Even the UK’s own ICO isn’t so sure. On Oct. 23, Margot James, the U.K.’s digital minister, finally admitted to a House of Commons select committee that she could not categorically guarantee an adequacy agreement with the EU.
Jennifer Baker is on the sofa to talk about Mark Zuckerberg’s failure to show up to a UK parliamentary hearing on Facebook.
This week Russia has stepped up its war on anonymity, while in the EU, more and more countries are opting for mandatory registration of pre-paid SIM cards and it seems only a matter of time before EU-level laws are proposed.
Facebook’s ham-fisted attempts to address the most pressing concerns around disinformation have fallen flat. Its transparency rules forcing political advertisers in the UK to publicly declare when they had paid for an advert are a fiasco!
“We have to look dangerous.” So said European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager when she sat down to talk the future of data and competition with The Privacy Advisor’s Jennifer Baker at Globsec 2018 in Slovakia.
The more properly entitled the Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data, signed by 20 states on Oct.10, has been given an overhaul to bring it into line with the General Data Protection Regulation.
At the Frontier Research and Artificial Intelligence Conference, I am joined by European Research Council grantees Agnieszka Wykowska, Phil Howard, and Simon Thorpe to talk about AI, robotics and machine learning.
Facebook, Google, Twitter and other online ad giants in Europe have signed up to a new, voluntary code of conduct to tackle disinformation online. The move comes as MEPs grow increasingly uneasy about potential disruption to next year’s European Parliament elections.
Following the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal, and just 8 months ahead of the elections, MEPs are worried about malicious interference via Facebook.
Still on the topic of intent: "Humans are obviously slower than machines and take time to think, but that's exactly what's needed when assessing intent", says Mozilla’s @Bennetto90 re: EU Terrorist Content Regulation.
#MozillaMornings
Kicking off the discussion on the Terrorist Content Regulation with @Bennetto90 @infofannny @jorisvanhoboken @BrusselsGeek #mozillamornings
“If the European Commission wants to keep the scope currently foreseen on the EU Terorrist Content Regulation proposal, then it needs to fine-tune & increase the obligations and safeguard provisions” says @Bennetto90 at #MozillaMornings, an opinion shared by the other panellists
How can the shortcomings of the EU Terrorist Content Regulation be tackled? “Through evidence-based policy-making. This is the opposite, it's policy-based evidence-making. There’s no justification for the magnitude of these measures”
@infofannny’s sharp insight #MozillaMornings
Question time at #MozillaMornings on the EU Terrorist Content Regulation: authority to determine illegality and missing mechanisms in the proposal dominate the questions from the audience
