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Market OverviewThe global Mobile Encryption market size is expected to gain market growth in the forecast period of 2020 to 2025, with a CAGR of 17.7% in the forecast period of 2020 to 2025 and will expected to reach USD 2698.6 million by 2025, from USD 1405.9 million in 2019.The Mobile Encryption market report provides a detailed analysis of global market size, regional and country-level market size, segmentation market growth, market share, competitive Landscape, sales analysis, impact of domestic and global market players, value chain optimization, trade regulations, recent developments, opportunities analysis, strategic market growth analysis, product launches, area marketplace expanding, and technological innovations.

Market segmentationMobile Encryption market is split by Type and by Application. For the period 2015-2025, the growth among segments provide accurate calculations and forecasts for sales by Type and by Application in terms of volume and value.

This analysis can help you expand your business by targeting qualified niche markets.By Type, Mobile Encryption market has been segmented into Disk Encryption, File/Folder Encryption, Communication Encryption, Cloud Encryption, Other,.By Application, Mobile Encryption has been segmented into BFSI, Healthcare & Retail, Government and Public Sector, Telecommunications and IT, Other,.

Regions and Countries Level AnalysisRegional analysis is another highly comprehensive part of the research and analysis study of the global Mobile Encryption market presented in the report. This section sheds light on the sales growth of different regional and country-level Mobile Encryption markets.

For the historical and forecast period 2015 to 2025, it provides detailed and accurate country-wise volume analysis and region-wise market size analysis of the global Mobile Encryption market.The report offers in-depth assessment of the growth and other aspects of the Mobile Encryption market in important countries (regions), including United States, Canada, Mexico, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Russia, Italy, China, Japan, Korea, India, Southeast Asia, Australia, Brazil and Saudi Arabia,. It also throws light on the progress of key regional Mobile Encryption markets such as North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, South America and Middle East & Africa.

Competitive Landscape and Mobile Encryption Market Share AnalysisMobile Encryption competitive landscape provides details by vendors, including company overview, company total revenue (financials), market potential, global presence, Mobile Encryption sales and revenue generated, market share, price, production sites and facilities, SWOT analysis, product launch. For the period 2015-2020, this study provides the Mobile Encryption sales, revenue and market share for each player covered in this report.The major players covered in Mobile Encryption are: McAfee(Intel Corporation), Dell, ESET, Blackberry, Check Point Software Technologies, Ltd., T-Systems International, Mobileiron, Symantec Corp, Sophos, IBM, Silent Circle, BeiJing Zhiyou Wangan Tech. Co. Ltd, Adeya SA, Proofpoint, Inc., CSG,Inc., Hewlett Packard Enterprise,.

Among other players domestic and global, Mobile Encryption market share data is available for global, North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Middle East & Africa and South America separately. Global Info Research analysts understand competitive strengths and provide competitive analysis for each competitor separately.

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The global Mobile Encryption Market is expected to witness a promising growth in the next few years. The rising level of competition among the leading players and the rising focus on the development of new products are likely to offer promising growth opportunities throughout the forecast period.

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The report analyzes data regarding the proceeds accrued, product sales, gross margins, price patterns, and news updates relating to the company.

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Conclusively, this report is a one stop reference point for the industrial stakeholders to get Mobile Encryption Market forecast of till 2025. This report helps to know the estimated market size, market status, future development, growth opportunity, challenges, growth drivers of by analyzing the historical overall data of the considered market segments.

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The realities of ransomware: The evasion arms race – Naked Security

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Ransomware attacker tactics have shifted sometimes drastically over the past ten months. In order to evade detection by increasingly effective endpoint security, nearly every attack involves a live engagement on the part of one or more attackers, who first surveil and inventory the targets network and then focus their attention on shutting down or disabling various protective layers. These interactive sessions have become de rigeur in virtually all successful attacks against well-defended targets.

Over the same time period, the average ransom demand amounts also increased, and criminals expanded their attack portfolio to include the theft of highly sensitive information stolen from the targets network, usually done at an early phase of the attack. This increases the chances a target would pay a ransom even if they have perfect backups and could restore from those backups immediately.

These two factors the need to evade detection, and the need to strengthen the criminals hand in ransom negotiations have been the dominant factors driving the most dramatic behavior changes, some of which well discuss in this article. They also indicate the increasingly strenuous degree of effort it now requires to pull off a successful attack, a positive sign that the work defenders do has measurable effect on the attackers workloads.

What follows are an unscientifically chosen list of some of those escalations we found most interesting. We think these indicate a level of frustration on the part of the ransomware criminals at their inability to terminate or disable these security controls.

