The U.K. Parliament is pushing ahead with a sprawling internet regulation bill that will, among other things, undermine the privacy of people around the world. The Online Safety Bill, now at the final stage before passage in the House of Lords, gives the British government the ability to force...
  • Dandroid@dandroid.app
    33·
    1 year ago

    Crossing my fingers that if they go through with this, all tech companies just stop doing business in the UK, causing them to realize what a horrible mistake they have made and undo it quickly.

    • FlameGrilledTanuki@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 year ago

      Thankfully the right wing party has been booted out nationally here now. The political will to ban encryption has lessened a fair bit.

      • infectoid@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        Unfortunately the damage has already been done.

        The Assistance and Access Bill 2018 pretty much forces companies to backdoor their products when requested if they operate in Australia.

  • allywilson@sopuli.xyz
    10·
    1 year ago

    When this goes ahead, and it probably will, I hope that every single app implements it in a totally different, unfriendly, unautomated, way, or even better, make it unique per person, per app. Or, even multiple methods that are only available at certain times of certain days. It’ll be absolutely useless to the government if they have to wade through mud to get at the data.

  • Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works
    6·
    1 year ago

    this chat is 100% private its only me, you and British Glowies. see perfectly private. its stupid that the british goverment thinks there can be spying and still be private, it contradicts itself. i hope they throw this legislation out because privacy is a right not an option.

  • Feyter@programming.dev
    4·
    1 year ago

    I think with this they are even worst than China… Getting UK back to the top of at least one list must be the goal here.