The Online Safety Bill is still going through parliament and we are back to the question of end-to-end encryption

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I quite like the UK government’s Online Safety Bill. It compels the Big Tech companies to take action over child sex abuse material (CSAM) and promises huge fines if they fail to do so. However, the requirement to monitor communication apps with end-to-end encryption (E2EE), for CSAM causes me a …

India in the news – when is privacy not so private? UPDATED 20 May 2022

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This article was first published on 5 May 2022 Update 20 May 2022 The Indian government has moved on it’s hard line approach to incident report reporting, and some of the other provisions in their new cyber security laws – except the rules on VPNs! India slightly softens infosec incident …

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 …