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Big tech accountability? Read the backstory to today's policy debates here on Iptegrity.
I was interviewed by the Evening Standard for this article. I'm sharing some of the quotes here:
Online Safety Bill: Last chance for House of Lords to stop mass surveillance powers
by Mary-Ann Russon 19 July 2023
"We call on the peers to stop these mass surveillance powers, reject the government's amendment and vote to support amendments that will ensure the privacy of our chats are protected,” Dr Monica Horten, Open Rights Group’s policy manager for freedom of expression, told the Standard.
"These laws have very little information, they're called skeleton laws. They have the bare bones of what they need in order to pass in Parliament but they leave a lot of stuff out to be decided later on,” Dr Horten stressed.
“The Government is doing again with the Online Safety Bill what they did with the illegal immigration bill – the same sorts of sly manoeuvres that they have done with other bills, but because it's so technical, the bill is getting past slowly because the peers and the public don’t understand it.”
IPtegrity commentary
- UK bulk intercept surveillance - court ruling calls for tighter safeguards
- UK border safety alert - mind the capability gap
- What? Will UK government ignore security as it walks away from EU?
- Britain unplugged: the security risk of no-deal
- Betting on a costly space race: MPs probe OneWeb satellite deal
- Disrupting supply chains: how leaving the Single Market means systemic breakdown
- Big tech and anti-trust: an ill-fitting suit?
- Schrems ruling puts a spoke in UK data flows from 2021
- Digital rights - why they matter in a time of coronavirus
- EU upload filter - Germany's crucial deciding vote
- Copyright Directive upload filter - why EU Council should block it
- Data and Brexit - a mis-calculation?
- EU lawmakers seek to protect free speech in online content rules
- How Brexit rips up business models Part 2: visas for money and music
- How Brexit rips up business models Part 1: putting back barriers
- Norwegian Blue or Super-Canada - is there any life in this parrot?
- EU Copyright Directive - who pays the bill for the upload filter?
Published work
- Algorithms Patrolling Content: Where's the Harm?
- Content responsibility: The looming cloud of uncertainty for Internet intermediaries
- Freedom of Expression, Human Rights Standards and Private Online Censorship
- The Policy Challenge Of Content Restrictions: How Private Actors Engage The Duties Of States
- Internet Policy Review - The Aereo dilemma and copyright in the cloud
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Iptegrity.com is the website of Dr Monica Horten.
I am a tech policy specialist, published author, post-doctoral scholar. I hold a PhD from the University of Westminster, and a DipM from the Chartered Institute of Marketing. Currently working on UK Online Safety Bill.
Recent media quotes: BBC, iNews, Times, Guardian, Politico. Panelist: IAPP, CybersecuritySummit. Parliament and Internet. June 2022-July 2023 w/ Open Rights Group.
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