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.
All posts tagged: age verification
A thought experiment: what if we talked about the over-60s’ screen time the way we talk about young people’s screen time?
Won't somebody think of the OAPs?
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.
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.
Postcard from a Challenger Kid
Sometimes age verification is an insult.
Recent media quotes and talks
Links to media quotes, articles, and talks I've given in the past year, mostly in a professional capacity for my previous employer, on the Online Safety Bill as well as on various post-Brexit UK privacy issues.
How to create a world as age appropriate as apple pie
A true story about what happens when "age appropriate" is allowed to become a subjective and politicised decision about how information is filtered to the young people who need it the most.
Just how bad is the ICO’s draft age appropriate design code?
The draft Code is a recipe for creating a generation of children who will grow up sheltered, shattered, and shamed, as their outlooks and formative experiences are defined by safety warnings, age gates, and privatised surveillance.