Category Archives: Child abuse images

The bad news just keeps on coming

Posted on November 11, 2019 by

Swift on the heels of the New York Times piece the UK’s Daily Telegraph publishes, for the first time, figures provided by the IWF showing how social media and other services operating on the open web  in UK are failing … Continue reading →

Posted in Child abuse images, Regulation, Self-regulation

Voluntarism just isn’t working. Again.

Posted on November 10, 2019 by

Another excellent major story  has appeared in The New York Times. It details the failings of high tech businesses to address the scourge of child sex abuse still images and videos on the internet. The failures of voluntarism are again … Continue reading →

Posted in Child abuse images, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Regulation, Self-regulation

On encryption and child protection

Posted on October 5, 2019 by

A company is normally driven by a desire and a legal obligation to build “shareholder value”. In the case of one company, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg owns a majority of the voting stock so when looking at its big decisions we … Continue reading →

Posted in Child abuse images, Facebook, Privacy, Regulation, Self-regulation

A startling statistic

Posted on October 4, 2019 by

In a live broadcast from Washington DC  the Assistant Attorney General of the USA just announced that in 2018 Apple reported 8 instances of csam on their platform. Facebook Messenger reported 12 million. Either Apple’s users are uniquely virtuous or … Continue reading →

Posted in Apple, Child abuse images

There is something strange going on

Posted on September 30, 2019 by

I expect many of you will by now have seen the piece in the weekend edition of the  New York Times. I will be writing more fully about it quite soon but, meanwhile, there was something that rather leapt off … Continue reading →

Posted in Child abuse images, Internet governance, Privacy, Regulation, Self-regulation

Brussels is listening

Posted on September 23, 2019 by

Good news from the EU. They have been listening to children’s organizations’ concerns about the e-Privacy Regulation. I think supporting Option 2 is the right way to go although not sure keeping such an exclusive focus on hashing technology is … Continue reading →

Posted in Child abuse images, Internet governance, Regulation, Self-regulation

Once more unto the breach

Posted on August 21, 2019 by

The dust has settled on the European elections. The President of the Commission has been appointed, congratulations to Germany’s Ursula von der Leyen. However, we don’t know who the individual Commissioners will be, much less how the portfolios will be … Continue reading →

Posted in Child abuse images, Facebook, Google, Privacy, Regulation, Self-regulation