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Responses to the Government White Paper on Online Harms and the ‘right to be forgotten’

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Foundation for Law, Justice and Society
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LSE media expert and government adviser Damian Tambini and Roxana Radu from Oxford Law Faculty respond to the UK government’s White Paper on Online Harms and assess the implications of the new rights of the digital age such as the ‘right to be forgotten’.
Damian Tambini, LSE Professor in Media and Communications and government adviser, responds to the UK government’s pioneering proposals for new laws and an independent regulator, Ofweb, to make social media companies responsible for harms caused by content published on their platforms.
He reviews the Online Harms White Paper, endorsing the duty of care placed on internet companies toward their users, but warning against measures that will unduly chill free speech or damage media plurality.
Oxford media law researcher Roxana Radu sheds light on the algorithms that process the vast quantities of personal data held by social media companies, arguing that they are highly biased, enhancing existing societal inequalities and introducing new ones.
She reviews the specific rights that might come from new phenomena in the digital age, such as the recently introduced ‘right to be forgotten’ whereby a Spanish lawyer won a legal case against Google to have information related to a past bankruptcy removed from search results of his name, on the grounds that it was harming his right to do business.

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Foundation for Law, Justice and Society
People
Damian Tambini
Roxana Radu
Keywords
law
politics
digital age
social media
Department: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies
Date Added: 03/07/2019
Duration: 01:18:45

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