There are a lot of GOP-controller legislatures in the USA pushing through so-called “child protection” laws, but there’s a toll in the form of impacting people’s rights and data privacy. Most of these bills involve requiring adults to upload a copy of their photo ID.

  • UKFilmNerd
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    1 year ago

    In the UK, The Online Safety Bill is almost about to become law. Without going into the full details, the government basically wants to monitor everyone’s messages to stop child pornography and protect people (and other stuff too).

    The problem is, they want companies to scan messages and photos as they are uploaded and to give themselves backdoor access to E2E encryption services.

    It’s very likely the UK will lose access to iMessage, Signal, WhatsApp etc as they would rather withdraw their services from the UK than break their promise to their users.