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 amendments have been accepted that would mitigate the bill’s most dangerous elements. If it passes, the Online Safety Bill will be a huge step backwards for global privacy, and democracy itself.
  • Rusticus@lemmy.world
    231·
    2 years ago

    Apple has said they’ll pull out of UK if required. I won’t use any software that abides.

      • MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        I might be cynical af but I believe China is a market they can’t ignore, but the UK, well…they can afford to send a message there. With some quick google-fu it looks like Apple sells more iPhones about every 8 days than it sells in the UK in a year. That’s comparing 2023 numbers for China to 2019 numbers in the UK for the record, I’m too lazy to look past the first few links really, and doubt that math would change enough to ruin the point.

        They also wouldn’t pull out of the UK, they would likely just revert to SMS there in the messages app rather than give the UK a back door into their encryption.

      • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
        10·
        2 years ago

        Keep using software that doesn’t bow. Let them struggle to enforce any encryption ban. Safety in numbers.

        • Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          5·
          2 years ago

          Aye. The logical conclusion to this if left unchecked is restriction all the way down to the OS level. Don’t let them take this first step. If they do, the others will follow.

  • birdcat@lemmy.ml
    16·
    2 years ago

    Oh wow, the great UK really seems to love to show the world how advanced they are. Decrypt this then 🙄

    Password is only 8 characters.

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  • RoundSparrow@lemmy.ml
    111·
    2 years ago

    There are so many trends with technology that seem to favor another 1930’s Europe situation. The 1940 film “The Great Dictator” describes it pretty well, and it is sad how much love and compassion seem to be out of favor as people march more and more towards mechanized hate-driven systems of society. I really hope a pro-humanism civil rights movement takes hold, like Martin Luther King Jr’s kind of teaching, but it seems to not happen that a popular person like that comes to the top. Even a Carl Sagan type person with mass popularity to much of what Sagan shared in his books and speeches would be a good direction.

    • sanpo@sopuli.xyz
      102·
      2 years ago

      Sure, the title sounds like clickbait, but the point is: if a big enough player passes these laws, then the other countries may follow.

  • Certainity45@lemmy.ml
    7·
    2 years ago

    Just two years ago the politicians fearmongered that quantum computers will break every encryption without delay. This bill speaks quite different story.