by AVPA | Jan 12, 2023 | Thought Leadership
We have provided technical input to support a number of charities and campaign groups seeking to amend the Online Safety Bill to extend the scope of its provisions around pornograpphy and ensure these come into force as quickly as possible. Loading... Taking...
by AVPA | Dec 28, 2022 | Thought Leadership
2023 marks the centenary of age verification. It was in 1923 that the first female Member of Parliament in the UK, Nancy Astor, passed a Private Members Bill, the “Intoxicating Liquor (Sale to Persons under Eighteen) Act” making 18 the legal age to buy alcohol. As...
by AVPA | Dec 5, 2022 | Thought Leadership
A number of human rights and LGBTQ+ organizations wrote to members of the US Congress last week opposing a kids’ online safety bill (KOSA) they argue would not actually help make the Internet a better place for children and teens. We wanted to respond to their...
by AVPA | Nov 30, 2022 | Thought Leadership
We’ve spent the past year working with representatives of the police, trading standards officers, retailers, the Institute of Licensing and other experts in the field to review the practical implementation of the UK’s licensing laws, under the auspices of HM...
by AVPA | Nov 29, 2022 | Thought Leadership
Fraser Nelson, Editor of The Spectator, has quite reasonably raised a list of questions he still has about the impact on free speech of the Online Safety Bill in this article: “The Online Safety Bill is still a censor’s charter“. As many of these refer to age...
by AVPA | Sep 26, 2022 | Thought Leadership
The French data protection authority (DPA) is the Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL). This translates literally as the “National Commission for Computing and Liberties” and this perhaps provides some insight into their natural...
