Category: introduction

Government interest in gaining access encrypted communications has been discussed over many years in multiple countries and is back on the agenda in the context…

We begin the Committee Stage of our consideration of the Online Safety Bill in the House of Lords today. We can expect at least 10…

A group of MPs has tabled an amendment to the Online Safety Bill calling for tech company executives to be liable for prosecution in relation…

There is a lot of critical commentary about the fact that the UK Online Safety Bill includes regulation of content that is ‘legal but harmful’.…

We have heard calls from various quarters for people to have to verify their identities before being able to post content on social media. In…

It is common for people to propose that online services should be required to verify their users’ ages in the interests of improving safety for…

What does the Online Safety Bill do (in a nutshell)? The Bill grants the UK Government authority to give detailed instructions to some online services…

The UK government last week published its long-awaited Online Safety Bill. This follows various stages of publication and consultation over the last 3 years that…

I spent a happy couple of days last week reading hundreds of pages of the UK draft Online Safety Bill with its explanatory notes and…