#onlinesafetybill — Public Fediverse posts
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NO TO ID VERIFICATION
Everyone, protest against ID verification and digital ID laws.
I also drew Mikleo as he wouldn't be happy with it
#onlinesafetybill #idverification #censorship #fanart #Mikleo #talesofzestiria #talesofseries #masssurveillance #anime #videogames #dystopia
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Has Britain Gone Too Far With Its Digital Controls? | The New York Times
Yes. And the Tony Blair institute is a lot of the problem.
“There’s a big philosophical debate going on here,” said Ryan Wain, the executive director of the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, a London group started by the former prime minister that supports the government’s policies. “There’s a big question about what is freedom and what is safety.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/technology/britain-facial-recognition-digital-controls.html and https://archive.ph/55wVW
#ageVerification #censorship #digitalId #idCards #ofcom #onlineSafety #onlineSafetyBill #surveillance #tonyBlairInstitute
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The #OpenRightsGroup have launched a petition to protect small sites in the #UK from the #OnlineSafety legislation.
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/save-our-sites-write-your-mp
I am wondering what people think.
These laws were a cross-national coordinated effort: UK, USA, EU had them happening at the same time. As I understand it, EU and USA both had groups like @Chatgeheimnis work hard and it did not pass. UK was silent?
What is the state of the issue? What are admins thinking?
#OnlineSafetyBill #fediverse #law#moderation
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Wondering how server owners will cope with age verification requirements here in the UK. The algorithm requirements don't apply as Mastodon doesn't have an algorithm anyway.
#AgeVerfication
#UKGov
#SocialMedia
#Ofcom
#UKLaw
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UK law changes pose a threat to NHS communication, doctors warn
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/other/uk-law-changes-pose-a-threat-to-nhs-communication-doctors-warn/ar-BB1hoj2t?cvid=e05d88b75d164b3e8d767abb6cff1d7f&ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&ei=7#UK
#UKLaw
#MessagingApps
#NHS
#WhatsApp
#OnlineSafetyBill
#PatientData
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STUFF TO READ: How to sum up 1700 pages in four words | @webdevlaw on the purposefully intimidating Ofcom “Online Safety” consultation, and where we’ve seen similar before
Sounds familiar:
And let’s be clear: it took months for the EC to even consider that they’d made a mistake. Before they did that, they threw in a lot of attacks against the campaigners, the advocates, and anyone who had a problem with a law meant to “rein in the tech giants” but which slapped them in the face instead.
https://webdevlaw.uk/2023/11/11/how-to-sum-up-1700-pages-in-four-words/
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Meta's algorithm labelling people as terrorists highlights how even seemingly straightforward automated systems can make mistakes, that invariably exacerbate racism and discrimination.
This is going to be an even bigger problem when the Online Safety Bill is implemented and tech companies are obliged to identify illegal content and prevent it from being posted.
Over-moderation will seriously harm freedom of expression.
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Meta's algorithm labelling people as terrorists highlights how even seemingly straightforward automated systems can make mistakes, that invariably exacerbate racism and discrimination.
This is going to be an even bigger problem when the Online Safety Bill is implemented and tech companies are obliged to identify illegal content and prevent it from being posted.
Over-moderation will seriously harm freedom of expression.
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Meta's algorithm labelling people as terrorists highlights how even seemingly straightforward automated systems can make mistakes, that invariably exacerbate racism and discrimination.
This is going to be an even bigger problem when the Online Safety Bill is implemented and tech companies are obliged to identify illegal content and prevent it from being posted.
Over-moderation will seriously harm freedom of expression.
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Meta's algorithm labelling people as terrorists highlights how even seemingly straightforward automated systems can make mistakes, that invariably exacerbate racism and discrimination.
This is going to be an even bigger problem when the Online Safety Bill is implemented and tech companies are obliged to identify illegal content and prevent it from being posted.
Over-moderation will seriously harm freedom of expression.
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Meta's algorithm labelling people as terrorists highlights how even seemingly straightforward automated systems can make mistakes, that invariably exacerbate racism and discrimination.
This is going to be an even bigger problem when the Online Safety Bill is implemented and tech companies are obliged to identify illegal content and prevent it from being posted.
Over-moderation will seriously harm freedom of expression.
