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.
Wish governments would stop trying this bullshit. I swear it seems to come up every few years. They just don’t seem to be able to accept the idea of people defending themselves against mass surveillance for more than a few years <.<
Wish governments would stop trying this bullshit. I swear it seems to come up every few years. They just don’t seem to be able to accept the idea of people defending themselves against mass surveillance for more than a few years <.<