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Digital Economy Act

June 2022

  • Illustration for Georg Riekeles' piece on Silicon Valley and the EU

    This is Europe
    I saw first-hand how US tech giants seduced the EU – and undermined democracy

    Georg Riekeles
    Silicon Valley used opaque lobbying to weaken crucial new regulations. Firms like Google and Meta must be held to account

July 2021

  • Facial recognition technology could help tell children from adults.

    Can facial analysis technology create a child-safe internet?

    Determining a person’s age online seems like an intractable problem. But new technology and laws could be on the brink of solving it

October 2018

  • An entry page to a pornographic website

    Millions of porn videos will not be blocked by UK online age checks

    Clause means children will be able to view content on social media and image-sharing sites

March 2018

  • A pornographic website in a browser's address bar

    UK website age checks could create Facebook of porn, critics warn

    Fears draft rules could threaten users’ privacy by letting one firm collect vast amounts of data

October 2017

  • Graham Ruddick Media editor

    Media blog
    Nick Robinson's ideas about how the BBC can regain trust are valid

    Graham Ruddick Media editor
    Rift over criticism of alternative news sites’ impact on people’s perception of BBC should not distract mainstream media from much-needed self-examination

July 2017

  • Christina Patterson

    Porn warps culture. I hope credit-card checks nudge adults out of the habit

    Christina Patterson
  • An entry page for a pornography website

    Privacy campaigners criticise UK plan for age checks on porn websites

December 2016

  • Google

    Labour calls for closer scrutiny of tech firms and their algorithms

    Industrial strategy paper demands supervision of unseen and automated bits of digital economy whose outcomes have real impact on people and society

November 2016

  • The BBFC has told the Guardian it would be required to check if websites contain the kind of pornographic content it would normally refuse to classify.

    What, how and why? The UK's new online porn restrictions explained

    A new digital economy bill intends to block websites hosting ‘unconventional’ sexual content. So who decides what is conventional, and who will implement and police such a ban?

October 2016

  • Filing cabinets

    Personal data, privacy and the totalitarian state

    Letters: Data-sharing must remain justified and proportionate. Routinely collected data must not become routinely shared data

June 2014

  • Young woman typing on laptop

    Civil servants will require digital skills under new tech plan for government

    Policy Exchange says proposals will improve the quality of public services and save billions by 2020. Natalie Gil reports

August 2013

  • Pirate Bay's first server

    Pirate Bay's 10th birthday is a milestone for internet freedom

    Loz Kaye

    Loz Kaye: Ten years on, the groundbreaking filesharing site is still an emblem of the debate over censorship and digital policy

August 2012

  • Supporter of The Pirate Bay, waves a flag

    Behind the music
    Behind the music: This column might be ending, but the fight continues

    Helienne Lindvall: After more than four years, Behind the Music is coming to an end – but there will be no let up in the effort to get a fair deal for artists

June 2012

  • Pirate flag Computer

    Ofcom outlines new anti-piracy rules

    Draft code details new 'three strikes' policy for illegal downloaders, to come into effect from March 2014. By Mark Sweney

March 2012

  • BT

    BT and TalkTalk lose challenge against Digital Economy Act

    Internet service providers lose final appeal after court rules the Digital Economy Act is legal and compatible with European law. By Josh Halliday

October 2011

  • Feargal Sharkey

    Tech city talks
    Tech Weekly Live: Tech City Talk (Intellectual Property) reading list

    Here's a list of links related to tonight's Tech Weekly Tech City Talk: intellectual property, copyright and ownership

  • Buckingham Palace

    Tech city talks
    Tech Weekly Live: Tech City Talk (Innovation and Entrepreneurs) reading list

    Every week, we'll publish a list of links related to the topic of Tech Weekly's next Tech City Talk.

    • Tech city talks
      Tech Weekly Live: Tech City Talk - Innovation and Entrepreneurs registration

    • Tech city talks
      Tech Weekly's Tech City Talks: the skills debate

    • Tech city talks
      Tech Weekly Tech City Talk: Copyright and intellectual property

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