In the fall of 2019, a ransomware named Snatch began doing something we dont normally see happen during ransomware attacks: The infected computers rebooted into Windows Safe Mode, then began encrypting their hard drive.

The trick with Safe Mode in Windows is that it is designed to run with a minimal set of drivers and programs running in order to troubleshoot software problems. Booting into Safe Mode can inhibit endpoint protection, as that protection normally isnt operational in Safe Mode.

There are certain situations where a PC needs a specific driver or file to run, even during Safe Mode, in order to do something critical (for example, have a working display). Snatch unexpectedly took advantage of this intentional feature of Safe Mode. During its infection process, the malware sets the registry keys that need to be there in order to run a particular file in Safe Mode. It plants its payload (the encrypting component), points the registry keys at it, and reboots the machine.

When the computer comes back up in Safe Mode, with the endpoint protection not loaded, the ransomware can launch its encrpytion payload and proceed to seal up key files on the hard drive unimpeded.

Retrospective analysis of attacks by a ransomware known as Robbinhood revealed that the attackers installed an otherwise benign third-party device driver in order to leverage a vulnerability in that driver. The vulnerable driver provided a stepping stone to the rest of the attack.

In the case of the attacks we analyzed, the attackers behind Robbinhood loaded a long-disused motherboard driver digitally signed by Gigabyte, the hardware manufacturer. Recent updates to Windows 10 mean that only these kinds of digitally signed drivers can run under normal circumstances.

The attackers use the Gigabyte driver, ironically, to turn off this feature in Windows that prevents the installation of hardware drivers that havent been cryptographically signed. Gigabyte withdrew the driver from the public several years ago and replaced it with newer software that isnt vulnerable to the same types of abuse. But the Robbinhood operators found a copy and used it anyway.

Once RobbinHood disables this Driver Signature Enforcement feature, the attackers then deliver yet another driver (this one unsigned) to the infected computer. The malware uses this second driver to load itself at an operational level low enough that, the attackers believed, they were able to make an end-run around endpoint protection tools. Using the cover of this driver, the Robbinhood attackers attempted to either terminate or hobble a large number of files and processes associated with a wide variety of security software.

All this effort took place before the ransomware begins encrypting files on the computer.

Several ransomware gangs have begun to leverage their presence on an enterprise network to steal sensitive corporate data at an early stage of the attack. Later, the attackers extort the victims with the threat of releasing of this stolen information to the public. Maze, REvil/sodinokibi, and Lockbit ransomware all engage in this secondary method of victimizing their targets.

As novel ransomware tends to appear at a regular pace, weve observed that most ransomware creators who launch a new ransomware family go through a similar set of growth stages over the first 6-9 months of operation, slowly escalating the feature set to incorporate a variety of techniques the attackers use to establish their persistence and move undetected within the network. Extortion is just the latest additional behavior we see from the more mature ransomware families.

Lockbit further thwarts analysis by not only deleting its own executable binaries, but also overwriting the space occupied by those files on the hard drive so they arent recoverable using data recovery software. It also had a long list of software it tries to terminate, including some programs with no security function: The malware simply wanted to make sure these programs were closed so any open documents could be overwritten more effectively during the encryption phase.

One ransomware evasion technique that really stood out was attempted by Ragnar Locker: The malware could not perform its encryption while Intercept X was loaded, so the attackers built a headless Windows image for a VirtualBox hypervisor, and put the VM on every box they wanted to attack.

It was a devious ploy, since it appeared that any actions taken by the ransomware running inside the guest operating system had been taken by the process running the hypervisor. Since this is a trusted application, endpoint protection didnt immediately kick in when the attackers executed all their commands from inside the VM guest.

The virtual machine was comparatively huge, with an installer of more than 122MB, given that ransomware binaries arent usually more than a few MB in size. This was a real chonk. The attackers bundled an installer for an old copy of VirtualBox and the guest operating system disk image into an MSI file then tried to download a copy and launch it on every infected endpoint.

Only when the virtual environment was set up did the malware begin attempting to prepare its environment and then begin encrypting the hard drive. Initially, it appeared that the trusted VirtualBox process was the origin of the ransomwares file encrypting behavior on the host computer, which was confusing for a number of reasons.

Discovering the malware repository used by the attackers behind the Netwalker ransomware gave us a lot of insight into the planning and technique required to carry out an attack. One thing it revealed was just how many free or open source tools the attackers needed to use throughout the attack.

