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[News, Call for Action] The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide (www.eff.org)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 64 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

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?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

won't somebody please think of the children!