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Open Rights Group Details the Risks of Age Verification in UK Online Safety Bill

Digital rights organization, Open Rights Group, is offering a detailed analysis of why the UK Online Safety Bill's age verification is a threat to privacy.

The UK Online Safety Bill represents

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Michelle Donelan, MP (with the Home Office in addition to DSIT) "said further work to develop the technology was needed but added that government-funded research had shown it was possible. This, incidentally is entirely untrue: their researchers were at pains to explain that the technology is unfit for purpose:"

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Screenshot from article: The independent evaluation concluded that although none of the tools propose to weaken or break the E2EE protocol, the confidentiality of the E2EE service users’ communications cannot be guaranteed when all content intended to be sent privately within the E2EE service is monitored pre-encryption. The Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, writing in The Telegraph … noted that the programme had “demonstrated that it would be technically feasible to detect child sexual abuse in environments which utilise encryption.” Awais Rashid, Professor of Cyber Security at the University of Bristol and Director of the REPHRAIN Centre, said: “The issue is that the technology being discussed is not fit as a solution.” Professor Rashid has worked on development of automated tools to detect child abuse material online as well as engineering privacy into software systems for 15 years. “Our evaluation shows that the solutions under consideration will compromise privacy at large and have no built-in safeguards to stop repurposing of such technologies for monitoring any personal communications,” he said. Rephrain researchers, UCL blog
Open Rights Group

- Proposed changes to Online Safety Bill will not protect free speech  openrightsgroup.org/press-rele

- Compulsory ID cards are wrong, ineffective, Orwellian, and thoroughly un-British openrightsgroup.org/press-rele

- Online Safety Bill a threat to human rights warn campaigners openrightsgroup.org/press-rele

- Online Safety Bill sinking under flood of amendments  openrightsgroup.org/press-rele

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Proposed changes to Online Safety Bill will not protect free speech Open Rights Group
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