Comment on Today The UK Parliament Undermined The Privacy, Security, And Freedom Of All Internet Users

Eheran@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• admin@lemmy.my-box.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  A clause of the bill allows Ofcom, the British telecom regulator, to serve a notice requiring tech companies to scan their users–all of them–for child abuse content.This would affect even messages and files that are end-to-end encrypted to protect user privacy. As enacted, the OSB allows the government to force companies to build technology that can scan regardless of encryption–in other words, build a backdoor.

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  • Steeve@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I am willing to bet that the overwhelming response from tech to “build a back door into every internet user’s E2EE communication globally for us to use” is going to be a big fat “No”. The UK market isn’t big enough to be making these kinds of demands.

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    • tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The reaction is more likely ‘It’s still impossible. Just like we told you all the other times. Idiots.’

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      • Steeve@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s technically not impossible, it would just get rid if the entire point of E2EE, which is mentioned in WhatsApp’s response:

        if implemented as written, could empower Ofcom to try to force the proactive scanning of private messages on end-to-end encrypted communication services, nullifying the purpose of end-to-end encryption as a result and compromising the privacy of all users

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• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  VPNs: exist

  At more length: the internet is incredibly complicated and interrelated. It’s actually extremely difficult to draw clear national boundaries in terms of one web service or another, and the result is honestly never going to be 100% accurate.

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