As more and more U.S. schools and businesses shutter their doors, the rapidly evolving coronavirus pandemic is helping to expose society’s dependence – good and bad – on the digital world. Read the rest of this entry »
Society’s dependence on the internet: 5 cyber issues the coronavirus lays bare – Laura DeNardis and Jennifer Daskal
29 03 2020Comments : 1 Comment »
Tags: Coronavirus, Jennifer Daskal, Laura DeNardis, The Conversation
Categories : Data Protection, Internet, Legal
Google wants to move UK users’ data to the US: what does that mean for your rights? – Henry Pearce
6 03 2020
It was recently reported that Google was planning to move the personal data of its UK users out of the EU and into the US. Several outlets reporting on this story have suggested that this would mean that, as Britain has left the EU, the data would no longer be covered by the EU’s world-leading data protection law, the GDPR. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Google, Henry Pearce, The Conversation
Categories : Data Protection, Internet
Free speech in the UK: it’s the business of parliament, not Ofcom, to judge what is OK to publish – Jeffrey Howard
3 03 2020
The UK government recently announced a new plan to regulate social media companies such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. The proposals give the government’s media regulator, Ofcom, extensive powers to tell tech giants what speech they must suppress – and to punish them if they don’t. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Jeffrey Howard, Online Harms, The Conversation
Categories : Freedom of expression, Internet
Online harms: the good, the bad and the unclear – David Barker
22 02 2020
When the government published its online harms white paper (OHWP) last spring we explained our view that the ideas in the white paper should represent the start of a journey towards greater regulation, rather than the final destination of that journey.Comments : Leave a Comment »
Tags: David Barker, Online Harms White Paper, Out-Law.com
Categories : Internet, Media Regulation, Social Media
Online Harms Deconstructed: the Initial Consultation Response – Graham Smith
20 02 2020
The abiding impression left by the government’s Initial Response to the Online Harms White Paper Consultation is that it is half-finished. Non-conclusions and conclusions sit side by side. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Cyberleagle, Graham Smith, Online Harms White Paper
Categories : Internet, Social Media
The European Data Protection Board’s Draft Guidelines for Search Engines and the Future of the ‘Right to be Forgotten’ Online, Part 2 – David Erdos
13 02 2020
This is the second part of a post dealing with the European Data Protection Board (EDPB)’s draft guidelines on the right to be forgotten. Part (1) dealt with the scope of the guidance and of ex post rights vis-à-vis search engines. This post will deal with (2) the substantive grounds for exercising these ex post rights, and (3) the substantive exemptions from these ex post rights. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: David Erdos, European Data Protection Board, Google, Right to be Forgotten
Categories : Data Protection, Internet, Privacy
The European Data Protection Board’s Draft Guidelines for Search Engines and the Future of the ‘Right to be Forgotten’ Online, Part 1 – David Erdos
12 02 2020
Securing workable, balanced and effective individual rights regarding personal data disseminated online is vital to the future of data protection and should be a significant focus of attention for the European Data Protection Board going forward. Read the rest of this entry »
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Categories : Data Protection, Internet, Privacy
Northern Ireland: Overview of internet intermediary and media law cases in 2019, Part 1 – Ciaran O’Shiel and Charlotte Turk
5 02 2020
It was a relatively quiet year, with only three published judgments from the Northern Ireland courts (the same as in 2018). There was one Court of Appeal case, involving reporting restriction orders, with the Crown Court and High Court delivering judgments dealing with a source disclosure order and ‘revenge porn’ images. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: A L Goodbody, Charlotte Turk, Ciaran O'Shiel
Categories : Internet, Northern Ireland, Social Media
New year, new internet? Why it’s time to rethink anonymity on social media – David Babbs
31 01 2020
January 2020 sees two significant steps towards the UK improving regulation of social media companies. The government confirmed in the December Queen’s Speech that it would legislate to tackle “online harms”, and is now expected to provide some more details of how it will take this forward. Meanwhile, in the House of Lords, an Online Harm Reduction Bill was tabled on 14 January. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Anonymity, Clean Up the Internet, David Babbs
Categories : Harassment, Internet, Privacy
The Irish Government’s proposed Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill has a surprising omission – Eoin O’Dell
15 01 2020
Last October and November, I sketched the evolution of the government’s proposals for a digital safety commissioner. Following a consultation process last Spring, and missing the deadline of the end of the year by a few weeks, they have published their proposals for the general scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Cearta.ie, Eoin O'Dell, Online Harms
Categories : Internet, Ireland, Media Regulation
