UK Gov *rejects* “privacy by design” architecture, GDPR-mandated data minimisation now supposedly “makes children unsafe”

Disappearing messages exist in order to empower people to take control of their digital exhaust trail and to minimise the opportunities for third parties to abuse older information.

The government is now against this key precept of information security, because children:

Coming Monday: disappearing messages have been thrown onto the regulatory table, out of nowhere, as a child safety issue. Which of course has nothing to do with disappearing messages only recently being cited as an issue of government transparency in the Mandelson files. Total coincidence.

Heather Burns (@heatherburnstech.bsky.social) 2026-06-13T05:10:41.808Z
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