The attackers library contained a comprehensive set of tools used to perform reconnaissance on targeted networks; privilege-elevation and other exploits against Windows computers; and utilities that can steal, sniff, or brute-force their way to valuable information (including Mimikatz, and variants called Mimidogz and Mimikittenz, designed around avoiding detection by endpoint security) from a machine or network.

We also found a nearly complete set of the Microsoft SysInternals PsTools package, a copy of NLBrute (which attempts to brute-force passwords), installers for the commercial TeamViewer and AnyDesk remote support tools, and a number of utilities created by endpoint security vendors that are designed to remove their (and other companies) endpoint security and antivirus tools from a computer.

Once inside the network of their target, the attackers apparently use the SoftPerfect Network Scanner to identify and create target lists of computers with open SMB ports, and subsequently may have used Mimikatz, Mimidogz, or Mimikittenz to obtain credentials.

The files we recovered also revealed their preferred collection of exploits. Among them, we found variations on theEternalDarkness SMBv3 exploit (CVE-2020-0796), aCVE-2019-1458 local privilege exploit against Windows, theCVE-2017-0213 Windows COMprivilege escalation exploit published on the Google Security Github account, and theCVE-2015-1701 RussianDollprivilege escalation exploit.

This years outbreaks of the WastedLocker ransomware brought attention to this newcomer. The malware has already been implicated in some serious attacks, including against GPS device manufacturer Garmin, who reportedly paid a hefty ransom in order to re-enable business operations. WastedLocker has taken a different approach to the ransomware detection-evasion playbook by performing most of its malicious operations within volatile system memory. The technique is called memory mapped I/O.

This behavior has some benefits. With traditional ransomware, the malwares behavior is observable because a binary executable makes a large number of file reads and writes as it encrypts the victims important data. Behavioral detection engines that look for this type of unusual activity would otherwise alert the user and/or halted the operation, limiting the damage. Because WastedLocker reduces the number of detectable reads and writes by a significant percentage, it may fall below the thresholds that govern suspicious activity in some behavioral detection rules.

In addition, WastedLocker takes advantage of an unintended consequence of how Windows manages memory, using a component called the Cache Manager. The Cache Manager is a kernel component that sits between the file system and the Memory Manager. The Memory Manager keeps an eye on memory that has been modified (known as dirty pages).

If a process encrypts the mapped memory, the Memory Manager knows which pages need to be written back to disk. This writing is done by the Cache Managers Lazy Writer component; Dirty pages are allowed to accumulate for a short time, and are then flushed to disk all at once, reducing the overall number of disk I/O operations.

As a secondary unintended consequence of this, the writing of the modified files from their dirty pages back to the filesystem is done in the context of the system (PID 4), rather than the ransomware process, which then further complicates behavioral detection. After all, nobody wants to cause a victims computer to crash because an antimalware utility decided that the operating system itself was harming the computer. This technique also can hamstring less well qualified behavioral detection.

Prevention is the best defense

With all of these innovations in such a short period of time, its not hard to see why ransomware has been going through a renaissance. At the root of many, if not most, ransomware infections is the core issue that plagues so many organizations: A lack of due diligence and effort made towards reducing the attack surface available to malware. Weve summed up many of these in the related article Ransomware attacks from the victims perspective.

If you work in IT security, your organization is relying on you to close the most obvious loopholes and back doors into the network. Basic PC hygiene, including installing all the latest patches, shutting down Remote Desktop entirely (or putting it behind a VPN), and applying multifactor authentication to services hosting the most sensitive data in the organization are just some of these fundamental steps you can take to protect yourself and your network today. If endpoint protection tools are the metaphorical net below the High Wire Act, applying patches and shutting down unnecessary holes in the firewall are the daily practice routines that will keep you out of the net when it matters most.

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Doubts Related to the Quantum Cryptography Explained in the Report with Major Key Companies like Magiq Technologies,Quintessencelabs, Nucrypt ,…

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Open Source Security Foundation Joined by Microsoft and Others To Improve Linux Software – Redmondmag.com

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Microsoft on Monday announced that it has joined the newly created Open Source Security Foundation, along with other industry partners, to improve the security of open source software.

Microsoft is a founding member of the Open Source Security Foundation, along with "GitHub, Google, IBM, JPMC, NCC Group, OWASP Foundation and Red Hat," the announcement added. The JPMorgan Chase banking chain is also listed as a founding member, per the Open Source Security Foundation's FAQ.

The Open Source Security Foundation is "hosted at the Linux Foundation" and brings together various Linux Foundation-initiated efforts. Those efforts include the "Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII)" and the "GitHub-initiated Open Source Security Coalition (OSSC)," among others. The OSSC members are joining the Open Source Security Foundation and the efforts of CII likely will get dissolved into the new foundation, the FAQ explained.

