Hello hello again.
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Mariano delli Santireplied to Mariano delli Santi last edited by
I must support the statement above from Clement-Jones: digital technologies have normative power, and edtech providers can choose what data is collected and for what reason, how an individual can interact with it, and what choices, preferences and behaviours are allowed, rewarded, prohibited or punished. The question is never if regulating is needed, but who should be answering these questions: our democratic institutions, or a private edtech provider?
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Mariano delli Santireplied to Mariano delli Santi last edited by
Of course, the more you delay regulation, the more edtech providers will enforce their own norms and regulations, after which they will present these as the status quo. Delaying regulation favours large technology companies and bad actors, not innovation.
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Mariano delli Santireplied to Mariano delli Santi last edited by
Lord Holmes now presents an amendment that would change the computer misuse act to protect cybersecurity researchers from unjust prosecution for their work.
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Mariano delli Santireplied to Mariano delli Santi last edited by
That's on me that I had completely missed these amendments. They relate to an important issue I engaged with quite some time ago, although in a rather different consultation https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/computer-misuse-act-1990-open-rights-group-submission-to-the-home-office/
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Mariano delli Santireplied to Mariano delli Santi last edited by
The long story short is: the Computer Misuse Act criminalises violating the security of an IT system regardless of whether this is being done with fraudolent or malicious intent, or with the aim of testing the security of the system and identifying vulnerabilities. In turn, this exposes cybersecurity researchers to the risk of prosecution for carrying out an all too-important public interest job
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Mariano delli Santireplied to Mariano delli Santi last edited by
Clement-Jones (LIBDEM) now also intervenes in support of such amendment, he argues it is important to introduce such a legal protection for cybersecurity researchers. He says, the UK is currently at a disadvantage against other countries who have updated their cybercrime laws to address this issue
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Mariano delli Santireplied to Mariano delli Santi last edited by
Clement-Jones also points out to the fact that several industries, the cyberup campaign, academics and other stakeholders have all argued in favour of these changes, which would support innovation and reserach in a sector vital for national security
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Mariano delli Santireplied to Mariano delli Santi last edited by
Lord Kirkhope also supports these amendments, calls on the Govt to work at a faster speed to address these new technolgy issues, again he mentions AI (in this case, he's undisputably right: changes to the CMA1990 are long overdue, and the UK Govt is clearly lagging behind Europe when it comes to AI regulation)
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Mariano delli Santireplied to Mariano delli Santi last edited by
[Anyway streaming is being awfully slow for me, so if I am missing anything in this coverage is usually because I have to reload the page and connect again—turning it off and on for the win)]
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Mariano delli Santireplied to Mariano delli Santi last edited by
Anyway from Lord Holmes concluding remarks, I suspect Labur is putting as always their head in the sand, and is not willing to change the Computer Misuse Act at this time
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