The multiple suppliers of commercial spyware (nearly) all claim to only sell their products to national governments or authorised law enforcement agencies – yet the use of these products by other agencies seems widespread. Then there is who the national government is! The Canadian based research group Citizen Lab have …
Two Twitter things
First Twitter is reported to have further reduced it’s online safety team – already severely reduced because of the job cuts Elon Musk initiated when he took over the company. A platform where hate speech of all kinds is easily distributed – including the position of Elon’s plane, Oh he …
Facebook fined
Meta – the owners of Facebook – have been fined nearly £350m for the way they asked permission to use users personal information. The Irish Data Protection Commission found that Facebook had broken EU data protection laws, now Meta have three months to make fix things: Meta fined €390m over …
Here is something that a number of UK governments have been interested in…
…but were unable to make work. Let’s hope the security employed by the contractor who submitted the lowest bid to run the service is the best money can buy Porn website age checks introduced in Louisiana – BBC News I have discussed this with a number of other cyber security …
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Now this is a good idea…
The government’s Online Safety Bill has good points – online safety for everyone especially the vulnerable – and bad points – reducing the privacy of law abiding citizens is no way to combat serious crime – make sure you know how it could impact you. Forgetting the party political message …
The Electronic Frontier Foundation 2022 Privacy Review
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) defends freedom on and offline and advocates for technology to enhance those freedoms – it has a series of blog posts looking at its work in 2022: 2022 Year in Review | Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org) One of the most interesting ongoing privacy battle the …
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Should the real-time online tracking of aircraft be censored?
Some background reading for Christmas: Elon Musk and the Dangers of Censoring Real-Time Flight Trackers | WIRED UK I think privacy is the start of good cyber security, but where does privacy finish and it become censorship – and if Elon’s plane is not tracked and publicised, then why is …
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