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An independent assessment of the UK's Safety Tech Challenge Fund without assessing legal or data protection compliance

Regular readers may recall the UK government's "Safety Tech Challenge Fund". Background to the Safety Tech Challenge Fund (You can ignore this bit if you are familiar with the Safety Tech Challenge Read more
neilAuthor neil Posted on 28 March 2022 Category Tech Tags safetytech public safety online safety online safety bill data protection law

"Safer Internet Day" 2022. At least we know what we're trying to achieve. Right?

We should have better encryption. We should have encryption which can be readily circumvented. The web is the unregulated Wild West. We should reduce barriers to responsible innovation and reduce Read more
neilAuthor neil Posted on 8 February 2022 Category Tech Tags Internet surveillance Internet regulation wild west web end to end encryption encryption data protection

Fraudulent actions as personal data of the fraud victim: some ponderings

The excellent Rowenna Fielding posted an interesting question on Twitter: If person X pretends to be person Z to engage with a company (fraud, spite, stalking, etc), and this is later discovered, Read more
neilAuthor neil Posted on 2 February 2022 Category Legal Tags data protection fraud

CCTV or IP cameras outside your home, and the (UK) GDPR. It's easier than you think

I was tagged into an interesting thread on Twitter, in which someone wanted to put CCTV/IP cameras to record a public place, because of ongoing criminal activity in that area. The question was Read more
neilAuthor neil Posted on 27 November 2021 Category Tech Tags IP camera CCTV camera recording video audio law GDPR privacy data protection

Detecting child sex abuse imagery in end-to-end encrypted communications in a privacy-respectful manner

I was pleased to take part in a meeting co-hosted by DCMS and the Home Office today, as part of the government's "Safety Tech challenge fund". The problem question The key bit of the challenge is: to Read more
neilAuthor neil Posted on 5 October 2021 Category Tech Tags privacy safetytech online safety data protection

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