And in other #OnlineSafetyAct news:
# US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere
Assuming that this service does not end up subject to access restriction measures?
# Ofcom fast-tracks decision on measures to block illegal intimate images
As anticipated, Ofcom has announced a new general monitoring obligation, for (all? those which have identified a high risk?) regulated user to user services to scan user uploads to attempt to detect illegal intimate images.
Details are scant right now, including where and how everyone in scope can obtain the comparison data to implement this.
eclectech
boosted
The approach to online safety is flawed.
We need a rights-based approach that challenges the dominance of Big Tech, not one that embeds permanent monitoring by requiring ID to access information and services.
Tell your MP to fix the UK Online Safety Act ⬇️
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-your-mp-online-safety-act-isn%E2%80%99t-working
#onlinesafety #onlinesafetyact #bigtech #ageverification #privacy #ukpolitics #ukpol
Proposals to expand age checks to VPNs and features like infinite-scrolling for UK users makes things worse.
The result is more personal data swilling around in tech firms and a permanent expansion of tracking infrastructure.
For VPNs, we're told to discard privacy for supposed 'safety'.
It makes no sense.
#onlinesafety #onlinesafetyact #bigtech #ageverification #privacy #ukpolitics #ukpol. #vpn
The UK government is fattening the power of Big Tech, giving them greater control over our data.
With Palantir's Peter Thiel involved in age verification, we can't ignore how surveillance tech moves between military, intelligence and commercial markets.
Read more ⬇️
#onlinesafety #onlinesafetyact #bigtech #ageverification #privacy #ukpolitics #ukpol #palantir
The UK government is fattening the power of Big Tech, giving them greater control over our data.
With Palantir's Peter Thiel involved in age verification, we can't ignore how surveillance tech moves between military, intelligence and commercial markets.
Read more ⬇️
#onlinesafety #onlinesafetyact #bigtech #ageverification #privacy #ukpolitics #ukpol #palantir
The approach to online safety is flawed.
We need a rights-based approach that challenges the dominance of Big Tech, not one that embeds permanent monitoring by requiring ID to access information and services.
Tell your MP to fix the UK Online Safety Act ⬇️
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-your-mp-online-safety-act-isn%E2%80%99t-working
#onlinesafety #onlinesafetyact #bigtech #ageverification #privacy #ukpolitics #ukpol
Design interventions alone can't significantly improve safety if the market rewards behaviours and outcomes that generate harm.
Large companies can absorb the cost of new rules. Smaller services often can't.
This reduces competition and locks users into dominant platforms that feed off its users.
#onlinesafety #onlinesafetyact #bigtech #ageverification #privacy #ukpolitics #ukpol
Age verification makes people create profiles on platforms.
For porn sites, this means tying a specific user to algorithmic profiles. It enables customised porn feeds that are designed to keep them on the platform for longer.
It also exposes people more to data breaches and advertising networks.
#onlinesafety #onlinesafetyact #bigtech #ageverification #privacy #ukpolitics #ukpol
Lob off one head, two more appear.
This is because online harms are an emergent property of the domination of Big Tech.
Attention capture revs the engine of targeted advertising that powers the beast.
New rules from age gating to content scanning are directed at the user, not the business model.
#onlinesafety #onlinesafetyact #bigtech #ageverification #privacy #ukpolitics #ukpol
Design interventions alone can't significantly improve safety if the market rewards behaviours and outcomes that generate harm.
Large companies can absorb the cost of new rules. Smaller services often can't.
This reduces competition and locks users into dominant platforms that feed off its users.
#onlinesafety #onlinesafetyact #bigtech #ageverification #privacy #ukpolitics #ukpol
Age verification makes people create profiles on platforms.
For porn sites, this means tying a specific user to algorithmic profiles. It enables customised porn feeds that are designed to keep them on the platform for longer.
It also exposes people more to data breaches and advertising networks.
#onlinesafety #onlinesafetyact #bigtech #ageverification #privacy #ukpolitics #ukpol
Proposals to expand age checks to VPNs and features like infinite-scrolling for UK users makes things worse.
The result is more personal data swilling around in tech firms and a permanent expansion of tracking infrastructure.
For VPNs, we're told to discard privacy for supposed 'safety'.
It makes no sense.
#onlinesafety #onlinesafetyact #bigtech #ageverification #privacy #ukpolitics #ukpol. #vpn
Lob off one head, two more appear.
This is because online harms are an emergent property of the domination of Big Tech.
Attention capture revs the engine of targeted advertising that powers the beast.
New rules from age gating to content scanning are directed at the user, not the business model.
#onlinesafety #onlinesafetyact #bigtech #ageverification #privacy #ukpolitics #ukpol
I am not familiar with the website "Tattle Life", but both Ofcom and the ICO have written about it recently, seemingly following calls from MPs that the site should be stopped / blocked / taken down.
Ofcom:
ICO: