#surveillancecapitalism #privacy #internetregulation

"Only the EU has thus far passed regulation to stop large platforms’ profiling of minors for advertising purposes." ⤵️
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RT @AmnestyTech
We, @amnesty have previously called for a ban on targeted advertising, which relies on the invasive tracking of users. Only the EU has thus far passed regulation to stop large platforms’ profiling of minors for advertising purposes.

https://www…
https://twitter.com/AmnestyTech/status/1639294093707603968

#Brazil #SocialMedia #InternetRegulation: "The Brazilian government is studying whether to regulate Internet platforms with content that earns revenue such as advertising, its secretary for digital policies, Joao Brant, said on Friday.
The idea would be for a regulator to hold such platforms, not consumers, accountable for monetized content, Brant told Reuters.

Another goal is "to prevent the networks from being used for the dissemination and promotion of crimes and illegal content" especially after the riots by supporters of former far-right President JairBolsonaro in Brasilia in January, fueled by misinformation about the election he lost in October."

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazil-looks-regulate-monetized-content-internet-official-2023-03-17/

#SocialMedia #InternetRegulation #ContentModeration #BigTech: "What I’m trying to point out, is that some good things actually were happening while we were so angry and maybe that their disappearance now isn’t fixed by more anger. Please note that in those five years in which technology companies chose to voluntarily engage, public outrage was at its peak and government regulation failed to pass any legislation that might have mandated such continued good efforts by tech companies.

My point here is somewhat uncomfortable: that maybe some of the blame here is on us. Politically we have missed a huge opportunity to formally mandate these types of voluntary initiatives by technology companies. Or even barring regulation, socially we have failed to create an environment that acknowledged and encouraged the social planner efforts so they continued long enough to improve and normalize."

https://klonick.substack.com/p/the-end-of-the-golden-age-of-tech

#UK #DigitalRights #OSB #OnlineSafetyBill #NannyState #InternetRegulation: "As Rishi Sunak, the country’s prime minister, counts down the clock ahead of next year’s expected general election, the Online Safety Bill has become a litmus test for what the United Kingdom stands for as it charts its own path after leaving the European Union. But there are serious doubts the legislation can deliver on the U.K.’s twin promises of creating a safer internet and promoting itself as a place to do business — all while upholding freedom of speech."

https://www.politico.eu/article/online-safety-bill-uk-westminster-politics/

The next phase of the internet is coming: Here’s what you need to know about Web3
#Tech #Web3 #Internet #SocialMedia #Technology #Cryptocurrency #Web2 #InternetRegulation #DecentralisedWeb
https://the-14.com/the-next-phase-of-the-internet-is-coming-heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-web3/

#UNESCO #HumanRights #DigitalPlatforms #InternetRegulation #ContentModeration: "I sympathize with UNESCO’s desire to impose some order on the tech reckoning that has been spreading around the world for years. In my view, that order requires UN mechanisms to consider how they can ensure that regulatory efforts promote and protect human rights online. Threats to online rights come from the state, from the private sector, from individuals, and human rights principles should indeed guide the actions of all of these actors. But it is not for the UN to promote specific regulatory models, much less to develop templates of regulatory processes. Rather, the UN works best when it reasserts foundational principles and then provides mechanisms of review – whether through UN processes like Universal Periodic Review in the Human Rights Council or periodic review or individual complaints in the human rights treaty bodies. By the same logic, UN principles can be relevant to oversight by regional human rights courts and national human rights institutions and domestic courts."

https://ijclinic.law.uci.edu/2023/02/21/unesco-guidelines-for-regulating-digital-platforms-a-rough-critique/

Linked post provides an article that has "good brief overview of why Section 230 is...[important]...for how the internet works in the US, and what the likely implications are after the Supreme Court issues their decision in Gonzalez v. Google."

https://hcommons.social/@dkompare/109925960991063345

#SCOTUS #GonzalezVGoogle
#Internet
#InternetRegulation
#InternetCensorship
#InternetFreedoms #InternetFreedom
#USPolitics #USPol #Politics

#SocialMedia #Twitter #Algorithms #InternetRegulation: "To meet the imperatives of addressing radicalization at the speed of technology, our approaches need to evolve as well. We need well-staffed and well-resourced teams working inside tech companies to ensure that algorithmic harms do not occur, but we also need legal protections and investment in external auditing methods. Tech companies will not police themselves, especially not with people like Musk in charge. We cannot assume—nor should we ever have assumed—that those in power aren’t also part of the problem."

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/02/elon-musk-twitter-ethics-algorithm-biases/673110/

The hits keep coming! #InternetRegulation #BadIdeas

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UK government consulting on a law enforcement power to "seize IP addresses" (also domain names, but I know how that works) and have their traffic tunnelled. Is that even technically possible? Consultation on #ComputerMisuseAct till 6/4/23 at https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/computer-misuse-act-1990-call-for-information/outcome/review-of-the-computer-misuse-act-1990-consultation-and-response-to-call-for-information#proposals-for-legislative-change

https://scholar.social/@Janet_LegReg/109862814507008200

Big Tech’s proposed internet rules don’t do enough to curb child sex abuse and terrorist material: eSafety commissioner https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/02/10/esafety-commissioner-google-meta-online-safety-regulations/ #eSafetycommissioner #internetregulation #childsexualabuse #OnlineSafetyAct #Technology #technology #terrorism #words_600 #News

I gave a short lecture today (to an undergrad IT law class) on Internet regulation, entitled "People, porn, and pipes".

It featured a few people, no porn, and not many pipes.

But if you're still interested, here are my slides:

https://decoded.legal/presentations/2023-01-20_People_porn_and_pipes/

#fedilaw #InternetRegulation #decodedlegal

#USA #InternetRegulation #ContentModeration #Section230: “In February, the Supreme Court will hear two cases—Twitter v. Taamneh and Gonzalez v. Google—that could alter how the Internet is regulated, with potentially vast consequences. Both cases concern Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act, which grants legal immunity to Internet platforms for content posted by users. The plaintiffs in each case argue that platforms have violated federal antiterrorism statutes by allowing content to remain online. (There is a carve-out in Section 230 for content that breaks federal law.) Meanwhile, the Justices are deciding whether to hear two more cases—concerning laws in Texas and in Florida—about whether Internet providers can censor political content that they deem offensive or dangerous. The laws emerged from claims that providers were suppressing conservative voices.
To talk about how these cases could change the Internet, I recently spoke by phone with Daphne Keller, who teaches at Stanford Law School and directs the program on platform regulation at Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center. (Until 2015, she worked as an associate general counsel at Google.) During our conversation, which has been edited for length and clarity, we discussed what Section 230 actually does, different approaches the Court may take in interpreting the law, and why every form of regulation by platforms comes with unintended consequences.“

https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/two-supreme-court-cases-that-could-break-the-internet

“it is likely that the BAI's new incarnation as the Media Commission will be launched with a potentially fatal flaw in its foundations.

If the EU Commission and Big Tech's lawyers were right and the OSMR Act ought to have been resubmitted to TRIS before it was passed as a law, then the new Irish Regulator for the Internet is at risk of being challenged the first time it takes strong action, and the whole law on which it stands being declared non-applicable.”

#EUlaw #InternetRegulation

Online harms in the UK: the government is rattling ahead towards regulation of UK social media, and prefers a 'duty of care'. Whether this is provides balance, or undermines free speech, largely rests on the notion of risk it takes up.

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2019/duty-of-care:-an-empty-concept

#freespeech #dutyofcare #internetregulation