Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
The UK Government wants to legislate against end-to-end-encryption (E2EE) for online communications – so law enforcement can monitor your and criminals’ online communications. I have written about this a lot – as I think the privacy of law abiding citizens is important and law enforcement should use the current laws, …
Here is an opinion piece from the BBC, by Marianna Spring, the BBC’s Disinformation and social media correspondent looking at the current state of Twitter. Twitter can’t protect you from trolls any more, insiders say – BBC News The state of Twitter is probably quite important seeing how many official …
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The worldwide community encyclopaedia, Wikipedia has spoken out against the UK Online Safety Bill. The Wikipedia Foundation does not want community based organisations to be treated as a “Big Tech” company. How organisation are treated in the bill depends on their size not their operations. Wikipedia criticises ‘harsh’ new Online …
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 …
Twitter has disbanded the volunteer group which advised it on self-harm, child abuse and hate speech. BBC Tech News Charities’ dismay as Twitter disbands safety group – BBC News This cannot be a good thing – whatever other precautions are put in place children and vulnerable people are on Twitter …
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