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Today The UK Parliament Undermined The Privacy, Security, And Freedom Of All Internet Users (www.eff.org)
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Today The UK Parliament Undermined The Privacy, Security, And Freedom Of All Internet Users::The U.K. Parliament has passed the Online Safety Bill (OSB), which says it will make the U.K. “the safest place” in the world to be online. In reality, the OSB will lead to a much more censored, locked-down internet for British users. The bill could empower the government to undermine not just the...

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[–] Steeve@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's technically not impossible, it would just get rid if the entire point of E2EE, which is mentioned in the open response from WhatsApp, Signal, and others:

if implemented as written, could empower Ofcom to try to force the proactive scanning of private messages on end-to-end encrypted communication services, nullifying the purpose of end-to-end encryption as a result and compromising the privacy of all users

[–] drbluefall@toast.ooo 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

...this would make E2EE effectively meaningless, because no amount of encryption will protect against getting scanned at the entrance and exit.

[–] darth_helmet@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

And then some incompetent contractor will put the backdoor key onto their GitHub and completely destroy everyone’s privacy

[–] Steeve@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah exactly, it's very, very stupid and not something any service that actually bothered to enable E2EE in the first place would ever seriously consider.

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

AND it would probably break laws in other countries that actually value privacy or security. It's not like they'd be making a UK-only client for every fucking app or device that uses encrypted communications