24-05-2018, 19:43
We are in need of a round up again. Here's a few related bits and pieces that have popped up over the last few days:
First inclusion, in the interests of fairness, is the charities follow up to their comments on the Matt Hancock story discussed above. They have obviously been encouraged to display the rationale behind their earlier quotes. These pieces go into the statistical evidence and surveys they have been accuring in support of the government position:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44233544
https://www.careappointments.co.uk/featu...m-children
Second one, and you couldn't make this up, Porn-hub are launching their own VPN! Talk about playing both sides of the fence at the same time. This service will presumably enable you to get around their own AV gateway! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/a...twork.html
Meanwhile the rival AgeChecked continues to expand its associations: http://www.businesscloud.co.uk/news/bloc...roving-age
Finally here's another published response to the BBFC consultation; this time from internet security expert Alec Muffett: https://medium.com/@alecmuffett/response...4d988b14bb
On the blog that provided the above link...
Healthy numbers indeed. The BBFC will no doubt continue to cast around ever wider for answers to the queries raised. Their suggestions to the government should be fascinating come the summer.
First inclusion, in the interests of fairness, is the charities follow up to their comments on the Matt Hancock story discussed above. They have obviously been encouraged to display the rationale behind their earlier quotes. These pieces go into the statistical evidence and surveys they have been accuring in support of the government position:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44233544
https://www.careappointments.co.uk/featu...m-children
Second one, and you couldn't make this up, Porn-hub are launching their own VPN! Talk about playing both sides of the fence at the same time. This service will presumably enable you to get around their own AV gateway! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/a...twork.html
Meanwhile the rival AgeChecked continues to expand its associations: http://www.businesscloud.co.uk/news/bloc...roving-age
Finally here's another published response to the BBFC consultation; this time from internet security expert Alec Muffett: https://medium.com/@alecmuffett/response...4d988b14bb
On the blog that provided the above link...
Pandora Blake Wrote:Over 500 people submitted a response using the tool provided by the Open Rights Group, emphasising the need for age verification tech to be held to robust privacy and security standards. I'm told that around 750 consultation responses were received by the BBFC overall, which means that a significant majority highlighted the regulatory gap between the powers of the BBFC to regulate adult websites, and the powers of the Information Commissioner to enforce data protection rules.(http://pandorablake.com/blog/2018/5/bbfc...-challenge )
Healthy numbers indeed. The BBFC will no doubt continue to cast around ever wider for answers to the queries raised. Their suggestions to the government should be fascinating come the summer.