The aim of the new foundation is to "improve the security of open source software by building a broader community, targeted initiatives and best practices," Microsoft indicated. A list of current technical initiative being overseen by the foundation can be found at this GitHub page.

The open source software community has tended to critique proprietary software companies, such as Microsoft, because its code can't be independently checked. However, Microsoft's announcement by Mark Russinovich, Microsoft's chief technology officer, offered an alternative view, namely:

"Given the complexity and communal nature of open source software, building better security must also be a community-driven process," Russinovich argued in explaining Microsoft's support for the new foundation.

Microsoft had already been working with the OSSC to identify security threats in open source software. It's also worked to speed the software fixing process. Additionally, Microsoft has developed security tools for open source developers, and it currently offers best-practices advice, Russinovich noted.

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Best Competency With Artificial Intelligence is by Having Intelligent Experience – ReadWrite

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AI is changing the way customers interact with businesses. AI changes everything with how websites and bots will work along with many other tools and integrated systems. Businesses protect and manage digital assets and data of the company. There is a day-to-day struggle in businesses currently using artificial intelligence, which is made more difficult because of sequential technologies.

Many businesses are intrigued by the idea of turning to artificial intelligence for help in the sales process. AI is certainly capable of finding your best-qualified sales leads. AI can give you efficient issue resolution, and systems that feed actual data back in for future process and product improvements. However, most enterprises do not know where or how to get started with their new company AI.

Systems and data must connect to allow full use of capabilities as if all information were native to each. And also, edgeways to present information to end-users, though data is evolving on a constant basis. The environment requires specialized insight and know-how to ensure a smooth and continuous integration thats both relevant and current.

The intelligent experience is all about leveraging AI to derive predictive insights that can be embedded in the workflow. Companies seeking competitive advantage must find ways to make their business operations more intelligent.

AI functionality is poised to be a game-changer, exploring possibilities and opening up new roles and more business-central activities. However, its important to first understand how intelligent experience can help improve? It starts with a shift in focus.

Artificial intelligence is edging into business processes across organizations, however, when an organization interacts with the use of AI correctly, that shouldnt be a sign AI is running the experience behind the scenes.

AI has the power to make customers feel they are making their choices, but its the machine learning and the algorithms that are handling those decisions.

The most useful sense, when it comes to shifting in focus, is vision keeping track of the ability to give suggestions on how to improve.

Artificial Intelligence is going beyond the senses and going straight to the source the brain. The very reactive tactic, oftentimes, companies are late, identifying customers likely when its too late. This is because there is a major difference between predicting significant changes in the economy and a financial sign that becomes apparent only after a large shift has taken place.

Artificial Intelligence aims to heavily impact a number of industries worldwide shaping online customer experience models. The AI technology will take hold across many industries over the coming decade, and businesses firmly need to decide how AI will help them to optimize conversions.

Automating most internal processes, the operational effort involved in maintaining and controlling devices is reduced. However, simultaneously shifting focus, the marketplace, significantly allows configuration.

More cost-efficiency is rising from artificial intelligence, so customers can focus on increasing the quality and operations of their processes with just an increase in resources.

It is crucial to assess the landscape of the acquisition time period. This often is where perceptive relations start to form. Customers are going to be comparing their initial experience to the expectations entrepreneurs set during the sales process.

Processes of Artificial Intelligence are making significant progress in reducing several walks of life problems. It also provides automation of not-get interpretation and grasping, restructure the information.

With AI, as per the market, you can spur on processes, get value from data, and provide clients with a better experience. All those benefits can help drive sales and boost revenue.

The application of the AI system may now be defined in considerable detail. As of a rule, the cost of Artificial Intelligence requires intelligence on the work being done for proactive development. The development work is usually split into several feasibility studies and set business and project objectives.

However, if Artificial intelligence claims to be a plug-and-play canned legacy, you need to be highly suspicious. You need to have someone trained to take care of this system. (source: coseer.com.)

The sufficient algorithm performance is a key cost-effective factor, as often a high-quality algorithm requires a round of tuning sessions. To decide between various algorithmic approaches towards businesses, one needs to understand how exactly inculcation takes place under the hood, and what can be done to obtain competency.

If it is not clear up-front, one may end up in a situation of not-more-performing. AI is certainly exciting, but business owners cannot jump into it without first laying the foundation with basic analytics.

With so many possibilities for applying AI across an organization, in all likelihood, deploying an AI system must be effective. AI is often considered solely from a technology perspective and little wonder since its capabilities rely onand continually improve throughtechnical innovations.

