The SafeToNet Foundation's Safeguarding podcasts: Recent Episodes
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The SafeToNet Foundation's Safeguarding Podcasts, one of the UK's Top 10 Human Rights podcasts, explore the Law, Culture and Technology of online child safety. Topics include cyber-abuse, cyberbullying, sexting, sextortion, grooming, privacy, and digital wellbeing. Our guest list is peerless, featuring globally renowned thought leaders, researchers, academics, practitioners and technologists from America, Australia, Canada, Finland, Holland, Ireland, Morocco, the Philippines, Sweden, the UK and the Vatican.
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
| In this Safeguarding Podcast with Glen Pounder, COO Child Rescue Coalition: Apple's CSAM detection announcement, its impact on privacy, real time filtering in iMessage, Private Relay, Secret Sharing Threshold's weird 30 file trigger, photoDNA, hashing, real time encrypted streaming and Jane. |
In this Safeguarding Podcast with Howard Taylor, Executive Director of the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children: the UN General Comment 25 of the UN CRC and what it means for online child safety, encryption and privacy versus safety, the EU's ePrivacy Temporary Derogation, the requirement for age appropriate design and the tech chicken and egg.
Note that this was recorded before Apple's recent announcement about their plan to counter CSAM on the iOS and iCloud ecosystem which you can read more about here.
In this Safeguarding Podcast with Thomas Mueller Deputy Executive Director of ECPAT, we discuss the international aspects of online child abuse, the impact of the Vietnam war on child abuse, the travel & tourism industry's involvement and what it can do, the impact of end-to-end encryption, child trafficking, compensation for victims and ECPAT's Summary Paper on Online Child Sexual Exploitation.
In this Safeguarding Podcast with Dr Grace Robinson we discuss the language, business and impact of County Lines. What are "clean skins" and "gift girls"? Have COVID lockdowns stopped County Lines operating? Are children extorted into working them or is it a career choice? What can we learn from the Prohibition Era, and 10 recommendations for combatting County Lines.
In this Safeguarding Podcast with Lucy Gardner & Kevin Cleland of YGAM we discuss the convergence of gaming and gambling, the shared techniques of each to hook their users into what YGAM call the Hidden Addiction. Is gambling addiction the same as gaming addiction? Also, the 2992% growth of e-Sports gambling during COVID lockdown, loot boxes, and how Louis Vuitton and other high fashion houses encourage skin gambling.
In this Safeguarding Podcast with Amanda Lenhart of Data & Society Research Institute we discuss how Teens are an afterthought in the product design practices of social media companies, despite adolescents needing special attention. We discuss "screen time" and what wrong with it, imaginary users, the impact legal teams have on child-oriented product design, Strategic Ignorance, and the role that journalists and trade unions can have on adolescent digital wellbeing (whatever that is).
In this Safeguarding podcast with Tony Allen, CEO Age Check Certification Scheme, we discuss the five principles of the EUConsent project, age verification across the EU, the eIDAS Regulation, the dangers of age verification for children's data, age verification for delivery and the "gaping hole" in the UK's Online Safety Bill.
In this Safeguarding Podcast with Glen Pounder from the Child Rescue Coalition, we explore the Deep Web, explain how it works and the scale of CSAM sharing on it. We find out whether it's as safe as people think for the distribution of CSAM, discuss Section 230, whether social media platforms are in a no-win situation, why handset manufacturers are silent on child safety, and also the UK's Online Safety Bill.
In this SafeguardingPodcast with Tony Kelly, we discuss his life as a professional footballer, THAT goal, how his gambling addiction impacted his game and his book Red Card! A Bet You Can Win. We also discus the campaigning work he's doing with Kelly’s Red Card Gambling Support Project CIC to help young footballers, the Gambling Act and whether it's fit for purpose and the two big asks Tony wants implemented to safeguard children in particular from gambling addiction.
In this Safeguarding Podcast with Rick Lane of Iggy Ventures we discuss how the mismanagement of the internet causes online harms, how it's been made so opaque that no one can understand it, what the US Government could do to sort it out and whether the EU's GDPR is a threat to US national security.
In this Safeguarding Podcast with Lisa Haba partner at the Haba law firm and Peter Gentala, Senior Legal Counsel for the National Centre on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) law centre. we discuss what recourse children have against social media companies who refuse to take down their intimate images. Victimised first by predators then allegedly by Twitter, John Doe is taking legal action in a true David vs Goliath fight. Could it change the world?
