Internet Safety/Security
| Autor | Chris Wiersma |
| Páginas | 179-182 |
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Internet Safety/Security
50 Internet Safety/Security
Chris Wiersma
The terms internet safety and internet security are closely
connected. In the words of the European Commission (2020:1),
“[s]ecurity is not only the basis for personal safety, it also provides
the foundation for confidence and dynamism in our economy,
our society and our democracy”. Thus, internet safety/security
are perceived as general policy issues. These are general policy
concerns about worldwide challenges such as crime, health, and
safety on an individual level.
However, when the internet infrastructure is perceived as a critical
environment, specific security-challenges are dealt with by the internet
governance measures that are tailored to bring about guarantees
surrounding the internet’s technical functioning. Importantly, platforms
and other service providers who are tasked with the provision of
access to its users play a general role in this sense.
As introduced above, the concept of ‘internet safety/security’
evokes other terms commonly understood as threats in the digital
environment. For this reason, many national legislations on regulating
misconduct are relevant for this topic. This is reflected in the approach
taken in the Convention on Cybercrime (Council of Europe, 2001),
which aims to have its members maintain, update or introduce
substantive criminal law measures to deal with the problem of
cybercrime. Regarded as the first international treaty on this topic,
this Convention is widely used as a reference for developing law
and policy (see for example the site on EU Law on Cybercrime). In
pursuance of developing these solutions, in recent years several soft-
law measures have been taken, such as the “EU Code of conduct on
countering illegal hate speech online” (European Commission, 2016).
The EU took the initiative for seeking more proactive responses and
accountability from major private internet-companies. As pointed
out by the European Commission (2020:13):
The latest evaluation shows that companies assess
90% of flagged content within 24 hours and remove
71% of the content deemed to be illegal hate speech.
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