Privacy @lemmy.ml 0 @mastodon.ie 1y ago

The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/uk-government-very-close-eroding-encryption-worldwide

#privacy #internetfreedom @privacy

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I really doubt platforms will modify their worldwide encryption just to accommodate the UK.
- I think most encrypted services will just not comply and either shutdown their service voluntary in the UK or be forced to shutdown in the UK.
  
  I advise they do nothing at all, ignore the law and see if the UK government actually does anything about it, because I highly suspect that they won't.
  
  That's just the way you have to treat the Tories, pretend they don't exist.
  
  The moment that starts, they find a way of backing down.
  
  This stuff is always to appeal to the clueless in their base.
  
  Good talk about the law on encryption by a MP who was a software developer:
  
  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-O9ux25lWFI
- Other governments will follow suit, in particular the governments of other Five Eyes countries. The USA has its own anti-encryption act threatening to pass:
  
  Tell Congress: don't outlaw encrypted applications
  
  If both the UK and the USA outlaw encryption, other governments will certainly follow and everyone is in trouble.
- The UK is not the only government on board with this. Other governments will follow.
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- Erode this, motherf***ers
  
  Exactly. Can even use fairytale mode to make it less obvious
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@0 @privacy companies will just pull out of the UK rather than permit this. The UK outside the EU is too small a market to capitulate to and it will send a strong signal to other authoritarian nations. I wonder what voters will do when one day they wake up and there’s no WhatsApp or iMessage.
- The Tories don't have to worry they're basically going to be voted out anyway, quite possibly by the largest landside in political history. They know it, so they are now just making life more difficult for everyone for no reason.
We all need more politicians with a tech background. We need populations that better understand tech and vote better.

20y ago I used to hope tech ignorance would age out the population, but that's not been happening. Most people don't care to learn more. So politicians need to be less clueless and lead.
- I don't think it's lack of tech savvyness that lead to this. The UK government are trying to set up a fascist state. Increased surveillance, outlawing protest, scapegoating immigrants... we're even setting up concentration camps in Rwanda to send asylum seekers and migrants to.
  
  It's really getting bad here.
  
  I think there is elements of this. But I also think there is just plain ignorance.

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