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Schulz, W. (2017): Comments on the Draft for an Act improving Law Enforcement on Social Networks (NetzDG) (pdf).
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz
2017
How young people use the "Web 2.0" and how it affects, e.g., their privacy or their attitude towards data protection was examined by the Hans-Bredow-Institut in cooperation with the University of Salzburg.
In this HBI brief opinion, some aspects in the draft of the new Digital Services Act are commented on regarding DSA implementation and legal issues related to Germany's federal media law system. For several years now, the European Union has been issuing numerous regulations to implement t...
Several HBI experts from the fields of media law, protection of minors from harmful media, platform regulation and internet research have given their opinion on a key issue paper of the Federal Ministry of Justice (BMJ) on a law concerning digital violence. In this paper, they assess the three measu...
Wolfgang Schulz and Stephan Dreyer are very critical of the draft discussion paper for a new Interstate Treaty on the Protection of Minors in the Media. The concept of a "youth protection device" at the operating system level presented in the draft, a kind of child protection mode that can...
In an article on the Verfassungsblog [Constitutional Blog], PD Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann and his co-authors clarify misunderstandings in connection with the "Glawischnig ruling" of the Austrian Supreme Court. The legal dispute had attracted attention last year. Former Green politician Eva...
In their article on the Verfassungsblog, Amélie Heldt, PD Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann and Paddy Leerssen write about the difficulties of gaining access to platform data as researchers. Über die Schwierigkeiten, als Forscher*in Zugang zu Plattformdaten zu bekommen, schreiben gemeinsam mit...
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