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REPHRAIN is the National Research Centre on Privacy, Harm Reduction and Adversarial Influence Online

About Us

REPHRAIN aims at protecting citizens online through delivering privacy at scale, minimising online harms, and balancing individual agency versus social good. Researchers in Computer Science, International Relations, Law, Psychology, Management, Design, Digital Humanities, Public Policy, Political Science, Criminology and Sociology at Bristol (lead), University College London, Bath, King's College London, and Edinburgh have teamed up to lead an £8.6 million three-year UKRI Research Centre of Excellence focussed on the protection of citizens online.

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December 13, 2023
December 13, 2023
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Safeguarding children in the metaverse

The concept of the metaverse has gained significant attention in recent years, promising digital worlds where users can interact, learn, create, and explore. As underlying technologies like generative AI, haptic suits and eye-tracking evolve, it becomes crucial to examine the impact of the metaverse on children’s experiences and address the concerns surrounding their online safety.
November 29, 2023
November 29, 2023
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Fedi-verse Impact Booster Award project

REPHRAIN are pleased to announce the first Impact Booster Award project, awarded to Ignacio Castro to facilitate work on building a fedi-observatory! This fedi-observatory will be a pump priming project […]
November 24, 2023
November 24, 2023
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REPHRAIN at the European Parliament

As a continuation of REPHRAIN’s research into privacy and end-to-end encryption (E2EE), Claudia Peersman participated in the EDPS Seminar on the CSAM Proposal: “The Point of No […]
September 5, 2023
September 5, 2023
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More on REPHRAIN on the Online Safety Bill

As part of REPHRAIN’s commitment to inform responsible policy and legislation, Professor Awais Rashid, the Director of REPHRAIN, spoke to BBC’s Newsnight on Tuesday’s programme to discuss the privacy harms of the provision to scan end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) messages in the Online Safety Bill.