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VOICE ARCHIVE

Sam Dumitriu

@sam_dumitriu
9 posts
2025-08-04
Are you worried the Online Safety Act has negative consequences for free speech and privacy? Don't fear! Ofcom have ‘consulted widely’ and ‘published detailed impact assessments’. [image]
2025-08-04 View on X
The Guardian

The UK Online Safety Act's approach to keeping children safe online has become a rallying point for the right in the UK and the US over alleged censorship

Farage accuses government of being ‘so below the belt’ as right wing doubles down on censorship claims  —  The UK's Online Safety Act has been greatly anticipated.

2025-07-27
Today: Britain brings in new age verification laws requiring people to give sites containing ‘adult content’ photos of their Drivers License, despite multiple warnings from cybersecurity experts. Also, today:
2025-07-27 View on X
Engadget

Some users are circumventing UK's age checks by using VPNs, providing fake AI-generated photo IDs, or using images of high-fidelity video game characters

It's a privacy nightmare and is the slipperest of slopes. @kaidzsu.com : my headcanon is twitter rolled out the UK age verification nightmare for the entirety of Europe because the...

Not content with shutting down a forum for hamster owners, the Online Safety Act now prevents anyone from accessing forums discussing cider and quitting smoking without giving some random company a selfie. No wonder our political class are despised.
2025-07-27 View on X
Engadget

Some users are circumventing UK's age checks by using VPNs, providing fake AI-generated photo IDs, or using images of high-fidelity video game characters

It's a privacy nightmare and is the slipperest of slopes. @kaidzsu.com : my headcanon is twitter rolled out the UK age verification nightmare for the entirety of Europe because the...

2023-01-17
There was segment on tonight's Newsnight where they explain this idea to a group of children who all think it's unworkable. The reality is 12 year olds are better qualified to scrutinise tech policy than the average MP. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ ...
2023-01-17 View on X
Telegraph

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

2022-09-30
This software would help the NHS but people have unfounded fears about privacy so we should do something harder and likely worse. https://twitter.com/...
2022-09-30 View on X
Bloomberg

Internal Palantir documents detail a plan to deepen its ties to the UK's NHS by buying up smaller rivals, helping avoid scrutiny and increase health data

Palantir Technologies had a secret plan to deepen its relationship with the UK's National Health Service without public scrutiny. Tweets: @oliviasolon , @parismarx , @xtophercook ,...

2022-04-23
It's not hard to think of cases where bans on ad targeting could backfire and harm minorities. What happens to a hairdresser who specialises in Afro-Caribbean hair? Can they target their ads? What about a bookshop that specialises in queer literature? https://twitter.com/...
2022-04-23 View on X
New York Times

As the EU prepares its third landmark tech law in the past few years, the US has enacted only two narrow federal tech laws in the past 25 years

one for children's privacy and the other for ridding sites of sex-trafficking content —in the past 25 years.” https://www.nytimes.com/... Chris O'Brien / @obrien : EU policymakers,...

It's not hard to think of cases where bans on ad targeting could backfire and harm minorities. What happens to a hairdresser who specialises in Afro-Caribbean hair? Can they target their ads? What about a bookshop that specialises in queer literature? https://twitter.com/...
2022-04-23 View on X
Financial Times

The EU finalizes the Digital Services Act, which will force social networks to toughen content moderation, reduce Google and Meta's ad targeting of minors, more

Companies such as Google and Facebook must moderate content more actively in regulatory clampdown

2022-04-22
It's not hard to think of cases where bans on ad targeting could backfire and harm minorities. What happens to a hairdresser who specialises in Afro-Caribbean hair? Can they target their ads? What about a bookshop that specialises in queer literature? https://twitter.com/...
2022-04-22 View on X
New York Times

As the EU prepares its third landmark tech law in the last few years, the US has enacted just two narrow federal tech laws in the past 25 years

Federal privacy bills, security legislation and antitrust laws to address the power of the tech giants have all failed to advance in Congress …

2022-03-17
Britain has left the EU and managed to create a tech law even dumber than the cookies directive. https://twitter.com/...
2022-03-17 View on X
The Information

Tech execs may face criminal prosecution or jail time for not abiding by Ofcom's decisions two months after the UK's Online Safety Bill passes and takes effect

Executives from Facebook parent Meta Platforms, TikTok and other big tech companies would face the prospect of jail time under sweeping …