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Online Safety Act: What went wrong?
Or how regulators are continually messing up technology laws
For example, it’s easy to declare downloading Severance illegal, but unless you actually have the staff, resources, and legal bandwidth to catch and prosecute pirates, then the law’s not worth the ink it’s written in. You only need to look at how the Tea App had its databases “breached” to witness the damage leaked IDs can cause, and the UK government has just forced random companies to hold vast amounts of personal data with little oversight of how they do it. Ensuring big companies are held to account through laws and fines is important, but a wide-ranging ban that’s easily bypassed will achieve nothing if there’s not investment into ushering in a cultural shift.
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