If you share information online and are not extremely careful on what you share, then someone somewhere will work out how to exploit that information. Now I thought people who used Strava understood this as there has been plenty in the past of Strava compromising military security let alone personal …
Passwordless is coming – Google says so
Here is a keynote article from Google looking at the steps it is taking to make the online experience safer. Google I/O 2023: New features to improve online safety (blog.google) It is worth the read as it does illustrate what the threats and risks are when operating online – both …
What Musk had to say to the BBC.
There has been a lot of negative press about Twitter lately – I have covered it on Smart Thinking – this interview by James Clayton, the BBC North America tech reporter, is worth listening to as it is Elon Musk’s own words about Twitter and the state the company is …
See what Elon Musk’s Twitter responses can do…
A couple of weeks back I posted a link to an article by Marianna Spring, the BBC’s Disinformation and social media correspondent, that examined how Twitter was functioning having now laid so many people off – many of whom appeared to be working as Twitter’s social conscience. Twitter, trolls, child …
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Wikipedia and the UK Online Safety Bill
The worldwide community encyclopaedia, Wikipedia has spoken out against the UK Online Safety Bill. The Wikipedia Foundation does not want community based organisations to be treated as a “Big Tech” company. How organisation are treated in the bill depends on their size not their operations. Wikipedia criticises ‘harsh’ new Online …
Twitter again – now they are reducing their online safety systems
Twitter has disbanded the volunteer group which advised it on self-harm, child abuse and hate speech. BBC Tech News Charities’ dismay as Twitter disbands safety group – BBC News This cannot be a good thing – whatever other precautions are put in place children and vulnerable people are on Twitter …
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More argument over the Government’s Online Safety Bill
Whatever side of the argument you come down on, whether this softening of the proposed bill protects free speech or reduces the protection of the vulnerable – some of the toughest parts of the Online Safety Bill aimed at some of the richest companies on the planet are no longer …
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