NSPCC advice on what age siblings can share a bedroom
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#UK watchdog accuses #Apple of failing to report sexual images of children
Exclusive: #NSPCC finds Apple implicated in more cases of predators sharing #ChildAbuse imagery in #England and #Wales alone than the company reported globally in a year
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jul/22/apple-security-child-sexual-images-accusation
🪀 NSPCC @NSPCC launches major multi-platform brand awareness campaign featuring Sex Education star T'Nia Miller
by Katy Cowan @katylcowan at @creativeboom
#SexEducation #TNiaMiller #NSPCC
RT @ree_pin: Another season of walking to @FulhamFC for #childline
#nspcc #ffc https://t.co/aIwQs6nP0K
There are few initiatives that make me feel so hopeful as those for young people by young people. #BoldGirlsKen #NSPCC #YoungWomensMovement https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jun/25/bold-girls-ken-scotland-campaign-consent-education?CMP=share_btn_tw
#Antitrans #Extremists are #reporting a #trans #mum to the #NSPCC because she #breastfed her #baby.
The #NSPCC concluded that there is no #safeguarding #risk, and #breastfeeding is an option #facilitated by the #NHS.
“#Trans or #nonbinary people can be #supported to #feed their #babies #human #milk if that is their #goal.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #UK #TERFS #Hate #Bigotry #Transphobia #TERFIsland #TERFFails
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/06/trans-mother-breastfeeding-nspcc/
#Antitrans #Extremists are #reporting a #trans #mum to the #NSPCC because she #breastfed her #baby.
The #NSPCC concluded that there is no #safeguarding #risk, and #breastfeeding is an #option #facilitated by the #NHS.
“#Trans or #nonbinary people can be #supported to #feed their #babies #human #milk if that is their #goal.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #UK #TERFS #Hate #Bigotry #Transphobia #TERFIsland #TERFFails
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/06/trans-mother-breastfeeding-nspcc/
RT @ree_pin: Update: when I set out on my first walk following @FulhamFC to raise money for #childline I never thought I’d have the dedication and commitment to continue my walks this far into the season. Thanks for all the support. 🤍 #NSPCC #ffc https://t.co/ZgYXLTeNgd
RT @ree_pin: Creeping up to 200 miles following @fulhamfc on foot to raise money for #childline. That result made my feet hurt more but if I’m being honest, I thought we’d have more days like this than we have had, so for that I’m thankful.
Thanks for the donations so far. #ffc #nspcc 🤍🖤🤍 https://t.co/IzvjQLGpZU
Andy Burrows has insinuating questions about WhatsApp Security; I don’t work for WhatsApp but I think I can answer most of them…
So Andy posted this thread, and I thought I would have a go at answering it here because (a) he blocks me for previous corrections I’ve issued to his posts, and (b) he’s restricted who can respond…
https://twitter.com/_andyburrows/status/1637770139314561025
A few days ago @WhatsApp VP of Engineering @nagupta made the charge I was spreading ‘misinformation’ about what scanning activity the company performs on a user’s device. However he’s so far chosen not to reply to the following points: (1/6)
Okay, let’s do this:
1. Does @WhatsApp scan files on a user’s device for the use case of malware detection? This FAQ suggests it does: https://faq.whatsapp.com/667552568038157/?helpref=hc_fnav&cms_platform=android (2/6)
The page Andy mentions is related to attachments that the user may sends or receive in WhatsApp. Generally it’s triggered by trying to send a file of a type (or with a filename extension) which the receiving phone will not be able to handle, or which might present a security risk.
This sounds dramatic and complicated to implement – insinuating that “surely just a little more effort could be applied in order to protect children!” – but basically the test is something like:
Does the filename end in .EXE?
…or something like that; or it might be that someone is attempting to send a filename ending in `.APK` (i.e. an Android application) in a way that would circumvent the age-checks and virus-checking of the Google App Store on Android devices.
It’s basic string-matching stuff.
Does this or any other activity, performed on a user’s device, use a text filtering engine which could allow targeting of an identifiable individual or group? If so, that feels much more privacy invasive & open to potential misuse than, say, scanning to detect a CSA hash (3/6)
The answer to the above would be “no” because these are all basic tests which can be implemented using what are called regular expressions, a popular text-matching tool, and the tests are applied to metadata of the attachment (i.e. the filename) rather than the content.
