Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
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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Holly Hancock (Lecturer in Tort Law, University of East Anglia) has an article on The Conversation looking at the upside of the Twitter privacy changes. She backs this up with research that she is submitting for her PhD. Twitter has banned posting of images of people without their consent – …
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Matthew Comb, a doctoral researcher in digital identity at University of Oxford has a piece in The Conversation looking at the ways governments around the world should be implementing secure COVID vaccination passports. Many vaccine passports have security flaws – here’s how to make them safer (theconversation.com) This is important …
Is your password on this list? Before we start – the above statement sets the wrong tone for this article – it implies that you have a singular “password” but as we all know that is not true – you need many. However the social media people wanted that wording! …
