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The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide (mastodon.ie)

submitted 1 year ago by 0@mastodon.ie to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/uk-government-very-close-eroding-encryption-worldwide

#privacy #internetfreedom @privacy

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[–] sci@feddit.nl 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I really doubt platforms will modify their worldwide encryption just to accommodate the UK.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Other governments will follow suit, in particular the governments of other Five Eyes countries. The USA has its own anti-encryption act threatening to pass:

Tell Congress: don't outlaw encrypted applications

If both the UK and the USA outlaw encryption, other governments will certainly follow and everyone is in trouble.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

The UK is not the only government on board with this. Other governments will follow.

[–] CAPSLOCKFTW@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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[–] CAPSLOCKFTW@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Erode this, motherf***ers

[–] appel@whiskers.bim.boats 3 points 1 year ago

Exactly. Can even use fairytale mode to make it less obvious

[–] src@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

[–] marcusphelan@mastodon.ie 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@0 @privacy companies will just pull out of the UK rather than permit this. The UK outside the EU is too small a market to capitulate to and it will send a strong signal to other authoritarian nations. I wonder what voters will do when one day they wake up and there’s no WhatsApp or iMessage.

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[–] slepthenbite@unilem.org 2 points 1 year ago

I read this the last time it was posted a few days ago I think