Cybersecurity and digital evidence specialist, expert witness and academic, public policy analyst
Crouch End, London, UK
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Digital Strip Searching about to become even more instrusive. My blog at fipr.org and pmsommer.com/mobile-phone-di…
FIPR TickerTape. The Foundation for Information Policy Research has launched it own blog: fipr.org. First two contributions are on Generative AI and CyberCrime and on Digital Strip Searches.
For some context about the various decisions and dilemmas in the Venetic/EncroChat investigations: pmsommer.com/encrochat-venet…
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Police in the UK are gathering vast amounts of personal data and have plans to share this data across 50 law enforcement agencies, the Home Office, the Ministry of Justice, and others. computerweekly.com/news/3666…
this route will not work universally but nevertheless it's well worth trying. There is after all no single route to stopping criminality of more conventional types.
A good news story - reaching young people before they are seduced by the Dark Side - worthwhile project as described by @joetidy Teen hackers tell BBC how police are helping them use their skills for good bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0n…
If you are sued the right to see the plaintiff's evidence and everything that is relevant to their claim is completely fundamental to the judicial process. In England discovery is called disclosure. Anything which might undermine a plaintiff's case or assist a defendant.
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How will this and all the other child protection proposals be enforced? If enforcement isn't practically achievable we should be looking at other measures, including education in self protection and safety.
The Government is to propose a midnight social media curfew for 16 and 17-year-olds.
The proposals include the ability to disable features they say encourage addictive use, like auto play and infinite scrolling.
However the curfew won't be mandatory - and teenagers will be able to override it by changing their settings.
Online safety campaigners say it doesn't go far enough to protect youngsters.
How is all this going to be enforced? Parliament can pass laws just as Canute could order the tide to stop. We should be looking much more at slef-protective education for children and parents. And ask the social media giants to fund.
'We have decided not to limit VPNs'
Online Saftey minister Kanishka Narayan told #BBCBreakfast the Government has decided not to restrict access to Virtual Private Networks (VPN) as part of a social media ban for under 16s, despite initially suggesting it would take action
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Defence Lawyers: it’s time to add something to your standard disclosure request list in every single case👇🏼
‘Has any part of any witness statement, exhibit, schedule, summary, or item of unused material been produced - partially or wholly - by AI’.
Are you going to post the results of this discussion?
This was discussed at the @SpicyIP summer school earlier this week! Thank you @sunil_abraham !
Recidivist hackers. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2k… Puzzle here is why they carried on hacking after being caught when they must have known they were under surveillance. Other hackers where I have acted as expert have stopped and then led productive lives.
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Almost as if they are legislating to recreate a lost Enid Blyton world. What would she have made of it?
Five Form a Friendship Group
Five Go in Search of Likes
Five on a Tik Tok Challenge Together
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You may not agree with everything the US govt says but to me this seems to be a sensible balanced response the U.K. “growing up in the online world” consultation - uk.usembassy.gov/u-s-governm…
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Very strong words ahead of expected social media ban from @mollyroseorg -
Ian Russell tells us govt is rushing in a blanket ban, rather than more sophisticated controls, under political pressure, in a 'deplorable way'