The U.K. Parliament has passed the Online Safety Bill (OSB), which says it will make the U.K. “the safest place” in the world to be online. In reality, the OSB will lead to a much more censored, locked-down internet for British users. The bill could empower the government to undermine not just the privacy and security of U.K. residents, but internet users worldwide.
  • LiveLGNProsper@lemmy.world
    16·
    2 years ago

    Just means most encrypted chat apps will pull of of their market even Apple said the would so no FaceTime or iMessage coming soon to UK citizens. Also what really sucks for them is the syncing of messaging between other Apple devices would most likely have to be disabled as well.

    • LUHG@lemmy.world
      13·
      2 years ago

      I’m just waiting with baited breath to see how far this goes. It’s astounding, it’s incomprehensible that we would even entertain the idea of backdooring e2e.

    • miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml
      7·
      2 years ago

      It feels so wrong to be rooting for Big Tech, but I really want them to just pull the plug and watch the UK react

    • naut@infosec.pubOP
      1·
      2 years ago

      If, for example, Signal pulls of of their market, how can you force people not to use it? Signal never had office or any legal representation in my country and I’m using it?

      What does that mean “pull of of their market” for some app you can download and use as you wish?

  • electromage@lemm.ee
    12·
    2 years ago

    So despite what Cory Doctorow said at DEF CON, it seems the government isn’t actually saving us?

    • Barbarian@sh.itjust.works
      91·
      2 years ago

      This is specifically a UK problem. The Tories have been trying to do absolutely retarded things with banning encryption for a long time now.

      • Uranium 🟩@sh.itjust.works
        6·
        2 years ago

        Unrelated beyond the Tories being retarded with banning things for no real reason: I’ve just discovered that they’ve effectively banned the sale of sodium hydroxide (drain cleaner) and potassium hydroxide (used to make soap), before I could buy them on eBay or get the sodium hydroxide at any super market, but now I have to go via a chemical supply company, taking literal weeks, and paying £7 for 100g of sodium hydroxide, where I used to be able to get 500g for £2.

        They’re scum for an endless list of things but this has really annoyed me.

  • Doc Blaze@lemmy.world
    10·
    2 years ago

    1 use a VPN with a killswitch and based in a non 14 eyes country

    2 don’t use social media outside of the decentralized fedi and stay anonymous

    3 fuck their dumb laws but you’re fortunately not vulnerable anymore