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Surveillance strategies in the UK and Israel often go global
Fucking hell...
https has got to go
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What document is this from?
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Can't wait to hear about all the upcoming data breaches. RIP all your medical records...
I am trans and a U.S citizen, the UK govt cannot comprehend how hostile I can towards it.
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Don't talk without electronic devices around because it might be hostile activity.
Can you provide a source for this document?
The source can be found here: https://terrorismlegislationreviewer.independent.gov.uk/ (direct link)
It's an independent report by Jonathan Hall KC presented to parliament. I think everyone is under the impression that those highlighted paragraphs are a statement of law, they're not. But they are the guy's (correct) interpretation of existing law - namely, Schedule 3 of the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act 2019.
The report itself is a good thing, coz now we know how far the UK government will try to stretch their powers and what we need to repeal when Labour (and the Tories) fucks right off.
As part of his summary:
Some of the powers and offences extend well into the zone of political activity,
journalism, protest and day-to-day human activity. However useful, they must
be tested against misuse and overreach.
Yeah, who needs TLS anyways?
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Do you have a link to the law?
It's from this report https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/69411a3eadb5707d9f33d7e8/E03512978_-_Un-Act_The_National_Security_Act_in_2024_Accessible.pdf
I emailed my MP about this before Christmas and am yet to get a reply
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Fuck this shit. The UK is not longer a free country. And fuck Israel even more for their damned work over the decades to make this possible.
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This is such a stupid law. A lot of things require encryption, even the government itself need end-to-end encryption. Are they going to ban Signal and Briar next?
These laws are made by people who have the slightest knowledge about the subjects they're making the laws on. Oppressing the people is their only concern, everything is else anti-nationalist activity.
This is the first biggest step towards a totalitarian society: cut all (end-to-end encrypted and private) communications across citizens. I hope the people there realise this and protest against this law or something. U.K. is literally becoming Oceania.
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Bar to become enemy of British crown is getting lower and lower...
If they’re not doing anything wrong, they don’t need to read private communications.
even if though the foreign state has never contemplated this potential advantage
So any time your imagination runs away with you, you need to treat others as your enemies?
Thank god I'm not British.
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Welcome to the resistance
Considering how trivial it is to build, and the plethora of working examples on github, I expect anyone is one chatgpt prompt away from running afoul of this.
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Reminder, rules for thee, but not for me
Look mate yaint paid ya proivocy loicence fer ages.
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