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New report reveals UK as world leader in online safety innovation 

Study shows significant growth of ‘safety tech’ businesses and their importance in plans to make UK the safest place to be online More than 70 companies in London, Leeds, Cambridge and Edinburgh have a quarter of global market share for safety tech products The UK’s rapidly-growing safety tech sector is helping make the online world […]

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Safeguarding podcast – The UK as a World Leader in SafetyTech

In this safeguarding podcast we discuss with Director of Perspective Economics Sam Donaldson, the DCMS sponsored inaugural report on the UK SafetyTech industry. Forwarded by Caroline Dinenage, the Minister of State for Digital and Culture, the report defines SafetyTech and explores its aims and ambitions, its funding, value and growth. Who are the major players,

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Safeguarding podcast – An analog law in a digital world, with Simone Vibert

In this safeguarding podcast we discuss with Simone Vibert, Senior Policy and Public Affairs Analyst, the unique powers of the Children’s Commissioner’s Office, what they are and what they aren’t, the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on child online safety, the mental health services chasm, whether there’s a fundamental flaw in the Online Harms white paper

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Safeguarding podcast – Agents of the State: A discussion with Rick Lane

In this safeguarding podcast we discuss with Rick Lane, formerly “the point person for cleaning up MySpace”, the legal issues around Section 230 and why social media platforms are fighting any change to the status quo which provides them with immunity from liability from what’s on their platforms and we reach a startling and frightening

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Safeguarding podcast – Missing the target. A discussion with Anna Borgstrom of NetClean.

In this safeguarding podcast we discuss the prevalence of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in the corporate IT environment, it’s scale and impact. We discover that IT teams typically don’t have the specialist systems in place to find this illegal content, and that processes and procedures are inadvertently designed to make matters worse. What can

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Safeguarding podcast – Project Arachnid with Lianna McDonald

In this safeguarding podcast we discuss Project Arachnid with Lianna McDonald Senior Executive of the Canadian Centre for Child Protection. We cover the “Continuum of Abuse”, the five different types of responses from service providers to hosting CSAM, the concept of “follow the money”, the CCCP’s Framework for Action, the Phoenix 11 and Project Arachnid.

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Safeguarding podcast – Hackable Humans with Stephen Balkam CEO FOSI

In this safeguarding podcast we discuss with CEO Stephen Balkam some of the work of the American Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI). We also discuss a number of potential and actual US laws that will have an impact on online child safety not just in the US but also around the world: the refresh of Child

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New research by Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s Web Foundation reveals more than half of young women have experienced online abuse and harassment.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the British inventor of the World Wide Web, has today published an open letter warning that continued lack of web access and a growing crisis of online harms are fuelling discrimination and abuse against women and girls — and threatening global progress on women’s rights and empowerment. The inventor of the World

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