Neil Fairbrother

The CSAM Seesaw

Balancing Trust and Safety in End-to-end Encrypted Platforms The Stanford Internet Observatory hosted a panel of speakers presenting views on new products and services intended to protect children in encrypted spaces. These are the key points we feel that each speaker raised in this debate and we’ve provided our responses to each of these key points. […]

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Safeguarding Podcast – Digital Crime Scenes : Digital DNA with Professor Hany Farid

Welcome to another edition of the SafeToNet Foundation’s safeguarding podcast with Neil Fairbrother, exploring the law culture and technology of safeguarding children online. In this Safeguarding Podcast with Hany Farid, Professor at the University of California, Berkeley: PhotoDNA, what is is and how it works, what PhotoDNA doesn’t do, what are Hashes and do they

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Safeguarding Podcast – Jane with Glen Pounder COO Child Rescue Coalition

Welcome to another edition of the SafeToNet Foundation’s safeguarding podcast with Neil Fairbrother exploring the law, culture and technology of safeguarding children online. In this Safeguarding Podcast with Glen Pounder, COO Child Rescue Coalition: Apple’s CSAM detection announcement, the impact on privacy, real time filtering in iMessage, Private Relay, Secret Sharing Threshold’s weird 30 file

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You’ve already agreed to Apple’s CSAM detection, but you just didn’t know it.

If you already use Apple’s iCloud service and are objecting to their recent announcement that they will search it for evidence of pre-hashed or digitally-finger printed images of illegal child abuse, then it’s too late. You’ve already agreed to allow them to do this, as they explain in their iCloud user agreement, or terms of

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Safeguarding Podcast – the Perfect Storm with Howard Taylor, Executive Director of the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children

In this Safeguarding Podcast with Howard Taylor, Executive Director of the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children: the UN General Comment 25 of the UN CRC and what it means for online child safety, encryption and privacy versus safety, the EU’s ePrivacy Temporary Derogation, the requirement for age appropriate design and the tech chicken

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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Apple’s Curate’s Egg

You can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs, or so goes the saying. Apple’s recent privacy announcement included details about online child safety features that they intend to introduce is, we feel, to be broadly but not unquestionably welcomed. For too long the handset manufacturers, a key element of the Online Digital Context, have been

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Safeguarding Podcast – Amy, Vicky, Andy and OCSE too with Thomas Mueller, Deputy Executive Director ECPAT

In this Safeguarding Podcast with Thomas Mueller Deputy Executive Director of ECPAT, we discuss the international aspects of online child abuse, the impact of the Vietnam war on child abuse, the travel & tourism industry’s involvement and what it can do, the impact of end-to-end encryption, child trafficking, compensation for victims and ECPAT’s Summary Paper

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Safeguarding Podcast – County Lines with Dr Grace Robinson

In this Safeguarding Podcast with Dr Grace Robinson we discuss the language, business and impact of County Lines. What are “clean skins” and “gift girls”? Have COVID lockdowns stopped County Lines operating? Are children extorted into working them or is it a career choice? What can we learn from the Prohibition Era, and 10 recommendations

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Safeguarding Podcast – The Hidden Addiction with Lucy Gardner and Kev Cleland, YGAM

In this Safeguarding Podcast with Lucy Gardner & Kevin Cleland of YGAM we discuss the convergence of gaming and gambling, the shared techniques of each to hook their users into what YGAM call the Hidden Addiction. Is gambling addiction the same as gaming addiction? The 2992% growth of e-Sports gambling during COVID lockdown, loot boxes, and

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