Don’t get too comfy. Eu wants to make a similar law https://www.wired.com/story/csar-chat-scan-proposal-european-commission-ads/
I just don’t get what caused such a radical change. The EU has been at the top of caring about consumer privacy, with countries like germany even creating sweet laws like censoring most buildings from google’s street view.
Now suddenly they want to jeopardize encryption and create backdoors? What gives?
“they” don’t
There are a lot of different views on it between people and EU institutions and they’re having difficulties finding a compromise. After all this time and reduction of scope and severity, the one they have now still can’t proceed because of how far apart they all are in their opinions, assessments, and positions.
And now that they started questioning the driving person about their press-reported links to the big scanning software lobby orgs, with questionable results, even more people will become skeptical.
Nailed it.
There are different groups who want different things.
In general, most politicians are amoral bastards, just looking out for their own angle, which means placating different interest groups.
Not all politicians, and not all to the worst degree. Some a little captured by special interest, some a lot captured.
Some politicians (damn few) are somewhat decent, but even they can’t push against the tide of their so-called “peers”.
And then you have voters, many are easily swayed by “think about the children” and have little knowledge of how any of this works.
Kind of a perfect storm of crap.
And don’t anyone think this is a UK problem. Politicians everywhere push this garbage as much as they can in their system.
I want to say “climate change” and “wealth inequality”. Those are leading to instability and displacement of people. When those that have little or lost the little they had emigrate or flee to a relatively wealthy place with large inequality, the local population’s richest have a new boogieman. That gets populists elected that make use of a lot of identity politics, with inflammatory and simplistic language. Non-populists see how well that works and feel like they require to employ the same tactics.
Calling for “security” and “protecting the children” are big trigger points for a large section of the society. They can thus frame themselves as “defenders of good” by doing things supposedly in favor of those things.
What’s the reasoning for censoring buildings from street view??
because nobody knows how the internet works, so it’s scary. they are looking for houses to break into in streetview!!11 (satelite view is fine, though, because there you can only see the whole house and it’s surroundings which is nothing one can plan a burglary with…)
Also there’s a lot of architechts who fancy themselves to be Artists, and want nothing to do with having people living in and/or using and debasing their Art.
Nor do they want random people looking at it without paying homage to the exalted being that is the Artist.
Decrepit old people, who confuse a remote control with a cell phone, making laws
Have you read 1984? The UK was always using it as an instruction manual and trying to do their best Airstrip One impression.
Its kind of ironic that 1984 takes place in the same country
The Conservatives (big C) have always been like this. But lately they’ve gotten an undeserved confidence boost from the likes of Trump, and the GOP in general and their “reality is what you say it is” attitude to politics. The idea they could just outright lie about stuff hadn’t really occurred to them prior to that point.
So that’s for that Americans.
I think you are missing the point. A lot of these laws are bipartisan. What we are seeing is the slow increase in tyrany.
Don’t believe modern news sources. They will only remote news that supports there political agenda and they are nothing more than propaganda machines at this point
the tories - and that includes the red tories under starmer.
I know this isn’t privacy, but they recently want to stop people from transitioning to electric cars and also want to stop funding for public transportation… so, this mental hemorrhage of a privacy law doesn’t in the fucking slightest surprise me.
Maybe I missed the part about how this law protects free speech. Are people seriously making that argument?
Anyway I guess its nice to know that the US is somehow not as bad as the UK now
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Quite a lot is right with the UK - it just doesn’t get reported because the world’s media focuses on negativity. That’s pretty much the case for every country - people are people even if religion and politics differ. The day to day lives go on with a thousand acts of kindness and consideration. Your attitude is no different to someone in the UK saying “America’s shit” because of a few key points that get bounced around the internet constantly, ignoring the many positives.
I don’t think the source of their wealth even though they are a failed nation or that they perpetuate neo-imperialism and instability around the world to maintain the global north superiority is reported enough, or are those not negative enough?
One of the world’s richest countries, minimum wage, NHS, low unemployment, few natural disasters, low murder rate, diverse cultural heritage…need I go on?
So you’re saying the problem is a lack of murders?
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Easier to list what’s not really.
There’s a lot of drama about it so I finally took a closer look and yeah, it’s not as bad as everyone tries to make it.
“The only way to comply with the law, experts say, would be to put so-called client-side scanning software on users’ devices to examine messages before they’re sent, which would make the encryption largely useless.”
Locally scanning before sending would not make encryption useless. Does spellchecking a message make encryption useless? What this is all about is hashing a picture someone is about to send and checking in a DB of known CP material. If it’s a match you report it. It does not invalidate encryption, it doesn’t send anything from the device unencrypted.
If there’s anything else in this law that could be problematic please tell. The articles I saw don’t say anything else so for me it looks like a non issue.
