail them by threats of withdrawal as Google did with governemnt of Taipei a few years back. (which they wont do with Gov of California).... This is how policy space for non US gov entities is shrinking fast, and what it means is that political and democratic space of our world is shrinking... A key global IG issue if there ever was one.

parminder 

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