Internet safety
Alexa, Siri… Elsa? Children drive boom in smart speakers | Technology
Voice assistants such as Alexa and Siri will become common in children’s bedrooms, according to a new report from Internet Matters, the online safety body, which says it is critical for parents to spend more time understanding new technology. The pandemic has accelerated the adoption of new technology at home by “three or four years”, …
Don’t click on the traffic lights: upstart competitor challenges Google’s anti-bot tool | Technology
The days of clicking on traffic lights to prove you are not a robot could be ending after Google’s decision to charge for the tool prompted one of the web’s biggest infrastructure firms to ditch it for a competitor. “Captcha” – an awkward acronym for “completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans …
Internet ‘is not working for women and girls’, says Berners-Lee | Global
Women and girls face a “growing crisis” of online harms, with sexual harassment, threatening messages and discrimination making the web an unsafe place to be, Sir Tim Berners-Lee has warned. The inventor of the world wide web said the “dangerous trend” in online abuse was forcing women out of jobs, causing girls to skip school, …
Firefox: ‘no UK plans’ to make encrypted browser tool its default | Technology
The maker of the Firefox web browser has told the government it has no plans to turn a controversial web privacy tool on by default in the UK, despite launching it in the US later in September. Mozilla has announced it will make the tool, called DNS-over-HTTPS, or DoH, the default for all users in …
