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Regrets? I’ve had a few….
Last week (20th January) the UK Parliament’s Home Affairs Select Committee interviewed representatives of Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter, Google, Snap and Tik Tok. The Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee is Yvette Cooper, an intellectual heavyweight of the first water. … Continue reading
Absurdities and atrocities
Voltaire famously said “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” History is littered with examples of this and last week in the USA we saw the same thing played out again. Lies and travelling trousers … Continue reading
Posted in Facebook, Google, Internet governance, Privacy, Regulation, Self-regulation
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A very bad day for children in Europe
If you live in an EU Member State and you have used Facebook Messenger or Instagram Direct today you probably saw this message. “Some features are not available. This is to respect new rules for messaging services in Europe. We’re … Continue reading
Posted in Child abuse images, Default settings, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Privacy, Regulation, Self-regulation
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Joy tinged with anger
At 5.00.a.m. today the Head of Instagram published a blog entitled “An important step towards better protecting our community in Europe”. There is much that is important and of interest in Facebook’s blog so please read it but here, for … Continue reading
Let’s not make TWO mistakes
Nobody had spotted it. The European Commission openly acknowledged an error had been made. If left uncorrected it would bring to an end measures which have been protecting kids since 2009. On 10th September the Commission published a proposal. It … Continue reading
Posted in Default settings, E-commerce, Facebook, Google, Regulation, Self-regulation
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Facebook’s very poor example
I have lost count of the number of times child safety advocates from around the world have got in touch with me because, in relation to something they think is important and urgent locally, they cannot get any response from … Continue reading
Posted in E-commerce, Facebook, Regulation, Self-regulation
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Business goes where Governments fear to tread
It’s a funny old world. Governments bang on about the unacceptable nature of some of the stuff that regularly appears on social media. They call on the platforms to do something about it and, immediately, a whole army of predictable … Continue reading
Posted in Facebook, Privacy, Regulation, Self-regulation, Uncategorized
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President Trump gets it wrong
So it wasn’t an empty threat. President Trump did it. He signed an Executive Order which, in essence, seeks to change the law on platform immunity, as conferred by s.230, Communications Decency Act 1996. It is doubtful the Executive Order … Continue reading
Posted in Facebook, Google, Internet governance, Privacy, Regulation, Self-regulation
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Good but nowhere near good enough
Last Thursday Facebook made an announcement about its plans for Messenger. In truth the substance of the announcement concerned great stuff I thought they were already doing, at least on their main Facebook platform, so discovering they were now going … Continue reading
Posted in Child abuse images, E-commerce, Facebook, Privacy, Regulation, Self-regulation
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