Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
The Police in the Indian State of Telangana have started a grassroots cyber education scheme to combat social engineering scams: In the Fight Against Scams, ‘Cyber Ambassadors’ Enter the Chat | WIRED UK Education is the way forward. – that is why we created CyberAwake: European cops shut down fake …
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The UK Online Safety Bill wants end to end encryption for everyone removed so law enforcement can solve cyber-crime easier – but good policing does not need it
I have reported previously on India’s new laws that will weaken the privacy offered to users of VPN technology: The new laws require the VPN vendors to record identifiable information about the users, and then make that information available to organisations authorised by the government, so effectively removing privacy from …
This is an interesting article, by Namrata Primlani a Doctoral Researcher at Northumbria University, Newcastle, looking at the technical and ethical issues of using facial recognition for tracking offenders: Facial recognition: UK plans to monitor migrant offenders are unethical – and they won’t work (theconversation.com) And the view from India: …
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Big Tach did not like the Indian Personal Data Protection Bill – but when do they like laws that expand the citizens privacy and limits their profits – and after three years of work it is no more. However it was the 81 amendments to the bill that killed it off… …
