online safety

Consumer advocacy groups want Walmart’s Roblox game audited for ‘stealth marketing’ to kids

https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/24/consumer-advocacy-groups-want-walmarts-roblox-game-audited-for-stealth-marketing-to-kids/ They’ll never find out, there’s two of me. The parents are pleased I have what they call a “Saturday job” with a “good company”. It’s a mixture of testing stuff and just hanging out and looking interested. Occasionally they get some of us in to hear our ideas and then we end up testing … [Read more…]

UK online harm bill to include prosecution of tech bosses

https://www.ft.com/content/c77cf855-c727-4ee6-8a52-76459e553fc6 Look, it’s a complex thing. We put in place all the safeguards, protocols and systems we can but we can’t control everything. Butterfly effects. Complex adaptive systems. Unforeseen consequences. I can’t be everywhere at once. I depend on other bits of the system to work. I can only do what I can do. It’s … [Read more…]