UK Lawmakers Propose Mandatory On-Device Surveillance and VPN Age Verification(reclaimthenet.org)
50 pointsby _____k2 days ago7 comments
  • RevEnga day ago
    How exactly does one make software that makes it impossible to view or transmit CSAM? What is looking at each picture, each video, each text message to make this determination?

    This is the same classic "wiretap everything" solution that never works and just undermines people's rights. There's no way they would ever use this ability for anything else, right? And nobody else would ever abuse it either, right?

    How long until people start using this to capture and produce CSAM?

  • ekjhgkejhgk2 days ago
    > Lawmakers in the United Kingdom are proposing amendments to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill that would require nearly all smartphones and tablets to include built-in, unremovable surveillance software.

    > The proposal appears under a section titled “Action to promote the well-being of children by combating child sexual abuse material (CSAM).”

    So they only believe that surveillance on smartphones and tables, and surveillance on desktops isn't necessary?

    • OgsyedIE2 days ago
      Surveillance and nothing else? According to the sponsors this is really about the capacity to plant false evidence on protestors.
      • subscribed2 days ago
        This alone should tell you clearly enough its not about CSAM.
        • subscribeda day ago
          Don't seem to be able to edit or delete it, but i responded to the wrong person obviously.
        • dmitrygra day ago
          it never was...
    • raxxorraxor3 hours ago
      Well, surveillance on smartphones is possible, desktop devices are safer.
    • luxpira day ago
      Not to stand up for bad laws, but what is wrong with everyone in the comments? On what planet would they not have considered all angles? The peanut gallery has gotten ridiculously loud of late.
  • a4564632 days ago
    This will also include said lawmakers too right?
    • teekerta day ago
      If people can watch the watchers, everybody can watch everybody. So: No. Some animals are equal, but some have to be more equal than others. Otherwise we can't have the most equal system. It's double-plus-good that way.

      Now install the app, slave.

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  • wimla day ago
    This would make it illegal to sell a phone or tablet with an unlocked/unlockable bootloader, wouldn't it.
  • jbstacka day ago
    All this will do is compel me to import my phones instead of buying them in the UK. If I stay below the thresholds I can even avoid giving 20% VAT to this dystopian government that we've ended up with.
  • onetokeoverthea day ago
    [dead]
  • prajaybasua day ago
    Where are all the Europeans gloating about privacy and their "regulations" while their governments are basically erasing actual privacy and free speech?
    • RestartKernela day ago
      This isn't a gotcha. The same Europeans who gloat about privacy laws are horrified with these recent developments.
    • mahmoudhossama day ago
      Friendly reminder that the UK left the EU over "sovereignty concerns" among other reasons.

      The EU is the one with actual privacy regulations, for now at least.