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@mimikama Niemand sollte #Zuckerberg oder #Musk vertrauen, aber es sollte auch nicht die Gefährlichkeit der Kommission #vonderLeyen unterschätzt werden 🤷♂️
#DigitaleDiensteGesetz #Chatkontrolle
#Chatcontrol #DigitalServiceAct
#OnlineSafetyBill
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Campaigners warned of unintended consequences of the maintream press' loophole in the #OnlineSafetyBill - and they're already biting. Russell Brand's 'Rumble' acting as a certified news source? So much for tackling fake news.
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🚨 COVERING THORN LOBBYING GOV TO MANDATE CLIENTSIDE SCANNING LEGISLATION (encryption compromise)
#encryption #crypto #e2ee #Signal #WhatsApp #ChatControl #KOSA #EARNITACT #OnlineSafetyBill #UK #EU #USA #clientsidescanning #HumanRights #privacy #infosec #cybersecurity #Journalism #ethics
Watch On #Peertube Mirror
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🚨 NGO LOBBYING GOV CLIENTSIDE SCANNING AGAINST ENCRYPTION
#encryption #crypto #e2ee #Signal #WhatsApp #ChatControl #KOSA #EARNITACT #OnlineSafetyBill #UK #EU #USA #clientsidescanning #HumanRights #privacy #infosec #cybersecurity #Journalism #ethics
#YOUTUBE PREMIER ABOUT TO START (join the live chat!):
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📱 iPhone iMessage "Zeroclick" Exploits (ie: FORCEDENTRY / BLASTPASS)
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⚠️ UK Online Safety Bill Passes
#Apple #News #infosec #cybersecurity #privacy #Pegasus #NSOgroup #spyware #malware #iPhone #iMessage #FORCEDENTRY #BLASTPASS #UK #onlinesafetybill #UnitedKingdom #FreeSpeech #FreeExpression #tech #Peertube
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Age verification is coming with the Online Safety Bill. It’ll force the choice of blocking content to ensure platforms are suitable for children or make all users verify their age.
This is “a huge boon to age verification companies, for little practical benefit for child safety, and much harm to people’s privacy.”
🗣 @jim - ORG Exec Director.
#OnlineSafetyBill #privacy #ukpoltics #freedomofexpression
https://www.verdict.co.uk/news/uk-online-safety-bill-how-can-sites-verify-users-ages/
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Recent actions from the #uk government like the #onlinesafetybill and essential outlawing of #protest has pushed me ideologically over the edge in recent years. I'm looking to join a movement that aims for change and not the liberal kind but the #radical kind. The #socialist appeal seamed like an obvious choice but their seeming participation in #survailance is highly worrying, requiring phone numbers, postcodes, legal names and all their communication channels are #proprietary.
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A Look at the Online Safety Bill and How It Might Affect Privacy in the UK - The Online Safety Bill, a piece of legislation that seeks assurances to keep some ... - https://news.bitcoin.com/a-look-at-the-online-safety-bill-and-how-it-might-affect-privacy-in-the-uk/ #onlinesafetybill #stephenparkinson #ageassurance #ukgovernment #encryption #spyclause #news #uk
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“Donelan’s demands that tech companies cut off access to their tools for under-13s are the equivalent of the misguided practice of abstinence-only teaching in sex education classes at school: you can pretend kids aren’t doing it, but they will anyway.”
#SocialMedia #Children #OnlineSafetyBill #MichelleDonelan
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/09/internet-ban-children-tiktok-tory-social-media
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Michelle Donelan, MP (with the Home Office in addition to DSIT) "said further work to develop the technology was needed but added that government-funded research had shown it was possible. This, incidentally is entirely untrue: their researchers were at pains to explain that the technology is unfit for purpose:"
#OnlineSafetyBill #E2EE #encryption
Join #OpenRightsGroup https://www.openrightsgroup.org/join/
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#UK Pulls Back From Clash With Big Tech Over Private Messaging -Slashdot
The UK government will concede it will not use controversial powers in the #onlinesafetybill to scan messaging apps for harmful content until it is "technically feasible" to do so, postponing measures that critics say threaten users' #privacy. Financial Times
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government backdoors in cryptography be like
#privacy #surveillance #encryption #e2ee #KOSA #EARNITAct #OnlineSafetyBill #ChatControl #eIDAS #SaltTyphoon #ProtectEU
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📬 Online Safety Bill soll Verschlüsselung weltweit abschaffen
#Datenschutz #Rechtssachen #Backdoors #EFF #InvestigatoryPowersAct #LucyFrazer #MessengerDienste #OnlineSafetyBill #OSB https://tarnkappe.info/artikel/it-sicherheit/datenschutz/online-safety-bill-soll-verschluesselung-weltweit-abschaffen-278959.html -
I just seen this comment on a vid. i just watched in reference to the UK's Online Safety Act. I Totally agree! This also would relate to the USA's Restrict Act bill as well.
