Mass Surveillance
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11 Jan 2023 By Dr Monica Horten
Online Safety Bill latest change: State enforcement of big tech terms
The Online Safety Bill is currently going back to Report Stage in the Commons on 16th January, and is widely expected to be in the Lords for the end of the month, or beginning of February.
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12 Dec 2022 By Dr Monica Horten
Online Safety Bill Triple shield or triple surveillance?
Update on the Parliamentary amendments
The Online Safety Bill is back in Parliament.
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09 Dec 2022 By James Baker
Continuing the campaign against the Online Safety Bill
This week the Online Safety Bill came back to Parliament.
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24 Nov 2022 By Dr Monica Horten
Global encryption coalition warns of Online Safety Bill dangers
70 organizations, cyber security experts, and elected officials sign open letter expressing dangers of Online Safety Bill
On 24 November, seventy civil society organizations, companies, elected officials, and cybersecurity experts, including Global Encryption Coalition members, published an open letter to British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak highlighting their concerns with the threat that the United Kingdom’s Online Safety Bill poses to end-to-end encryption.
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29 Sep 2022 By Dr Monica Horten
Online Safety Bill: Will the upload filter ban images of protest?
Recently, we saw how police threatened and in a couple of cases, arrested, anti-monarchy protesters, following the death of the late queen Elizabeth II, The images were widely circulated on social media and the police eventually were forced to acknowledge that these protests were, in fact, lawful.
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Online Safety Bill Campaign Hub
The Online Safety Bill Campaign Hub is a place for members of the public, campaigners, politicians and experts to take action, and find out more about the issues around the Online Safety Bill.
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04 Aug 2022 By Dr Monica Horten
How the Online Safety Bill puts a spy in your pocket
The deployment of client-side scanning on private messaging systems was trailed in a research paper published by the technical directors of GCHQ and the National Cybersecurity Centre (NCSC).
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Don’t Scan Me!
The Online Safety Bill contains a ‘spy clause’ – everyone’s private messages will be scanned.
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Court Rules UK Mass Surveillance Programme Unlawful
In 2013, following Edward Snowden’s disclosure of information about major national mass surveillance programmes, the Open Rights Group teamed up with Privacy International, English PEN, and Dr Constanze Kurz, a German computer scientist, to mount a legal challenge against the UK Government’s mass surveillance of the internet.
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Court of Appeal rules surveillance data should be restricted
In January 2018, the Court of Appeal delivered judgment in a case regarding the Government’s “Snooper’s Charter” provisions, found in the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014, and in the Investigatory Powers Act 2016.
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