Kitten With A Whip 1964 USA action crime thriller by Douglas Heyes, once banned by the BBFC, just released on US Blu-ray
Liberty
Offsite Article:
Cloud extraction technology The secret tech that lets government
agencies collect masses of data from your apps. By Privacy International
UK Internet
Offsite Article:
Harmful government Internet regulation is necessary but an overzealous
Online Harms bill could harm our rights. By Michael Drury and Julian Hayes
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The Digital Economy Act 2017 threatened to introduce strict age verification for internet porn access coupled with ISP blocking for websites that don't comply.
However the legislation was fundamentally flawed by its voluntary approach to privacy and security. After a series of delays, the age verification section of the bill was put out of its misery in October 2019.
The censorship of internet porn will now
be carried over into the Online Harms Bill which has wider ambitions on the censorship of the whole internet. This bill will be discussed during 2020.
Prior to the Online Harms Bill will be consideration of the extension of EU VoD censorship
under an updated AVMS directive. Ofcom had previously mirrored censorship arrangements as proposed for the Digital Economy Act but now may need to reconsider as age verification services will not be so readily available.
Meanwhile the Information
Commissioner's Office is considering wide ranging age verification requirements for most websites in the name of data protection for children, Eg Amazon shoppers may have to prove being 16+ before being allowed to hand over personal details to online
checkouts. The ICO was due to present its proposals by 23rd November 2019 but this has now been delayed until a new government is in place.
The Rhythm Section Resubmitted to the BBFC in a slightly shorter version prior to release
Cuts and Bans 19th Jan
Rambo: Last Blood 2019 USA action western adventure by Adrian Grunberg just released on UK Blu-ray and DVD in the shorter US/UK version (because we
know Rambo and don't need a scene setter)
Cuts and Bans 17th Jan
Tammy and the T-Rex 1994 USA comedy Sci-Fi film by Stewart Raffill set for US Blu-ray/DVD Combo release on 28th January 2020 with the Gore Cut
Hammer Films 17th Jan
The Mummy's Shroud 1967 UK horror by John Gilling, once cut by the BBFC, just released on US Blu-ray
UK Internet 25th Jan
A Brexit bounty UK Government wisely decides not to adopt the EU's disgraceful Copyright Directive that requires YouTube and Facebook to
censor people's uploads if they contain even a snippet of copyrighted material
Privacy 24th Jan
Do not snoop, do not profile, and do not earn any money Newspapers realise that the ICO default child
protection policy may be very popular with adults too, and so it may prove tough to get them to age verify as required for monetisation
Unsafe law Elspeth Howe introduces a House of Lords Bill Private Member's Bill to resurrect the deeply flawed and unsafe age verification
requirements for adult porn websites
Sex Aware 26th Jan
Offsite Article:
Silly Society, Sex Toys Don't Have Age Limits. By Chelsea McCain
