The UK's parliament passes the Online Safety Bill, in the works since 2019, paving the way for Royal Assent and the bill becoming law in the coming days
Controversial UK legislation that brings in a new regime of content moderation rules for online platforms and services …
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- So the Online Safety Bill has just passed through the UK Parliament and is now set to become law. OFCOM will have their worn cut out to make the law work. Here is my quick reaction on three ways it could actually harm you. #onlinesafetybill #privacy #UK #encryption #agegating https://youtu.be/... @JamesBaker@social.openrightsgroup.org · James Baker
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@jeffjarvis@mastodon.social
Jeff Jarvis
on mastodon
This is the result of media's and politics' moral panic over the internet: a blow against speech. — https://www.nytimes.com/...
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@floellabenjamin
Floella Benjamin
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Yes John this is an important day one we longed to see. Now we need to keep a watchful eye on implementation of the Online Safety Bill. Thank you for being my guiding light during our quest to protect children. Our mission continues @johnc1912
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@kickitout
@kickitout
on x
Joint statement from The FA, Premier League, EFL, PFA and Kick It Out on the passing of Online Safety Bill: “We welcome the passing of the Online Safety Bill and are pleased that English football has played a prominent role in the development of this legislation... (1/4)
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@vellstells
Liron Woodcock-Velleman
on x
And it's finally there! It's not perfect but the new Online Safety Act is a step forward in protecting adults and children online in the UK! Well done to everyone who worked constructively to get to this point for many, many years
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@maevewa1sh
Maeve Walsh
on x
Ministers come and go - more than most in the case of the #OnlineSafetyBill - so it's good to see the one getting it over the line acknowledge the hardworking @SciTechgovuk officials, many of whom have stuck at it for many years. (I trust the drinks are on him tonight. 😉)
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@proflappleby
Louis Appleby
on x
Not perfect but potentially decisive. Asserting principle that online space cannot be exempt from standards on safety & social responsibility that apply elsewhere. #SuicidePrevention
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@mollyroseorg
@mollyroseorg
on x
This is a vital first step towards addressing harms online https://mollyrosefoundation.org/ ...
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@maevewa1sh
Maeve Walsh
on x
Yesterday, @CarnegieUKTrust reflected on the “broad consensus” in Parliament re the #OnlineSafetyBill aims and urgency, and the “unfashionably constructive and collaborative” tone of debates - especially in @UKHouseofLords. Here's their closing debate.👏🏻 https://hansard.parliamen…
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@richccollard
Rich Collard
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Just a thought to counter the “Online Safety Bill/Act is controversial” narrative... this will was supported by successive conservative governments, had the full support of the opposition, and was only strengthened in the Lords. I cannot think of a less “controversial” bill
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@carljackmiller
Carl Miller
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And so the Online Safety Bill becomes an Act... As someone who has, one way or another, called for Government regulation for a decade now, this is actually quite an emotional thing to see. A new era begins.
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@samaritans
@samaritans
on x
Important news: The Online Safety Bill has just been passed in Parliament. This is a big moment for suicide prevention. Thank you to all of you who helped campaign alongside us, we couldn't have done it without you! 🧵
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@drnicka
@drnicka
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The Online Safety Bill has passed. This basically makes encryption illegal in the UK. If we do slide into some totalitarian hell in the future, this was the fork in the road that lead us to it. https://www.gov.uk/...
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@sophiefrancan
Sophie Francis-Cansfield
on x
https://www.gov.uk/... As @georgiaharisonx says “violence against women and girls is so common, with one in three women in the UK having experienced online abuse or harassment.” Thank you to all the women and VAWG sector organisations who worked so hard to strengthen this Bill
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@speechunion
@speechunion
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We're disappointed the Online Safety Bill has been passed. But thanks to us and other free speech advocacy groups, it's a slight improvement on earlier versions: * The obligation on social media companies to remove ‘legal but harmful’ content has been removed. * The new Harmful..…
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@ofcom
@ofcom
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‘Today is a major milestone in the mission to create a safer life online for people across the UK.’ Ofcom Chief Executive, Dame Melanie Dawes, welcomes the Online Safety Bill passing its final stage in Parliament today. 🎥 Watch for more: [video]
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@fox_claire
Claire Fox
on x
Heart-sink moment. Free speech online, already fragile, now subject to unprecedented interference & regulation in UK. Gov have designed regime but outsourced power to unelected quango. #OnlineSafetyBill now law, claims will rein in Big Tech, but instead instructs: censor or else
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@talabdulrazaq
Dr Tallha Abdulrazaq
on x
I wrote about how activists in Iraq avoided torture & murder by relying on dVPNs. Now, the UK is passing the Online Safety Bill which includes weakening encryption in WhatsApp & Signal. Privacy tech will now simply innovate around slow-mo legislation. https://www.aljazeera.com/..…
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@jamesmelville
James Melville
on x
“Online Safety Bill to become law in crackdown on harmful social media content.” But for government & tech companies to act as arbiters over online content risks becoming a road to hell that is paved with biased censorship intentions. https://news.sky.com/...
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@iwfhotline
@iwfhotline
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As the Online Safety Bill becomes law, we talk with children's online safety expert Natalia Greene and IWF Head of Policy @MichaelTunks about this landmark piece of legislation and the effect it may have on all our lives. Listen more at https://iwf.org.uk/.... [video]
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@nspcc
@nspcc
on x
We did it 🎉 The #OnlineSafetyBill has been passed and will soon be law! Repost to spread the news 🔄 Thanks to your amazing support we've taken a huge step towards making the internet a safer place for children. You've made a lasting difference to children's lives 💚 [image]
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@evacide
Eva
on x
The fight isn't over, but ouch. In the UK, Parliament has passed the Online Safety Bill, which grants government the power to force companies to backdoor e2e encryption.
