Because of the soon to be law, requirements for VPN companies operating in India, to keep full logs of their user’s activities for five years, so India’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) and law enforcement can have access to them – so removing the levels of privacy that a VPN …
What is it about politicians and privacy?
Before we go any further Smart Thinking and Octagon Technology support any effective and legal means to protect the vulnerable and minors. Politicians, they want privacy to cloak their personal, business and political lives – but seem to hate it when private law abiding citizens want the same as them! …
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Another good step for better child safety on the internet and for catching the criminals who are involved
This is not a “scan every image you (the law abiding citizen) upload” solution, such as suggested by Apple among others. This is making the unique digital hash evidence of illegal child abuse images and videos available to the Internet Watch Foundation that has the resources to search the internet …
India, India, India…
I think it is a good thing that the Indian government is giving it’s full support to tightening up cyber security in the country. However it seems that their responses, which seem good on paper are not so when translated into the real world: Indian authorities issue conflicting advice about …
Facebook, Instagram and other Stuff Meta owns are updating their privacy policy
I shall start with a question – if you use a Meta product have you read the terms and conditions or privacy policy? If so did you understand everything? The company says it is updating the privacy policies to make them more understandable by the users – not because they …
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