This clarity is important when @WhatsApp is actively influencing legislation which claims that on-device scanning for child abuse is incompatible with privacy and would undermine E2E. Strong safety and privacy are both important outcomes https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-64863448.amp (4/6)
Checks on metadata are not the same as scanning file contents; if a message contains a URL then in the process of making that URL clickable then again regular expressions are applied to see if the URL contains accents, diacritics, or UNICODE which might indicate that it’s attempting to deceive the user, for instance:
http://ämažon.com
The above looks suspicious, doesn’t it? Well spotted, you’re a regular expression!
Many of us will hold differing positions on how we uphold fundamental human rights & what are proportionate threat responses. But some clarity and candour about what @WhatsApp @Meta currently does is important when technical considerations will influence legislative design (5/6)
Regular Expressions. They are a very simple string-matching tool applied to filenames and to URLs when they are being rendered as “clickable”.
They are a very, very long distance from “scanning files on the user’s device” not to mention “processing file contents to create a fuzzy hash which can be matched against a per-nation-state supplied database of hashes of known abusive content (and leaked top-secret documents)”
These are important issues which deserve scrutiny. U.K. & EU legislators deserve to understand the facts when scrutinising the #OnlineSafetyBill and CSA legislative proposal, & if @Meta won’t share details, @CommonsDCMS @CommonsHomeAffs might wish to secure them (ENDS)
I recommend learning Python and how it provides Regular Expressions, it’s very accessible.
Originally tweeted by Andy Burrows (@_andyburrows) on 2023/03/20.
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“Mercury Shrugged” — how can it be that end-to-end encrypted messenger platforms threatening to take their ball home, is a threat to the Westphalian nation state? #MercuryShrugged @SignalApp @WhatsApp
I detest Rand, but the pun is just too fun…
Over the past two weeks we have seen both Signal, and now WhatsApp, threaten to withdraw their service from the UK because (and let’s be precise about this) the Online Safety Bill, as drafted, empowers OFCOM to demand that client-side-scanning technologies must be deployed in the client applications, which breaks the end-to-end security promise that literally defines the value proposition of the software.
And then you see tweets like this, from the former policy guy at NSPCC who clearly is still attempting to grind an axe:
Secondly, are we comfortable watching a clearly co-ordinated industry push to assert, through threats, their primacy over nation states? Nuanced, independent regulatory safeguards are legitimate & necessary to uphold fundamental human rights. Tech accountability is long overdue.
— Andy Burrows (@_andyburrows) March 9, 2023
are we comfortable watching a… industry push to assert… their primacy over nation states
The thing is: it’s not an “industry push” — end to end security in communications software has been coming since 1991 (with the publication of PGP) if not 1975/ish with the paper which kicked-off the development of public key encryption.
And the notion that Signal is somehow a huge corporation, defies both belief and reality.
But here’s a question for you: is Meta / WhatsApp / Facebook — or any other company — obligated to offer a service within a country on anything other than their own terms? Should they be forced not merely to submit to the surveillance whims of each and every nation? Should they be forced to adopt particular protocols in order to support those nations whims?
From where in the nation state primacy handbook, comes the power to require a corporation – or a federated community, or an individual – to offer a service within their jurisdiction, and be forced to offer it on terms which the particular state at hand considers to be desirable?
With the exception of some arguable “anti-tipping-off” statutes (re: ongoing investigations) – I cannot think of any. And I aver that this is because code is speech, and compelled speech is generally revolted-against in all democratic societies.
In any case: it’s food for thought, not least “if some people are presenting this pejoratively, as an argument in favour of the online safety bill, at precisely what point will they stop telling people what they should do and how they should do it?”
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#compelled-speech #facebook #freedom-of-speech #nspcc #signal
NSPCC (Childline) wants troubled kids visiting YouTube when looking for support content - an online harms site that invades their privacy.
This flies in the face of their campaigns to protect children from online harms, leading some of the most vulnerable to one of the platforms that poses a high risk to them.
We're thrilled that Ellen has been announced as one of the special guests, alongside
#mrmichaelball OBE and Lord Julian Fellowes. It will be a special evening (Cadogan Hall)
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AND, #NSPCC’s Merry Little #hristmas auction is now live!
Info/tickets/auction link here: https://cadoganhall.com/whats-on/childlines-merry-little-christmas-concert/
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