The UK Is Poised to Force a Bad Law on the Internet
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WhatsApp and Signal have threatened to shut down services in Britain if the Online Safety Bill includes restrictions that undermine encryption. The government is pushing it through anyway.

I believe the “Online Safety Bill” should be renamed the “Online Exposure Bill,” and here’s why:

  1. Age verification likely involves estimating age based on biometric data – essentially, using an algorithm to scan a photo or video of the user." making our identity transparent in the digital world.

  2. “Client-side scanning, where a phone or other device would scan the content of a message before it’s encrypted and flag or block violating material.” This effectively renders E2EE (End-to-End Encryption) useless!

  • r00ty@kbin.life
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    1 year ago

    I wouldn’t compare new labour to labour. They were far closer to the tories than labour ever has been I think. And blunkett et Al wouldn’t have stopped at the id I’d bet.

    The two party system we’ve effectively been left with puts me off mainstream politics. That is I can’t get behind enough policies from either party to emphatically want to vote for them. That’s before you get to the reality of how much of the manifesto suddenly gets dropped or changed once they gain power.

    Having said that. WhatsApp and other E2EE messengers leaving the market is only going to increase hacking/finance crime as people side load untested versions of WhatsApp/signal onto their phones.