Adults might want to listen to this episode before listening with young children, as we mention the words self-harm, suicide, and eating disorders in the context of examples of harmful online content.
The new Act aims to protect young people from harmful content online and puts new obligations on online platforms to make them more responsible for their users safety.
Alma - Constance and Lucinda speak to Jess Smith, Ofcom's online safety director, who explains:

· How the Act will stop children being harmed by online activity.

· What tech companies will have to do to protect vulnerable people.

· The ways to ensure age checks and change inappropriate algorithms.

· How children have been involved to discuss their online experiences.

· What Ofcom can do to ensure that the online providers obey with the new laws?

When Jess was 10 years old, she says she was very chatty, into climbing trees and cartwheels and really liked reading. Her ambition was to be a professional horse rider competing in the Olympics.

Resources and References

Ofcom

What the Online Safety Act does

Links for places that offer children support if they see harmful content online:

· Internet Matters

· NSPCC

· Childnet

· SWG4L

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At the Future Lawyer UK Conference, co-host Alma-Constance interviews Richard Susskind on Law, Tech and How It Affects Kids As They Grow Up.

In this special interview, questions such as how AI will affect how laws are drafted will be explored!

Professor Richard Susskind OBE KC (Hon) is half-lawyer, half-technologist. He has written 10 books and his work has been translated into 18 languages. His eleventh book, How to Think About AI: A Guide to the Perplexed, is to be published in the coming year. With his son, Daniel, he co-authored The Future of the Professions (2015, 2022), which was an FT Book of the Year. He is President of the Society for Computers and Law and, for 25 years, was Technology Adviser to the Lord Chief Justice of England. He wrote his PhD on artificial intelligence and the law at Oxford University in the early 1980s.

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If you write a song, create music or a fantastic invention, what can you do if someone copies your hard work?
Alma- Constance and Lucinda speak to His Honour Judge Richard Hacon, Presiding Judge of the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court, known as IPEC.

He tells us

· That creative works, inventions and designs can be legal protected by intellectual property rights

· There are different types of rights such as trademarks, design rights, patents, and copyrights

· How important it is that people can make a living from their creative work

· The ways that these rights can be protected and where you can get help and advice, even if you don’t have much money

When Richard was 10 years old, he says he was a bit of a daydreamer, and his teachers often asked him to pay attention in class! He studied science at university, and he says he has found that useful in his intellectual property work.

References and Resources

His Honour Judge Richard Hacon

IP Pro Bono

IPEC

Intellectual property and your work

Intellectual Property: A very short introduction

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