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Follow the day’s news liveDigital duty of care bill risks ‘malicious compliance’, say GreensGreens senator Sarah Hanson-Young says the government’s digital duty of care legislation is too vague on whether...
By Krishani Dhanji · The Guardian World
Follow the day’s news live Digital duty of care bill risks ‘malicious compliance’, say Greens Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young says the government’s digital duty of care legislation is too vague on whether it allows users to opt-in or opt-out of algorithms, and says that risks manipulation or malicious compliance by the platforms. It’s neither opt-in nor opt-out. And what I’m concerned about is how the tech platforms will manipulate that. Unless the rules are tight, unless there’s no gaps, big tech is going to spend a lot of money fighting these laws in the first place and finding every which way to get around them. Malicious compliance at best. I think the fines element is one of those areas that I think is just not good enough … you need to hit them really where it hurts, and that’s their revenue. So it should be a percentage of global revenue. I don’t know whether this is deliberate misinformation by the opposition leader or he just doesn’t know what he’s talking about. He hasn’t really spent much time engaging on these issues. Either way, it’s wrong. Continue reading...