Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash [Download]

UK Internet attitudes study finds public support for social media regulation

UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has published a brand spanking new joint file and stat-fest on Web attitudes and usage with the national wisdom protection watchdog, the ICO — a quantitative find out about to be published annually which they’re calling the On-line Country file. The emblem new development hints at the d…
UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has published a new joint report and stat-fest on Internet attitudes and usage with the national data protection watchdog, the ICO — a quantitative study to be published annually which they’re calling the Online Nation report. The new structure hints at the d…

Original article
Original article
Author: Natasha Lomas

TechCrunch is a leading technology media property, dedicated to obsessively profiling startups, reviewing new Internet products, and breaking tech news.

Natasha Lomas has recently written 8 articles on similar topics including :
  1. "An investigation into this summers Twitter hack by the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYSDFS) has ended with a stinging rebuke for how easily Twitter let itself be duped by a simple social engineering technique and with a wider call for key social medi". (October 14, 2020)
  2. "Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is in Europe this week attending a security conference in Germany over the weekend where he spoke about the kind of regulation hed like applied to his platform ahead of a slate of planned meetings with digital heavyweights at the European Commission". (February 17, 2020)
  3. "The UK government has taken the next step in its grand policymaking challenge to tame the worst excesses of social media by regulating a broad range of online harms naming the existing communications watchdog, Ofcom, as its preferred pick for enforcing rules around harmful speech&#82". (February 12, 2020)
  4. "The idea for Capsule started with a tweet about reinventing social media". (January 18, 2021)
  5. "Facebook wants to be the arbiter of truth after all. At least when it comes to intentionally misleading deepfakes and heavily manipulated and/or synthesized media content, such as AI-generated photorealistic human faces that look like real people but arent". (January 7, 2020)
  6. "Google VP Vint Cerf has voiced support for a single set of standards for internet platforms to apply around political advertising. Speaking to the U.K". (March 9, 2020)
  7. "Research presented at the ACM FAT 2020 conference in Barcelona today supports the notion that YouTubes platform is playing a role in radicalizing users via exposure to far-right ideologies". (January 28, 2020)
  8. "Google has fired a lobbying pot-shot at a looming change to the law in Australia that will force it to share ad revenue with local media businesses whose content its platforms monetize seeking to mobilize its users against big media". (August 17, 2020)
Posted on  , , , , , ,