Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
I often post things at the weekend, that are a bit outside the regular Smart Thinking articles, are possibly a longer read, but they give usually give context to our cyber security and privacy stories. here is one of the increasing use of facial recognition by the authorities in the …
The Conservative Government’s Online Safety Bill is now law. Online Safety Bill: divisive internet rules become law – BBC Do you have an opinion on it? I do. Let’s see if Big Tech does leave the UK in protest to being asked to compromise our privacy or will they follow …
Benjamin Dowling, a lecturer of Cybersecurity at the University of Sheffield has an article on The Conversation looking at the UK Online Safety Bill and who it will protect and who it will harm. The UK just passed an online safety law that could make people less safe (theconversation.com) I …
Continue reading “Just as the Online Safety Bill becomes law – who is going to be safe?”
Before we start i have written a lot about the Government’s Online Safety Bill – I think some of the bill will address serious issue of bad online activity and disagree that the weakening of end-to-end-encryption (E2EE) for everyone, to enable law enforcement to catch criminals and particularly child abusers …
Continue reading “The UK’s Online Safety Bill and Big Tech, you and me…”
Apple has joined the debate about the UK government’s proposed bill to weaken every UK citizen’s privacy online, by threatening to pull affected Apple services from the UK market. As Apple (and several articles I have posted) state, laws already exist for the authorities to breach the privacy of citizens …
