Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Tag: online safety bill

Has Britain Gone Too Far With Its Digital Controls? | The New York Times

2025/09/18
Looks like Ireland is spinning up its own online safety bill

2024/01/25
Remember that thing in the Online Safety Bill re: how it was needed to stop anonymous abuse of footballers & other sportspeople? It seems they’re perfectly good at abusing each other…

2024/01/06
Should privacy be a superpower for the techno-elite?

2023/11/25
STUFF TO READ: How to sum up 1700 pages in four words | @webdevlaw on the purposefully intimidating Ofcom “Online Safety” consultation, and where we’ve seen similar before

2023/11/24
THE SPEECH POLICE DISMISSETH US | the minds behind the free-speech-preserving online safety bill seek to police (reprehensible or not) what academics say in public on social media

2023/10/29
So the OnlineSafetyBill is now law; but what will the activists and politicians behind it attempt next to do?

2023/10/27
UK government keeping files on teaching assistants’ and librarians’ internet activity | …this is the sort of feature-creep (ha!) that I expect the #OnlineSafetyBill’s snooping of End-to-End Encrypted Messengers will enable

2023/10/23
THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: how the experiences of #Twitter and #ThreadsApp show us how the #OnlineSafetyBill could be a windfall for fully-end-to-end-encrypted Facebook @Messenger

2023/07/19
ICYMI: @LordJimKnight (who has abandoned Twitter) proposes in the #OnlineSafetyBill that platforms must know the nationality and/or physical location of their users, lest VPNs (etc) are used to circumvent OSB restrictions

2023/05/06
Re: #OnlineSecurityBill & #ChatControl demands to filter WhatsApp messages for content legality, one must wonder if the UK & EU Governments would be content to extend such features to northern Nigerian or Uganda? #ChatKontrolle #LGBT

2023/04/26
How WhatsApp could shut down service to the UK using “Feature Flags”

2023/04/23