Category Archives: Consent

News from the front

Posted on December 5, 2018 by

Yesterday Ministers from the 28 Member States met to consider progress on the new e-Privacy Regulation. They could still not agree a final text so the matter remains unresolved. I have only been able to listen to those Ministers who … Continue reading →

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Sexual Extortion and Nonconsensual Pornography

Posted on November 22, 2018 by

Carrying on a tradition of high quality and original research the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children has just released a report containing a chilling set of insights into the horrors that can overtake children and young people who … Continue reading →

Posted in Child abuse images, Consent, Internet governance, Regulation, Self-regulation

Final version of the letter to the NTIA

Posted on July 20, 2018 by

The  UK children’s charities sent this in to the NTIA on 17th July, 2018. Dear NTIA, Thank you for this opportunity to submit comments on the future of the US Government’s international internet policy priorities. One in three human internet users is … Continue reading →

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Problems with consent

Posted on July 16, 2018 by

Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote a wonderful sonnet which opens with this famous line “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways” She then lists eight or nine. Here is the Oxford English Dictionary definition of “consent” Permission for … Continue reading →

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France goes for 15 as the Article 8 age – a hodgepodge cometh

Posted on March 18, 2018 by

The GDPR comes into full force in just over two months. One of the small number of derogations the GDPR allows is for a Member State to choose a minimum age of consent for the purposes of processing data online. … Continue reading →

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The UK’s draft guidance on children and the GDPR

Posted on December 27, 2017 by

The British data protection authority (DPA) – the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) – kept its promise and released a guidance note on children and the GDPR before the end of the year. In fact, it came out on 21st December. People can … Continue reading →

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Radical stuff

Posted on December 20, 2017 by

At the end of November the Article 29 Working Party published its proposed guidelines on consent. It has invited comments. The closing date is 23rd January, 2018. A preliminary point: Article 6 of the GDPR sets out six different bases on … Continue reading →

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Questions about the GDPR

Posted on November 30, 2017 by

Thanks to a series of guidance notes that have been issued by the Article 29 Working Party we now know a lot more about the way several parts of the GDPR are likely to work when they come into force … Continue reading →

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GDPR – Chapter 724

Posted on May 18, 2017 by

The UK’s children’s organizations have submitted a detailed note to our data protection authority – the Office of the Information Commissioner.  I won’t try to summarise it here. You can download it from the CHIS website. If you have any … Continue reading →

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Election 2017 – a Digital Manifesto

Posted on April 30, 2017 by

Age verification for pornography sites was a key measure advocated in the Digital Manifesto published by the UK children’s charities ahead of the 2015 General Election. Earlier this week that proposal was adopted in the Digital Economy Act, 2017. This shows … Continue reading →

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