About Ciaran Martin
Ciaran Liam Martin is the first CEO of the National Cyber Security Centre. Prior to joining GCHQ in February 2014, Ciaran was Constitution Director at the Cabinet Office from 2011, helping to agree the framework for the Scottish independence referendum.
Braverman and Facebook clash over private message plans
... Ciaran Martin, the former head of the National Cyber Security Centre, has previously told the BBC that scanning for child abuse content in encrypted messaging apps would involve processes that could undermine privacy for all users...
MoveIt hack: What action can data-breach victims take?
... " The important message to organisations right now is not to panic, to install the security patch and not to pay the criminals, " former National Cyber Security Centre lead Prof Ciaran Martin says...
Minister attacks Meta boss over Facebook message encryption plan
... Ciaran Martin, the former head of the National Cyber Security Centre, told Today that: " Essentially it s building a door that doesn t currently exist, not into the encrypted messaging app but into devices, which could be used or misused by people who aren t interested in protecting children for more nefarious purposes...
Timeline of dissident republican activity
... Craigavon man Ciaran Martin Collins, 35, from Drumbeg, was charged with having a semi-automatic pistol in suspicious circumstances after being arrested in a car in Lurgan...
Royal Mail overseas parcels ban 'costing me hundreds of pounds'
... " Takes time to resolve Despite customers frustration, Ciaran Martin, professor at University of Oxford and former chief of the National Cyber Security Centre, told the BBC that Royal Mail was " not being unusually slow"...
Royal Mail: Overseas post still disrupted after 'cyber incident'
... Ciaran Martin, a professor at the University of Oxford and former chief of the National Cyber Security Centre, told the BBC he believed the " incident" was down to " malicious activity"...
Scottish independence: Will indyref2 be a re-run of 2014?
... But Ciaran Martin, the former senior UK civil servant who negotiated the Edinburgh Agreement which formed the basis for the 2014 referendum, now professor of government at Oxford University, draws a distinction between the political argument for Scottish self-determination and the legal case...
UK warned to bolster defences against cyber attacks as Russia threatens Ukraine
... " If the aim is to conquer Ukraine, you don t do that with computers, " says Ciaran Martin, who ran NCSC until 2020 - an arm of the UK s intelligence, security and cyber agency, GCHQ...
Minister attacks Meta boss over Facebook message encryption plan
By Chris VallanceTechnology reporter
A government minister has attacked Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg for the " extraordinary moral choice" to Roll Out encryption in Facebook messages.
Meta was allowing child abusers to " operate with impunity" Security Minister Tom Tugendhat said.
End-to-end encryption (E2EE) stops anyone but The Sender and recipient reading The Message .
Meta which owns Facebook, said it would work with law enforcement and child safety experts as it.
The government has long been critical of those plans and of other platforms' resistance to weakening the privacy of end-to-end-encrypted messaging.
Police and government maintain the tech - also used in apps such as Signal, WhatsApp and Apple's Imessage - prevents law enforcement and the firms themselves from identifying the sharing of child sexual abuse material.
Mr Tugendhat said: " Faced with an epidemic of child Sexual Exploitation abuse, Meta are choosing to ignore it and in doing so, they are allowing predators to operate with impunity.
" That is an extraordinary moral choice. It is an extraordinary decision. And I think we should remember who it is who is Making It . "
He was speaking at the PIER23 conference on tackling online harms at Anglia Ruskin University Chelmsford.
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" I Am speaking about Meta specifically, and Mark Zuckerberg 's choices particularly. These are his choices, " He Said .
A government advertising campaign will soon be launched " to tell parents The Truth about Meta's choices and what they mean for the safety of their children" He Said .
The Campaign , which would run in print, online and broadcast, would " encourage tech firms to take responsibility and to do The Right thing" Mr Tugendhat said.
The Home Office declined to provide more detail about The Campaign when approached by The Bbc .
Meta argues the majority of British People already rely on apps that use encryption to keep them safe from hackers, fraudsters and criminals.
" We don't think people want us reading their private messages so have developed safety measures that prevent, detect and allow us to take action against this heinous abuse, while maintaining online privacy and security" it said.
The Company removes and reports millions of images each month.
WhatsApp, which Meta owns, made More Than one million reports in a year even though it uses end-to-end-encryption.
The Home Office has promoted similar campaigns in The Past , such as Last Year 's No Place to Hide campaign, which also called on Facebook to abandon plans for end-to-end encryption.
But the data watchdog, arguing the tech helped protect children from criminals and abusers, urged Facebook to roll it out without delay.
The Online Safety Bill, currently going through Parliament, contains powers that could enable communication regulator Ofcom to direct platforms to use accredited technology to scan the contents of messages.
Several messaging platforms, including Signal and WhatsApp, have previously told The Bbc they will refuse to weaken the privacy of their encrypted messaging systems if directed to do so.
The government argues it is possible to provide technological solutions that mean the contents of encrypted messages can be scanned for Child Abuse material.
The only way of doing that, many tech experts argue, would be to install software that would scan messages on The Phone or computer before they are sent, called client-side scanning.
This, critics argue, would fundamentally undermine the privacy of messages and to argue otherwise would be like arguing that digging a hole under a fence did not break the fence
Signal that it would " walk" from the UK if forced to weaken the privacy of its encrypted messaging app.
In response to The Minister 's comments, its president Meredith Whittaker told BBC Radio 4 's Today programme that the government was trying to implement " a mass surveillance apparatus". It would, She Said , require people to " run government-mandated scanning services on their devices".
Ciaran Martin , the former head of The National Cyber Security Centre, told Today that: " Essentially it's building a door that doesn't currently exist, not into the encrypted messaging app but into devices, which could be used or misused by people who aren't interested in protecting children for more nefarious purposes. "
Mr Martin said he believed the UK would end up in the " unhappy situation" where The Power in The Bill would be passed by Parliament but not used.
Apple tried client-side scanning, but abandoned it after a backlash. Mr Martin suggested Apple is privately critical of the powers in The Bill , but The Firm has So Far declined to set out publicly its position on the issue.
Bbc News learned from Freedom of Information requests that Apple has had four meetings since April 2022 with the Ofcom team responsible for developing policy regarding the enforcement of the relevant section of The Bill .
Related TopicsSource of news: bbc.com
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