Questions tagged [internet]
For questions about the internet. Please ensure a tag for the jurisdiction is also included. This tag should not be used when the question does not crucially hinge on internet usage or involvement.
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Can I create a "business website" without registering a business or DBA?
Let's say I want to create a website where customers can order custom chairs. I've got a brand, a name, a logo, etc. Do I have to register the business first before publishing the website?
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US: Can a website with a contact form but no privacy policy get sued
I've seen business websites where the founders are literally lawyers, and their websites do not have a privacy policy. Their websites do have a contact form where users enter their email, message, ...
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Is IP routing subject to data transfer laws?
Some regions and territories have data sovereignty and localisation laws that prevent, for example, personal data from being transferred outside of that jurisdiction. Do such laws, if they even ...
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Who is breaking the law if a child engages in the gig economy?
There is a news story about children working for delivery apps that describes the practice as "illegal". The exact details are not clear, to me at least, so suppose the following ...
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EU law - Ignoring revocation of access rights after completing the task [closed]
I would like to ask you very nicely for advice related to IT security and law. As a freelancer, if I provide a one-off service of programming to modify an information system, I will always ask the ...
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How to get user data from Foursquare/Swarm under GDPR?
Is there a way to download all my contributed check-in and reviews data from Foursquare/Swarm?
The foursquare.com doesn't seem to have a way to log in with the old foursquare/swarm credentials.
Isn't ...
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Does GDPR require consent to collect non-personal information?
If a website never assigns a user a unique identifier, does the website need to get explicit consent from the user before collecting non-personal information?
Examples of non-personal information that ...
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What decentralized services does the Online Safety Bill impose duties upon?
On Tuesday 19 September the Online Safety Bill passed its final Parliamentary debate and is now ready to become law. This is expected to happen imminently.
From wikipedia this law applies to:
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Does an official US Government website (e.g. house.gov) prominently posting information known to be false for several weeks violate any US laws?
At about 00:55 in CNN's McCarthy still listed as speaker on House website. Correspondent has theory why in response to the US Government website house.gov still listing Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of ...
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What rules determine jurisdiction on the internet?
It is in the news that Clearview AI has won an appeal against the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). The reasons for judgment are here: Clearview AI Inc v The Information Commissioner [2023] ...
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Is ad blocking assistive technology?
Say I run a website. I put ads on my website to make money. I program the web site to refuse service to people who do not actually display the ads, since they make me no money.
Then I have a user come ...
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Is a website of embedded youtube videos (including screenshots and written descriptions) copyright infringement? [duplicate]
I'm thinking to create a website to curate a list of top youtube recipe videos...
I would embed the youtube video itself (properly according to youtube's own guidelines).
I would list out the ...
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Can I set a fee for using my web site, and later collect it?
If I set terms of service for my web site, visitors to my web site agree to them when they use my web site (beyond, presumably, the usage technically required to obtain the text of the terms).
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Is it legal for a 19 year old or a 20-21 year old to view internet porn?
I'm curious to know is it legal for a 19 year old or a 20-21 year old to view internet porn, is it legal or otherwise?
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Is scraping an iCal link legal?
TL;DR: my university says my app is illegal
Since our university doesn't have a mobile app to check our schedules, I created one that does the following:
Opens an embedded web browser (in app) and ...
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Legal Implications of Building a Webshop for Renting Accounts
I'm considering developing a webshop platform where users can rent credentials to various website account like Udemy from each other, and I want to include a user rating system to build trust within ...
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Is webscraping legal if the website clearly doesn't want to be scraped (for example having a captcha or cloudflare)?
If a website has cloudflare protection or some sort of anti-robot protection, then it's pretty obvious that the website does not want to be scraped. However, the thing with programming is that there ...
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Does Google routinely form contracts by accessing web sites with their crawler?
Many web sites contain terms of service, where the web site puts a link to "Terms" or similar, and anyone who accesses the web site forms a contract with the web site operator under those ...
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What are the legalities of web scraping in Pakistan?
I couldn't really find much useful info about it online. One thing that seems to be somewhat useful is this reddit post but it doesn't contain any sources.
Is web scraping legal in Pakistan? If yes, ...
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Are Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo and other search engines allowed to copy website text because of the copyright fair use exception? [duplicate]
These sites certainly send bots out that copy the entirety of websites by stepping through links and then store the entirety of websites in databases.
Then they show any part of a quote from a website ...
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Are the fees incurred by phone owners to receive verification-codes sent as sms messages legal?
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Are the fees incurred by phone owners to receive verification-codes sent as sms messages legal ?
When registering to make new email-accounts( etc ) those companies often send you a ...
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How to best approach dealing with a cybercriminal in a distant country harassing an entire internet community? [closed]
For years now, one person has been persistently doing everything they could to make the lives of several administrators/moderators miserable and as a consequence directly and indirectly prevented the ...
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Are foreign sellers exempt from consumer protection laws?
German law offers certain protections for online buyers, essentially the right to return the goods for a refund within 14 days and a certain warranty within 2 years of purchase.
I was under the ...
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Took a picture of a bus stop showing a poster of a well known soccer player
Is it OK to post a picture I took of a bus stop I saw displaying a poster of a well known soccer player? Since then, I've seen it in many bus stops throughout the city.
Want to post it on my website. ...
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Is it legal to change user agent?
Assume (hypothetically), I'm using jsoup to download certain news website in my public android app. When I don't change user-agent in jsoup it redirects me to another website.
Is it legal to change ...
