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Shut the Backdoor: Redrafting the Online Safety Bill

The Online Safety Bill presents a threat to online privacy and the operation of the Internet as we know it. Countless lawyers, civil rights groups, and regulators have raised concerns about the Bill’s broad and legally vague language. Not only does it attempt to regulate ‘legal but harmful’ speech online, but it also opens the door for the Government to compel violation of end to end encryption, damaging the underlying structure that underpins our experience online. 

In this panel, we examine the ways in which the Online Safety Bill should be redrafted to remove the most restrictive policies in order to maintain free speech and protect our online rights.

Speakers:

Professor Ross Anderson, Cambridge University
Graham Smith, Bird & Bird LLP
Sam Ashworth-Hayes, freelance journalist
Jun Pang, Liberty
Emily Fielder, ASI (chair)

Details
Monday 3rd October
15:30 - 17:00
Andante Suite, Hyatt

All ASI events are free to attend and there is no need to register. Attendees must have a Conservative Party Conference pass to attend the event.