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 …
And we are back to politicians wanting to end E2EE in the name of child safety!
Having just run a post, where the ICO is promoting it’s Child Code, a very effective way of protecting children, the very next article I read whilst researching the cyber security and privacy news this morning was this: EU Plan to Scan Private Messages for Child Abuse Images Puts Encryption …
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Online Rights of the Child
If you run an online service that is aimed at children, or children will use, then read this and check you and your developers are following the code. Best interests of the child self-assessment | ICO
Crypto for the weekend
Bruce Schneier’s blog put me onto this article, which explains in some depth how with careful detective work, and open-source intelligence (OSINT) made anonymous cryptocurrency transactions not so anonymous. It is a long, but very interesting article but please note the content warning from the Wired website, and do not …
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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