{"id":8353,"date":"2019-03-09T01:49:11","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T01:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/lords-urge-tougher-rules-for-tech-firms\/"},"modified":"2019-03-09T01:49:11","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T01:49:11","slug":"lords-urge-tougher-rules-for-tech-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/lords-urge-tougher-rules-for-tech-firms\/","title":{"rendered":"Lords urge tougher rules for tech firms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Tech firms, such as Google and Facebook, must improve their “inadequate” responses to privacy and data breaches and anti-social content, a House of Lords report says.<\/p>\n

The House of Lords Communications Committee wants a digital authority to help laws keep pace with technology.<\/p>\n

Content moderation used by tech firms was “unacceptably slow,” it said.<\/p>\n

The Internet Association, whose members include Twitter and Amazon, said firms were committed to keeping users safe.<\/p>\n

“Our members work hard to keep their services free of some of the most serious issues that the report mentions – from strong terms and conditions; to investment in hiring teams and improving systems for removing inappropriate content,” a spokesman from the lobby group said.<\/p>\n

The report, Regulating in a Digital World, said: “Self-regulation by online platforms which host user-generated content, including social media platforms, is failing. Their moderation processes are unacceptably opaque and slow.”<\/p>\n

Too tech-dependent?<\/h2>\n

The Lords Communication Committee chairman Lord Gilbert of Panteg said rule makers were failing to keep up with the speed at which technology was infiltrating every part of daily life.<\/p>\n

“We have become so dependent on a very small number of companies and platforms. <\/p>\n

“Tech companies have a special responsibility, yet they have not done enough to reduce online harm.<\/p>\n

“Harmful, anti-social content – available freely on many platforms – is now greater than ever before,” Lord Gilbert said.<\/p>\n

The report comes in the wake of high-profile data and privacy breaches, such as the Cambridge Analytica scandal, where Facebook users’ profile data was harvested for third parties without their consent or knowledge.<\/p>\n

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Lord Gilbert said he would like to see harsher penalties when tech companies broke rules, by giving any new authority the ability to fine tech companies a percentage of their global turnover.<\/p>\n

More than a dozen UK regulators currently have a role covering part of the digital world, but there is no government organisation that has complete oversight.<\/p>\n

The committee proposes that a so-called Digital Authority would have that oversight and include former tech company employees to make sure it stays ahead of the curve.<\/p>\n

The government is due to respond to its report within two months.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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