Although Evan Edinger shows insight about the insanity, ineffectiveness, and danger of the UK's Online Safety Act and the technological illiteracy of the MPs who voted for it, he is wrong about VPNs protecting privacy. >

https://todon.eu/@MixMistressAlice/115031978660634321

#Online_Safety_Act #UK #child_protection #insanity #ineffectiveness #illiteracy #UK #VPNs

US Sues TikTok For Children’s Law Violations - https://www.redpacketsecurity.com/us-sues-tiktok-for-children-s-law-violations/

#threatintel #tiktok_privacy #child_protection #data_collection

#whistleblower who works for #HomeOffice contractor #Mitie, & #child_protection sources describe #children being abducted off the street outside the hotel & bundled into cars.

"Children are literally being picked up from outside the building, disappearing and not being found. They’re being taken from the street by traffickers,” said the source. #assylumseekerkidnapping #assylumseekers #ToriesUnfitToGovern #bravermanisamonster

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/21/revealed-scores-of-child-asylum-seekers-kidnapped-from-home-office-hotel

#IT #priti_patel #Meta #Facebook #Instagram #WhatsApp #end_to_end_encryption #child_protection #surveillance #politics #uk #global

Priti Patel urges Meta to give up on end-to-end encryption plans

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/22/priti-patel-urges-meta-to-give-up-on-end-to-end-encryption-plans

Priti Patel is one of the most authoritarian Home Secretaries in UK history. Successive UK governments (including sadly Labour) have a very poor record in this area.

I intensely dislike Meta. However, invoking child protection concerns (the vast majority of people rightly regard child abuse as disgusting and worthy of condemnation) to extend the UK State's intrusion in private online communications is wholly unacceptable and must be thoroughly resisted.