"Those who say they don't care about online privacy because they have "nothing to hide" don't realise that's akin to saying "i don't care about freedom of speech because I have nothing to say.""
- comment by @robmarshall9026 (YT)#privacy #rights #government #masssurveillance #surveillance #encryption #onlinesafetybill #OnlineSafetyAct #RestrictAct
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This week's net.wars, "The safe place", realizes that the UK's oncoming online safety bill will fragment the Internet: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2023/07/21/the-safe-place/ #NetWars #OnlineSafetyBill #FreedomOfExpression #Censorship #privacy #ukigf
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The opinion finds that there is “likely to be significant interference with freedom of expression that is unforeseeable and which is thus not prescribed by law”. #onlinesafetybill #freedomofexpresson #censorship
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The House of Lords has put out a press release about the #OnlineSafetyBill summarising the process and where they're up to - quite a handing little catch up doc with lots of links if you've not been following the debate:
https://www.parliament.uk/business/news/2023/january-2023/lords-scrutinises-online-safety-bill/
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Online Safety Bill debate: Could it lead to ‘unprecedented paradigm-shifting surveillance’? – Channel 4 News
Riveting discussion on #Channel4News about #OnlineSafetyBill between MP #DamianCollins and #MeredithWhittaker, the president of the Signal Foundation @Mer__edith https://www.channel4.com/news/online-safety-bill-debate-could-it-lead-to-unprecedented-paradigm-shifting-surveillance -
@openrightsgroup At a recent #ProspectUnion conference, an #OFCOM employee presented about their #OnlineSafetyBill implementation plans.
When I asked them about the effect on services that use #e2ee, e.g. WhatsApp as reported in @TheGuardian, they claimed that operators were:
- clearly aware of their duties under the Bill
- only being required to submit a "risk assessment"
- creating FUD by asking for more clarity about #e2eeI wasn't convinced TBH.
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@openrightsgroup At a recent #ProspectUnion conference, an #OFCOM employee presented about their #OnlineSafetyBill implementation plans.
When I asked them about the effect on services that use #e2ee, e.g. WhatsApp as reported in @TheGuardian, they claimed that operators were:
- clearly aware of their duties under the Bill
- only being required to submit a "risk assessment"
- creating FUD by asking for more clarity about #e2eeI wasn't convinced TBH.
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@openrightsgroup At a recent #ProspectUnion conference, an #OFCOM employee presented about their #OnlineSafetyBill implementation plans.
When I asked them about the effect on services that use #e2ee, e.g. WhatsApp as reported in @TheGuardian, they claimed that operators were:
- clearly aware of their duties under the Bill
- only being required to submit a "risk assessment"
- creating FUD by asking for more clarity about #e2eeI wasn't convinced TBH.
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@openrightsgroup At a recent #ProspectUnion conference, an #OFCOM employee presented about their #OnlineSafetyBill implementation plans.
When I asked them about the effect on services that use #e2ee, e.g. WhatsApp as reported in @TheGuardian, they claimed that operators were:
- clearly aware of their duties under the Bill
- only being required to submit a "risk assessment"
- creating FUD by asking for more clarity about #e2eeI wasn't convinced TBH.
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@openrightsgroup At a recent #ProspectUnion conference, an #OFCOM employee presented about their #OnlineSafetyBill implementation plans.
When I asked them about the effect on services that use #e2ee, e.g. WhatsApp as reported in @TheGuardian, they claimed that operators were:
- clearly aware of their duties under the Bill
- only being required to submit a "risk assessment"
- creating FUD by asking for more clarity about #e2eeI wasn't convinced TBH.