Deploy with quick-witted positioned skills and a variety of tools to create AI algorithms that can be inserted into enterprise applications. Quick wins bring an added bonus. Meaning that getting the most out of AI is about validating AIs ability to spark value, keeping momentum and funding, and going for longer-term projects.

AI doesnt thrive in a vacuum. Businesses that generate value from AI deal with it as a major business transformation initiative that requires non-similar parts of the company to come together and work with probable expectations. AI is the future of business operations.

When contemplating an investment in AI, be sure you have pragmatic predictions and have a setup that will allow you to embed insights into the daily workflow of your organization. Through the power of AI, you can start blurring the lines between sales, service, and marketing.

The power of artificial intelligence needs a hard edge at business processes and the majority of resources. From there, your company can use AI in a way that actually helps your business grow and ultimately boost your bottom line.

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Here’s the NSA’s advice for reducing the exposure of cellphone location data – CyberScoop

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Take it from the experts: There is no way to fully eliminate the risk that a mobile device is exposing location data to somebody trying to track it, but there are ways to limit what leaks and why.

Thats the main theme from guidanceissued Tuesday by the U.S. National Security Agency, which directed its advice toDepartment of Defense personnel andother national security programs but published the document publicly.

Theguidanceexplains the different kinds of location information that can be used to locate mobile devices and their users, provides an analysis of misconceptions about location data, andrecommends way to help users protect themselves.

The NSA warns, for instance, that in addition to mobile devices storing location data in their own mobile device logs, cellular networks receive real-time coordinates for cellphones every time they connect to the network. That communication with the network also can makelocation information vulnerable.

This means a provider can track users across a wide area. In some scenarios, such as 911 calls, this capability saves lives, whereas for personnel with location sensitivities, it may incur risks, the NSA notes in the guidance. If an adversary can influence or control the provider in some way, this location data may be compromised.

Bad actors using devices that imitate legitimate cellular towers could also obtain sensitive location information even without providers cooperation, the NSA warns.

Theguidance comes amid months of ongoing protests around the U.S. against police brutality and racial injustice. And although the guidance is targeted toward U.S. federal government users,it could have broad appeal as concerns mount that law enforcement agencies are interested in tracking crowds during protests.

TheNSAs primary mission is signals intelligence for the U.S. military and the intelligence community, so it isintimately familiar with how to track cellphone locations around the world, as former NSA contractor Edward Snowden revealed in 2013. But the guidance issued Tuesday comes from a new directorate the NSA establishedin 2019to focus on cybersecurity. One of its goals has been to issue more public guidance and advice on cybersecurity as part of the recognition it can do more to spread awareness of cybersecurity issues.

Location data can be extremely valuable and must be protected. It can reveal details about the number of users in a location, user and supply movements, daily routines (user and organizational), and can expose otherwise unknown associations between users and locations, the NSA warns. Mitigations reduce, but do not eliminate, location tracking risks in mobile devices Users should be aware of these risks and take action based on their specific situation and risk tolerance.

Even if users turn off cellular service on a mobile device, the NSA warns, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth can still be used to identify a users location. Disabling a phones location services thegeolocation datathat devices provide to apps also has a limited effect.

Perhaps the most important thing to remember is that disabling location services on a mobile device does not turn off GPS, and does not significantly reduce the risk of location exposure, the guidance states. Also important to remember is that GPS is not the same as location services. Even if GPS and cellular data are unavailable, a mobile device calculates location using Wi-Fi and/or [Bluetooth].

To reduce the risk of location data exposure, the NSA recommends users disable location services, advertising permissions, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when theyre not in use, and Find My Device settings that allow lost or stolen devices to be tracked. The DOD signals intelligence agency also recommends giving apps as few permissions as possible, minimizing the amount of data containing location information that is stored in the cloud, setting browser privacy settings to block location data usage, and using a Virtual Private Network (VPN).

The NSA also warns that the risks of being tracked through location information are not exclusive to cellphones users should consider the risks of using smart watches, fitness trackers, and other internet of things (IoT) devices even gadgets, such as smart thermostats, that dont leave the house.

The guidance comesapproximately one week after the smartwatch and wearables companyGarmin confirmed it had been the victim of a ransomware attack.

Anything that sends and receives wireless signals has location risks similar to mobile devices. This includes, but is not limited to, fitness trackers, smart watches, smart medical devices, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and built-in vehicle communications, the NSA states. These security and privacy issues could result in these devices collecting and exposing sensitive location information about all devices that have come into range of the IoT devices. Geolocation information contained in data automatically synced to cloud accounts could also present a risk of location data exposure.

