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Truss calls time for TikTok?
Truss calls time for TikTok?

As Conservative Party Leadership Contest candidate Liz Truss threatened to crack down on ByteDance, the Chinese owner of social media platform TikTok, during the BBC’s News Special ‘Our Next Prime Minister’ on 25 July 2022, we explore how she might seek to do that under the National Security and Investment Act 2021, through amendments to the Online Safety Bill and/or Data Protection and Digital Information Bill and through the actions of regulators Ofcom and the Information Commissioner.

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Nicola CainConservative Party, Conservative Party Leader, Prime Minister, Liz Truss, Nadine Dorries, Secretary of State for Digital Culture Media and Sport, Foreign Secretary, TikTok, ByteDance, China, Rishi Sunak, Faisal Islam, BBC, National Security and Investment Act 2021, The National Security and Investment Act 2021 (Notifiable Acquisition) (Specification of Qualifying Entities) Regulations 2021, Defamation, Absolute Privilege, ONLINE SAFETY BILL, Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, Data Protection & Digital Information Bill, DPDI Bill, OFCOM, Information Commissioner, Information Commissioner's Office, Information Commission, ICO25, Fit and Proper, Video on Demand, VOD, Video Streaming Sites, Video Sharing Platforms, VSPs, International data transfers, Data Localisation, Prior Consultation, Statement of Strategic Priorities, Kemi Badenoch, CONTENT REGULATION, Platform Regulation, Technology Regulation, USER GENERATED CONTENT, UGCComment
Rishi’s capital gains?
Rishi’s capital gains?

Former Chancellor and Conservative Party leadership candidate Rishi Sunak’s promise that one of his top priorities will be the removal of the burdens of the GDPR need not be interpreted as a significant departure from the proposals for the Data Reform Bill set out in the Government’s response to the Data: A New Direction consultation, but it will rely on the European Commission adopting equality of approach and not seeking to punish the UK for Brexit.

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Nicola CainData Protection, Personal Data, GDPR, UK GDPR, Data Protection Act 2018, PECR, Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations, Data Protection Reform, Data: A New Direction, Data Reform Bill, Queen's Speech, Bill of Rights, EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Adequacy Decision, UK Adequacy, Brexit, International data transfers, Transatlantic Data Privacy Framework, Conservative Party, Conservative Party Leader, Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, Data Protection & Digital Information BillComment
Is the Online Safety Bill safe?
Is the Online Safety Bill safe?

Conclusion of the Report stage of the Online Safety Bill in the House of Commons, which was scheduled for 20 July, has now been postponed until after the summer recess. Responding to the news, Conservative Party leadership candidate Kemi Badenoch described the Bill as being “in no fit state to become law”, raising the prospect that the Online Safety Bill may become safer, but for whom?

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Nicola CainOnline Safety, Online Harms, Bill 285 2021-22, Bill 004 2022-23, Bill 121 2022-23, ONLINE SAFETY BILL, Platform Regulation, Technology Regulation, Tech Regulation, Content Regulation, Social Media, User Generated Content, UGC, Digital Regulation, Conservative Party, Conservative Party Leader, Prime Minister, DCMS, Department for Digital Culture Media & Sport, Ofcom, Age Verification, Age Assurance, CSAM, Kemi BadenochComment