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seasonone ( seasonone@opidea.xyz )  to Technology@lemmy.ml · 3 years ago

The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide

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The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide

www.eff.org

seasonone ( seasonone@opidea.xyz )  to Technology@lemmy.ml · 3 years ago
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The U.K. Parliament is pushing ahead with a sprawling internet regulation bill that will, among other things, undermine the privacy of people around the world. The Online Safety Bill, now at the final stage before passage in the House of Lords, gives the British government the ability to force...
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  • pfannkuchen_gesicht ( pfannkuchen_gesicht@lemmy.one ) 
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    Only if other countries follow, but with such a small market it’s easier to just abandon the UK.

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    Crossing my fingers that if they go through with this, all tech companies just stop doing business in the UK, causing them to realize what a horrible mistake they have made and undo it quickly.

    • TWeaK ( TWeaK@lemm.ee ) 
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      Not to mention people who will just up and leave. The Tory party have been turning this country to shit.

      • yak ( yak@lemmy.ml ) 
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        Yeah, I might go and live in mainland Europe … Oh, hang on …

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    When this goes ahead, and it probably will, I hope that every single app implements it in a totally different, unfriendly, unautomated, way, or even better, make it unique per person, per app. Or, even multiple methods that are only available at certain times of certain days. It’ll be absolutely useless to the government if they have to wade through mud to get at the data.

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    I think with this they are even worst than China… Getting UK back to the top of at least one list must be the goal here.

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