The UK's plan to rein in big tech
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Politicians in the UK push forward plans for new laws to regulate social media and the tech giants. It’s designed to protect children from harmful content and stop disinformation, but will it work? Plus the company launching a satellite that can track the amount of heat being lost from factories and houses around the world. Could it help us become more energy efficient and fight climate change? And the women using technology to fight harrassment - how phone and smart watch apps are being used to help women feel safer on the streets.
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| 0:53.0 | Hello, this is TechTemp from the BBC World Service. I'm Jane Wakefield, and coming up on the show today, we're looking at new online safety laws in the UK and asking whether they will rain in big tech. |
| 1:05.7 | Also, how infrared cameras on satellites could help fight climate change. And BBC tech reporter Shona McCallum, |
| 1:12.5 | who is with me today, has got a story on how tech is helping women feel safer on the streets. |
| 1:17.7 | Yes, I've been looking at how phone apps and smart watches are being used to keep women safe |
| 1:23.1 | from violence and harassment. Sounds good. And here's a taste of what's coming up. |
| 1:28.3 | This idea that the internet is a wild west. |
| 1:30.9 | Frankly, it does not actually match up with most people's experience of the internet. |
| 1:35.2 | We did experience being followed, hack-calling, groping. |
| 1:38.9 | The building is actually radiating energy and our detector can measure that. |
| 1:46.2 | There's a new sheriff in town in the wild west of the internet. At least that's how |
| 1:51.1 | the politicians in London would like to portray their online safety bill this week. The planned |
| 1:56.3 | new laws are the UK's attempts to regulate social media and the tech giants. They include laws against |
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