{"id":10449,"date":"2023-06-19T07:41:21","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T05:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/19\/online-safety-bill-changes-urged-to-allow-access-to-social-media-data\/"},"modified":"2023-06-19T07:41:21","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T05:41:21","slug":"online-safety-bill-changes-urged-to-allow-access-to-social-media-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/19\/online-safety-bill-changes-urged-to-allow-access-to-social-media-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Online safety bill: changes urged to allow access to social media data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigners say bill in \u2018serious peril\u2019 of passing without powers to make platforms more transparent<\/p>\n<p>Online safety experts will struggle to sound the alarm about harmful content if landmark legislation does not allow independent researchers to access data from social media platforms, campaigners have warned.<\/p>\n<p>The government is being urged to adopt amendments to the online safety bill enabling researchers to access platform data in order to monitor harmful material. Access would be overseen by Ofcom, the communications watchdog, and would protect user privacy.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/jun\/19\/online-safety-bill-changes-urged-to-allow-access-to-social-media-data\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/98aa3a8824307ff9e43d7d6ab9f5c8196e4f7cd2\/0_314_6000_3600\/master\/6000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=12793a34e10ebfd056130891a46a916c\" title=\"Online safety bill: changes urged to allow access to social media data\" \/>Campaigners say bill in \u2018serious peril\u2019 of passing without powers to make platforms more transparent<br \/>\nOnline safety experts will struggle to sound the alarm about harmful content if landmark legislation does not allow independent researchers to access data from social media platforms, campaigners have warned.<br \/>\nThe government is being urged to adopt amendments to the online safety bill enabling researchers to access platform data in order to monitor harmful material. Access would be overseen by Ofcom, the communications watchdog, and would protect user privacy. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigners say bill in \u2018serious peril\u2019 of passing without powers to make platforms more transparent Online safety experts will struggle to sound the alarm about harmful content if landmark legislation does not allow independent researchers to access data from social media platforms, campaigners have warned. The government is being urged to adopt amendments to the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/19\/online-safety-bill-changes-urged-to-allow-access-to-social-media-data\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Online safety bill: changes urged to allow access to social media data<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10449"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}