A group of civil society organisations and privacy campaigners have accused the UK Government of using “scare tactics” to try to sway public opinion over the use of end-to-end encryption in messaging apps. Writing an open letter to mark Safer Internet Day, the Open Rights Group and more than 40 other campaign groups criticised a […]
An encryption service used by cyber attackers to remain anonymous online has been shut down in an international operation involving the UK National Crime Agency. Fifteen server infrastructures were shut down on Monday in an operation led by German police to take down LabVPN. The NCA said that the network was used by criminals connected […]
Last year was the worst year on record for child sexual abuse online, the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has said, as the online safety group called for more support for parents to help spot the danger. The organisation, which finds and helps remove abuse content from the internet, said it investigated 361,000 reports of suspected […]
A multibillion-pound legal claim has been launched against Facebook in the UK, which, if successful could see more than 44 million people compensated over “unfair” terms and conditions being imposed on users. Competition law expert Dr Liza Lovdahl Gormsen has launched the class-action lawsuit against Facebook’s parent firm, Meta, at the Competition Appeal Tribunal, accusing […]