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Is it illegal for websites to host children fighting with the purpose of humiliation
A video recently came to my attention that involved two children ages approximately 5,and 6, or so and the video consisted of the boy and girl wrestling - but not in a fair competition, but to ...
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is uncensorship in japanese porn illegal
According to some laws in japan censorship is a must for adult films but why does uncensored porn in JAPANESE ADULT VIDEOS ,PORNHUB,ETC exist is that legal? of not what charges they could be facing?
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Is there a law that regulates charging an online account to which the owner has no access?
Is it legal for an online service to charge an account holder credit card for services that are contingent on the account holder being able to manage their account if the account holder's access has ...
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Is it legal for a business to deny me access to their store on the basis of how I look? [closed]
Is it legal for a business to use discriminatory (and notoriously false-positive) fingerprinting algorithms that prevent me from loading their website purely on the basis of how I look (as opposed to ...
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Can Meta create a Twitter clone?
Meta is about to release an app called Threads that has been labeled by news sources as a Twitter rival or Twitter clone.
I don't know how similar Threads actually is to Twitter, but hypothetically if ...
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How are "deep fakes" defined in the Online Safety Bill?
It is in the news that sharing deepfake intimate images to be criminalised in England and Wales in the Online Safety Bill:
Sharing deepfake intimate images is to be criminalised in England and Wales. ...
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Hotlinking online radio streams
I want to create an online radio directory, with the ability to play the radio stations on my website. For sure, I will only add the radio stations which are broadcasting online and are offering an ...
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Legal liability of websites for text produced by chat bots such as ChatGPT
To what extent is a website hosted in the US legally liable for the output of an AI chat bot?
For example, if ChatGPT produced the phrase:
kill yourself
and OpenAI distributed this phrase to me over ...
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Legal consequences of an accidental Google search
I am someone who frequents several imageboards. As often happens, because there's complete anonymity, people often say the most insane, outrageous and vile stuff imaginable. Against my better ...
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Is Scamming Extortion in New York?
Welcome to the Internet, where people are the worst and want money for nothing:
Alice is a normal citizen of New York with an e-mail address. She receives an E-mail from Bob, a New York State Citizen, ...
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Are online file converters legal?
Online file converter: Web-based tool or service that allows you to convert files from one format to another through the internet. Users upload a file in a specific format, it is converted on the site'...
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Is it legal to create a website that freely provides the contents of books which are another company's IP? [closed]
This question is rather specific. I am a fan of the tabletop roleplaying game 'Call of Cthulhu' by Chaosium Inc., but find since it isn't hugely popular that there aren't enough easily accessible ...
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Comcast Xfinity CCPA Policy
I have an old login with Comcast under a relative’s primary (billed) account that I'd like to have deleted under CCPA. The relative lives in Florida, but I am a California resident. I'm attempting to ...
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My account was broken into and virtual items were stolen, customer support refuses to help [closed]
I have all the proof showing that my account was broken into , but they still refuse to give me my items back after opening multiple tickets. I only get the same copy and paste messages from their ...
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Websites routinely fail to distribute licenses for included software packages, should I? [closed]
I'm building a website using Next.js, using tons of npm packages in the process. I'm verifying that none of these packages use GPL or other licenses that would require me to publish my own source code....
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US: Do I need to include my true, legal name on the website's TOS named after DBA?
I know that on contracts, it's best to sign as Legal Name of Owner, DBA Company Name, but does that need to show up in any of the company's website's Privacy Policy, Disclaimer, or TOS? For reference, ...
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Is it legal to paraphrase a paid Wall Street Journal article in its entirety and publish the paraphrased article for free? [duplicate]
I know that in many countries republishing any web article from another website without consent is considered a form of plagery and copyright enfringement and is therefore illegal.
But I am looking to ...
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Ensuring Worldwide Legal Compliance for an App
When selling an app, developers need to meet the legal requirements of each country in which they sell the app.
In practice, this seems like an impossible task because there are so many different ...
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What counts as word mark (or trade mark) violation? [closed]
I'm trying to create my own website, and on the landing page, I'm planning to have the words:
Your Content Matters.
Whether it be blog posts, how-tos, buying guides, or more, I’m always here to make ...
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If a crime happens between two parties in different countries over the internet, what laws apply? [duplicate]
Lets say, for the sake of example, it's a severe crime (punishable by jail time) in the United States to say that someone stinks.
Person A is from Brazil where no such law exists
Person B is from the ...
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Is it illegal to download data from a misconfigured server that is open to the public?
Bob has a website that he hosts online and is open to the public. A portion of the site has "members only" data. However, Bob implemented his security protection of this sensitive data ...
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How can I prove that I designed the site? [duplicate]
I have designed a website for a client,
But there is no contract between us.
The client does not pay my salary,
But our text and voice messages are available.
How can I prove that I designed the site ...
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Is it legal for one email-service-provider to send emails using the exact identical email-address of another email-service-provider? [closed]
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Is it legal for one email-service-provider to send emails using the exact identical email-address of another email-service-provider ?
This happened to me in the last 3 days, the two ...
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How would one comply with a court order to unpublish unlimitable information?
(If this has been asked, please deduplicate; I searched but couldn't find anything similar. Thanks!)
This is wholly hypothetical, I hope. Let's have two people, "Alice" and "Bob". ...
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What is the legality of distributing free software that displays another website page after automated reformatting and editing
I recently noticed that local news sites are terrible in that they transfer ludicrous amounts of data, never stop transferring data, and load an obnoxious number of ads and pop ups. As a result they ...
