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The Government's new White Paper on Online Harms is strikingly wide in both the range of harms identified, and the range of entities asked to play a part in reducing them. The White Paper envisages that harmful content could be spread through any online facility that allows individual users to share content, to find content shared by others, or interact with each other.
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On the recent trial run of our new course on Filtering and Monitoring we invited students to discuss the Home Office requirement to "consider the use of filters as part of their overall strategy to prevent people being drawn into terrorism".
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Roughly what I said in my Digifest presentation yesterday
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The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), as the body given responsibility by the Home Office for monitoring compliance with the Prevent duty in the higher education sector in England, has now announced how it will perform this responsibility. Full details can be found at the links to the HEFCE website below: the following is a summary.
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With Parliament now on its summer break, the legal position under the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015 is unlikely to change till September.
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The Government has published its proposed guidance to universities, colleges and other specified authorities on what they will be expected to do to satisfy their duty under the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015 to "to have due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism".
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I was invited to speak at the Russell Group IT Directors' meeting yesterday, on the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015 and its implications for universities. My slides are attached to this post.
Most of the Act is concerned with human, rather than technology, issues but the Act does require universities and colleges to have "due regard for the need to prevent people being drawn into terrorism". However, as I concluded:
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While we're still awaiting the announcement of the date when universities and colleges will have a legal duty to "have due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism", there's probably enough information available in the published guidance for organisations to start reviewing whether their current practice is likely to be sufficient to satisfy that duty.
Three resources are already available:
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