An amendment to the Online Safety Bill uses its age verification requirements to censor subjective legal content determined by government policy. Just like we warned you years ago.
Meet my friend Mika, whose four-year ordeal at the hands of a deranged and unaccountable stalker has influenced some of my thinking on policy. It should influence yours too.
Ahead of its return in September, I want to offer some constructive thoughts on how the Online Safety Bill's weaknesses should be improved. That's an academic exercise, though, because this Bill is not fixable.
Last month's post about the UK's upcoming age-gating system covered only one aspect of your compliance obligations under the upcoming Online Safety Bill. In this post, I'm going to tell you about the rest.
Today DCMS announced they will legislate to get rid of European cookie pop-ups, ahead of their legislating to require you to implement British identity verification pop-ups.
I wanted to jot down some quick takes on three aspects of the Bill which you need to know, in the sense that you will not be able to sleep tonight once you know them.