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UK government seeks to break encryption on Apple's iCloud
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Offsite Article: How to keep your private online conversations private
Consider using Signal and Tor. By Clare Duffy

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5th February

UK Home Secretary Signals Tougher Online Censorship Beyond Current Censorship Laws. From reclaimthenet.org

9th January

Man who wrote the anti-Starmer song Freezing this Christmas is SACKED by the BBC. From dailymail.co.uk

28th December

Global Age Verification Measures: 2024 in Review. From eff.org

17th December

Campaigning againt AI social scoring used to deny rental contracts. From theguardian.com
 


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UK Internet Censorship: Current status

The Digital Economy Act 2017 threatened to introduce strict age verification for internet porn access coupled with ISP blocking for websites that don't comply. However the legislation was fundamentally flawed by its voluntary approach to privacy and security. After a series of delays, the age verification section of the bill was put out of its misery in October 2019.

The censorship of internet porn will now be carried over into the Online Safety Act which has wider ambitions on the censorship of the whole internet. The bill was discussed during 2020 and scrutinised by parliamentary committee in 2021 before being passed into law in 2023. Internet censor Ofcom is currently consulting on its censorship rules to start  in 2024 and 2025.

In 2021  Ofcom considered and extended EU VoD censorship under an updated AVMS directive.  Ofcom is also consulting on similar EU inspired censorship ideas about shared user generated video on websites such as YouTube.  Ofcom will required strict age verification for websites with porn video but this will make little difference as these rules only apply to British based companies and there simply aren't any of these left.

Meanwhile the Information Commissioner's Office has published wide ranging age verification requirements for most websites in the name of data protection for children. These ICO rules came into force in September 2021.
 

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11th Feb
UK government seeks to break encryption on Apple's iCloud
If Apple continues to offer encrypted iCloud then we can infer that the encryption has been secretly compromised. If Apple withdraws the service from Brits then we will at least know that the rest of the world will stay safe.
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Consider using Signal and Tor. By Clare Duffy
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5th Feb
This is a tolerant country...BUT
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4th Feb
Offsite Article: Islamic blasphemy laws have come to Britain
By arresting a man for burning the Koran, the authorities are doing the bidding of Islamist reactionaries. By Fraser Myers

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