Dark day for online privacy in the UK.
Can I ask where you got this info from? The article says the bill is 300 pages long. I'm never getting through all that.
Edit: the article also claims age verification for porn sites is still in there?
Sure. I've not read it either but here's what I've found.
Removal of encryption backdoors - https://www.wired.co.uk/...
Removal of 'harmful but legal' - https://techcrunch.com/...
Age verification isn't so clear cut but there's room for a lot of hope. What 'age verification' is going to be in the bill is yet to be determined by Ofcom.
.. Which is law makers kicking the can down the road... or passing the buck. Probably because it's unenforceable and a technical/ privacy nightmare. Maybe it will amount to something, in which case we should be afraid, but I think most likely it will amount to not much.
Full bill is here if you have a spare 3 days to read it all - https://bills.parliament.uk/...
re your 2nd point, that's most certainly not been scrapped. The language has changed to basically say, they're aware thetech doesn't currently exist to do this but as soon as it does, it must be done. It's a temporary reprieve at best.
OK great, because that tech will never exist.
Don't worry, allmof that will be back on the table again next year, and then the next and the next, untill it passes.
Remember kids, if you want to be a good evil politician, you just keep pushing and pushing and pushing your evil shit until people tire and it passes.
This shit has been on the table at just about all governments since at least 2 decades. It just returns each year with a new name, same shit.
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After bouncing back and forth between the house of lord's and the house of commons This bill is a shadow of it's former self. I'm glad to say.
Three things that were massively damaging for privacy and security have, as far as I can see, been scrapped.
And what's left in the bill is going to be regulated by Ofcom, a toothless underfunded shell of a regulatory body.
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