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Looking for help with the Online Safety Act - Ofcom consultation & guidelines? Please get in touch.
I have written another briefing paper on the Telecoms package. Called The Telecoms Package and ‘3 strikes’ – voluntary cooperation to restrict downloads , the paper argues that the EU is recommending 'voluntary' agreements between ISPs and right-holders for copyright enforcement. The nature of these agreements can be interpreted from the ongoing written communications put forward by rights-holders, indicating 3-strikes measures and filtering.
You can read it here. I have amended my paper of 21 July to include the change to Annex 1, Point 19 of the Authorisation Directive- click here to download the pdf.
You are free to use it or quote from it, provided you attribute it to the author.
Online Safety Bill
- Online Safety Bill passes as US court blocks age-checks law
- Online Safety Bill: ray of hope for free speech
- National Crime Agency to run new small boats social media centre
- Online Safety Bill: does government want to snoop on your WhatsApps?
- What is content of democratic importance?
- Online Safety Bill: One rule for them and another for us
- Online Safety Bill - Freedom to interfere?
- Copyright-style website blocking orders slipped into Online Safety Bill
- 2 billion cost to British businesses for Online Safety Bill
- Online Safety Bill: Ministers to get unprecedented powers over speech
- What's the point of the Online Safety Bill?
IPtegrity commentary
- Meta rolls out encryption as political headwinds ease
- EU law set for new course on child online safety
- MEPs reach political agreement to protect children and privacy
- UK border safety alert - mind the capability gap
- What? Will UK government ignore security as it walks away from EU?
- 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?
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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About Iptegrity
Iptegrity.com is the website of Dr Monica Horten. I am an independent policy advisor, with expertise in online safety, technology and human rights. I am a published author, and post-doctoral scholar. I hold a PhD from the University of Westminster, and a DipM from the Chartered Institute of Marketing. I cover the UK and EU. I'm a former tech journalist, and an experienced panelist and Chair. My media credits include the BBC, iNews, Times, Guardian and Politico.
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