Mastodawn

Excellent piece from @jessicashurson on Ofcom’s final technology notices guidance. #OnlineSafetyAct #E2Eencryption https://issuesincybercrimelaw.substack.com/p/uk-digital-surveillance-through-platform

UK digital surveillance through platform regulation: technology notices, encryption and regulatory ambiguity

Ofcom has published its final guidance on technology notices, the controversial power to scan communications for terrorism and child abuse content.

Issues in Cybercrime Law

Graham Smith Apr 30

"UK Government Children's Safety and AI Chatbot Powers: Two New Acts Receive Royal Assent".

My colleagues have written about this so I don't have to :-). #OnlineSafetyAct https://www.twobirds.com/en/insights/2026/uk/uk-government-children's-safety-and-ai-chatbot-powers-two-new-acts-receive-royal-assent

UK Government Children's Safety and AI Chatbot Powers Two New Acts Receive Royal Assent - Bird & Bird

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Graham Smith Apr 11

To be clear, Committee of Ministers voting records are not published so we can't tell if the UK positively supported it.

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Graham Smith Apr 9

On the downside, the ECHR analysis in this Recommendation is highly problematic in many ways, but putting that on one side para 42 does stand out like a beacon.

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Graham Smith Apr 9

Cue oceans of legal analysis aimed at defining 'general' monitoring obligations out of existence.

Graham Smith Apr 9

So the UK has signed up to:

"42. State authorities should not directly or indirectly impose a general obligation on intermediaries to monitor content which they merely give access to or which they transmit or store, be it by automated means or not."

Has anyone told DSIT or Ofcom? #OnlineSafetyAct

https://www.coe.int/en/web/portal/-/council-of-europe-calls-for-greater-transparency-and-stronger-oversight-of-online-platforms-algorithms

Graham Smith Apr 6

Welcome to OnlineSafetyVille (2026 edition). Now with bonus extraterritoriality. #OnlineSafetyAct

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Graham Smith Mar 28

One suspects that they are defined more by attitude and crusading zeal than anything else. But without a full list of who they are, who knows?

Graham Smith Mar 28

Is there an entrance qualification to be a tech Lord? Does one have to register? Or is it an unregulated Wild West? https://tinyurl.com/yu6h4jjt

Graham Smith Mar 28

alecm Mar 28

The Timeless Fear of Corrupting the Youth | WSJ

Excellent piece:

The lesson from these examples isn’t that protecting children online is misguided or an unworthy goal. It is that the means proposed to achieve this end pose significant risks to human rights, and that the tools created for that purpose can easily become instruments of broader control over speech once governments acquire them.

https://www.wsj.com/politics/social-media-freedom-speech-meta-youtube-ruling-32aaee3b archived at: https://archive.ph/PMCjL

#censorship #feed #onlineSafety #onlineSafetyAct #socialMediaBan