Stories about Italy

Why is WikiLeaks Hosting Malicious Files?

  20 August 2015

"We did not want to publish links to these emails if they included malicious attachments. This would be bad journalistic practice and it could put our readers at risk."

Digital Citizen 3.4

  30 July 2015

Digital Citizen is a biweekly review of news, policy, and research on human rights and technology in the Arab World.

Italy: NO to Restrictions on Online Free Speech

  30 July 2010

While the recent WikiLeaks experience [EN] reveals aspirations to build “information freedom zones” with some help from Iceland [EN], the Italian government seems to be heading in the opposite direction. A Media and Wiretapping Bill [EN] that was under consideration by the Italian parliament for two years (harshly criticized by...

Italy: liability risk for bloggers?

  27 July 2010

One of the provisions of the Media and Wiretapping Bill currently being discussed by the Italian Parliament is that all “those responsible for information websites” will be required to issue corrections within 48 hours to any complaint regarding website content, whether blogs, opinion, comment and/or information in general. Corrections would...