Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Bruce Schneier has an interesting short article on his news feed about URL tracking and Facebook. Web browsers such as Firefox and Brave have the functionality to strip URL tracking data from the URLs you are using to navigate the web – stopping the company that was tracking you, tracking …
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The passing of the Online Safety Bill is going to be delayed (along with other legislation) until the Conservatives choose a new Prime Minister for the country. Online Safety Bill put on hold until new prime minister in place – BBC News
This post was originally published on 8 July 2022 Update 12 July 2022 Microsoft says that this rollback of “stopping macros from the web being blocked, out of the box” is only temporary and it points out that admins can still implement this restriction through Group policies: Macros from the …
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 …
On one side we have the alleged Google as villian. Google sign-up ‘fast track to surveillance’, consumer groups say – BBC News We all know that the primary Google business model is based on knowledge and use of our personal data, to promote the effectiveness of it’s advertising product to …