In this Safeguarding Podcast with Haley McNamara Director of the International Centre on Sexual Exploitation (ICOSE) we discuss the Dirty Dozen report. Why are companies like Amazon, Twitch, Only Fans, Wish, Discord, Google Chromebooks, Verisign, Snapchat and Visa featured? We also discuss Age Verification, PornHub and the Creeper Act.
In this Safeguarding Podcast with Stephen Balkam CEO FOSI we discuss their report "Tools for Today's Digital Parents" to keep their children safe online. We cover "resilience", Age Verification, Parental Controls vs "SafetyTech", the different attitudes towards and practices of online child safety by Millennial, Gen-X and Boomer parents, the six key takeaways from FOSI's report and what children themselves think.
In this Safeguarding Podcast we discuss with Denton Howard Executive Director of INHOPE their international network of Hotlines, we explore the EU's Strategy for a More Effective Fight Against Child Sexual Abuse, ask whether the Child Abuse Directive is still fit for purpose and whether Project AviaTor has taken off, we discuss See No Evil Hear No Evil and examine why Holland has such a problem with CSAM.
In this Safeguarding Podcast we discuss the VoCo Manifesto with Antonia Bayly Head of Safety by Design and Age Assurance Technologies DCMS. Age Assurance vs Age Verification vs Age Estimation, how it all works and the implications for online child safety.
In this Safeguarding Podcast with Professor Elizabeth Letourneau we discuss the unintended consequences of badly thought through laws and the harmful results of child sexual offender registers. Also YSOs and how they can prevent child sexual abuse, and whether child sexual abuse is inevitable.
In this Safeguarding Podcast we review 2020's Safeguarding Podcasts with contributions from Sheila Taylor MBE, Baroness Sal Brinton, Sonya Ryan, Fred Langford, Ernie Allen, Anna Borgstrom, Lianna McDonald, Rick Lane, Professor Michael Salter, John Tanagho, Jenny Greensmith-Brennan, John Carr OBE, Susie Alegre & Sonia Livingstone OBE.
In this Safeguarding Podcast with neuroscientist Michiel Smit we explore Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD). We discuss what it is, the impact it has on different brain structures such as the Reward Network especially within the developing adolescent brain, how addiction in general works, purposefully addictive game design and compare IGD with cocaine usage.
In this Safeguarding Podcast with Susie Alegre, international human rights lawyer and Barrister Associate at Doughty Street Chambers, we discuss Facebook's mind-machine interface. What impact does this have on our rights to private thought? Does this make the “Forgotten Right” even more of an imperative than it should be today? What relevance does a concept from the 17th century European Enlightenment have on 21st century digital media? And what does all this mean for children?
In this Safeguarding Podcast we discuss with Lydia Grace of the Samaritans their industry guidelines for managing self-harm and suicide content on websites and how to keep vulnerable people safe online. What was the motivation behind these guidelines? Is self-harming an effective coping strategy? What's the difference between "helpful" and "harmful content"? Is AI useful in this context? Why are children worried about reporting content they've seen and why does platform transparency about prevalence rates cause a problem?
COVID has of course impacted us all, but children especially so and in many different ways. Based on her presentation at the 2020 Inside Government's Tackling Child Sexual Exploitation conference, in this Safeguarding Podcast we discuss with Sheila Taylor MBE, CEO of the NWG Network, the impact of COVID on children, children's services, child sexual exploitation, domestic violence and what the positive outcomes of COVID might be.
In this safeguarding podcast we discuss with Sonia Livingstone OBE her book "Parenting for a Digital Future". How can parents derive maximum benefit for their children from the phenomenon of the risk-infused online space and digital technology in general? Is "screen time" relevant? Is it true that today's children, born into a world with iPad holders on prams, are digital natives and are their parents digital immigrants and either way, what does that mean?
In this Safeguarding Podcast I'm joined by Steve Wood, Deputy Commissioner and Executive Director of the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) to discuss the Age Appropriate Design Code.
Online data sits at the heart of the digital services that children use every day. From the moment a young person opens an app, data is gathered about them. What is the Age Appropriate Design Code, who does it apply to and how does it help protect children's most personal data?
