All articles written by Baroness Kidron on PoliticsHome.com

01 Feb 2024 Education

Banning children from social media would be short-sighted

Reaction to the announcement shortly after the passage of the Online Safety Act that the Prime Minister was considering banning social media for under-16s was something of a mixed bag.

30 Oct 2023 Culture

AI is revolutionising the film industry but it must never replace writers

I watched the Hollywood writers’ strike with some interest. The battle over artificial intelligence (AI) replacing the workforce falls squarely in my area of political interest, and my husband – a member of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) – was on strike.

14 Dec 2021 Culture

The Online Safety Bill will not fix everything – but this is an overdue start

There is little doubt that the exponential growth of the tech sector has come at a price for children, individuals and society.

19 Nov 2021 Culture

The Age Assurance Bill will enforce much needed protections for children online

Age Assurance is one of the most disputed but least understood areas of digital policy. Often characterized as a fight between privacy and safety – which fails to account for the fact that the tech sector is predicated on surveillance (data collection) and knowing their customer (ad targeting).

07 Oct 2021 Culture

The Online Safety Bill must live up to its name

Frances Haugen forensically put forward a devasting picture of how Facebook puts “profit over people”. The long awaited Online Safety Bill must curb the unfettered power of the tech sector and prioritise child safety.

07 Feb 2020

Government must ensure platforms do not abuse their power as gatekeepers of news

The Cairncross Review demands Government address the impact of platforms as mediators on the quality of the news, and the asymmetry of power between platform and publishers – when it comes to revenue, writes Baroness Kidron.