Tag: Digital Economy Act 2017

The UK government has said it anticipates its new age verification requirements "will be enforceable by the end of the year." It's now mid-October and many of the details of ...

LONDON – I remember sitting down with a software developer in early 2005 to look at a 2257-compliance software solution he had written. I was running a sizeable affiliate program ...

MADRID – Facebook “does not adequately collect the consent of either its users or nonusers” before collecting and sharing intensely personal information about their lives, according to the Spanish Data ...

LONDON – With the implementation of Britain’s Digital Economy Act 2017 looming (at some still-uncertain point in the future), privacy advocates and IT experts once again are warning the public about ...

LONDON – Multinational adult entertainment conglomerate MindGeek has become the boogeyman in the contentious U.K. debate about age-verification and internet porn. Beginning in April 2018, adult websites must verify all ...

LONDON – It’s not every day you read something in which an advocate for stricter regulation of the internet comes right out and admits, in so many words, what she’s ...

LONDON – As the U.K. government prepares to roll out an update to the Digital Economy Act, a great deal of commentary is rightfully focused on questions about privacy, the ...

LONDON – No one is immune from clickbait, it seems. “Mobile Phone Porn Fuels Rise of Sex Crimes in Schools” screams a headline on the July 17 edition of The ...

First, British Prime Minister Theresa May’s conservative government cracked down on adult entertainment, online and off, in ways many inside and outside the industry fear will lead to “regulation creep” ...