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Under British and UK Legislation anyone using or developing end-to-end encryption is now a “hostile actor” (lemmy.ml)

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Surveillance strategies in the UK and Israel often go global

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[-] hamburger@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 10 hours ago

Can you provide a source for this document?

[-] droolio@feddit.uk 10 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

The source can be found here: https://terrorismlegislationreviewer.independent.gov.uk/ (direct link)

It's an independent report by Jonathan Hall KC presented to parliament. I think everyone is under the impression that those highlighted paragraphs are a statement of law, they're not. But they are the guy's (correct) interpretation of existing law - namely, Schedule 3 of the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act 2019.

The report itself is a good thing, coz now we know how far the UK government will try to stretch their powers and what we need to repeal when Labour (and the Tories) fucks right off.

As part of his summary:

Some of the powers and offences extend well into the zone of political activity,
journalism, protest and day-to-day human activity. However useful, they must
be tested against misuse and overreach.

this post was submitted on 21 Feb 2026

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