Here are a couple of short articles from the Google blog that describes the different ways the company actively combats the threat actors to improve everyone’s online safety: Meet the hackers keeping you safe online (blog.google) Continuous innovation to keep you safe online (blog.google)
UK Free Speech and Encryption under attack
The exceptions are telling. The UK’s new proposed censors at OFCOM are making it clear they’ll never enforce against corporate media concerns; it’s only small media creators, activists, citizen journalists, and everyday users who will be subject to the extra scrutiny and accompanying punishments. Joe Mullin – www.eff.org – AUGUST …
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Read about your privacy…
Before we start: At Smart Thinking and Octagon Technology we think protecting children and vulnerable people from threat actors on the internet is extremely important – but the action taken need to be technically and securely effective and not impact the privacy of law abiding citizens. Now onto the post… …
Strengthen the Online Safety Bill
The UK Government’s Online Safety Bill has many good provisions, and others that people object to, or feel will not solve the issues they are supposed to. An example of this is that “live streaming” has not been included in the bill. Child sex abuse victims want Online Safety Bill …
The End to End Encryption debate is not over
End to End Encryption (E2EE) is the ability for you, the law abiding citizen, to keep your communications secret and is something many governments, including the UK government is against! I have written about this a lot: Bad laws will only give a political sticky plaster to the technologically uninformed …
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