英国議会 民主・デジタル技術特別委員会 - デジタル技術と信頼の復活
こんにちは、丸山満彦です。
2020.06.29に英国議会から民主・デジタル技術特別委員会 - デジタル技術と信頼の復活という報告書が公表されていました。。。153ページに及ぶ大作です。
プラットフォーマに対する英国議会の考えとかも入っているようですね。。。
● UK Parliament - Select Committee on Democracy and Digital Technologies
・2020.06.29 (News) Democracy under threat from ‘pandemic of misinformation’ online, say Lords Committee
・2020.06.29 summary of the report
・2020.06.29 Digital Technology and the Resurrection of Trust [HTML] [PDF] [Downloaded]
Committee Chair
The Chair of the Committee, Lord Puttnam said:
"We are living through a time in which trust is collapsing. People no longer have faith that they can rely on the information they receive or believe what they are told. That is absolutely corrosive for democracy.
"Part of the reason for the decline in trust is the unchecked power of digital platforms.
These international behemoths exercise great power without any matching accountability, often denying responsibility for the harm some of the content they host can cause, while continuing to profit from it."We've seen clear evidence of this in recent months through a dangerous rise of misinformation about COVID-19. We have become aware of the ways in which misinformation can damage an individual’s health along with a growing number of instances where it is our collective democratic health that’s under threat. That must stop – it is time for the Government to get a grip of this issue.
They should start by taking steps to immediately bring forward a Draft Online Harms Bill.
We heard that on the current schedule the legislation may not be in place until 2024.
That is clearly unacceptable."We have set out a programme for change that, taken as a whole, can allow our democratic institutions to wrestle power back from unaccountable corporations and begin the slow process of restoring trust. Technology is not a force of nature and can be harnessed for the public good.
The time to do so is now."Recommendations
- The report says the Government must take action 'without delay' to ensure tech giants are held responsible for the harm done to individuals, wider society and our democratic processes through misinformation widely spread on their platforms.
- The Committee says online platforms are not 'inherently ungovernable' but power has been ceded to a "few unelected and unaccountable digital corporations" including Facebook and Google, and politicians must act now to hold those corporations to account when they are shown to negatively influence public debate and undermine democracy.
- The Committee sets out a package of reforms which, if implemented, could help restore public trust and ensure democracy does not 'decline into irrelevance'.
Select Committee on Democracy and Digital Technologies
Digital Technology and the Resurrection of Trust
Report of Session 2019-21 - published 29 June 2020 - HL Paper 77
Contents
Box 1: Definition of platforms
Figure 1: Examples of daily activity across social media platforms globally
The Committee’s work and acknowledgements
Box 2: Definition of misinformation and disinformation
Tackling misinformation and disinformation online
Making use of parliamentary expertise
Accountability and the technology platforms
Figure 2: Timeline of progress on the Online Harms White Paper
Freedom of expression in the online world
Platforms’ ultimate responsibility under a duty of care
Appealing platforms’ decisions
Do platforms cause polarisation and degrade democratic discourse?
Algorithmic design and outrage factories
Access for independent researchers
Box 4: How Google’s algorithms work
Transparency in content moderation
Box 5: President Trump and content moderation study
Chapter 5: Inclusive debate across society
The role of technology in tackling the challenges facing democracy
Supporting technological innovation in democracy
Technology as a tool, but not a panacea for problems facing democracy
How Government and Parliament could better use digital tools
Chapter 6: Free and fair elections
Box 6: Definition of campaigner
Figure 4: Timeline of electoral developments throughout modern British history
Outside the formal investigation period
Box 8: Mozilla Guidelines for Effective Advert Archives
Campaigners’ use of personal data
Chapter 7: Active digital citizens
Digital skills and digital media literacy
Box 9: Definition of digital media literacy
Table 1: Digital Media Literacy and Digital Skills in the Curriculum
Table 2: Digital pedagogy in Estonia and Finland
Who has responsibility for digital media literacy?
Teaching digital media literacy
Box 10: JCQ Statistics on take-up of computing GCSE and A-level
Making social media companies understandable to the public
Anonymity as a barrier to understanding content on the internet
Appendix 1: List of Members and declarations of interest
Appendix 4: Note of the Committee Digital Surgeries organised with The Politics Project
Appendix 5: Regulatory Innovation Workshop
Appendix 6: The Seven Principles of Public Life (The Nolan Principles)
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