Users should also be cautious of what they share on social media since many applications may collect and share information that reveals a users location, the NSA warned, noting that sharing photos online may expose sensitive location data stored in metadata.

Many apps request permission for location and other resources that are not needed for the function of the app. Users with location concerns should be extremely careful about sharing information on social media, the guidance says. If errors occur in the privacy settings on social media sites, information may be exposed to a wider audience than intended.

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This month, Instagram started quietly demoting posts that are inappropriate but dont violate its community guidelines. The platform has yet to explain what that includes exactly, and has given users only one example: sexually suggestive content.

As a result, such posts are now restricted from Instagrams Explore and hashtag pages, which help grow peoples accounts by algorithmically recommending their public photos and videos to the broader community. Users arent informed when their engagement is limited a form of censorship thats sometimes referred to as shadow banning.

This change, which comes amid a wider debate over tech giants control of their algorithms, represents Instagrams efforts to ensure the posts it recommends are both safe and appropriate for the community, according to a brief statement about managing problematic content on the site. Several social networking services have responded to public pressure and fleeing advertisers by taking steps to rein in their artificial intelligence: Facebook announced a new plan to stop amplifying fake news;YouTube pledged to slow its promotion of disinformation.

Meanwhile, Instagram one of the only platforms thats still hosting conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, among other far-right activists is suppressing vaguely inappropriate posts in a quiet campaign devoid of transparency. Instead of trolls and extremists, experts say its women and sex workers in particular who will suffer the consequences.

Sexist Censorship

Reached by HuffPost, Instagram declined to define inappropriate and sexually suggestive in the context of non-recommendable content. It also declined to provide a comment explaining why it wont define those terms. Users seeking clarification on what theyre allowed to post without being shadow banned wont find much information on the app or website, either.

As a creator I just have to guess what I can and cant post and hope for the best, said Caitlin, an Australian stripper and artist who asked to be identified by her first name only.

Engagement on @exotic.cancer, Caitlins massively popular Instagram account where she often posts erotic illustrations, has decelerated, she said. She and others worry the hazy new standards for demotion will lead to broader censorship of womens bodies.

The rules are not black and white. They couldnt be more vague, Caitlin said. How will [algorithms] be able to differentiate [between] a woman in lingerie and a woman in a bikini at the beach? A fitness model? Where do they draw the line?

Like other sites, Facebook-owned Instagram explicitly prohibits posts showing sexual intercourse and most forms of nudity: genitals, close-ups of fully-nude buttocks, female nipples. Violating those rules could result in content deletion or account termination, according to Instagrams community guidelines. Understanding what specific kinds of posts could be subject to algorithmic demotion, however, remains unclear an issue thats troubling but absolutely not surprising, said digital rights expert David Greene.

Platforms are generally pretty bad about downgrading, demoting and moderating sexual content of all types, explained Greene, who is the civil liberties director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco-based nonprofit. This kind of nebulous censorship on social media disproportionately affects women and marginalized groups, including queer people and sex workers, he added.

Weve seen not only content advertising sexual services coming down [on various sites] but also sex work advocacy materials harm reduction and informative posts about health and safety issues coming down as well, Greene said. One of the reasons its important for platforms to define [their content policies] is to make sure that they dont apply them arbitrarily.

Svetlana Mintcheva is the director of programs at the National Coalition Against Censorship, a nonprofit group that campaigns against artistic censorship and gender discrimination online. The NCAC also advocates for social media platforms to give their users more control over what kind of content they see instead of enforcing vague, overreaching policies.

It comes down to oppression of the body and female sexuality, Mintcheva said of Instagrams new shadow ban. When it comes to sex workers, I think theyre actually the target of this kind of content demotion I dont think theyre even collateral damage.

Sex workers who spoke to HuffPost said theyve noticed a significant increase in the online censorship of even remotely sexual content from women since the passage of FOSTA-SESTA in late 2018. The law makes it illegal to assist, facilitate or support sex trafficking, and it removes platforms immunity under the Communications Decency Act for user-generated content that does any of those things. In its wake, big tech has made broad, sweeping changes to policies surrounding sexual posts.

Facebook now bans implicit sexual solicitation, including sexualized slang and suggestive statements. Tumblr no longer allows adult content, such as female-presenting nipples. Instagram is demoting inappropriate posts and, according to sex workers on the platform, ramping up the number of NSFW accounts it deletes altogether.

