There is no denying the fact that the compulsory Qatari World Cup apps, Ehteraz, a Covid-19 tracker from the Qatari Ministry of Public Health, and Hayya from the Qatari Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy for the World Cup, will be collecting a lot of information on everyone attending. This …
Why Big Tech automated moderation fails…
Robots spotted “intimate content” and banned Mary McIntyre from Twitter and robots handled the appeal processes upholding the ban. Now Mary has a choice – admit she broke the rules and shared “intimate content”, when she obviously has not, to get access to her account or, well there is no …
Data Sovereignty – who can access what and where. UPDATED
The original post was published on 3 November 2022. Update 16 November 2022 This story has developed further with FBI Director Christopher A. Wray describing to the US Congress how China could exploit Tik Tok: FBI Director warns of potential Chinese gov’t exploitation of TikTok – The Record by Recorded …
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It looks like the Online Safety Bill is in chaos
I have my issues with the UK Online Safety bill, but overall I think it has some promise to protect the vulnerable – but this report in The Guardian is showing that the bill my be heading for chaos: UK government criticised for failing to protect children from online harm …
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“Stole my Face”
With a headline like this and it dealing with an individual’s privacy battle against Big Tech, I had to point you at this article: Clearview Stole My Face and the EU Can’t Do Anything About It | WIRED UK When I was at university I was particularly interested in privacy …
The Department of Education lack of due diligence
The Information Commissioner’s Office has found that staff at The Department of Education allowed a gambling company access to 28 million children to check if they were 18 when opening an account: No-one needs persuading that a database of pupils’ learning records being used to help gambling companies is unacceptable. …
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Some security advice for any business…
If you collect a lot of information that would be of particular interest to threat actors, such as personally identifiable information (PII), bank account details etc, make sure you take care of that information. Or the government could set up an age verification site – and all the threat actors …