I quite like the the government’s Online Safety Bill is that it will compel the Big Tech companies to action about child sex abuse material (CSAM), and delivery huge fines if they fail to do so. However a requirement to monitor communications apps with end-to-end encryption (E2EE), for CSAM causes …
Privacy assured by UK judge as ruling states law enforcement must use due process
In many of my posts about privacy and governments and organisations that want to reduce encryption, do away with VPN privacy or just make things easy for law enforcement at the expense of the law abiding citizen’s privacy, I refer to law enforcement using due process. UK judges agree with …
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What is it about politicians and privacy?
Before we go any further Smart Thinking and Octagon Technology support any effective and legal means to protect the vulnerable and minors. Politicians, they want privacy to cloak their personal, business and political lives – but seem to hate it when private law abiding citizens want the same as them! …
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Another good step for better child safety on the internet and for catching the criminals who are involved
This is not a “scan every image you (the law abiding citizen) upload” solution, such as suggested by Apple among others. This is making the unique digital hash evidence of illegal child abuse images and videos available to the Internet Watch Foundation that has the resources to search the internet …
The End to End Encryption debate is not over
End to End Encryption (E2EE) is the ability for you, the law abiding citizen, to keep your communications secret and is something many governments, including the UK government is against! I have written about this a lot: Bad laws will only give a political sticky plaster to the technologically uninformed …
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A plus for child protection on the internet
Sites reported record 29.3m child abuse images in 2021 | Internet | The Guardian The large number is not so much a concern but a positive move forward in the improvements in detection and enforcement by the various online platforms – 35% more images detected and removed, this 35% represents …
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