Lobbying For Your Livelihood

Instagrams Explore page features content that its algorithms predict will be of interest to specific users. If you engage with a lot of bodybuilder accounts, for example, you can expect to find posts about workout plans and protein shakes in your Explore feed. Conversely, you would have been unlikely to stumble upon sexually suggestive images if you hadnt already been seeking out similar posts. (Under the shadow ban, even if you only follow NSFW accounts, Instagram says it wont recommend that kind of content.)

For individuals like Jacqueline Frances, a New York-based stripper, artist and comedian who uses Instagram to promote herself and her work, the Explore page can be a vital outreach tool.

I absolutely depend on Instagram to make a living. I sell books, I sell T-shirts, I sell art, and Instagram is my largest-reaching advertising platform, she said. Having my content demoted makes me less visible and makes it harder to remind people to buy my stuff.

Frances 153,000-follower account,@jacqthestripper, was deleted earlier this year even though she didnt violate any of the community guidelines, she said. Instagram reinstated it after she filed multiple appeals through the app.

Youre lobbying for your livelihood through a fucking form submission on your phone, she said.

Caitlin also had her account temporarily deleted this month without notice or explanation from Instagram.

It was honestly such a scary time. I hate to say it, but I pretty much depend on Instagram for my income as an artist, she said. Its not sustainable to rely on one platform alone. Ive since made a backup account, a Twitter, started promoting my Patreon and growing my email list.

On April 5, a Florida-based stripper who uses the pseudonym Selena noticed Caitlins page had been removed, so she created a backup account and urged her nearly 12,000 followers to go there, just in case. Minutes later, both her main and backup accounts were gone.

I just dont understand. I didnt post any nudity, I didnt violate the community guidelines ... it felt like Instagram was just trying to get rid of me, said Selena, who still hasnt gotten either of her pages back, despite filing repeated appeals to Instagram.

In a testament to the ease with which Instagrams obscure and arbitrarily enforced content policies can be manipulated to silence women, a Jezebel investigation found that a misogynist troll is allegedly purging sex workers from the platform by reporting their accounts over and over again until they disappear. The troll told Jezebel he has single-handedly gotten as many as 300 pages taken down. Caitlin and Selenas accounts were reportedly among his casualties.

All my photos, my memories, my business relationships are gone, said Selena. In my [Instagram] bio, I used to say that I was a stripper, but now [in my new account] I just put dancer. I used to be open about it, but now Im scared to be.

While some women and sex workers like Selena have started to self-censor on Instagram in an effort to avoid being shadow banned or having their accounts terminated, others are reluctantly considering leaving the 1 billion-user site altogether.

When I got deleted, I had this sort of epiphany, Frances said. Why am I putting all my eggs in this basket if I could just be deleted at the drop of a hat, or at the drop of some algorithm, or some troll who doesnt like that I exist because Im a woman who makes money off her body?

Nowhere To Go

After Tumblrs ban on adult content in December, Annie Brown, a San Diego-based digital marketer and feminist activist, noticed sex workers and sexually expressive artists were floating around the internet with nowhere to go because they were told that theyre unwanted or inappropriate, she said. Shes now working to transform Lips, the sex-positive magazine she founded years ago, into a social media site where users can freely embrace and share their sexuality.

Raising awareness about this initiative has been a challenge, she said. Lips Instagram account, @lips_zine, has had its posts deleted and, Brown believes, algorithmically demoted.

Bots cant tell the difference between erotic art and pornography, she said. So now with Instagram [demoting] suggestive content, theyre basically saying, We dont care if its art, we dont care if its activism, we dont care if its self-expression.

Provided by Lips

Brown said shes rushing to raise funds for Lips web and mobile app development because shes concerned that sex workers who are turning away from Instagram and other major sites may feel like they have no choice but to seek out alternative spaces that could be less safe.

If Im a cam-girl and I want to make videos in the privacy of my home, but Im not able to promote myself via social media, then its harder for me to make a living from my cam-girl page, she explained. So Im going to think about in-person sex work, which increases safety risks and decreases my control over my work.

Online censorship of sexuality has already made digital work a less viable option for sex workers, according to a lawsuit filed against the federal government by the Woodhull Freedom Foundation, a national human rights organization. It claims censorship affecting sex workers as a result of FOSTA-SESTA has caused them to lose income and has exposed them to greater risks of offline violence.

I feel as though its only going to continue to get worse, and sex workers and those alike will really suffer, said Caitlin, who noted that shes been tiptoeing around Instagrams rules since her account was deleted and restored.

Anybody who is taking ownership of their sexuality and being comfortable with their body even in a nonsexual way is being silenced for it.

