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TikTok incapable of delivering both user privacy *and* user safety, retains capability to surveil user communications
2026/03/04
“Governments should halt plans to roll out age checks on online services until privacy and security concerns are addressed, hundreds of academics said today”
2026/03/03
Social Media Bans are like the “Peanut Allergy” Bans of the 1990s/2000s: they will unnecessarily create a generation who cannot cope with the digital environment
2026/03/02
If you read 1 thing about Social Media Bans this week, it should be Rod Wilson’s magisterial letter to the WSJ; extract, text & link below
2026/02/28
The Wyoming GRANITE Act, America’s first-ever foreign censorship shield bill, has PASSED the Wyoming House of Representatives, 46-12! | Preston Byrne
2026/02/24
US Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy explains that maybe age verification is not about child protection
2026/02/23
UK Govt to demand AgeVerification of “ALL regulated user-to-user” services, and VPNs for anyone under 18; well that would end online anonymity in the UK…
2026/02/23
UK right-wing news: “No foreign government should be helping citizens of allied countries to circumvent their own laws!”; meanwhile MI6 continues to run its dark web Russian recruitment site…
2026/02/20
Businesses may be caught by government proposals to restrict VPN use | Computer Weekly
2026/02/19
OFCOM update: so apparently the embargoed press-release email was circulated to one (more?) of their general discussion maillists, which I feel symbolic of their approach towards security
2026/02/18
HEADSUP: Ofcom *tonight* to announce demand for apps, websites to deploy “hash matching” (i.e. client-side scanning, fuzzy matching) of uploaded images “to protect children”
2026/02/18
Thought for the day: if there is a UK under-16 social media ban, the party which most appeals to 16-year-olds “out of the starting gate” will win the next election
2026/02/16
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