Facebook platforms used for most online child sex abuse, UK charity says, warns pedophiles thrive if encryption isn’t limited
The UK’s leading child-protection charity says pedophiles, abusers and groomers are thriving on Facebook’s social media platforms, with end-to-end encryption giving them a perfect opportunity to abuse children and victims.
The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children […]
Facebook hosted 94% of 69 MILLION child sex abuse images reported by US tech firms
A CONCERNING 94% of the 69 million child sex abuse images picked up by US tech firms last year were found on Facebook.
This figure has been highlighted again as seven countries, including the UK and the US, released a statement warning of the negative impacts of end-to-end encryption.
CLOUD Act treaty should be ratified, says committee
For cross-border US-Australia data exchange.
Australia’s Joint Standing Committee on Treaties (JSCT) has recommended the government ratify a cross-border treaty with the United States for easier law enforcement data access.
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COVID-19 vaccine boosters for young adults: a risk benefit assessment and ethical analysis of mandate policies at universities
Abstract
In 2022, students at North American universities with third-dose COVID-19 vaccine mandates risk disenrolment if unvaccinated. To assess the appropriateness of booster mandates in this age group, we combine empirical risk-benefit assessment and ethical analysis.
To prevent one COVID-19 hospitalisation over a […]
The weaponisation of psychiatry against critics of Governments’ Covid narrative
Psychiatry has been the enforcer of choice used by strong-arm governments for as long as it has existed. After all, psychiatry is the perfect cover to make targeted individuals do what government wants. If psychiatry is targeting a person, it can be considered a private medical matter and not a matter of the […]
Discriminatory Attitudes Against the Unvaccinated During a Global Pandemic
Abstract
During the COVID-19 pandemic sizeable groups of unvaccinated minorities persist even in countries with high vaccine access1. Consequently, vaccination became a controversial subject of debate and even protest2.
Here, we assess whether people express discriminatory attitudes in the form of negative affect, stereotypes and […]
Can Small-Scale Farming Feed the World?
In the 1970s, environmentalists and politicians in the imperial core quivered in their seats at the prospect of a population explosion. Malthusian prophecies of total collapse and Thanos-esque proposals of racial extermination pervaded political thought. For many, it seemed the end of the […]
Protect the Stack
Intro
Providers of internet infrastructure services are under pressure to play a greater role in policing online content and participation. Some are deciding to intervene on their own. This is a dangerous trend that must end now.
While the call to enlist the full […]