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 privacy and security of U.K. residents, but internet users worldwide.
  • Treczoks@kbin.social
    31·
    3 years ago

    Well, the UK already left the EU, and now they are leaving the internet, too.

    No End-to-End encryption? Well, that would mean no HTTPS either if you take it seriously. Which would mean no secure internet for anything: For banking, for shopping, for dealing with any forms requiring privacy, no way to log in to about any site on the internet with basic security enabled.

  • LiveLGNProsper@lemmy.worlddeleted by creator
    221·
    3 years ago

    Just means most encrypted chat apps will pull of of their market even Apple said the would so no FaceTime or iMessage coming soon to UK citizens. Also what really sucks for them is the syncing of messaging between other Apple devices would most likely have to be disabled as well.

    • LUHG@lemmy.world
      17·
      3 years ago

      I’m just waiting with baited breath to see how far this goes. It’s astounding, it’s incomprehensible that we would even entertain the idea of backdooring e2e.

    • miss_brainfart@lemmy.mldeleted by creator
      9·
      3 years ago

      It feels so wrong to be rooting for Big Tech, but I really want them to just pull the plug and watch the UK react

    • nautOP
      1·
      3 years ago

      If, for example, Signal pulls of of their market, how can you force people not to use it? Signal never had office or any legal representation in my country and I’m using it?

      What does that mean “pull of of their market” for some app you can download and use as you wish?

  • electromage@lemm.ee
    16·
    3 years ago

    So despite what Cory Doctorow said at DEF CON, it seems the government isn’t actually saving us?

  • baltakatei@sopuli.xyz
    7·
    3 years ago

    FreedomBox facilities installation of a end-to-end encryption chat server Matrix which is compatible with Element.

    FreedomBox is Debian FOSS that also supports Let’s Encrypt for HTTPS encryption. The goal of FreedomBox is to permit setup via only the webUI which it mostly gets right.

    Chatting via Element this way is nice since you’re self-hosting the service and not relying upon a centralized server that could required a backdoor. I highly recommend it.