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@jimkillock
Oct 16, 2018 • 3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
BREAKING: Age Verification Guidance published, due to be in Parliament imminently—linked from “Details” on this page: gov.uk/government/pub… #ageverification
My quick reading of this: @BBFC and @DCMS have conceded the argument that AV for porn is potentially dangerous and needs strict controls to protect privacy, but can only suggest "voluntary codes".
While stricter, voluntary standards are welcome, they are not the same as legally enforceable standards. @OpenRightsGroup may have won the policy argument, but @DCMS don't want to trouble themselves with tightening legislation.

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Jun 16, 2021
In a meeting today, Elizabeth Denham from @ICOnews assured me that she was “relaxed” about the UK keeping “high data protection standards”.

The Government have today appointed IDS @MPIainDS, Theresa Villiers MP and @GeorgeFreemanMP to front the axing.

gov.uk/government/pub…
@ICOnews @MPIainDS @GeorgeFreemanMP This is what they say about #GDPR.
And they say they measure this in whether they can see an end it “pointless cookie banners”.

#GDPR could end this nonsense today, if @ICOnews had the courage to act on it.

What IDS et al seem to be saying is that transparency is fine, don’t worry about the ads.

Call me worried
Read 6 tweets
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May 26, 2021
The #OnlineSafetyBill means:

(1) The Home Secretary decides what content FB and Twitter must remove, and how;

(2) Companies must be able to read your private messages

(3) Services that don’t comply get banned from App Stores, blocked on ISPs

politics.co.uk/comment/2021/0…
Goodbye, e2e encryption for private messaging, explains @WebDevLaw.
Hello, state direction of @Facebook and @Twitter @Policy over what stays up, what gets deleted, and how they find it.
Read 4 tweets
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May 25, 2021
It has been a long road since 2013 when @OpenRightsGroup @BigBrotherWatch @englishpen and Constanze Kurz took the UK to the ECHR over the @Snowden revelations:

privacynotprism.org.uk

Donations from across Europe paid for us to go the ECHR.
Today the ECHR came in with its final judgment that the UK’s laws were deficient and lacked crucial safeguards.

openrightsgroup.org/press-releases…
The court’s judgment makes it plain that bulk interception is a dangerous technology that requires special supervision.
Read 11 tweets
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Nov 20, 2020
This should be all over the papers. Racial profiling of voters without consent is not acceptable.

opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocra…
And, you may ask, why isn’t it all over the papers.

EXHIBIT ONE: The @ICOnews Press Release

ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/…
Any mention of 10 million people being racially profiled? No. But there is this. I feel reassured. Image
Read 8 tweets
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Nov 19, 2020
On the face of it, this is welcome news:

@Google are introducing e2e encryptions for Android RCS messaging

blog.google/products/messa…
This is announced, coincidentally I am sure, during a debate on #onlineharms in the Commons.

In the UK, there is pressure for the Government to ban or “licence” e2e encryption of personal messages as @WebDevLaw wrote on our blog last week

openrightsgroup.org/blog/org-signs…
Many companies are moving towards encrypting chat services. Government and MPs need to ask themselves why that is.

So, why is the market moving towards very secure messaging apps?
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Nov 19, 2020
So far not much coverage of the Commons Trade Committee’s Japan Trade deal report

publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5801/cmse…
It matters when MPs start looking at things the Government is not keen to discuss.

Here they discuss the privacy impacts of “data flow” commitments Image
This is the best news: they plan an inquiry on data and digital matters in trade agreements.

That is a real step forward as it will force some clarity about the strategy and consequences. Image
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