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.

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• RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You know it’s going to be bad when it’s almost literally called the “think of the children bill”

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  • resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    The “Pro-Ice Cream And Puppies And Anti-Terrorism And Hurting Children Bill” passes unopposed.

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  • Hond@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    its been 10 yeares since satire is dead. but jfc this is yet another stark reminder that gets me how dead it is.

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• falseWhite@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Fucking fascists everywhere.

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• MalReynolds@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was ‘Oh no, not again.’

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• AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yeah, it sounds good until the current or next leaders use it to arrest people because they don’t like the current leadership or a miriad of other things they don’t want people thinking, regardless of what side they’re on. I would gladly take privacy and security over throwing the baby out with the bathwater, especially with legislation and law that immediately treats you like a prisoner.

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  • ISOmorph@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, it sounds good until…

    Nope

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• allriledup@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Time for a feature phone.

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• Lojcs@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Can we take an ‘industry regulates itself’ approach to this? Make a foss csam hash scanner and include it in aosp. When they try to pass these show them that it already exists. That way we at least have some transparency to what it does

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