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@drewb
Drew Benvie
on x
Safety on social media has reached breaking point and this in the UK will be transformative, which ever way it pans out.
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@damiancollins
Damian Collins
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It's excellent news that the Online Safety Bill has now completed all its stages in parliament and will shortly become law. Tech platforms will now have legal duties to identify & remove illegal content, keep children safe & enforce their terms of service https://www.bbc.com/...
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@scullyp
Paul Scully MP
on x
Millions of people across the UK are about to become safer and will have more control over their lives online because of this bill I thank both my parliamentary colleagues, @SciTechgovuk officials & campaigners for their efforts to make the internet a safer place.
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@zsk
Zoe Kleinman
on x
The Online Safety Bill has just been approved by the House of Lords - the final part of its journey. All that remains now is Royal Assent.
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r/technology
r
on reddit
Today The UK Parliament Undermined The Privacy, Security, And Freedom Of All Internet Users
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@self.agency
@self.agency
on bluesky
so if you don't want to backdoor your users' private comms, the uk is going to just scream “groomer” at you until you relent? [embedded post]
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@mer__edith
Meredith Whittaker
on x
Signal will never undermine our privacy promises & the encryption they rely on. Our position remains firm: we will continue to do whatever we can to ensure people in the UK can use Signal. But if the choice came down to being forced to build a backdoor, or leaving, we we'd leave.
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@bazzacollins
Barry Collins
on x
Here we go again. Braverman calling for Meta to roll out “end-to-end encryption with safety measures”. Just a week after the government backed away from this. Left doesn't know what right is doing. (By the way, the BBC Breakfast questioning on this is woeful.)
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@natashac
Natasha Clark
on x
Suella Braverman tells @NickFerrariLBC Facebook owners Meta are helping create a “safe haven for paedophiles to operate in the dark” by rolling out end to end encryption without pre search checks to root out abuse
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@bazzacollins
Barry Collins
on x
“I'm pro encryption,” Braverman says, while simultaneously asking for Meta to break it. BBC interviewer just smiles at this glaring contradiction and ends the interview.
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@willguyatt
Will Guyatt
on x
Listening to Suella Braverman go all in on Meta on @lbc. The conversation around encryption deserves to deeper and more nuanced than anyone who adopts it are harbouring sex offenders. Sadly, it won't.
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@mikeysmith
Mikey Smith
on x
Anyone, including Suella Braverman, claiming “technology” exists to allow a “back door” into end to end encryption either doesn't know what end to end encryption is, or is lying. #r4today
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@iwfhotline
@iwfhotline
on x
“We urge companies looking to introduce end-to-end encryption to their services to think carefully about the impact on younger, vulnerable users, and to build in the safety features we'd expect in other areas of lives,” says our CEO Susie Hargreaves as The Home Secretary calls on…
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@vmanancourt
Vincent Manancourt
on x
And here's something we made earlier, which gives an overview of the child sexual abuse problem globally and more specifically in the UK. w/Arnau Busquets Guàrdia [image]
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@joshthomas_iwf
Josh Thomas
on x
“We urge companies looking to introduce end-to-end encryption to their services to think carefully about the impact on younger, vulnerable users,” said Susie Hargreaves, CEO of the @IWFhotline. https://www.politico.eu/...
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@joetidy
Joe Tidy
on x
Braverman and Facebook clash over private message plans. Home Office launching another public campaign to ask Meta to stop rolling out End 2 End Encryption. They tried this last year and Meta issued the same statement and carried on quietly rolling it out https://www.bbc.com/...
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@webdevlaw
Heather Burns
on x
Srsly, it's getting quite funny how these “campaigns” repeat these same tired tactics and arguments from time to time not to budge the policy needle, but to spend down the campaign budget, get some KPIs, and impress the managers in the monthly meeting. https://www.bbc.com/...
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@ciaranmartinoxf
Ciaran Martin
on x
Have just been on @TimesRadio about the HMG campaign to stop @Meta rolling out e2ee. Key arguments: 1. The Home Sec already has the legal power to stop Meta rolling out e2ee (a technical capability notice under the 2016 Investigatory Powers Act). 1/6 https://www.bbc.com/...
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@rachelcoldicutt
@rachelcoldicutt
on x
Well I expect we are going to be in for a weird few months. (I wonder, who is the unnamed source for “magical thinking”?) https://www.bbc.com/...
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@_andyburrows
Andy Burrows
on x
Of course the framing is as tactical as it is disingenuous, given it'll galvinise privacy activists to project the usual false but tedious binary arguments, and provide the perfect smokescreen for @Meta to press ahead with its antitrust objectives
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@paulbernaluk
Prof Paul Bernal
on x
I detest Facebook, but here they're right, and Braverman is wrong. Encryption is critical for safety - particularly for children. https://www.bbc.com/...
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@_andyburrows
Andy Burrows
on x
'We don't think people want us reading their messages', says @meta, conveniently neglecting: 🔵 they already scan unencrypted DMs for CSA content 🔵 they're investing in homomorphic E2E to enable targeted advertising based on our DMs https://www.bbc.com/...
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@bbcbreakfast
@bbcbreakfast
on x
Home Secretary Suella Braverman told #BBCBreakfast she wants Facebook owner Meta to change its policy on end-to-end-encryption because it could be exploited by child abusers https://www.bbc.com/... [video]