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There is an argument going on in Scotland at the moment about freedom of speech. It is not entirely new, and has been simmering away for some time, in the background, over university de-platforming of unpopular speakers. Now it is in full flood with the conclusion of the consultation period over the Scottish Governments proposed extension of criminal law protection for new groups, including the elderly. The Scottish Governments legislation is clearly well-intentioned, but has attracted vociferous criticism from a wide range of public bodies, including the Law Society of Scotland and the police neither of these being known for a tendency to cry wolf. It will be interesting to see whether the Government heeds these expressions of concern. It definitely means well here and deserve credit for indicating its firm rejection of stirring up hatred. But the use of the criminal law to control the expression of views involves a delicate balance if the law is not to become repressive.

Authors are affected by this, as are those who possess books and are in the habit of passing them on to others. Speech amongst friends will also constitute a communication for purposes of this legislation. An ageist remark, uttered innocently and without intention to stir up hatred against old people, may be the subject of criminal investigation if the person to whom it is addressed is offended and makes a complaint. Of course, one would hope that restraint will be shown in the application of the legislation, but what if the police and prosecution authorities feel compelled by public outcry to respond to an unjustified complaint? The legislation provides for defences based on reasonableness, but the damage may be done well before that stage if a person who has no intention to stir up ill-feeling is subjected to investigation.

Even in the second half of the twentieth century, authors have been accustomed to the powers that be telling them what they can or cannot write. The publishers of D.H. Lawrences Lady Chatterleys Lover, a work of charming innocence by todays standards, eventually won a legal battle to bring the novel to the public. The same publishers entered the fray again with the Salman Rushdies Satanic Verses, with the author himself being driven into hiding. Graham Greene was another victim: he incurred the disapproval of Papa Doc Duvalier for his portrayal of life under dictatorship in Haiti. There are countless other examples of writers who have struggled against the censorship of repressive regimes such as the former Soviet Union and its satellite states, or of various right-wing dictatorships. Suppression of freedom of speech, and even freedom of belief, is something that both right and left are capable of doing with equal enthusiasm.

Our current debate in Scotland is a bit different. The legislation here is aimed at stopping people from abusing or threatening others and that is by no means the same as outright political censorship. Nobody should be allowed to intimidate others or insult them in such a way as to cause real distress and hurt. That is the equivalent of a physical assault indeed it is often worse. If the criminal law tackles that, it is just doing its job of protecting the vulnerable. The issue, though, is the nature of the offence caused and, in particular, the extension of the law to include the punishing of those who did not intend to stir up ill-feeling of any sort.

For authors, these changes may put a question mark over fiction itself. Characters in fiction are the creation of their authors but are not the same things as the authors themselves. That may sound trite, but it is a point that needs to be made. The artistic work may also be viewed as something separate from its creator. Wagner stands accused of anti-Semitic attitudes, but should that prevent the performance or appreciation of his music? David Hume may have been complicit in investments in Caribbean plantations at a time when slavery in such enterprises brought immense suffering, but does that mean his work should no longer be studied? Regretting the wrongs of the past and indeed apologising for them (in deeds and words) is entirely laudable, but obliterating that past and its creations is another matter altogether.

Fiction will inevitably give offence to somebody, unless it is exceptionally bland. When an author creates a character, she or he may need to describe that characters attitudes through dialogue. That means that the character will have to say something. Nice characters will say nice things that should cause no offence to anybody, but nasty characters and fiction must have at least some of those may say nasty things. That is because fiction often sets out to paint a realistic picture of how people are and how they behave. If these things cause offence to some readers, then those who take offence may argue that the book is liable to stir up hatred against a protected group of people even if that was not the authors intention. That is where the police come in.

The difficulty is that there are people who do not appear to appreciate that the views expressed by fictional characters may differ from the views held by the author. You may think that unlikely, but I suspect that most authors will be able to recount incidents where they have been blamed for what their characters do or think. Some years ago, I include in my Scotland Street series of novels a scene in which Bruce, an oleaginous narcissistic, makes disparaging remarks about his home town (discretion and fear of prosecution requires it not to be named here). Thats the sort of person Bruce is: hes prepared to look down his nose on his own home town a charming place with its Hydro and its surrounding Perthshire hills. My own feelings for the town in question are unreservedly warm, but Bruces remarks were attributed to me and I was hauled over the coals for expressing views that I certainly never held. One local politician suggested that I be required to visit the town and publicly apologise.

That was a case of over-sensitivity, but the point is this: any legal restraint on what authors can write must be very carefully calibrated, because there are those who will claim offence only too readily and will seek to shut down voices they may not like. The Scottish Government is right to protect people from abuse, discrimination and hatred. They deserve credit for that. But they must also protect artistic and intellectual freedom.

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