Part 3 of a short series of reflections on Ofcom’s Illegal Harms consultation under the Online Safety Act 2023 (OSA). This post analyses the illegality duties created by the OSA. That is not as simple as one might hope. The intrepid reader has to hack their way through a thicket of separately defined, subtly differing, duties….
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This is the fifth and final post in a blog series in honor of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Cybersecurity might seem like technical stuff, but don’t overlook the role of physical vulnerabilities in security incidents. The 2018 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report found that 11% of breaches involved physical actions. The 2016 Verizon Data Breach…
This is Part 2 of a short series of reflections on Ofcom’s Illegal Harms Consultation under the Online Safety Act 2023 (OSA). Ofcom are currently in the process of considering submissions following closure of the consultation in February 2o24. The very title of the Ofcom consultation — Illegal Harms — prompts questions about the illegality…
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