Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Tag: surveillance

Pinsent Masons: “Ofcom’s online safety work will be funded by the service providers it regulates. Fees will be calculated based on each provider’s ‘qualifying worldwide revenue’ (QWR)”

2025/08/21
A short explanation for Home Office Minister Jess Phillips re: why attempts to restrict kids to using “teenager” phones will be doomed to failure

2025/08/20
UK backs down in Apple privacy row, US says | BBC News

2025/08/19
Just in case it wasn’t obvious the first time around: applying age verification to VPNs to stop children using them, will stop EVERYONE using them & thereby cause unpopular chaos, @peterkyle @ChildrensComm

2025/08/19
British Online Safety is an irregular verb | Conjugate the verb after me… | Chris Stokel-Walker on Bluesky

2025/08/19
OpenRightsGroup on TikTok: “These Are My Private Parts, Protect Your Digital Bits!”

2025/08/19
Britain’s online safety law is running amok | The Washington Post

2025/08/19
Charlie Hebdo covers the Online Safety Act | …there is a paywall but this is above the fold, via translation:

2025/08/19
Please: at what point does it cease to be “stumbling across porn” for a teen (or indeed anyone) to install & enable a VPN and type “PORN” into a search query or URL?

2025/08/19
Amazing: it turns out that some UK schools mandate the use of VPNs by their students in order to put student traffic through a centralised filter; others ban them entirely

2025/08/19
Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told | BBC News

2025/08/19
Afterthought re: Beeban Kidron’s “…It’s really an important part of childhood to transgress … [Using a VPN] is like a child climbing out the window at night when you’ve grounded them”

2025/08/18