Heather Burns on Twitter: “This piece … on the Russian digital surveillance system over 540 million teenagers’ accounts, which is presented as “suicide prevention” but is really political surveillance for the Kremlin, reads like a safety tech vendor’s best sales pitch.”
Note to policymakers: if your vision for keeping young people safe online involves the same kind of technical infrastructure which is being used to manage an actual genocide, you may wish to scrap your vision and start again. https://t.co/WYRtxANMUT
“Could there be an internet where Tesco, Amazon, Netflix, BBC, airlines, banking etc work well but there are major changes elsewhere?” | child-safety activists ask for a read-only internet
In a sense this is one of the scariest things I’ve read, because it demands removing interactivity and freedom of the user’s voice from the internet; we would be permitted retail and other “consumer” services, and denied anything which might enable user-to-user communications on the grounds that it might harm children, or footballers, or similar.
It’s doubly ironic because the author — child-safety activist John Carr — is running and writing on an independent blog, and one can only wonder who he asked permission to do so?
Could there be an internet where Tesco, Amazon, Netflix, BBC, airlines, banking etc work well but there are major changes elsewhere because the public and Governments get fed up of the criminal and other forms abuse linked with various interactive elements? I think there could.
You know when you read about some fuckup in China where toxic waste was dumped, and ended up poisoning a town or whatever? You know how you think “man, “they” should do something about that!”. Well “they” in the United States is the EPA, and EPA does do something about, which is why most of us have clean water and food for our kids.
House Republicans just voted to gut the EPA. They are voting to make your kids less safe.
The New Zealand government is running a campaign on online safety. The topics are serious, but to help with engagement they’re running some clever light-humor spots. And they’re really good.
Thorn's report reveals minors are sharing explicit images, sometimes coerced. Learn how tech is using "hashing and matching" to combat this online threat.
Baroness Kidron was talking about AI generated CSEM again on the today program on Radio 4 this morning. With this alarming development end-to-end encryption becomes more important. It’s the only way parents can share images of our children without risking them falling into the wrong hands #e2ee#childsafety
The messaging app Discord is expanding its child safety policies following an NBC investigation last month that reported child exploitation, extortion and grooming was taking place on the platform. Dating servers for users under 18 will be banned alongside any text, media or AI-generated child sex images.
" Ransomware criminals are dumping kids’ private files online after school #hacks #Ransomware gangs have been stealing confidential documents from schools and dumping them online. The documents describe student sexual assaults, psychiatric hospitalizations, abusive parents — even suicide attempts. "
I often wonder how I survived my childhood considering these were what we played on in the park in the neighborhood! 😲 😵 #ISurvivedMyChildhood#DeathTrapsInParks
@MicheleV_AK
I remember those kinds of #playground equipment, plus a long metal slide. The metal slide would bake in the sun and burn your skin if you were wearing shorts and didn't keep your bare skin off the metal. I would have to lean back a bit, put my shoes on the slide, and keep my knees up high, to avoid injury. It was best to try sliding on a cloudy day. LOL