The Federal Court has found Google misled some users about personal location data collected through Android devices for two years, from January 2017 to December 2018. Continue reading
The International Forum for Responsible Media Blog
Category: Internet (Page 5 of 21)
Never before in human history, have those in charge of carrying public information to billions of people across the planet, been left unregulated. The closest example of large scale information carriers are telephone companies and TV news stations, both of which operate under licences, which prohibit discrimination or selection of their users. Certainly not a selection, which is based on race or on political affiliation. Continue reading
The row over Section 59 of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill is reminiscent of a backwater pond that has lain undisturbed for years. Then someone decides to poke a stick in it and all manner of noxious fumes are released. Continue reading
The concept of “surveillance capitalism” – coined by academic Shoshana Zuboff in 2014 – has been the subject of a number of Inforrm posts. For example, “Explainer: what is surveillance capitalism and how does it shape our economy?” – Donell Holloway and “Our “data self” explained. A brief journey into Surveillance Capitalism” – Nataly Tedone. Continue reading
Hate is a scourge of the Internet, inflicting harm on people who are targeted and – when left unchallenged – raising fundamental questions about social justice and equality. Continue reading
I am a huge fan of transparency about platform content moderation. I’ve considered it a top policy priority for years, and written about it in detail (with Paddy Leerssen, who also wrote this great piece about recommendation algorithms and transparency). I sincerely believe that without it, we are unlikely to correctly diagnose current problems or arrive at wise legal solutions. Continue reading
The UK Government’s ambitious plans to ‘make the UK the safest place in the world to go online, and the best place to grow and start a digital business’ have been a long time in the making. Continue reading
To others, this is a problem. I’ve heard it said that children should not be on the internet. That parents should keep children away from everyone else online. Or, while acknowledging that children are one in three of the world’s internet users, that governing the internet in their best interests is too difficult, expensive and impractical. Continue reading
The UK having now cut its direct ties with EU law, what does its future hold for the intermediary liability protections in Articles 12 to 15 of the Electronic Commerce Directive? Continue reading
In her recent keynote at the European Parliament’s Panel for the Future of Science and Technology, Harvard Business School Professor Emerita Shoshana Zuboff shared her insight from years of research on the profit-driven business models of online platforms that capitalise on behavioural data. Continue reading
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