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The UK gov is just getting worse and worse at law making
by Havoc 5mo ago
The UK gov is just getting worse and worse at law making
- varispeed 5mo agoand civil service is blindly following orders.
- EmbarrassedHelp 5mo agoThe UK should just be banned from modern technology until their government has evolved socially enough to respect privacy. Companies need to pull out and stay out, because that's the only way the UK government will learn a lesson.
- Morromist 5mo agoI'm sure when this law goes through they won't stop and will shortly be lining up some even crazier surviellance tech. I'm thinking something that automatically scans your computer for porn or other things, like ripped film mp4s and sends it to the goverment to be analysed. Or perhaps little gps trackers that children are mandated to wear at all times.
- EmbarrassedHelp 5mo agoNothing will ever be enough for the anti-privacy fanatics pushing for this. They will always demand more.
- dgellow 5mo agoUnfortunately most companies don’t care about privacy of their users
- jamesu 5mo agoIts been getting pretty bad for a long while now. On the topic of UK privacy, there's an interesting requirement that if you are a "data controller" processing "personal" data for "non-exempt" purposes, you need to register with the ICO to go on the register. Even can apply to individuals. Sounds great until you realize anyone that does that effectively gets their residential address publicly doxxed and archived by archive.org (unless they can use a separate company address or spend money on a po box). And to make it worse, unless you have an obvious named company it's basically useless for looking up data controllers.