In this safeguarding podcast with John Carr OBE, we discuss how the EU went wrong with GDPR, the EU's new ePrivacy regulation and how it will make CSAM detection innovation illegal. We ask what is WhoIs and why is this important? We also discuss how social media companies have dodged the requirement for parental consent and ask, given that the UK is leaving the EU, why EU regulations that protect children online matter to the UK.
In this safeguarding podcast with Jenny Greensmith-Brennan of Safer Lives, we ask is there a way other than prison of dealing with offenders? Is prison effective and is it offenders' biggest fear? What is the balance between retribution and justice? Is offender rehabilitation possible? What is the impact on the family of an abuser looking at images online? And what role does the media have in all this?
In this safeguarding podcast with Baroness Beeban Kidron of 5Rights, we discuss the rights of children online. What are the moral and legal obligations of businesses as far as children are concerned? How can large scale digital service providers encapsulate children's rights as defined by the UN CRC into their services? What are Age Appropriate Digital Services? Is "privacy" absolute and is that all that's needed for safety, and is Section230 the root of all evil?
In this safeguarding podcast John Tanagho of the International Justice Mission (IJM) discusses the Supply and Demand of privacy-enabled encrypted "Pay Per View & Direct" live streaming of child sexual abuse. Which are the Demand-side countries and which are the Supply-side countries? What are the socio-economic factors that create a market for predators to exploit in the undetectable privacy of end-to-end encrypted streaming services such as Zoom and the scale and growth of this trafficking phenomenum and what could be done about it.
In this Safeguarding Podcast we discuss the issues for online safety that COVID19 has brought to Saratoga High School, USA. Principal Greg Louie discusses how his school has adapted to the challenges for the online safety of children while remote learning, how disadvantaged children are helped, the EdCode, WASC vs Ofsted and how teachers themselves need to adapt to the new world of "blended learning".
In this Safeguarding podcast we discuss the organised sexual abuse of children. Beyond the lurid headlines, how common is organised sexual abuse? What are the contexts in which organized abuse takes place? What indeed are the impacts on the victim? What part does the internet and social media play in its enactment? And what does the 18th century writer Marquis de Sade have to do with 21st century social media?
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In this safeguarding podcast we discuss with Special Representative of the UN Secretary General on Violence Against Children, Najat Maalla M’jid, the UN CRC, what it is and the 4 under-pinning General Principles, the Optional Protocols, the Sustainable Development Goals especially SDG16, and the impact of COVID on meeting the 2030 targets. Also, VNRs, what they are and what’s missing to make them really effective.
In this safeguarding podcast we discuss the fledgling Online SafetyTech Industry Association, OSTIA, with its Chair Ian Stevenson. Can a UK tech collective effectively tackle the Online Harms that US social media companies can't, or won't? Has "the internet" reached a Strategic Inflection Point and what would that mean? Is the UK Government breaching State Aid rules in its support of OSTIA? Will the next British Unicorn be an OSTIA member?
In this safeguarding podcast we talk to Rabbi Diana Gerson about the Jewish faith and its role in safeguarding children online, as well as Rabbi Gerson’s interfaith approach to the issue. Shomrim, mesirah, halakha, Yiddishkeit and how being more like Moses are all explored in relation to safeguarding children in the online digital context.
In this safeguarding podcast we talk with Eleanor Kelly Gaetan, Director of Government Relations for the National Centre on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) about the American legal system and US Federal legislation which is passed will have global ramifications. Although the EARN IT Act has bi-partisan support, "big tech is pretending that it cares about child protection and it doesn't give a damn". So what is the EARN IT Act and how will it work?
In this safeguarding podcast we discuss with Director of Perspective Economics Sam Donaldson, the DCMS sponsored inaugural report on the UK SafetyTech industry. Forwarded by Caroline Dinenage, the Minister of State for Digital and Culture, the report defines SafetyTech and explores its aims and ambitions, its funding, value and growth. Who are the major players, what's driving the demand for SafetyTech solutions and will we see a British SafetyTech unicorn?
In this safeguarding podcast we discuss with Simone Vibert, Senior Policy and Public Affairs Analyst, the unique powers of the Children's Commissioner's Office, what they are and what they aren't, the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on child online safety, the mental health services chasm, whether there's a fundamental flaw in the Online Harms white paper and the dubious practices of the online gaming industry.
