While the basic structure of the Online Safety Bill is unlikely to change as it passes through the final stages of the UK parliamentary process, there will be amendments and clarifications to ensure its effectiveness. Definitions of “primary priority content that is harmful to children”, “priori...
T he UK's OnlineSafety Bill, which isanticipated to come into law duringearly 2023, has been the subject ofsignificant debate. Requests for keychanges to the existing proposals,including pleas for greater simplicity,and clarity over the scope of the obligationsto curb 'harmful but legal' ...
Here's what you need to know about theOnline Safety Bill. What does the Online Safety Bill aim to do? The government never shies away from an opportunity to present the UK as a global leader, and has said the bill will make this country "the safest place in ...
With its draft Online Safety Bill now up for debate, the UK government is trying to legislate the impossible – a safe Internet without strong encryption – in the face of clear and consistent technical analysis saying that it cannot be done. Here are some of the myths being propagated to h...
On 17 March 2022 the UK’sOnline Safety Bill, no longer a draft, was introduced into Parliament and had its formal First Reading. Two years ago Carnegie UKproposedthat an Online Harms Reduction Bill could be legislated in twenty clauses. Faced with the 194 clauses and 14 Schedules of the...
Digital regulation in Europe will pick up pace in 2022 but, with Brexit leading to parallel but contrasting key proposals in the form of the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) and the UK’s Online Safety Bill (OSB), it can be difficult to keep track of where they are...
Online Safety Bill The crux of the plan was to make Ofcom the new regulator of internet firms, with the power to fine them up to 10% of their global turnover if they failed to take down harmful content. But while there was wide agreement over some of the material the bill would cover...
What are opponents to the bill concerned about? First are foremost:Privacy. The collective’s open letter said the Online Safety Bill “poses an unprecedented threat to the privacy, safety, and security of every U.K. citizen and the people with whom they communicate around the world.” As ...
Six years since the Online Safety Bill emerged by way of a Green Paper commitment to internet safety, after intense parliamentary scrutiny, the Online Safet
Clegg has declined invitations to represent Meta at Westminster committees; as global head, the job does not naturally fall to him. Yet Collins says that MPs’ views on Meta have hardened since he joined. The UK’s Online Safety Bill, a flagship piece of tech regulation, will impose some ...