The Online Safety Act is Forcing Brits to Hand Over Personal Data to ‘Unregulated’ Overseas Corporations With Questionable Privacy Records
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The Online Safety Act is Forcing Brits to Hand Over Personal Data to ‘Unregulated’ Overseas Corporations With Questionable Privacy Records
Posted by libtin
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I’m not left wing by any means, but do the left actually want this?
I can understand age verification for porn. But this is so authoritarian it’s actually insane they actually went through with it.
I was hoping there would be some pushback in parliament seeing as the Conservatives were the ones to introduce it in the first place.
I don’t know a single person who wants this.
No-one is being forced to do anything, you can choose not to go on porn sites
Just install the Opera browser with its built in VPN, job done. No need to sign up to anything
We’ve been told this was coming for years and was dismissed as being “conspiracy theorists”
As Del Boy always democratically said “if some geezer wants to get it going with half a pound of latex and a lump of oxgen well, that his business”
I find it annoying that like Pornhub or whatever want a picture of my face so I can have a wank, but as a principle we’ve been handing over our data to _”unregulated overseas corporations with questionable privacy records”_ with enthusiastic abandon for years??
What gets me though is that there are already controls over 18+ content. You can restrict it without this act. To many parents not doing their duties? It’s a cover for even more mass surveillance of our citizens and I’ll have no part in it.
It’s not a bug, it’s a feature. So when one of these companies inevitably gets breached the government will go “Oh no, selfish American companies refuse to protect British citizens! That’s why you now have to sign in to a government portal before you can access the internet at all, because these companies won’t look after your data properly.”
They’ll hire some Tel Aviv security company to fix it and keep your information safe.
This will come in worldwide and there is nothing anyone can do to stop it.
Don’t need a passport to enter the country.
Need a passport to look at things on the Internet.
I want to see headlines like this everywhere, people should be terrified and speaking out against this, going to share this around too!
It’s also a GDPR nightmare and a massive security risk for everyone in the UK. There were plenty of warnings that this law was dangerous but they still went ahead with it because… ‘oh won’t you think of the children’. How long before you can’t even buy any adult products without uploading your passport?
I was initially ambivalent to this (I just thought, “Well, who needs pornography…”), but then I came to realise that the whole ‘submit your ID to a third party’ is wrong and dangerous.
Obvious alternatives always existed. Say, for instance, a government app had existed (like they did with the COVID records), where I can prove my age once on a device, and only then could I access adult content, then I get the point behind the policy. That they didn’t go with this option makes me suspicious of their intentions.
But I’m never handing my data to a third party when so many get hacked.
Addendum:
The government shouldn’t be using the OSA to censor information they deem inconvenient. There shouldn’t be an elite task force stopping you from accessing information about immigration for instance, and the government shouldn’t be pressuring organisations to suppress ordinary users, which leaked memos indeed revealed today.
No it isn’t. It’s making more people aware of vpn services lol.
It’s against the gdpr law therefore 2 laws contradict eact other.
I haven’t had to verify my age for any of my social media apps.
There’s few things I’m willing to become a single-issue voter over but this is one of them
I’m going to try and write to my local MP tomorrow, for all that fucking matters
Shamefully, I fancied a little me time earlier – and ended up using the facial recognition to access one of the sites.
After it scanned my face- it said it was “checking for freshness”. WTF kind of 3rd party company that is operating on govt guidelines would write that.
I can see this being a huge data/privacy problem in the very near future. Who are these fucking companies? Companies with no track record being set up to follow the new guidelines. Wouldn’t be surprised if many of them are connected to MPs, just like the Covid PPE scams.
Same for UK visa applications. You have to give your biometrics and documents to a French-owned company.