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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 2y ago

U.K. Government Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/uk-government-very-close-eroding-encryption-worldwide

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36913268

https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3137

Online Safety Bill: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Safety_Bill

* proposed U.K. act intended to improve internet safety

* duty of care for online platforms towards their users, requiring action against both illegal & legal but harmful content

EFF counters:

* forces backdoors in messaging services

* destroys end-to-end encryption

#UK #OnlineSafetyBill #encryption #surveillance

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 2y ago

m/w in the U.S. ... 🤨

NSA Lobbying Congress to Save a Phone Surveillance Loophole

The National Security Agency has urged top lawmakers to resist demands that it obtain warrants for sensitive data sold by data brokers

https://www.wired.com/story/nsa-ndaa-lobbying-privacy-loophole/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36919225

https://persagen.com > search: "data brokers"

E.g. "Acxiom claims to have files on 2.5 billion people, with about 11,000 data points per consumer (quoted in Senate.gov)."

#NSA #surveillance #privacy #DataBrokers

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 2y ago

Addendae

Online Safety Bill – some futures – 25th July 2023

https://www.regulate.tech/online-safety-bill-some-futures-25th-july-2023/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36941256

I will replicate the summary from the end of this post here so that readers short of time can cut to the chase – please carry on to unpack these points.

[SUMMARY] What are the best and worst case scenarios for how this will all play out?

In the best case, the world will look like this. ...

In the worst case, the world will look like this. ...

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