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...
by AVPA | Sep 1, 2022 | Thought Leadership
How do you regulate a foreign porn site? It may be the world-wide web, but governments are still generally national not international (the EU being the exception which proves that rule), so how can any one state hope to regulate the global Internet? Well, it is not...
by AVPA | Aug 28, 2022 | Thought Leadership
There has been some controversy in Germany after a recent series of tweets demonstrated that it may be possible to tamper with real government-issed ID documents, and fool online identity checks Die erste von Andreas Scheuer vorgestellte Führerschein-App...
