Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
This story is from the United States and applies to law enforcement over there – but what happens over there often comes here: Sneaky ways cops could access data to widely prosecute abortions in the US | Ars Technica Our privacy is important so we all need to be aware …
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I have my issues with the UK Online Safety bill, but overall I think it has some promise to protect the vulnerable – but this report in The Guardian is showing that the bill my be heading for chaos: UK government criticised for failing to protect children from online harm …
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The Conservatives having spent the summer choosing our new Prime Minister, will let the MPs return to work and The Online Safety Bill will be back in the House. I have written about this bill and its ups and downs a lot. I like the protection it gives to the …
We have similar issues with the firewall security we maintain at a legal firm – some of the lawyers deal with distressing cases and our monitoring and filtering has to be done on a very granular level to enable their work but protect the rest of the users, and we …
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“If asked by the government to weaken encryption, it would be “very foolish” to accept, Will Cathcart told the BBC.” BBC News website Will Cathcart is Head of WhatsApp at Meta. WhatsApp: We won’t lower security for any government – BBC News
