As Meta announces the introduction of Instagram Teen Accounts for users in the UK, USA, Canada and Australia, Handley Gill’s specialist data protection and online trust and safety consultants consider the global laws and regulations that have spurred this change, and the role of the Information Commissioner’s Children’s Code aka the Age Appropriate Design Code, the UK Online Safety Act 2023, the US’ Kids Online Safety Act (‘KOSA’) and the Children and Teen’s Online Privacy Protection Act (‘COPPA 2.0’).
Read MoreThe May 2024 edition of Handley Gill’s monthly digital newsletter, On Hand, with all the latest developments in data protection (UK, EU and global), cyber security, AI and machine learning, content regulation, open justice, access to information, reputation management, digital markets regulation, human rights & ESG. Presented in a readily digestible digital format, those who prefer the traditional newsletter format can export the newsletter to pdf.
Read MoreThe grant of Royal Assent to the Online Safety Act 2023 on 26 October 2023 starts the countdown to Ofcom’s Roadmap to Regulation for user-to-user services, search services, video sharing platforms and services with pornographic content. Handley Gill’s consultants have produced a visual timeline of Ofcom’s proposals for the implementation of the Online Safety Act 2023.
Read MoreAs 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.
Read MoreICO25, the Information Commissioner’s new draft strategic plan for the period 2022-25, currently open for consultation, identifies 15 industry sectors and data processing activities proposed to be the intended focus of the Commissioner’s investigations and enforcement activity in relation to data protection and the processing of personal data under the UK GDPR, Data Protection Act 2018 and Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR), including recruitment, banking and finance, biometrics, the care sector, gambling, CCTV, law enforcement, health, AI and algorithms.
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