In this Human Rights Safeguarding Podcast: the UK's Online Safety Bill with Damian Collins MP, the Bill's Scrutiny Committee's recommendations, the meaning of "harm", what offline laws apply to the online if any, Section 230, Francis Haugen, End-to-End Encryption (E2EE), the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, the role of Ofcom the Regulator and how they will ensure social media companies comply with this new legislation.

In this human rights safeguarding podcast with Rick Lane of Iggy Ventures, we discuss updates to Section 230, COPPA and the WhoIs issue, national security concerns caused by TikTok, the regulatory splinternet, digital wallets and why the US is a laggard in adoption, the 4th C of the CORE report, and a worked example of a COPPA-compliant digital wallet.

Our 2021 review of Human Rights Safeguarding Podcasts includes many of this year's amazing guests. Topics include Addiction, Apple's NeuralHash CSAM, Age Verification, John Doe vs Twitter, WhoIS, County Lines, General Comment 25, pack-hunting predators, and the TriChan Takedown.

In this Human Rights Safeguarding Podcast: Iain Drennan CEO WeProtect Global Alliance discusses the 2021 Global Threat Assessment report, research with the Technology Coalition, Economist Impact and Crisp Thinking, the Global Strategic Response, Online Sexual Harms and the seven recommendations they make for government, civil society and online service providers.

In this Safeguarding Podcast with Anna Ovaska and Tegan Insoll from Finland's Protect Children we discuss their research programs "Help Us To Help You" and "No Need for Help", the compassionate approach Protect Children takes to offender treatment, the drivers, motivations, attitudes and habits of CSAM consumers, and whether offenders's responses can be trusted.

Our Safeguarding Podcasts are one of Feedspot's Top 10 UK Human Rights podcasts.

In this Safeguarding Podcast: Sean Litton CEO of the Technology Coalition discusses their Five Pillars to eliminate CSAM, Universal Video Hashing, universal Terms of Service, the UN CRC and General Comment 25, the need for Age Verification, their work with EVAC and WeProtect and the UK's draft Online Safety Bill.

Our Safeguarding Podcasts are one of Feedspot's Top 10 UK Human Rights podcasts.

In this Safeguarding Podcast: Lloyd Richardson Canadian Centre for Child Protection & Professor Michael Salter talk us through the Trichan Takedown, how ISPs fought against CSAM message boards and how some ISPs colluded with them, the role of CDNs such as Cloudflare in CSAM replication and sharing, and the evasive tactics used by the CSAM message board admins to hide their vast libraries of child abuse images and videos.

In this Safeguarding Podcast: Austin Berrier Homeland Securities Investigations Officer discusses the impact of Apple's Child Safety tech on Law Enforcement, the live streaming of child sexual abuse on encrypted video streaming services, how online predatory pedophiles hunt in packs, Project Mercury and how Zoom worked with international law enforcement to indict 300 child abusers.

In this Safeguarding Podcast with Martha Evans, Director of the Anti-Bullying Alliance: The Children's Code and how it might impact cyberbullying, the impact of COVID on cyberbullying, ABA's Agreed Policy Recommendations, Marcus Rashford, Anti-Bullying Week and One Kind Word, the 12,000 children reallocated schools due to bullying and the need for a Government-led Annual National Bullying Survey.

In this Safeguarding Podcast with Hany Farid, Professor at the University of California, Berkeley: PhotoDNA, what is is and how it works, what PhotoDNA doesn't do, what are Hashes and do they work in an End-to-End Encrypted world, is Apple's NeuralHash child safety proposal the incipient slippery slope as many claim, Apple's Secret Sharing Threshold and why that's a problem, and "WhatsApp's hypocrisy".

Links to other relevant content:

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Apple's Curate's Egg:

https://safetonetfoundation.org/2021/08/12/apples-curates-egg/

CSI Apple: The Omnibus Edition

https://safetonetfoundation.org/2021/08/26/csi-apple-the-omnibus-edition/

You've Already Agreed to Apple's CSAM Detection but you just didn't know it:

https://safetonetfoundation.org/2021/08/18/youve-already-agreed-to-apples-csam-detection-but-you-just-didnt-know-it/

Safeguarding Podcast with Glen Pounder CCO Child Rescue Coalition:

https://safetonetfoundation.org/2021/08/28/safeguarding-podcast-jane-with-glen-pounder-coo-child-rescue-coalition/

Apple's notice on Expanded Protections for Children:

https://www.apple.com/child-safety/

WhatsApp's website: on-device scanning for contraband content:

WhatsApp automatically performs checks to determine if a link is suspicious. To protect your privacy, these checks take place entirely on your device, and because of end-to-end encryption, WhatsApp can't see the content of your messages.

https://faq.whatsapp.com/android/security-and-privacy/suspicious-links/?lang=en

WhatsApp's website on CSAM detection:

Our detection methods include the use of advanced automated technology, including photo- and video-matching technology, to proactively scan unencrypted information such as profile and group photos and user reports for known CEI. We have additional technology to detect new, unknown CEI within this unencrypted information. We also use machine learning classifiers to both scan text surfaces, such as user profiles and group descriptions, and evaluate group information and behavior for suspected CEI sharing.

Using these techniques, WhatsApp bans more than 300,000 accounts per month for suspected CEI sharing.

https://faq.whatsapp.com/general/how-whatsapp-helps-fight-child-exploitation/?lang=en

Hany Farid's Newsweek piece on WhatsApp's Hypocrisy:

https://www.newsweek.com/should-we-celebrate-condemn-apples-new-child-protection-measures-opinion-1618828