The UK amends the Online Safety Bill to make senior managers at tech companies criminally liable for failures to protect minors, following demands by Tory MPs
Social media bosses who fail to protect children from harmful content will face jail now the Government has conceded to rebel MPs
Wikimedia says the UK's Online Safety Bill was designed for social media and a proposed change, expected Tuesday, would limit Wikipedia's freedom of expression
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Source: UK's Online Safety Bill is expected to be dropped from parliamentary schedule next week, delaying it until the fall, after Boris Johnson's resignation
LONDON — Progress on Britain's proposed new content regulation law is expected to be delayed until the fall …
How SCOTUS overturning Roe could be used to curb online freedoms and surveil vulnerable populations, as happened to sex workers following FOSTA/SESTA in 2018
FOSTA/SESTA—laws that deplatformed sex workers—helped build the gallows for overturning Roe v. Wade.
Analysis of Stardust period tracking app, the top free app on the US App Store on June 25, shows it shares users' phone numbers with analytics company Mixpanel
This Privacy Policy explains how Stardust App LLC. Tweets: @motherboard : Menstrual tracking app Stardust is one of Apple's top three most-downloaded free apps right now. It's also...
UK's Online Safety Bill would mandate online platforms to give users tools to verify their IDs, block anonymous users, and filter “legal but harmful” content
- The proposals mean online platforms would need to give users a way to verify their identity, and allow them to block any unverified accounts.
Meta faces a $3.1B UK class action suit alleging it abused Facebook's market dominance and set an “unfair price” for 44M UK users' data from 2015 to 2019
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Meta faces a $3.1B UK class action suit alleging it abused Facebook's market dominance and set an “unfair price” for 44M UK users' data from 2015 to 2019
A competition legal expert, backed by a powerful litigation fund, is to mount a multibillion-dollar class action suit …
Many internet privacy proposals circulating today are in direct conflict with those to increase market competition, as they would further entrench big platforms
The consumer internet industry spent two decades building a huge, complex, chaotic pile of tools and systems to track and analyse … Tweets: @matthew_d_green , @cnbctechcheck , @sgt...
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
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
YouTube says it will use AI-powered moderation to automatically age-restrict certain content
AI moderation measures will be used to automatically age-restrict certain content — YouTube is rolling out more artificial intelligence-powered technology to catch more videos …
A look at the state of deepfake pornography, which has become rampant on porn websites, with some videos of popular actresses having millions of views
Non-consensual deepfake videos, that humiliate and demean women, are racking up millions of views on mainstream porn sites. Nothing is being done about them Tweets: @mattburgess1 ...
US and UK sign the first-ever bilateral data access agreement, enabled by the Cloud Act, to speed up court-approved data exchanges for criminal investigations
Police and intelligence agencies are to be given expedited access to electronic communications sent by terrorists …
US and UK sign the first-ever bilateral data access agreement, enabled by the Cloud Act, to speed up court-approved data exchanges for criminal investigations
Police and intelligence agencies are to be given expedited access to electronic communications sent by terrorists …
Security researchers and reporters hesitate to report vulnerabilities fearing defamation lawsuits and other legal action
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