Researcher Sonia Livingstone says constraining tech companies and empowering young people and parents are better alternatives to banning kids from social media
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Meta opens its VR OS, now called Horizon OS, to third parties, and says Asus and Lenovo plan Horizon OS-compatible headsets; Meta plans an Xbox branded Quest
Apple released the Vision Pro on February 2; 12 days later Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivered his verdict: Ben Lang / Road to VR : Oculus Founder Reacts to Horizon OS News: “Hopefully it isn't too lat...
Sources: the UK plans talks this month with Apple, Meta, and others to push a voluntary charter granting parents more control of social media use by young teens
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A look at potential issues in the UK's plans to revise its Investigatory Powers Act, including blocking end-to-end encryption and slowing down security updates
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A profile of Swedish politician and EU Home Affairs commissioner Ylva Johansson, who has become a divisive figure during the debate over CSAM and privacy
Ylva Johansson is on a personal mission to make the internet safer for children. Her opponents say her plans would wreck online privacy. Tweets: @alecmuffett , @vrateau , @alecmuffett , and @ylvajoha...
An analysis of the EU Cyber Resilience Act, which covers every connected device and almost all software, causing open-source developers to worry about its scope
The EU's new Cyber Resilience Act is admirable in its goal. And the EU is not alone in thinking something needs to be done … Tweets: @lukolejnik , @alecmuffett , @kaepora , @rafbuff , @bert_hu_bert ,...
Apple to debut an opt-in child safety feature for iPhones in the UK that scans messages for nudity, but drops some controversial aspects, like notifying parents
then we'd better be willing to absolutely go to the mat to make sure it's the former. Matthew Green / @matthew_d_green : I have no problem at all with this system. It seems to be focused on providing ...
Twitter launches a Tor onion service using a modified version of the Enterprise Onion Toolkit, letting users access Twitter via any Tor-compatible browser
The site may become the most significant onion service created if it allows people to access Twitter from censored countries. — Joseph Cox Source: @alecmuffett .
Security researchers say Apple and EU plans to monitor phones for illicit material are ineffective and could embolden government surveillance
In August, Apple announced a system to check all our iPhones for illegal images … Jordan Robertson / Bloomberg : Apple's Child-Porn Tracking System Is Flawed, Report Says arXiv.org : Bugs in our Pocke...
Craig Federighi says introducing two similar features at the same time, iMessage protections for children and CSAM scanning of iCloud photos, caused confusion
no need to call it the privacy feature. We are not that gullible. All cloud service providers scan images but come on Apple Matthew Green / @matthew_d_green : In writing this op-ed for the Times, @ale...