In this safeguarding podcast we discuss with Iain Thomas Deputy Head of The Foundry College PRU, the devastating effect smart phones can have on children, how they are ensnared into County Lines and the impact this has on the child's education, attainment and on the College. We also discuss the impact of COVID-19 and the incredible outcomes the College and staff achieve with some of the most needful children.
In this safeguarding podcast we discuss with Rick Lane, formerly “the point person for cleaning up MySpace”, the legal issues around Section 230 and why social media platforms are fighting any change to the status quo which provides them with immunity from liability from what's on their platforms and we reach a startling and frightening conclusion as far as child online safety is concerned.
In this safeguarding podcast we discuss the prevalence of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in the corporate IT environment, it's scale and impact. We discover that IT teams typically don't have the specialist systems in place to find this illegal content, and that processes and procedures are inadvertently designed to make matters worse. What can corporate IT teams can do to eradicate from their IT estate? Listen to Anna Borgstrom, CEO of NetClean to find out.
A review of the some of the safeguarding news stories from last month. In this edition we speak with co-host Sarah Castro MBE about the IICSA, the NCA and John Carr's Cappers.
In this safeguarding podcast we discuss Project Arachnid with Lianna McDonald Senior Executive of the Canadian Centre for Child Protection. We cover the "Continuum of Abuse", the five different types of responses from service providers to hosting CSAM, the concept of "follow the money", the CCCP's Framework for Action, the Phoenix 11 and Project Arachnid.
In this safeguarding podcast we discuss with CEO Stephen Balkam some of the work of the American Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI). We also discuss a number of potential and actual US laws that will have an impact on online child safety not just in the US but also around the world: the refresh of Child Online Privacy and Protection Act aka COPPA2, the Children and Media Research Advancement or the CAMERA Act, the Kid’s Internet Design and Safety act or the KIDS Act, and the California Consumer Privacy Act, the CCPA.
In this safeguarding podcast with Ernie Allen, Chair of the WeProtect Global Alliance, we discuss the impact of the World Wide Web on the distribution of Child Sexual Abuse material, the Model National Response, the Global Strategic Response and whether the UN's Sustainability goal of ending violence and abuse against children by 2030 can be achieved.
In this SafeToNet Foundation podcast we discuss the Global Threat Assessment Report published at the WeProtect Global Alliance Addis Ababa conference Dec2019. We cover the five areas of the report; Global Technology Trends, Changing Offender Behaviours, Victims’ Online Exposure, the Socio-Economic Environment, and the "Sphere of Harm".
In this Safeguarding Podcast we discuss Brexit and the impact it could have on the safeguarding of children in the online digital context.
With contributions from Baroness Sal Brinton, President Liberal Democrats; Will Gardner, CEO Childnet International; David Wright, Director UK SIC & SWGfL; Rudd Apsey, Director Digital Policy Alliance; former Chief Superintendent Met Police Dal Babu; researcher, broadcaster and lecturer Dr Holly Powell-Jones; Jonny Shipp, Director the Internet Commission; Stephen Balkam, CEO FOSI; John Carr OBE; Susie Hargreaves OBE, CEO IWF; Fred Langford CTO IWF.
In this safeguarding podcast, Fred Langford CTO of the Internet Watch Foundation takes us through the impact on child safety of some encryption for privacy technology called DNS over HTTPS (DoH). What is it, how does it work, why should we care and will it actually achieve more safety. We also try to figure out some of the unintended consequences of implementing DoH, and even the ISO's OSI 7 Layer model makes an appearance.
In this safeguarding podcast we talk with former barrister and Chair of the non-profit section of Amnesty International UK, Nicholas Carlisle. As a Child & Family Psychotherapist, he used his own traumatic childhood to fight for human rights and to start an organisation so that children could go to school free from bullying. His "Solution Team" for schools achieves an astonishing 90% success rate.
In this safeguarding podcast we discuss every parents' worst nightmare with the inspirational Sonya Ryan; how she turned her family's desperate tragedy into a force for good by relentlessly campaigning for Carly's Law first in Australia and now globally.
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In this review of 2019 we remind ourselves of the work done by the Internet Watch Foundation, we discuss Brexit and Age Verification, we define and measure cyberbullying, we cover grooming for radicalisation as well as for sexual exploitation, we delve into the digital age of consent, we ask whether the UN CRC is fit for purpose in the 21st century and explore some Ecumenical aspects of the complex and dynamic topic of safeguarding children in the online digital context.
