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submitted 1 year ago by Raisin8659 to c/technology@beehaw.org

The U.K. Parliament is close to passing the Online Safety Bill, which threatens global privacy by allowing backdoors into messaging services, compromising end-to-end encryption. Despite objections, no amendments were accepted. The bill also includes content filtering and surveillance measures. There's still a chance for lawmakers to protect privacy with an amendment preserving encryption. A recent survey shows the majority of U.K. citizens want strong privacy on messaging apps.

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[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 79 points 1 year ago

People glady give up privacy under the guise of helping children, while nothing is actually done to protect children. More at 11.

[-] SpunkyBarnes@geddit.social 64 points 1 year ago

Actually, politicians give up public privacy under the fiction of helping children, repeatedly.

I cringe every time “online” and “children” are uttered in the same breath.

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 17 points 1 year ago

Which really sucks because us in tech know there's more that we could be doing for sure, but politicians/big tech would rather grandstand with these BS policies that get the masses to agree, while giving up freedom, and not actually solving any problems.

I wish those non encryption laws apply to them too. So every single person can see what they do and how they manage our tax money right?

[-] aeternum@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

won't somebody please think of the children!

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