Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
I am pretty sure my love of good time travel stories started when I saw Rod Taylor in HG Wells’ The Time Machine – some time in the 1960s. It’s a classic, it looks good, and it kept to HG’s story. Then there are the Weeping Angels in Blink. An …
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I have written much about the Government’s latest attempts to control the internet, their Online Safety Bill. For example: Bad laws will only give a political sticky plaster to the technologically uninformed – Smart Thinking Solutions Another attack on privacy in the name of protecting children – Smart Thinking Solutions …
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Sunday reading over breakfast. Just before you jump in and automate your or if you already have connected your home to the internet of things you should have a look at this article by Iain Nash – a PhD candidate, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London …
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Now I thought the provisions in the bill addressing online hate were a good thing – where as imposing restrictions on encrypted communications on ordinary citizens, so reducing their security, in order to catch criminals, are not. But this is not an open and shut case for me – I …
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The UK Government does not do well when comes to trying to enforce age verification on the internet. Age-verification for online pornography to begin in July – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) (2019) UK drops plans for online pornography age verification system | Internet | The Guardian (2019) But of course in the draft Online …
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