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More on the #OnlineSafetyBill - here's the Written Ministerial Statement (Michelle Donelan repeating the statement from the Lords):
https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2023-04-19/debates/23041918000006/OnlineSafetyBillGovernmentAmendmentsAtLordsCommitteeStage
It covers the latest round of Government amendments.
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The #OnlineSafetyBill is due to enter Committee Stage in the Lords on the 19th April (Wednesday). Dates for the next 5 sittings are here: https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3137/stages/17371
but we are basically talking about 2 a week (subject to the odd coronation or so). This is the running list of amendments as at 14th April: https://bills.parliament.uk/publications/49991/documents/3290
The Telegraph reports that there's a rebellion brewing about #AgeVerification and porn with calls for stronger checks:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/04/16/porn-age-checks-online-safety-bill-church-of-england/
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The TikTok wars – why the US and China are feuding over the app (meanwhile UK govt bans app from official devices) https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/16/the-tiktok-wars-why-the-us-and-china-are-feuding-over-the-app #tiktok #onlinesafetybill #digitalservicesact #platformlaw #platformaccountability #regulations
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Great article about #encryption and the danger of the UK’s #OnlineSafetyBill -
“Encryption is under attack, and the Online Safety Bill isn't the only culprit”
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"Let me be blunt: encryption is either broken for everyone, or it works for everyone. There is no way to create a safe backdoor."
Signal calls the #OnlineSafetyBill what it is, a menace to privacy and a way to impose mass surveillance via our messaging apps. #surveillace #e2ee
A must read 👇
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#UK #DigitalRights #OSB #OnlineSafetyBill #NannyState #InternetRegulation: "As Rishi Sunak, the country’s prime minister, counts down the clock ahead of next year’s expected general election, the Online Safety Bill has become a litmus test for what the United Kingdom stands for as it charts its own path after leaving the European Union. But there are serious doubts the legislation can deliver on the U.K.’s twin promises of creating a safer internet and promoting itself as a place to do business — all while upholding freedom of speech."
https://www.politico.eu/article/online-safety-bill-uk-westminster-politics/
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The House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee has just published a letter to Michelle Donelan (Secretary of State for #DCMS) following on from the hearing last week. It is pretty critical of the #MinisterialPowers the explanation for which it described as "vague, speculative and unconvincing". This was directed mainly at cl 39 #OnlineSafetyBill but also cl 157
Other issues concerned Parliamentary oversight, risk assessments and transparency. See here
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Find out more about the threat to #netneutrality in our blog from last year. The #REULBill would mean UK Internet users could have a more restrictive experience and it paves the way for general monitoring of content measures in the #OnlineSafetyBill.
#NetNeutrality #OpenInternet #REUL
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/net-neutrality-on-the-chopping-block/
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Here's Culture Secretary #MichelleDonelan on the #OnlineSafetyBill on Conservative Home yesterday, and also Michelle Donelan as reported in the Guardian, er, also yesterday.
It's never been clearer that the UK government's supposed interest in #freespeech is limited to right wing speech.
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Here is written ministerial statement from #DCMS explaining the changes to the amendments amending some earlier amendments to the #OnlineSafetyBill. https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2023-01-17/hcws500
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Also not impressed with the #BBC discussing #OnlineSafetyBill on #Radio4 #TodayProgramme using "Harmful Content" without examining it or noting the idea is contested.
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✍️ The Online Safety Bill is due to return to Parliament next week for its third reading in the Commons. We’re calling on you to write to your MP (UK) to protect your digital rights. Take action today. 8/8
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/write-your-mp-help-stop-online-safety-bill
#OnlineSafetyBill #freedomofexpresson #FreeSpeech #censorship
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MP sacked over porn allegations to oversee online safety bill
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Just as #privacy became a selling point in platform advertising, #TikTok is now turning online safety legislation into a PR tool in a new London Underground campaign. #OnlineSafetyBill #AgeAppropriateDesignCode #platgov
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I'm obviously desperately concerned that people won't have enough to do over the break (the Strictly Christmas special not being satisfying enough or something), so here's some more reading: the #DCMS guide to the #OnlineSafetyBill, which exciting publication I've only just noticed - published 5 days ago:
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/a-guide-to-the-online-safety-bill
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Here's reply to a written question concerning protection of children and the #OnlineSafetyBill -interesting link across to the #ICO and the #AgeAppropriateDesignCode
https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/1549156