In this safeguarding podcast we talk with Dr Carlene Firmin MBE about Contextual Safeguarding and the social theory of Pierre Bourdieu. We also discuss why Contextual Safeguarding is counter cultural to traditional child care systems and why the dynamics of adolescence are an absolute nightmare to children's services.
In this safeguarding podcast we discuss the online grooming of Shamima Begum with Dal Babu, former Chief Superintendent of the Met police. Was Shamima a terrorist, or was she a victim of online radicalisation and a failed safeguarding system? Did the UK's Home Secretary Sajid Javid break UK law? What part does austerity-driven hunger lead to the radicalisation of children? All this and more in a fascinating discussion.
In this podcast we discuss the unintended consequences of sharenting, how parents' desire to share with pride or to share to shame contravenes the rights of the child to privacy and how otherwise innocent postings of children can lead to abuse. Also the difference between "data" in Europe and "speech" in the US impacts childrens' "Right to be Forgotten", and the relevance of an 80 year old legal case to the 21st Century social media problem.
In this safeguarding podcast we talk about Safety by Design with Australia's e-Safety Commissioner Julie Inman-Grant, an American in Australia protecting children around the world. She discusses the Child Dignity Alliance, how the suicide, caused by online abuse, of a top TV presenter led to the creation of the e-Safety Office, and the three key principles of the Safety by Design code.
In this podcast we discuss Tech for Good with Chris Ashworth of Nominet. We ask why is Nominet, a Domain Name Registrar buried deep within the online digital context infrastructure concerned about the online experience of children and how they will benefit 1,000,000 young people through their public benefit strategy of promoting greater connectivity, inclusivity and security. We also discuss why it's not a good idea to have myriad apps in the NHS app store.
In this safeguarding podcast we discuss the relationship between social media use and adolescent mental health with Professor Yvonne Kelly of University College London. Based on 11,000 14 year olds from the Millennium Cohort study, the results of this analysis show clear pathways from social media usage to depressive symptoms of mental health. We also discuss how this can be averted, what industry at large can do and how new forms of algorithms could help.
In this safeguarding podcast we talk with Father Zollner of the Vatican about the Pope's 2017 Declaration of Rome which focussed on protecting children online. We discuss the Centre for Child Protection within the Vatican, the child abuse track record of the Roman Catholic church, whether a perpetrator can be a true Roman Catholic, the nature of Confession and what an 11th Commandment might be for the internet age.
As Apple launch their Arcade games store, this safeguarding podcast explores and explains some of the nefarious practices that some online games companies use to exploit children and expose them to harmful and illegal online gambling.
In this safeguarding podcast we talk to Holly Bentley and Martha Kirby of the NSPCC about the 2019 edition of the NSPCC's "How Safe are our Children" report, which this year focusses on the online digital context. This podcast explores the 10 indicators that form the framework of the report and is an ideal companion for it. The 2019 How Safe are our Children report can be downloaded from https://learning.nspcc.org.uk
In this safeguarding podcast, Will Gardner CEO of Childnet International discusses international aspects of safeguarding in the online digital context. We explore international projects such as Project deShame, how young people can be empowered to protect themselves and other young people online, the power of young people's voices and how they can be heard, Brexit, the Online Harms white paper, Childnet's film competition and Safer Internet Day.
In this safeguarding podcast, Professor Sonia Livingstone OBE discusses the Online Harms white paper, whether the UNCRC is fit for the digital age and why the USA hasn't signed up to it, whether the FTC's COPPA "digital age of consent" should be raised to 16 and why it's 13 in the first place, and how social media companies are abusing children's privacy as detailed in her report "Children's Data and Privacy Online; Growing up in a Digital Age".
In this safeguarding podcast, David Wright Director of the UK Safer Internet Centre at SWGfL discusses digital ghost stories, Brexit, the ICO's Age Appropriate design code, Age Verification and the "digital age of consent", the Online Harms white paper, how safeguarding in the online digital context can be better integrated into the day-to-day operational activities of schools, and Safer Internet Day 2020.
In this safeguarding podcast we discuss with Andrew Kernahan, Head of Public Affairs for the Internet Services Providers’ Association, the industry’s response to the Online Harms white paper. Also covered is the definition of “harm” itself, the “mere conduit” defence, the impact of new technologies such as DNS over HTTPS and whether ISPs can be Good Samaritans.
