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#OnlineSafetyBill bingo

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
neilAuthor neil Posted on 19 April 2022 Category Tech Tags online safety bill censorship end to end encryption Internet regulation

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
neilAuthor neil Posted on 28 March 2022 Category Tech Tags safetytech public safety online safety online safety bill data protection law

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
neilAuthor neil Posted on 25 February 2022 Category Legal Tags online safety bill anonymity content filtering blocking lawful but harmful

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
neilAuthor neil Posted on 21 January 2022 Category Tech Tags encryption end to end encryption Internet regulation online safety bill

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
neilAuthor neil Posted on 15 December 2021 Category Tech Tags servers raspberry pi jitsi minecraft email xmpp matrix online safety bill

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
neilAuthor neil Posted on 1 December 2021 Category Legal Tags sex sexwork Internet online platforms online safety bill Internet governance porn

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
neilAuthor neil Posted on 19 November 2021 Category Tech Tags age assurance age verification online safety bill surveillance child protection children

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
neilAuthor neil Posted on 17 November 2021 Category Tech Tags online safety bill fundamental rights privacy freedom of expression

"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
neilAuthor neil Posted on 14 November 2021 Category Tech Tags online safety bill surveillance Internet Internet regulation anonymity pseudonyms

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
neilAuthor neil Posted on 5 November 2021 Category Networking Tags online safety online safety bill podcasts legal

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