Are we doing this again? Yes, we’re doing this again.
Welcome to the Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill of 2023-2024. Oh joy.
All posts filed under: UK policy
Recent UK government policies, consultations, and controversies related to digital and tech.
The call was coming from inside the house
In which "something bad happened in real life and that is why we need the Online Safety Bill!" rhetoric hits absolute rock bottom. Content warning
That’s no moonshot.
In which a bad (very bad) analogy about tech regulation becomes a teachable moment on hard work, leadership, and integrity.
The cavalry have arrived. But not for long.
UK civil society is currently so brittle that the weight for our digital rights battles has to be carried by organisations in the US.
Greatest hits, b-sides, and unfinished demo tracks: or, all my blogging on the Online Safety Bill
All my public-facing writing on the Online Safety Bill, 2019-2023, in one place.
The age-appropriate rubber dinghies of the sunlit uplands
An amendment to the Online Safety Bill uses its age verification requirements to censor subjective legal content determined by government policy. Just like we warned you years ago.
The disinformation about the disinformation
If you want to tackle a problem, first you have to overcome the social taboos around talking about the problem. And that's hard when politics constrain the inquiry.
Fixing the UK’s Online Safety Bill, part 1: we need answers.
These unanswered questions need to be cleared out of the way before the Bill can progress, regardless of who takes over that work next month.
Fixing the UK’s Online Safety Bill, part 0: no, it’s not fixable.
Ahead of its return in September, I want to offer some constructive thoughts on how the Online Safety Bill's weaknesses should be improved. That's an academic exercise, though, because this Bill is not fixable.
Here’s why your project is in scope of the Online Safety Bill
An anecdote from the road about the somewhat muddled thinking that has gone into defining the Bill's sweeping compliance requirements.
Your compliance obligations under the UK’s Online Safety Bill; or, welcome to hell
Last month's post about the UK's upcoming age-gating system covered only one aspect of your compliance obligations under the upcoming Online Safety Bill. In this post, I'm going to tell you about the rest.
Pop-ups are dead, long live pop-ups: or, the bait-and-switch hidden in today’s cookie announcement
Today DCMS announced they will legislate to get rid of European cookie pop-ups, ahead of their legislating to require you to implement British identity verification pop-ups.