I’m leaving WhatsApp. It’s an integral part of the Meta / Facebook empire, which is currently being sued by 29 states for the harm that it causes to children. While WhatsApp claims end-to-end encryption, they retain your metadata, which forms part of your social graph which they then use as part of their marketing efforts….
Continue reading →I was invited to address an Incident Response Workshop today organised by YouTube and the other GIFCT members. Here is what I had to say. Kia ora tatou! I’d like to start with a moment’s silence in memory of the 51 people who died in the Christchurch terror attacks. I’m Dave Moskovitz, and I come…
Continue reading →On the proposed regulation of social media platforms In the wake of the Christchurch Mosques terror attacks on 15 March 2019, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has said that social media platforms must take responsibility for the material that they distribute, that they are the publisher, not the postman. More specifically, We will look…
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