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Internet Safety: a blog post by Neil Fairbrother and Fred Langford

“If you were a pedophile and you were looking to invent a system for abusing children, identifying them, grooming them, being able to meet them where your safety was guaranteed to carry out acts for your sexual gratification, you’d invent the internet.” Dal Babu, former Chief Superintendent Met Police in this Safeguarding Podcast Have we […]

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Internet Safety

Earlier this year I published a podcast episode with Fred Langford, the CTO of the Internet Watch Foundation which focussed on a particular aspect of telecoms encryption (DNS over HTTPS or DoH) and how it could expose children to harm. I pitched an article based on this to the Institute of Telecoms Professionals for their

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Safeguarding podcast – The Tangled Web with PA Consulting

Nick Newman, Defence, Security and Public Safety expert within PA Consulting’s Vulnerabilities team guides us through their report The Tangled Web, in response to the UK Government’s Online Harms White paper. We define Child Sexual Exploitation Abuse (CSEA) and discuss the “tradecraft” of predatory pedophiles, we explore the dark web, outline the structure of the “safeguarding

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Safeguarding Podcast – Blinded by the Light

In this podcast recorded at the House of Lords we talk with John Carr OBE about digital gangsters, age verification, legislation & regulation and of course the impact of Brexit on safeguarding of children in the digital context. Just in case you prefer to read rather than listen, here’s a lightly edited transcript: http://traffic.libsyn.com/safetonetfoundation/SafeToNet_Foundation_Podcast_-_Blinded_by_the_Light.mp3 Neil

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Safeguarding podcast – interview with Susie Hargreaves CEO IWF

In this edition of the SafeToNet Foundation Safeguarding Podcast, we interview Susie Hargreaves, CEO of the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) about the work they do in tracking down, cataloging and deleting online child pornography. It’s not an explicit episode but it’s nonetheless a tough topic. If you’d rather read than listen, then the transcript below

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Putting it all into context

Contextual Safeguarding was developed at the University of Bedfordshire out of Dr Carlene Firmin’s research, working alongside practitioners and agencies and has been incorporated into HM Government’s statutory guidance ‘Working Together to Safeguard Children 2018’. What is Contextual Safeguarding and how does it apply online? Contextual Safeguarding recognises that harm to young people happens in

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