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Ending illegal online advertising
When you see an advertisement online, chances are that Real-Time Bidding advertising systems (RTB AdTech) have just auctioned your personal data, illegally, to hundreds of companies vying for your attention.
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Stop state censorship of online speech
What’s legal to say should be legal to type – a government regulator shouldn’t control your speech, online or off – yet the new Online Safety Bill could lead to just that, or worse.
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17 Sep 2021 By Heather Burns
Papers please: nationality checks for the British internet?
Over the course of the debate on how to tackle online harms, we’ve drawn attention to the risks to digital and human rights which can arise when technical solutionism meets poorly drafted legislation.
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15 Sep 2021 By Heather Burns
How the Online Safety Bill lets politicians define free speech
The Joint Pre-Legislative Scrutiny committee has opened its work into the draft Online Safety Bill.
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14 Sep 2021 By Mariano delli Santi
Vandalising your privacy rights
Anything you say and do can and will be used against you.
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10 Sep 2021 By Mariano delli Santi
Why on earth is the Government mucking about with our privacy laws?
Thursday evening, the UK Government published their long-awaited proposal for a new UK data protection regime.
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