Comment on The war on privacy and encryption goes on. This time in the UK. Under the “Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill”, lawmakers now want client-side scanning on every phone and tablet.

phutatorius@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• elgordino@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I had to hunt to find them, they are proposed amendments and not yet part of the bill.

  Go here https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3909/publications

  And expand out ‘Ammendment Papers’ and choose ‘ HL Bill 135 Running list of amendments – 22 December 2025‘

  It’s this doc

  https://bills.parliament.uk/publications/64067/documents/7529

  For example

  LORD NASH
  BARONESS CASS
  BARONESS BENJAMIN

  _ After Clause 27, insert the following new Clause—

  “Action to prohibit the provision of VPN services to children in the United
  Kingdom
  (1) Within 12 months of the day on which this Act is passed the Secretary of State
  must, for the purpose of furthering the protection and wellbeing of children, make
  regulations which prohibit the provision to UK children of a Relevant VPN Service
  (the “child VPN prohibition”).
  (2) Regulations under subsection (1)—
  (a) may make provision for the provider of a Relevant VPN Service to apply
  to any person seeking to access its service in or from the UK age assurance
  which is highly effective at correctly determining whether or not that
  person is a child;
  (b) must apply the child VPN prohibition to the provider of any Relevant
  VPN Service which is, or is likely to be—
  (i) offered or marketed to persons in the United Kingdom;
  (ii) provided to a significant number of persons.
  (c) must make provision for the monitoring and effective enforcement of the
  child VPN prohibition.
  …

  source

  • Tiger_Man_@szmer.info ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This is total vpn prohibition if you have to hand your personal data to the provider

    source