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Age verification. Movement in South Africa
The South African Film Board is charged with developing regulations to give effect to their recently adopted law requiring age verification for pornography sites. A consultation was held on how the regulations might be implemented. It closed yesterday. After thanking … Continue reading
Posted in Age verification, Pornography, Privacy, Regulation, Self-regulation
The EU’s strategy for a more effective fight against child sexual abuse
I said in an earlier blog I would write more fully about the announcement last week of the European Commission’ s new strategy for a more effective fight against child sexual abuse. I wrote that when I had only skimmed … Continue reading
Posted in Child abuse images, Privacy, Regulation, Self-regulation, Uncategorized
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
The agony and the ecstasy – all in the same day
Regular readers will recall last year I got very engaged with discussions on the new e-Privacy Regulation being drawn up in Brussels. They were threatening to outlaw the use of PhotoDNA and similar tools by certain types of electronic communications … Continue reading
Posted in Child abuse images, Default settings, Microsoft, Privacy, Regulation, Self-regulation
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Age verification marches on
This week saw the publication of a report of a conference which I organized with the help of The Reward Foundation. What did we look at? With the enormous advances that have been made in recent years in the field … Continue reading
Posted in Age verification, Pornography, Privacy, Regulation, Self-regulation
The Government lost in court today
The Government lost in court today. Yippee! The age verification companies won the right to proceed with a Judicial Review of the Secretary of State’s decision not to proceed with the implementation of age verification. What will the Government do … Continue reading
Posted in Age verification, Pornography, Regulation, Self-regulation
UK Government in court over age verification
The Government is in court tomorrow over its failure to implement age verification for pornography sites. Fingers crossed.
Posted in Age verification, Pornography, Privacy, Regulation, Self-regulation, Uncategorized
EU’s new policy statement on child sex abuse
The EU is developing a new policy statement ( a “Communication”) on the fight against child sex abuse. Here is a link to my submission. It’s too long but there is an Appendix which summarises the main recommendations.
Posted in Child abuse images, Regulation, Self-regulation
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
Something could be done now?
If you click here you will see a copy of a letter I sent today to Information Commissioner, Elizabeth Denham CBE, the UK’s chief privacy enforcement official. In the letter I suggest the fact that the Government called a halt … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Age verification, E-commerce, Pornography, Regulation, Self-regulation
