Privacy Archives

Ben Avison May 1, 2024 Insights, Lead Story

RAID 2024 unites legislators and regulators on global tech opportunities and challenges

Senior figures from Europe, Asia, the Americas and Africa came together at RAID Virtual 2024 on 30 April to discuss how to “Innovate, Regulate and Implement with Courage and Caution”, with several speakers highlighting the growing importance of RAID as…

Khushbu Raval February 21, 2024 Insights, RAID Tech Policy Bytes

EU probes TikTok for potential child safety and privacy violations

European Union has launched investigations into TikTok over child protection and privacy concerns on its platform. These investigations are in response to allegations of addictive design, failure to enforce screen time limits, and inadequate age verification systems. The EU’s Digital…

raidtech July 13, 2023 Insights

Can technology be part of the solution to enhance privacy?

Tech companies and governmental organisations exchanged views on the role of technology in privacy at CPDP2023 “Data is powering so much innovation in the computing space. But what’s also clearly front of mind Is the infection point of AI,” Anthony…

raidtech June 14, 2023 Insights

Ensuring children’s privacy online in a fragmented policy landscape

How to best protect children’s privacy online is a huge challenge for policymakers, regulatory authorities, parents and educators, technology companies and children themselves. Jurisdictions have various policies at different stages of development, with little national, regional and international alignment between…

raidtech December 15, 2022 Insights

Walking the tightrope between online safety and privacy

What are governments and tech companies doing with regard to digital safeguarding, and how can we ensure that we achieve the right balance with other digital rights? At RAID H2 conference in October 2022 Prof. Victoria Baines, IT Livery Company…

raidtech December 14, 2022 Insights

Is consent a panacea for online danger?

Does consent offer the best privacy and safety for internet users? And what are the issues around consent as a legal basis when it comes to children? Steve Wood, Consultant, Allen & Overy, Cecilia Álvarez, Director of Privacy Policy Engagement,…

raidtech October 21, 2022 Insights

RAID’s “rich dialogue” unlocks global opportunities of tech governance

At RAID (Regulation of Artificial intelligence, Internet and Data) H2 on October 10th, Online policymakers, regulators and industry united to work towards systems of “New Tech Governance for the New Globalization”. The biannual conference highlighted the need for industry, regulators…

raidtech October 2, 2022 Insights

Making light work of dark patterns

At a Privacy Laws & Business webinar, experts from Meta, Stanford, the Norwegian Consumer Council and Amadeus revealed the prevalence of dark patterns and what businesses, regulators and policymakers can do to prevent them. Ben Avison reports The term…

raidtech May 10, 2022 Insights

Lawmakers and technologists strive for equilibrium at RAID (Regulation of Artificial intelligence, Internet and Data)

At RAID (Regulation of Artificial intelligence, Internet and Data) Digital on 4th May 2022, legislators, regulators and technology industry experts resolved to “create balance in a precarious world”. 40 speakers joined from the European Commission, European Parliament, UNESCO, national governments…

raidtech April 13, 2022 Comment

A bird’s eye view of privacy

Prof. Mette Birkedal Bruun, Director of the Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre for Privacy Studies shares her expectations of RAID Digital, and how history can help with today’s challenges How do you see the research in historical privacy concerning…