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🇬🇧 What the UK Government can now do under the "Online Safety Act":

- Scan your private messages (WhatsApp, iCloud, Signal)

- Censor protest videos from X and YouTube

- Force ID checks and facial scans to access social media

- Search cloud files (Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive)

- Order surveillance without a warrant

- Silence dissent, even Wikipedia is under legal threat

And that is just the start !

Shawn 5mo ago

Unless I've missed something big, they cannot "scan" Signal messages. This would require a backdoor into Signal. This would be bigger news than the Online Safety Act.

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SuiGenerisJohn 5mo ago

Signal will likely have to abandon that market

Shawn 5mo ago

So far, they aren't backing down (afaik), and good on 'em.

I don't wish it on anyone, but maybe if a nation becomes enough of a digital backwater, they'll push back en masse.

SuiGenerisJohn 5mo ago

I'm afraid of civil war in UK/EU, things are getting so totalitarian, where is the silent majority of normal people that have had enough?

Shawn 5mo ago

Agreed. Rapidly approaching the FAFO stage.

JL 5mo ago

I don’t use Signal but I suspect you are right. Access to Signal will end in due course. We shall see.