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6y ago
First, EARN IT, now this, so many attacks on encryption lately.
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6y ago
Related: https://www.zdnet.com/article/australian-privacy-foundation-...
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6y ago
Is Australia trying to project it's anti-encryption law onto U.S. Companies through the ClOUD Act? I don't understand what is going on here.
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6y ago
The article doesn't really add much that we didn't know already (through other articles). You can search EARN IT on here or EFF for details or Signal's write-up on it. They want to hold people liable for "reckless endang
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6y ago
I don't really care what a billionaire is saying or doing, provided they're not bending the laws to their advantage. This is something they could do, even if privacy was outlawed and it almost certainly wouldn't be for them (
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6y ago
The fall of close knit communities could be attributed to the rise of urbanisation, rather than privacy.
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6y ago
You don't have to look far. The NSA used their limitless power to spy on their lovers. The U.K. uses their powers to spy on political groups.
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6y ago
Years ago, you didn't have private companies rummaging through your mail. Years ago, you didn't have police putting cameras up on poles to look over into your home. Years ago, libraries did not report you for reading the wrong boo
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6y ago
How do we know 1% of the male population has such an interest? How do we know it is often put online? Surely, it's incredibly stupid to upload evidence of yourself committing a crime? How much is happening behind closed doors that does
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6y ago
It's understandably a very controversial law, but there hasn't been any new information in a while. There may be some coming when they hold another hearing.
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6y ago
How ironic considering they were pointing their fingers at "Big Tech" for not being "GDPR compliant".
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6y ago
There is a higher chance of pigs flying.
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7y ago
The term "extremist" is used for certain activists whose views skew too far outside of the usual range, although one man's "extremist" are another's "unorthodox" view. Depending on the era, a view may
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7y ago
As is a car and yet no one proposes banning or wiretapping cars to make sure they're not planning to run people over.
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7y ago
It is hard to tell there, because someone who commits a physical crime is much more likely to get caught than someone who does not, but it does seem like some resources should be devoted to the dangerous ones. This doesn't excuse the g
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7y ago
Related: https://www.protocol.com/earn-it-act-hearing-section-230
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7y ago
https://twitter.com/signalapp/status/1247938861184909312 Their tweet on Twitter.
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7y ago
Some do after their security experts twisted their arms to get them to use it over emailing each other things which could be used to blackmail them. I wouldn't expect them to understand the consequences of what they're doing, they
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7y ago
The Internet Association which represents them wrote a letter opposing it to Congress, although there hasn't been much other noise out of them, except for a minor statement from Facebook.
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7y ago
Sigh. I mean, they have a point, but what do they really expect tech companies to do? There are some obvious cases where Google obviously does something stupid and Microsoft is more than a little oblivious as to what is going on on their se