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A few comments about the state of security and privacy in the UK so let me reply with a top level comment instead: People forget that the UK has ChatControl. I
by nickslaughter02 1y ago
A few comments about the state of security and privacy in the UK so let me reply with a top level comment instead:
People forget that the UK has ChatControl. It was made into law as part of the Online Safety Act 2023. It has not been enforced so far because it's not "technically feasible to do so" and because companies threatened to leave the UK with their services. You can be 100% certain it will suddenly become feasible if EU does the same.
> The Act also requires platforms, including end-to-end encrypted messengers, to scan for child pornography, which experts say is not possible to implement without undermining users' privacy.[6] The government has said it does not intend to enforce this provision of the Act until it becomes "technically feasible" to do so.[7] The Act also obliges technology platforms to introduce systems that will allow users to better filter out the harmful content they do not want to see.[8][9]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Safety_Act_2023 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Safety_Act_2023
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66028773 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66028773
- yuumei 1y agoWorth noting that with RIPA (2000, activated in 2007) UK has enforced key disclosure. It is illegal to fail to disclose a password for any data for any reason (including random data). I would say the UK has worse privacy than any other country on earth. I'm really hoping for plausible deniability to become more common to help protect against the government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law#United_Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law#United_King...
- nickslaughter02 1y agoMore countries will follow after they ratify Russia's "United Nations Convention against Cybercrime" which has key disclosure explicitly stated in the text. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Convention_against_Cybercrime https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Convention_agai...
- rollcat 1y ago> It is illegal to fail to disclose a password for any data for any reason [...]. So it's also illegal to not know the password? I've forgotten my own debit card PIN or phone unlock code on a couple occasions. > (including random data) Encrypted data is indistinguishable from random data. The only hint is the presence of metadata (GPG armor, bootloader password prompt, etc). This law is catch-all BS designed to persecute people for no other reason.
- Tenemo 1y agoThe UK has worse privacy than ANY other country on Earth? Really?
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- Gud 1y agoNo other country has willingly turned itself into a total panopticon, no. Perhaps others would like to - but they don't have the resources. You can't walk a fucking meter on the streets without being recorded by the nanny state.