New regulations on content platforms in the #OnlineSafetyBill will mean companies go overboard with moderation to avoid large fines. Context-blind algorithms will limit debate and people in need of help will find it harder to get support.

#BlockTheBill #FreedomOfExpression

Privacy is Online Safety. The government is trading this away to put surveillance on your phone through the #OnlineSafetyBill

Email your MP (UK) today #BlockTheBill

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/write-your-mp-help-stop-online-safety-bill

#privacy #freedomofexpression

Privacy is Online Safety. The government is trading this away to put surveillance on your phone through the #OnlineSafetyBill

Email your MP (UK) today #BlockTheBill

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/write-your-mp-help-stop-online-safety-bill

#privacy #freedomofexpression

"Messages of everyone using private chat services could be intercepted and scanned under a government mandate. It is a new form of mass surveillance. It is a highly intrusive and disproportionate measure that is being imposed by an almost invisible phrase in the bill."

Our policy manager, Dr Monica Horten, warns of the spy clause inserted into the #OnlineSafetyBill

#BlockTheBill #privacy #freedomofexpression

https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/online-safety-bills-spy-clause-will-pave-way-for-state-mandated-mass-surveillance-of-whatsapp-messages-2005430

Content scanning tech on our messages raises serious concerns about the consequence of false positive matches.

Here a father had his Google accounts locked and was investigated by the police for sharing a photo of his son with a doctor for diagnosis.

#OnlineSafetyBill #BlockTheBill #privacy

https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/21/23315513/google-photos-csam-scanning-account-deletion-investigation

Content scanning software checks images and words for markers, or digital fingerprints, on social media and private messaging. When there’s a match, the AI will remove or report it. This includes false positives made by algorithms that can’t account for context.

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The Head of WhatsApp, Will Cathcart, told Tech Tent that the company might withdraw from the UK if they were forced to introduce client-side scanning by the #OnlineSafetyBill, as it would undermine the security of end-to-end encryption. #BlockTheBill

#privacy #encryption #E2EE #cybersecurity

The government wants to get in your DMs.

The #OnlineSafetyBill will make messaging apps scan what you're saying and what images you're sharing before they get encrypted. It unlocks your privacy.

Email your MP (UK) today: https://action.openrightsgroup.org/write-your-mp-help-stop-online-safety-bill

#BlockTheBill #PrivacyIsOnlineSafety #privacy #freedomofexpression

The Online Safety Bill unlocks your privacy. Our Campaigns Manager @JamesBaker breaks it down. #BlockTheBill

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🚨 Chat monitoring sneaked into Online Safety Bill through back door measure.

The spy clause goes beyond scanning public posts to include messaging platforms like Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger and Signal.

This is a disproportionate expansion in surveillance capacity that puts everyone's privacy at risk.

We urge people in the UK to write to your MP. #BlockTheBill

#OnlineSafetyBill #privacy #freedomofspeech #cybersecurity

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/chat-monitoring-sneaked-into-online-safety-bill-through-back-door-measure/

The government wants to scan your messages and photos before they get encrypted. If they can do it, so can others.

#OnlineSafetyBill #PrivacyIsOnlineSafety #BlockTheBill

We asked what you think about the #OnlineSafetyBill

Freedom of expression is underpinned by the right to form an opinion without interference. Age-verification will restrict access to the Internet, unless you pay with your privacy.

Write to your MP today https://action.openrightsgroup.org/write-your-mp-help-stop-online-safety-bill

#BlockTheBill #privacy #freedomofexpression #freedomofopinion

Age-verification will increase the collection of personal data. That information can be used and sold, including for fraud. It will also restrict access to support services for young people by creating a gated Internet.

Privacy is online safety. #BlockTheBill

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Back in 2006, I thought that the Smoking Ban and proposals for ID Cards were unacceptably authoritarian. Had the proposal been "every website must take a mugshot before letting you use it" I probably would've laughed until my head fell off.
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https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/23/23179752/instagram-age-verification-ai-social-vouching-methods

The age-verification system being tested by Instagram is 'less accurate for female faces and people with darker skin.' For under-24s 'its estimates can be off by up to 2.5 years.'

The #OnlineSafetyBill permits any tech to check your age. From social media to search engines, what you can access online will be decided by biased AI running guesstimates.

Bad law creates injustice. #CodedBias

#BlockTheBill #privacy #freedomofexpression

https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/23/23179752/instagram-age-verification-ai-social-vouching-methods

Finally got round to emailing my MP about this awful Bill.

There's good information up at the Open Rights Group, along with a tool for emailing your MP.

Go go go!

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/write-your-mp-help-stop-online-safety-bill

#BlockTheBill #OnlineSafetyBill #privacy #FreedomOfExpression

The very idea of "age-gating the Internet", per the #Tories' #OnlineSafetyBill, is an assault on free expression hidden behind the age-old reactionary canard of "think of the children".

They tried it with the failed "#PornBlock", and now it's back in expanded form.

The Internet was never designed to be a playground and children should not be being let loose on it. Parents should be expected to use widely-available parental controls and app/web filters to restrict content instead.
#BlockTheBill

Culture Secretary, Michelle Donelan, told the Today programme that the Online Safety Bill is silent on what technology can be used for age-verification.

The role of age-gating the Internet will be filled by AI that's known for biased and discriminatory outcomes.

#BlockTheBill #OnlineSafetyBill #privacy #freedomofexpression

Legal but harmful is out of the #OnlineSafetyBill but age-verification remains.

Our policy manager, Dr Monica Horten, says "companies are likely to use AI systems analysing biometric data including head and hand measurements, and voices" leading to a gated Internet.

#BlockTheBill #privacy #freedomofexpression

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-63782082

📢 Online Safety Bill sinking under flood of amendments

Read our press release on the Bill's return to Parliament with new proposals that seek "to solve a host of problems with draconian regulation."

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/online-safety-bill-sinking-under-flood-of-amendments/

#BlockTheBill #PrivacyIsOnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyBill