Wtf is wrong with UK?
Wtf is wrong with UK?
Don’t get too comfy. Eu wants to make a similar law https://www.wired.com/story/csar-chat-scan-proposal-european-commission-ads/
I just don't get what caused such a radical change. The EU has been at the top of caring about consumer privacy, with countries like germany even creating sweet laws like censoring most buildings from google's street view.
Now suddenly they want to jeopardize encryption and create backdoors? What gives?
"they" don't
There are a lot of different views on it between people and EU institutions and they're having difficulties finding a compromise. After all this time and reduction of scope and severity, the one they have now still can't proceed because of how far apart they all are in their opinions, assessments, and positions.
And now that they started questioning the driving person about their press-reported links to the big scanning software lobby orgs, with questionable results, even more people will become skeptical.
I want to say "climate change" and "wealth inequality". Those are leading to instability and displacement of people. When those that have little or lost the little they had emigrate or flee to a relatively wealthy place with large inequality, the local population's richest have a new boogieman. That gets populists elected that make use of a lot of identity politics, with inflammatory and simplistic language. Non-populists see how well that works and feel like they require to employ the same tactics.
Calling for "security" and "protecting the children" are big trigger points for a large section of the society. They can thus frame themselves as "defenders of good" by doing things supposedly in favor of those things.
Decrepit old people, who confuse a remote control with a cell phone, making laws
Have you read 1984? The UK was always using it as an instruction manual and trying to do their best Airstrip One impression.
Its kind of ironic that 1984 takes place in the same country
The Conservatives (big C) have always been like this. But lately they've gotten an undeserved confidence boost from the likes of Trump, and the GOP in general and their "reality is what you say it is" attitude to politics. The idea they could just outright lie about stuff hadn't really occurred to them prior to that point.
So that's for that Americans.
Ingsoc is here. It's just more dull and pervasive and creepy than the flashy story version.
the tories - and that includes the red tories under starmer.
I know this isn't privacy, but they recently want to stop people from transitioning to electric cars and also want to stop funding for public transportation... so, this mental hemorrhage of a privacy law doesn't in the fucking slightest surprise me.
Maybe I missed the part about how this law protects free speech. Are people seriously making that argument?
Anyway I guess its nice to know that the US is somehow not as bad as the UK now
There's a lot of drama about it so I finally took a closer look and yeah, it's not as bad as everyone tries to make it.
"The only way to comply with the law, experts say, would be to put so-called client-side scanning software on users’ devices to examine messages before they’re sent, which would make the encryption largely useless."
Locally scanning before sending would not make encryption useless. Does spellchecking a message make encryption useless? What this is all about is hashing a picture someone is about to send and checking in a DB of known CP material. If it's a match you report it. It does not invalidate encryption, it doesn't send anything from the device unencrypted.
If there's anything else in this law that could be problematic please tell. The articles I saw don't say anything else so for me it looks like a non issue.