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The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide (www.eff.org)
submitted 3 years ago by [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world
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The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide::The U.K. Parliament is pushing ahead with a sprawling internet regulation bill that will, among other things, undermine the privacy of people around the world. The Online Safety Bill, now at the final stage before passage in the House of Lords, gives the British government the ability to force backdoors into messaging services, which will destroy end-to-end encryption. No

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[–] 21 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

All it's going to take is one scandal for these bullshit bills to cause overwhelming outrage that'll lead to lost elections. These old fucks are so out of touch with modern tech. It's a joke that they're in charge of regulating things like encryption. I can't wait until a generation of people that grew up with the internet ages into these legislative positions.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    It will not be any better by then. In fact it will probably worse when they do have a solid understanding of the internet and the infastructure behind it they will be able to use it to our disadvantage even more than they already are.

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