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[News, Call for Action] The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide (www.eff.org)
submitted 1 year ago by BlackRose to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://monyet.cc/post/153506

The U.K. Parliament is close to passing the Online Safety Bill, which threatens global privacy by allowing backdoors into messaging services, compromising end-to-end encryption. Despite objections, no amendments were accepted. The bill also includes content filtering and surveillance measures. There's still a chance for lawmakers to protect privacy with an amendment preserving encryption. A recent survey shows the majority of U.K. citizens want strong privacy on messaging apps.

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[–] bighi@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not because they care about the government. Because they care about hackers.

Creating encryption backdoors for the government means creating encryption backdoors for hackers. Because once encryption is weakened, it’s weakened.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Again, they aren’t going to break the encryption that corporations use, because the laws they pass are ghost written by corporations. Multinationals aren’t going to abandon their own security and dramatically increase their risk because some UK oligarchs go off the deep end.

They will only break the encryption that the proles use, because this is only about increasing control, power, data mining, and profits.