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In my mind, the most salient point is this one: FACT: The proposed new copyright rules will lead to direct surveillance of users’ activities online. This and
by snarf21 8y ago
In my mind, the most salient point is this one:
FACT: The proposed new copyright rules will lead to direct surveillance of users’ activities online.
This and the recent 5 eyes document to require backdoors for all technology and services are the same. The surveillance state is coming. It is being bought. You are being sold.
But don't worry, they are doing this for our own security and safety. No one need watch the watchers.
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- rayiner 8y agoHow is that a "fact"? Pretty much every time you upload data to a website, there will be some sort of validation of the uploaded data that will happen. That's not "surveillance" it's a basic process that happens on the Internet. "Surveillance" requires going a step further to track what users are doing. (E.g. checking your ID at a club is not "surveillance"; having the bouncers file a report so someone can track what clubs each person goes to is surveillance.) Mozilla points to nothing in Article 13 to suggest such tracking would be required. They seem to be speculating that such tracking will happen. That may or may not be a good conjecture, but that doesn't make it a "fact."
- shkkmo 8y agoThe european law requires services to have tools to not just validate content format, but process and categorize the content itself. The australian 5 eyes memo says they think they can / should be able to require services to report all of this output directly to them.