Points of View

Scars from 3G should help to ensure that 5G will be a success

Carnegie Trust Associate, Maeve Walsh, calls for the UK Government to move forward on legislating to regulate online harms.

Francesco Liberatore writes, the Financial Times recently reported that the UK Government will create a new regulator, the Digital Markets Unit, to police companies such as Facebook and Google after Brexit. The regulator will be given powers to implement a range of new rules, including an enforceable code of conduct for the biggest groups and greater data accessibility for consumers.

It is one of the more surprising aspects of the current UK general election campaign that broadband policy has been hitting the headlines as one of the main controversies.

IIC sponsored co-operation resulted in valuable satellite education projects around the world

The potential of AI will only be realised with proper public consent

We should see chatbots as digital assistants, not pseudo-humans

Something for everyone, most of the time

Innovations in digital financial tools will be central to the growth of developing economies

Tough regulation might benefit consumers. It will certainly benefit platforms.

The IIC Europe Chapter was launched at the IIC's Brussels Telecommunications & Media Forum on 26 March.

As the pressure for a regulatory response to platform power grows, report raises questions over the role of a new regulatory body

Applying a ‘duty of care’ provides flexibility as well as protection

The EU’s principles will set the highest standards for AI in the world, but is the balance right?

2018 could be a watershed year for the telecommunications industry and EU regulation. Francesco Liberatore Chair of the Brussels Chapter, and associate Matthew Buckwell of Squire Patton Boggs consider the top 10 EU regulatory developments

A call for a new regulatory body is a sign of the times.

Calls for censorship will become louder if effective action is avoided.

Seeking drastic fixes raises the spectre of unintended consequences.

There will be many jobs AI can do better than humans. We might want humans to carry on doing them anyway.

The right kind of regulation can result in the right kind of change.

We need journalism to survive in the exploding era of news

Does 'Ethics by design' now have an unwitting champion?

We are moving from a hierarchical structure to a connected and networked society – from ‘Command-and-Control’ to ‘Connect-and-Collaborate’.

A new construct for consumers is required, but it mustn’t detract from the opportunities that await.

For Europe to lead in AI it must lead in ethical standards. It is a pre-requisite that we create an environment of trust by design.

With more programming accessible to global audiences, we need to decide what we mean by local content.

One of the buzz-phrases in the current privacy debate is “privacy by design” or even, “privacy as a design experience”. The essence of this, logically enough, is that privacy should be “designed-in” to a service or product from the outset, rather than have to be bolted on afterwards once the implications have become clear.

There has been much discussion recently about the obligations of major internet players, particularly social media networks, to make more strenuous efforts to monitor the activity on their platforms. Welcome as they are, however many moderators the social networks hire, the idea that they can provide full protection for children is no more realistic than suggesting that we place police officers on the corner of every street.

In a recent seminar on smart vehicles, one delegate raised his hand and asked the OEMs on the panel, “I want a connected vehicle with all the benefits, but I don’t want you to know where I am”. To which came the reply, “buy a ‘67 Mustang”. 

20 years ago, what is now regarded as one of the major threats facing the developed world was then confined to sci-fi movies.