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Today The UK Parliament Undermined The Privacy, Security, And Freedom Of All Internet Users (www.eff.org)
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As enacted, the OSB allows the government to force companies to build technology that can scan regardless of encryption–in other words, build a backdoor.

Paradoxically, U.K. lawmakers have created these new risks in the name of online safety.

The U.K. government has made some recent statements indicating that it actually realizes that getting around end-to-end encryption isn’t compatible with protecting user privacy. But

The problem is, in the U.K. as in the U.S., people do not agree about what type of content is harmful for kids. Putting that decision in the hands of government regulators will lead to politicized censorship decisions.

The OSB will also lead to harmful age-verification systems. This violates fundamental principles about anonymous and simple access

See also: Britain Admits Defeat in Controversial Fight to Break Encryption

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

They are panicking. They know the tools we have at hand are slowly but surely making their power and control null and void.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Saki I run whatever I want on my computers. Politicians can go pound sand.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Frankly I never really feel threatened by “e2e ban”. If necessary I can locally implement this from scratch on my own, even if they outlaw “e2e providers” (the notion of “e2e provider” is an oxymoron to begin with) — ultimately they can’t ban number theory, right? Even if some primes are “illegal” lol, one is free to add P to Q. A law like “you shall not add points of a curve over a finite field” is simply impossible. Besides, it’s practically impossible to ban something like decss much less GnuPG.

But I’m worried about age verification, which is essentially KYC and actually enforceable (as already is, in some Asian countries).