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On 25 September 2000, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation considered a complaint that had been lodged regarding the Decree regulating the implementation on the so-called Operational-Investigative Activity on telephone, mobile, wireless connection and personal radio communication network (SORM), issued by the Ministry for Communication and Informatization (see IRIS 2000-8: 11). The complainant Pavel Neptunskiy asserts that under the Decree, neither service providers nor supervising bodies can check who is subject to eavesdropping and what is the volume of security services' activity in...

For the first time to our knowledge, the Courts have pronounced on the legal status of e-mail correspondence. The dispute was between a research student in a laboratory, and the director and two IT network administrators at the laboratory, charged with having violated the privacy of correspondence by reading the student's e-mail correspondence without his knowledge. The defendants claimed that e-mail messages could not have the benefit of the rules of confidentiality enjoyed by postal correspondence since these messages, which were unencrypted, were entrusted to intermediary servers which carried...

The UN Civil Administrator, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG), for Kosovo has issued Regulation No. 2000/36 on the Licensing and the Regulation of the Broadcast Media in Kosovo, which came into effect on 17 June 2000. By this regulation, the SRSG appointed a Temporary Media Commissioner (TMC), who is responsible for the implementation of a temporary regulatory regime for all media in Kosovo, pending the creation of a licensing and regulatory authority in Kosovo. A Code of Conduct for the Broadcast Media has been issued by the TMC on 8 September 2000, according to Section...

In a decision highly critical of the Federal Communications Commission ("FCC"), the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia directed the FCC to immediately repeal its personal attack and political editorial rules. Generally, the personal attack rule provides that when an attack is made on a person's integrity during a program on a controversial issue of public importance, the broadcast licensee must inform the subject of the attack and provide an opportunity to respond on the air. Similarly, the political editorial rule provides that if a broadcast licensee airs an editorial...

625 is a producer of a television show called Spookhuis (Haunted House) which is broadcast by Holland Media Group (HMG). With the help of a hidden camera the programme sheds some light on the way repairs in and around the house are carried out by professional repairmen. Through the programme HMG and 625 intend to expose fraud committed by the workmen. For Spookhuis 625 filmed the repair activities of both Luiten (electrical equipment repairman) and Schinkel (central heating serviceman). The film and the comments added afterwards suggested that Luiten and Schinkel did not carry out their work properly...