4 ms·
> Two days later, US Federal Trade Commission chairman Andrew Ferguson warned big tech firms they could be violating US law if they weakened privacy and data se
by nickslaughter02 1y ago
> Two days later, US Federal Trade Commission chairman Andrew Ferguson warned big tech firms they could be violating US law if they weakened privacy and data security requirements by complying with international laws such as the Online Safety Act.
How will this work with chat control?
> "If Ofcom doesn't think this will be enough to prevent significant harm, it can even ask that ISPs be ordered to block UK access."
If you want to enforce stupid laws the burden should be upon you.
- net01 1y ago> How will this work with chat control? There is no POC for a chat control E2E-compliant chat app and there will never be. this will just kill EU made software because they will be forced to comply, while US software will use real E2E as marketing.
- pitched 1y agoThe UK isn’t part of the EU anymore. As I understand it, this doesn’t apply to the broader group.
- deleted 1y ago[deleted]
- arlcode 1y agoAs others gave said the UK left the EU 10 years ago. Chat control (which isn't (yet) a thing) would not in fact lead to the outcome you describe. Any company would be forced to comply or get the boot from EU market. Apple and Google will happily enforce that and that's probably good enough initially. US Vendors could also decide to create an EU only version of their services.
- speedylight 1y agoI think eventually we will reach a point where laws like the Online Safety Act become so prevalent that it is basically impossible to comply with all of them simultaneously and still have a unified internet across the globe. I wouldn’t be surprised if in 10 years or so every country has its own version of the internet only intended for their own people.
- firesteelrain 1y agoWe do still have limited entry and exit points to other Countries internets. You could end up with Great Firewalls across the globe if it got bad enough. It doesn’t deter VPNs though
- greenavocado 1y agoThey will put you behind bars for years for using VPNs once they win.
- sidewndr46 1y agoWho is 'they' here?
- sejje 1y agoThe authoritarians locking down the internet, not sure why you need to ask
- hellojesus 1y agoThey can try. > And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.
- like_any_other 1y ago> international laws such as the Online Safety Act. It should be noted that the Online Safety Act is in fact not international, but UK-only.
- mertleee 1y agoIt's a US company - tell the UK to pound sand if they think they're going to tell businesses here how to operate because they want to run the UK like a draconian hell-hole.