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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Why child safety can lead to a limit on your freedom of speech…
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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It’s here – The UK’s “one size fits all” Online Safety Bill
UK introduces exhaustive Online Safety Bill – BBC News Tech bosses face jail if they hamper Ofcom investigations from next year | Technology | The Guardian Basically it is a good bill. But do not think it will stop all the bad things as the government is promising us. It …
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What do we use the internet for? Obviously for dressing our dogs correctly!
Here is something frivolous to read on a Sunday morning whilst the BBC bombard you with political talking heads who cannot help contradicting themselves sentence after sentence. Stuart Heritage at The Gaudian has worked out what we use the internet for – and it is not pornography or cats (that …
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Following a break for Christmas ransomware is on the rise
Just in case you have forgotten that ransomware poses, probably the biggest threat to your organisation (UK Gov, 2021) – here is some tracking of ransomware activity by Adam Janofsky at The Record: Ransomware tracker: the latest figures [March 2022] – The Record by Recorded Future References UK Gov (2021) …
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UK Government’s Draft Online Safety Bill: more tweaks but they still want to deny their law abiding citizens encryption and privacy
We are still getting tweaks – but they have not yet addressed taking away our use of end to end encryption. Online Safety Bill tweaked to target scam ads – BBC News Bad laws will only give a political sticky plaster to the technologically uninformed – Smart Thinking Solutions
