Online Safety Bill (UK)

[Dimitri]

One more upcoming regulation to look after.

Online Safety Bill : [en.wikipedia.org...]

Another regulation, applying world wide, supposedly to target Internet giants, but applying to every single site with user generated content... and terribly difficult for small sites to handle the administrative part.

It's still working draft, but better keep an eye on it, to be prepared when it goes live.

[engine]

I've been watching its progress over time.

For an online factsheet here's a link [gov.uk...]

[graeme_p]

@Dimitri I though different levels of rules applied to sites of different sizes?

As usual, the laws are written by politicians who have no idea. From the factsheet @engine linked to:

As a last resort, Ofcom will be able to require a platform to use highly accurate technology to scan public and private channels for child sexual abuse material. The use of this power will be subject to strict safeguards to protect users’ privacy. Highly accurate automated tools will ensure that legal content is not affected.

Highly accurate automated tools exist do they? What is the volume of false positives platforms will have to deal with. I suspect there a misunderstanding of statistics and the usual failure to understand a test can have high specificity and high sensitivity and still have a high ratio of false positives to true positives.

[tangor]

Government always builds an elephant when a mouse will do.

Headaches to come!

[tangor]

Appears today that the vote on the bill will be delayed for another three months.

[techcrunch.com...]

[Dimitri]

the fate of the bill will clearly now rest with the new prime minister — and their appetite for regulating online speech.

This is where you see that the system is not sane (not only in the UK) , ...