UK government rejects privacy-by-design and data minimization, cites child safety concerns over disappearing messages
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Summary
The UK government has rejected the "privacy by design" architecture and GDPR-mandated data minimization principles, now arguing that disappearing messages make children unsafe. This marks a significant policy shift where a core information security precept is being reframed as a child safety issue. The author notes the timing is suspicious, as disappearing messages were recently cited as a government transparency issue in the Mandelson files, suggesting political rather than safety motivations.
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The government is now against this key precept of information security, because children
Which of course has nothing to do with disappearing messages only recently being cited as an issue of government transparency in the Mandelson files. Total coincidence.
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