Warning over ‘systemic security risks’ in UK Online Safety Bill

Yet more criticism of proposed measures voiced, with age-verification a particular concern.

Further criticism of the UK’s proposed Online Safety Bill (OSB) has come from the country’s 70,000 member Chartered Institute for IT, known as BCS, and from privacy campaigners particularly concerned about the implications of the age-verification measures in the bill.

BCS said it is not possible to implement the

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