Today sees the second reading of the UK's Online Safety Bill, before the House of Commons. Here's my bingo card: Neil's Online Safety Bill bingo lawful but awful wild west big tech flick of a switch Read more
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An independent assessment of the UK's Safety Tech Challenge Fund without assessing legal or data protection compliance
Regular readers may recall the UK government's "Safety Tech Challenge Fund". Background to the Safety Tech Challenge Fund (You can ignore this bit if you are familiar with the Safety Tech Challenge Read more
New plans to protect people from anonymous trolls online: new UK government proposals
(This started life as a Twitter thread but, since I delete my tweets automatically after a few days, here's a more permanent version of my thoughts.) Continuing its obsession with online anonymity, Read more
End to end encryption, and services which let you meet and message people you do not already "know"
In the context of a prohibitions or limits on the deployment of end to end encryption, I've heard the argument that one should distinguish between: services which enable contact between "known" Read more
Home server, or homework? Minecraft or mine field? The draft Online Safety Bill would restrict net neutrality to the well-lawyered
A regular refrain of Internet governance is something akin to: If you regulate online services as if they are all Facebook, all you will end up with is Facebook. The message is a simple one. If you Read more
Sex/sex work and Internet and online platform regulation / governance and the law
Someone asked me today for recommendations of people to follow on Twitter if you're interested in sex/sex work and Internet and online platform regulation / governance and the law. Here's the list I Read more
Three problems with the Age Assurance (Minimum Standards) Bill for keeping children safe online
There's plenty of discussion on Twitter about the Age Assurance (Minimum Standards) Bill currently going through Parliament. I want to keep children safe online, and so here are three problems with Read more
Online safety, doing good, and inconvenient "fundamental rights"
One of the joys of being an Internet lawyer is the opportunity of getting involved in the shaping of legislation which impacts the every day lives of all number of people. This is not a new Read more
"What if you could only speak online if you had a car number plate": quick comments on yet another weird Internet surveillance proposal
Alec Muffett spotted the latest in a long line of proposals for the regulation of the web which can most charitably be described as "weird and confused". Today's contender is here (Google Drive Read more
Might an indie podcast be classified as “user-to-user” content and so subject to the hate speech provisions in the draft Online Safety Bill??
Rachel Coldicutt, who has lots of interesting thoughts about regulation of the Internet, tweeted: A hypothetical scenario: might an indie podcast be classified as “user-to-user” content and so Read more