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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Holly Williams

Online safety ‘getting worse’, warns former UK cyber security agency boss

Felicity Oswald, the new chief executive of Girlguiding, was previously head of the UK’s cyber security agency (PA) -

The former head of the UK’s cyber security agency has called on social media firms to do more to keep girls and young women safe online as she warned over rising levels of misogyny and sexism.

Felicity Oswald, who was previously interim chief executive and before that chief operating officer at the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), said social media firms are not doing enough to protect girls and women, with many tech firms slashing budgets for online safety.

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