Submission by Information Commissioner to @ofcom.bsky.social's #OnlineSafetyAct additional safety measures consultation. 32 pages that should give Ofcom considerable food for thought. ico.org.uk/about-the-ic...

Furthermore, the GDPR is to be reviewed in light of the latest CJEU judgement in the EDPS vs SRB case regarding the concept of pseudonymised data. In addition, the GDPR is supposed to get new provision for handling cookies. Moreover, a new Data Retention Regulation will be drafted.

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That doesn't really explain how this would translate into a delay in publishing the Register though, unless they only want to do that once they're sure that the Code of Practice they subsequently propose *will* be human rights compliant.

Any idea what the "complex human rights issues" are?
Total speculation: Peter Kyle was planning on fixing the underlying issue for Ofcom, but got the axe, and now it's fallen back to Ofcom to stall for time and/or provide some kind of figleaf.

@shashankmohan.bsky.social is a common appearance at EU DSA events, esp. those hosted by DTSP, and is super sharp. Not surprising to hear of good work coming from him and his entourage.

Eur-lex says October 29th, presumably since DARA (the Delegated Act on Researcher Access) says it comes into effect 20 days after it's published in the EU's Official Journal.

Yesterday, I testified before a New Zealand Parliament committee doing an inquiry into children's harms online.

My testimony criticizes efforts to impose age authentication mandates online

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

ICYMI, highly recommend this human rights impact assessment of @wikimediafoundation.org AI/ML work by @royapak.bsky.social (w/ @farzdusa.bsky.social and david liu)

Some good news.

London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces.

The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

Resilience of democracy: “If you want to prevent a worst-case scenario, you have to know what it is” Max Steinbeis, the founder of the Verfassungsblog – On Matters Constitutional project, explains why even robust democratic institutions are vulnerable to authoritarian strategies, what Germany can lea...

For all the talk of a Reform government, there seems to be no UK planning to prevent and resist one.

Not so in Germany. This lawyer interviewed by the Robert Bosch Stiftung is systematically identifying legal and governmental levers the AfD could pull, to harden them and all society in advance.

Carr's views as of October 2024:

FCC Chair Carr’s post from 12/30/23: Free speech is the counterweight—it is the check on government control. That is why censorship is the authoritarian’s dream.

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One might call it a "Streisand order"

What would be the quantum of damages?
I propose a new remedy: if the police has made an arrest for a malicious communications offence, but doesn't proceed to prosecution, the police should be forced to broadcast the message in question itself, to a mass audience.
Think twice next time...

This is an exceptionally good piece starting with the grifters pushing ‘age verification’ and continuing through to the ongoing collision between the Online Safety Act and reality. Highly recommended.

Every time an academic paper equates online platform with algorithmically curated social media, somewhere a fairy dies. #DutyOfCare #Risk-CreatingFunctionality

We must get online safety right! Lord Clement Jones and I have written a letter to the Secretary of State regarding our concerns about the implementation of the Online Safety Act, calling for a cross-party committee from both Houses of Parliament to ensure effective implementation.

Deutscher Richterbund kritisiert Anti-SLAPP-Gesetz Ein Anti-SLAPP-Gesetz soll vor Einschüchterungsklagen schützen. Der Deutsche Richterbund befürchtet verherrende Auswirkungen.

Ein Anti-SLAPP-Gesetz soll vor Einschüchterungsklagen schützen. Der Deutsche @richterbund.bsky.social befürchtet "verheerende Auswirkungen" und will die Streichung zentraler Rechtsfolgen. Sein Vorschlag geht aber auch über den Entwurf hinaus. Von @fewizi.bsky.social

We Support Wikimedia Foundation’s Challenge to UK’s Online Safety Act The Electronic Frontier Foundation and ARTICLE 19 strongly support the Wikimedia Foundation’s legal challenge to the categorization regulations of the United Kingdom’s Online Safety Act.The Foundation...

EFF and @article19.bsky.social support @wikimediafoundation.org’s challenge to the UK’s Online Safety Act. Wikipedia is the world’s most trusted and widely used encyclopedia, and the OSA must not be allowed to diminish it and jeopardize the volunteers on which it depends.