Earlier this week, in a written statement to the House of Commons, the UK’s Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, the Rt Hon Nicky Morgan MP, announced the end of the UK’s controversial age-verification plans for online porn Read the rest of this entry »
The demise of the UK’s current age-verification plans for online porn and what that might mean for Ireland – Eoin O’Dell
19 10 2019Comments : Leave a Comment »
Tags: Age Verification, Cearta.ie, Eoin O'Dell, Online Porn
Categories : Government and Policy, Internet, Ireland
The Right To Be Forgotten back in the CJEU: Court Judgments on the territorial scope of de-referencing; and sensitive personal data – Ian Helme
27 09 2019
Following on from the Advocate General Opinions published on 10 January (which I wrote about here), yesterday the Court of Justice released its decisions in two cases concerning internet search engines and the right to be forgotten. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: GDPR, Google, Ian Helme, Right to be Forgotten, Right to Erasure
Categories : Caselaw, Data Protection, EU, Internet
Users (and their bias) are key to fighting fake news on Facebook: AI isn’t smart enough yet – Gianluca Demartini
24 09 2019
The information we encounter online everyday can be misleading, incomplete or fabricated. Being exposed to “fake news” on social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter can influence our thoughts and decisions. We’ve already seen misinformation interfere with elections in the United States. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Fake News, Gianluca Demartini, The Conversation
Categories : Internet, Journalism, Social Media
Filtering Facebook: Why Internet Users and EU Policymakers Should Worry about the Advocate General’s Opinion in Glawischnig-Piesczek – Daphne Keller
8 09 2019
Summer is winding down, and policymakers in Brussels are returning to an ambitious task: drafting new regulation for the Internet. Meanwhile, in Luxembourg, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) is deciding cases that will affect both Internet platforms’ operations and lawmakers’ choices in devising new laws. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: CIS Blog, Daphne Keller, Facebook
Categories : Internet, Social Media
The internet is rotting: let’s embrace it – Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
26 07 2019
I have just taken an entire website and gigabytes of data offline. It covered a highly successful series of conferences on the data economy. It brought together thought leaders and key decision-makers from around the world for annual retreats – over a decade ago. And now it is gone. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: The Conversation, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
Categories : Internet
Online Harms White Paper – Some Consultation Responses [Updated3]
20 07 2019
The consultation period for the Government’s “Online Harms White Paper” closed on 1 July 2019. The consultation website tells us that the Government is “analysing your feedback”. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Consultation Responses, Online Harms White Paper
Categories : Internet, Social Media
Four ways blockchain could make the internet safer, fairer and more creative – Hitesh Tewari
18 07 2019
The internet is unique in that it has no central control, administration or authority. It has given everyone with access to it a platform to express their views and exchange ideas with others instantaneously. But in recent years, internet services such as search engines and social media platforms have increasingly been provided by a small number of very large tech firms. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Blockchain, The Conversation
Categories : Internet
Our “data self” explained. A brief journey into Surveillance Capitalism – Nataly Tedone
17 07 2019
If we had the choice to be paid to discuss and share our likes, dislikes, food choices, political views, health issues, desires, fears and anything that makes us unique, would we? Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Nataly Tedone
Categories : Internet, Social Media
How much is your data worth to tech companies? US Lawmakers want to tell you, but it’s not that easy to calculate – Samuel Lengen
16 07 2019
New proposed legislation by U.S. senators Mark R. Warner and Josh Hawley seeks to protect privacy by forcing tech companies to disclose the “true value” of their data to users. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Samuel Lengen, The Conversation
Categories : Data Protection, Internet, Social Media, United States
Does UK tech policy show a lack of coordination? – Damian Tambini
13 07 2019
It has been an extraordinarily busy year in UK tech policy. The Furman Review reported on digital competition, recommending changes to competition law and a new regulator to deal with data dominance, competition and consumer welfare. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Damian Tambini, LSE. Media Policy Project, Online Harms White Paper
Categories : Internet, Social Media
