Baroness Kidron (CB): My Lords, I am very sorry that I missed the early part of that debate because I feel it might impact on some of the things I say.

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Themes: Child safety & minors · Online platforms · Search services

Ecosystems: UK Online Safety Act

My Lords, I am very sorry that I missed the early part of that debate because I feel it might impact on some of the things I say. However, when I read the government amendments, I could not see anything in them that made the amendments unnecessary, so I will read carefully all aspects of the first group but I intend to progress with the amendments that I have tabled. I will speak to Amendments 3, 8 and 13 in my name and in the names of the noble Baronesses, Lady Harding, Lady Berger and Lady Morgan. Together, they would expand the scope of services in the Bill so that so-called “small but risk

My Lords, I am very sorry that I missed the early part of that debate because I feel it might impact on some of the things I say. However, when I read the government amendments, I could not see anything in them that made the amendments unnecessary, so I will read carefully all aspects of the first group but I intend to progress with the amendments that I have tabled. I will speak to Amendments 3, 8 and 13 in my name and in the names of the noble Baronesses, Lady Harding, Lady Berger and Lady Morgan. Together, they would expand the scope of services in the Bill so that so-called “small but risky” services were included. Amendment 3 stipulates that smaller data centres could be included if Ofcom considers that an incident affecting the data centre would have a significant impact on the economy or on the day-to-day functioning of society in the UK, taking into account the data centre’s customer base and its role supporting other essential services. Currently, data centres that are for an enterprise purpose only are covered in the Bill only if the rated IT load is 10 megawatts or greater. This is a mid-size data centre. However, there are commercial data centres that can be much smaller than this and are threatening. Perhaps most notable is a recent example from Denmark where the small cloud hosting providers, CloudNordic and AzeroCloud, suffered a ransomware attack that resulted in the paralysing of all company systems and the servers being shut down. Their hundreds of customers lost all their data, and it was unrecoverable. “Customers” is a bland word, but imagine that you are a hospital treating patients, a university conducting years of scientific research or a small business with its entire operation at stake: the loss of your data risks lost livelihoods, and possibly even lives.…

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