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Ofcom consults on new guidance about age assurance under the Online Safety Act

News • December 5, 2023

Ofcom has published its next consultation regarding the Online Safety Act 2023 about age assurance. Part 5 of the Act imposes specific duties on service providers that display or publish pornographic content on their online services. These include the duty to implement age assurance to ensure that children are not normally able to encounter such…

Ofcom issues first consultation under Online Safety Act 2023

News • November 13, 2023

Ofcom has published its first consultation under the Online Safety Act 2023. It focuses on its proposals for how internet services that enable the sharing of user-generated content (user-to-user services) and search services should approach their new duties relating to illegal content. It covers: the causes and impacts of illegal harms; how services should assess…

3D Avatars, graveyards, and the Law

Analysis • January 31, 2023

Mauricio Figueroa ponders what will happen to the avatars of the dead in the metaverse….

European Commission outlines strategies for data and artificial intelligence

February 21, 2020

Consultation on white paper on AI open until May 19 2020. BEUC calls for action to safeguard consumers….

This Week’s Techlaw News Round-Up

February 21, 2020

EDPB holds its eighteenth plenary session The EDPB has held its eighteenth plenary session. During the session, the EDPB discussed various issues. It says that the GDPR’s application in its first 20 months has been successful. However, the need for sufficient resources for all supervisory authorities is still a concern and some challenges remain, resulting,…

ICO consults on their AI auditing framework draft guidance

February 19, 2020

Regulator wants the guidance to be “both conceptually sound and applicable to real life situations”. Closes 1st April….

Techlaw News Round-Up

February 14, 2020

EDPB consults on guidelines on processing personal data in the context of connected vehicles and mobility related applications The European Data Protection Board has launched a consultation on processing personal data in the context of connected vehicles and mobility related applications. The consultation ends on 20 March 2020. The scope of the consultation focuses in particular…