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Remember how, before the internet, intelligence agencies by default didn't know what anyone was saying to anyone else face to face or by mail, and had to actually work to find out? The country didn't fall apart. Why is the standard now that everything must be handed to them on a plate? Did they just get lazy?
I'm not disagreeing with you but what would happen back then is that they simply wouldn't stop the crime.
At some point we need to decide if giving up all semblance of personal privacy is worth stopping some of that. I vote no enthusiastically. We just have to accept that some of that crime won't be stopped and law enforcement will have to work harder.
If our countries could stop doing things that give people a reason to commit terroristic acts, Maybe that would solve some of it and we could be more secure in our papers and possessions without unlawful interference and undue search and seizures but that’s apparently none of my business
The elite know what's coming. There isn't enough to keep economic growth going and sacrifices will have to be made, and that's not going to be the top. That means something is needed to detect and remove "problems" before they get big.
Growth only matters in capitalism
This isn't a new concept by any means. The argument of crime prevention has been used since governments existed to strip rights
You'll love this!
I deployed an open-source chat system at work, just for convenience. Boss was concerned that it didn't do any logging and we couldn't tell who said what.
"You don't have any records of what we say verbally. What's the difference?"
"...Oh. Well, you're right."
He was coming from a legit concern. We didn't point fingers when someone screwed up, zero blame, but we needed to know exactly what happened so we could fix it.
That they can is what has changed. They didn't have sufficient information to put pressure.
They still had microphones and inquiry drugs, including those causing memory loss. So they knew plenty of what people were saying to each other.
Anyway. Everything has changed a lot, not just technology, and one can't really make a chain of causation to all this. There are plenty of feedback loops.
The rules now are "we are stronger, so we are forbidding everything we don't want". Losing leverage does that.
Until you learn of some way to hit them back, such questions are no good, because not answering them doesn't cost anything.
Don’t y’all vote over there? Government isn’t us vs them. Government is us. Period.
We have been voting for greedy shits larping as conservative (Conservatives) and greedy shits larping as liberal (Labour).
Boys... When it's considered a hostle act to demand rights, ownership, and privacy... We have a problem.
Pervasive surveillance is a hostile act. Abetting genocide and other crimes against humanity is a hostile act. Serving the rich at the expense of the poor is a hostile act.
Wow, the UK sounds like an awful place.
Ah its not so bad if you get so drunk your critical thinking skills go out the window.
I thought we were unique in this but frankly everywhere in the "western" world is talking about the same things. EU has chat control, Australia has similar efforts, USA aren't pushing for privacy at all so it's not a uniquely British problem.
It first starts with the "children" or the "bad actors/terrorists" and ends with a straight up fascist police state.
Honestly everywhere sounds like an awful place at this point. Freedom is a thing of the past. A thing from a time whence literally everything we did wasn't tracked, and in order to exist in society, you're expected to submit to the tracking.
What the fuck happened to the UK? Is Trump president there too?
The right wing fascism wave is a world trend my guy. This is just the start.
Meta happened. UK, US, all over the world there is a correlation between the adoption of Meta's products and the corrosion of basic human rights.
What the heck is happening with Europe in general? I thought they were better in terms of maintaining individual privacy, damm.
That's europe, this is just UK. Brexit didn't work out in a lot of ways they planned
I'd argue it worked exactly as intended.
The goal is to weaken the West by destabilizing our nations' and organizations they belong to. They payed so much money for it that they bought into peerage.
Well many governments see their citizens as hostile actors, so its not really a change, is it?
If you don’t want your citizens to be hostile, don’t make yourself an enemy.
Absolutely insanity.
Truly. This global push towards mass surveillance is extremely alarming.
Folks, "1984" was supposed to be a warning. Not an instruction manual, with check off items.
Welcome to New East Germany.
And i think committing and/or assisting in genocides is 'hostile activity'. One of us is definitely wrong :)
There needs to be a watchdog for the watchdog, because this is totally unacceptable for a official to be this out of the loop on the technology they are watching over.
If they are a professional they should have some clue as to what is going on, but instead they're listening to their fascist pals.
What's app 😂 how does what's app ever get rolled in with privacy respecting apps
"Today, with the right information, right technology and algorithm, companies can create simulations of individuals, and use the machines to predict future actions such as purchases, locations, changes in career or relationship status.
According to a study published in 2019, there is a possibility of achieving 95% of the potential predictive accuracy for an individual using their social ties. This means that one’s social contacts are sufficient to predict their personal attributes."
PGP has been around since the 90's can you PLEASE shut the fuck up.
Like please.
I'm baffled that all this tracking nonsense is pushed through by a government that is supposed to be left of the tories. I guess that goes to show you that "center" parties can be just as evil as conservatives.
They aren't left. Starmer and chums undermined the left-wing leader of Labour. They're the pro-business wing of the party. New Labour folks were always dreadful for this sort of thing. Many authoritarian changes are coming from the centre, in UK, France, Denmark etc.
It all feels co-ordinated as states and their representatives squeeze down on working people.
Competition was always a myth anyways.
Doesn't even RCS and iMessages use E2EE?
I think most messaging apps these days have it. Allegedly even Discord (calls only, not text chat) has it.
I think part of this is lawmakers not understanding the gravity of what they’re suggesting. Besides, most of these apps have some sort of backdoor built-in so they can decrypt messages if required in legal proceedings. Ripping E2EE out of everything is an insane assertion to make, and would make the Internet an even more dangerous place than it already is.
These guys are so fucking stupid. Security and privacy goes both ways. Either for people to use or not. If you don't want encryption, fine, your online banking doesn't work anymore
Let's be hostile together then
Gosh, and these powers could be handed to Farage.
They could be complicit in what comes next.
