2022-03-20
A warning for what #OnlineSafetyBill promises for the UK. “the Brazilian Supreme Court ... deemed that the app is not in compliance ... when it comes to preventing the sharing of dangerous content.” https://9to5mac.com/...
The Verge
CEO Pavel Durov says Telegram was unresponsive to Brazil's Supreme Court because the court used the wrong email address, apologizes, and asks for a ruling delay
Telegram's founder and CEO Pavel Durov has just put out a statement about why Brazil's Supreme Court is now suspending the app, and the reason is incredible.
2022-02-16
Priti knows what's best for us. Companies must trawl, find, censor legal content in the #OnlineSafetyBill https://www.ft.com/...
Financial Times
Sources: the UK Home Office is seeking changes to the Online Safety Bill to require platforms monitor “legal but harmful” content, worrying the tech industry
Radical powers in online bill would increase liability of global internet groups beyond current global regulation Tweets: @tim , @matthewlesh , @martinsfp , @jimkillock , @webdevla...
2022-02-12
“Dear @Google, Please keep up the law breaking until we are happy about competition issues” instructs the @CMAgovUK https://www.gov.uk/... #adtech #gdpr https://twitter.com/...
The Verge
The UK's CMA accepts Google's plan to phase out and replace third-party cookies with the Privacy Sandbox and will closely monitor the product's development
Jon Porter / The Verge :
2020-12-16
Bland, bureaucratic, dangers to free speech: • Ofcom will be the Internet Speech Regulator. • Speech that poses unspecified risks will be removed • Not mentioned here, but apparently private messages in scope, and message encryption under attack https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Financial Times
UK publishes its online safety legislation plans: tech companies will face fines of up to £18M or 10% of annual revenue if they fail to moderate illegal content
2020-12-15
Bland, bureaucratic, dangers to free speech: • Ofcom will be the Internet Speech Regulator. • Speech that poses unspecified risks will be removed • Not mentioned here, but apparently private messages in scope, and message encryption under attack https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Financial Times
UK publishes its online safety legislation plans: tech companies will face fines of up to £18M or 10% of annual revenue if they fail to moderate illegal content
Long-awaited legislation will set out new duty-of-care requirements for online platforms
2020-04-29
“To ensure user privacy, [Apple/ Google] lifted ideas from ... open-source efforts like MIT's PACT and Europe's #DP3T. Google ... was ... inspired by the work of DP-3T ... [which] “gives the best privacy preserving aspects of the contacts tracing service.” https://www.cnbc.com/...
CNBC
How a handful of employees at Apple quickly pushed forward the development of a contract tracing API and collaboration with Google in less than a month
- Apple and Google announced a partnership to bring contact tracing to smartphones on April 10th. Their software toolkit will be released on Friday.
2020-04-25
The #NHSX mobile tracing app announcement makes many positive claims about user data and privacy. There's nothing in the blog however to explain: • Will it work with Apple / Google protocol; • If contact matching done on device as per above https://www.nhsx.nhs.uk/... #Covid19UK
The Verge
Apple and Google release FAQ for contact tracing APIs, describe changes made to address privacy concerns, and pledge to disable APIs once pandemic is contained
Russell Brandom / The Verge :