In this safeguarding podcast, award-winning Headteacher of Park House School Derek Peaple discusses how his school's value-driven ethos guides them in their approach to cyberbullying, protecting victims and dealing with perpetrators. In addition he explains how Park House school uses the curriculum to raise pupils' awareness of cyberbullying, whether Ofsted is really up to the job of assessing schools' abilities to manage cyber-related issues and comments on Child Dignity in the Digital World's “Declaration of Rome” to Pope Francis.
In this safeguarding podcast Baroness Sal Brinton, President of the Liberal Democrats, discusses her work with the APPG Bullying, the Red Ballon Learner Trust, the Government's Online Harms white paper and its lack of a definition of cyberbullying, how schools should be dealing with the mental health issues cyberbullying causes and the impact of Brexit on the safeguarding of children in the online digital context.
In this safeguarding podcast we talk to Jonny Shipp of the Internet Commission about how their proposed frameworks of Digital Responsibility could be used to hold social media companies to account and how the use of AI can obfuscate and obscure much needed transparency. We also discuss the Online Harms white paper, the regulation of the internet and social media's "license to operate".
Britain’s highest ranking Paralympian, Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, discusses how the focus on medals has affected the culture within sport and the impact this can have on young athletes.
Also covered are the disparities between the laws affecting teacher/pupil relationships and coach/athlete relationships, her extensive Duty of Care review and the difference between how male and female athletes are treated on social media.
Former CTO for BT, Peter Cochrane OBE proposes “Truth Engines” as an antidote to the algorithm-driven social media world which defines the digital context in which children are immersed and in which they face a range of harms, pervading all of which is an absence or a distortion of Truth.
Can we accurately and reliably identify truths, half-truths, distortions, falsities and lies? Can we make judgment calls fast enough? Can we continuously cleanse the net? These questions and more in a fascinating discussion with one of Britain’s foremost technologists.
Nick Newman, Defence, Security and Public Safety expert within PA Consulting's Vulnerabilities team guides us through their report The Tangled Web, in response to the UK Government's Online Harms White paper.
We define Child Sexual Exploitation Abuse and discuss the "tradecraft" of predatory pedophiles, we explore the dark web, outline the structure of the "safeguarding ecosystem" and how this tangled web can be streamlined, and what we can learn from the military in the war against child abusers.
In this safeguarding podcast with Martha Evans, Director of the Anti-Bullying Alliance, we define bullying, discuss the link between online and offline bullying, explore the impact of this on children's attainment at schools, reveal why a high incidence of bullying reports may not be a bad thing, suggest what parents should ask schools about bullying, identify the biggest thing schools don't do about bullying and of course celebrate Anti-Bullying Week and showcase a fabulous Beat Poem created by young people all about "Choose Respect".
Rudd Apsey, Director of the Digital Policy Alliance (DPA) guides us through the intricacies of Age Verification. What is it, how does it work, who does it apply to and is it secure? Will we need Age Verification for everyone? Will it lead to a dystopian society where free speech is suppressed, or is it a tool for liberation? All this and more in this edition of the SafeToNet Foundation's Safeguarding podcast.
In this safeguarding podcast, Lucy Betts Associate Professor of Psychology of Nottingham Trent University, takes us through her "three-factor" scale of cyberbullying and cyber-victimisation, how a school's well run anti-bullying policy can actually hide cyberbullying, and how someone can be a victim of cyberbullying without even knowing it.
We are all journalists now…Dr Holly Powell-Jones takes us through the interpretive nature of UK law as it pertains to children online, the social and cultural norms that impact law, and whether social media terms and conditions actually apply to under 18’s. All this and more in this edition of SafeToNet Foundation’s Safeguarding podcast.
In this podcast recorded at the House of Lords we talk about digital gangsters, age verification, legislation & regulation and of course the impact of Brexit on safeguarding of children in the digital context.
In this edition of the SafeToNet Foundation's Safeguarding podcast, we interview award-winning author and researcher Adrienne Katz about her recent report focussing on the issues of Vulnerable Children in a Digital World.
We also revisit her 2012 book on Cyberbullying and e-Safety, as well as discussing how well prepared schools are to handle this 21st century problem.
In this edition of the SafeToNet Foundation Safeguarding Podcast, we interview Susie Hargreaves, CEO of the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) about the work they do in tracking down, cataloging and deleting online child pornography. It's not an explicit episode but it's nonetheless a tough topic.