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UK's "Online Safety Bill" should be renamed the "Online Exposure Bill (www.wired.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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I believe the "Online Safety Bill" should be renamed the "Online Exposure Bill," and here's why:

  1. Age verification likely involves estimating age based on biometric data – essentially, using an algorithm to scan a photo or video of the user." making our identity transparent in the digital world.

  2. "Client-side scanning, where a phone or other device would scan the content of a message before it’s encrypted and flag or block violating material." This effectively renders E2EE (End-to-End Encryption) useless!

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[–] 1 point 2 years ago

And also... How does it stop you from using an open-source, non-spying messaging solution or (if it's done on OS level) an open source, non-spying OS? I consider the mainstream messengers fully compromised already, so nothing changes for them anyway.

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