It is just under a year and a half ago that I found myself writing a piece called ‘A Black Friday’.
Assisted Suicide
Peter Ladd
James Mildred
The communications regulator, Ofcom, have published a statement adding new measures to their Illegal Content Codes of Practice. They make new recommendations to online platforms to use automated detection technology to reduce…
Pornography
Wednesday’s King’s Speech, outlining the government’s legislative agenda for the coming session of Parliament, included a commitment to ban “abusive conversion practices”.
Freedom of Speech
The British Medical Association (BMA) have warned about the dangers posed by artificial intelligence platforms used to manage health data for the NHS. They recommend a strategy for ‘data sovereignty’ to ensure…
Artificial Intelligence
Major wins in regulation of online pornography
Pornography
Scottish Parliament rejects Assisted Suicide Bill
Assisted Suicide
CARE for Scotland urges MSPs to reject assisted suicide ahead of…
Assisted Suicide
CARE for Scotland comment: Royal College of Psychiatrists switches to oppose…
Assisted Suicide
Freedom of Speech
The British Medical Association (BMA) has said that it no longer opposes the implementation of Baroness Cass’ review into gender identity medicine for children and young people.
Transgender
Ahead of the elections for the Welsh Senedd and Scottish Parliament on Thursday, some of the most popular artificial intelligence chatbots have been found to give false and misleading information to prospective…
Artificial Intelligence
A new report by the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner identifies the issues driving an increase in modern slavery referrals in the UK, including poverty, conflict, and unsafe migration, as well as new technologies…
Modern Slavery
The University of Sussex, which was fined a record £585,000 for failing to uphold freedom of speech, has won a legal challenge against the fine.
Freedom of Speech
The Home Office has formally identified Rachel Louw, who was abused by Mohammed Al Fayed, and his brother Salah, as a victim of trafficking and modern slavery.
Modern Slavery
New research has found that 61% of Australian children aged 12 to 15 are still using restricted social media apps despite the ban on their use for under-16s.
Pornography
Monday saw the 58th anniversary of the Abortion Act, which came into effect in 1968. Since that time, Right to Life UK estimate that 11,105,671 unborn babies have lost their lives because…
Abortion