Read about your privacy…

Before we start:

At Smart Thinking and Octagon Technology we think protecting children and vulnerable people from threat actors on the internet is extremely important – but the action taken need to be technically and securely effective and not impact the privacy of law abiding citizens.

Smart Thinking Solutions supports this UK Government initiative:

Let’s stop abuse together – Stop Abuse Together (campaign.gov.uk)

Now onto the post…

I have been talking about using child protection as a reason for doing away with end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for a while – here are some of my posts covering the topic:

The Online Safety Bill is still going through parliament and we are back to the question of end-to-end encryption – Smart Thinking Solutions

And we are back to politicians wanting to end E2EE in the name of child safety! – Smart Thinking Solutions

Another attack on privacy in the name of protecting children – Smart Thinking Solutions

Here is an opinion piece from The Register by Iain Thomson looking at the issues:

British recycle old arguments for bypassing E2E encryption • The Register

Have a read – no E2EE will have an impact on you.