UK Expands Online Safety Act to Mandate Preemptive Scanning of Digital Communications
https://reclaimthenet.org/uk-expands-online-safety-act-to-mandate-preemptive-scanning
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UK Expands Online Safety Act to Mandate Preemptive Scanning of Digital Communications
https://reclaimthenet.org/uk-expands-online-safety-act-to-mandate-preemptive-scanning
Posted by Old-Information3311
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That slippery slope that plenty of people warned about but got told was an overreaction and never going to happen?
This is the slope
May as well just shut it down like the Iranians
Oh look, entirely expected expansion of labours newest snooping law that was purely brought in to spy on people is expanded to spy on people. What a shock
Online Surveillance Act just doing Online Surveillance Act things
Soon there’ll be pre-emptive scanning of on-device browser usage.
Ahh i remember when the chinese government implemented this was quite effective at stopping free speech, lovely.
what the fuck is with this government
the anti grok shit is good, but they really cannot let a good idea, or a good headline, or a good bill go unpunished
This is torrid. Even for the “nothing to hide, nothing to fear” side, the fact it’s happening at all opens doors for bad actors to exploit this in the future
How will anyone ever know what’s really going on in the country without the truth being told on social media?
The ai companies that will do this will be using this information to do cambridge analytica style political manipulation.
And everyone called it at the time.
It’s the same shit as the US, just done quieter.
You will have no privacy, and be happy for it.
Given the number of times I’ve been banned on reddit for sarcasm I doubt a robotic system is capable of accurately telling what is or isn’t illegal content.
And now all the women and children will be safe forever. Thanks Labour /s
How, exactly, is this going to be implemented? The example video from DSIT is insanity – how would they force Apple to preemptively scan an airdropped photo? How will this work where nearly every messaging app is e2e encrypted? Maybe it could work on public forums such as Twitter or facebook, where the platform could possibly scan a post before it appears online?
I just feel this hasn’t been actually thought through.
a big screw you to all the people who told me I was spouting nonsense and that we never have to worry about this sort of thing.
Abolishing juries
Tracking online activity
Digital ID
Mandating backdoors into encryption
Who voted for any of this?
Just a few months ago Reddit would call you a far right conspiracy theorist for suggesting the government might do something this authoritarian
The most predictable outcome from this grok shit.
How much privacy do we have to lose before we protest?
Will they also like my stool sample on the 1st of every month? Maybe I am eating or not eating government approved things.
If this is to prevent cyber flashing surely it could be done on the receivers end, allowing them to turn it off if they want (and so not have all messages sent to them scanned).
Why does it need to be on for everyone. Law ought to be “you have to provide this feature and let people turn it on for messages they receive if they like”
Why are the government so paranoid about what we are doing, it like projection of what they are up to.
Just for the avoidance of doubt, the UK didn’t expand the OSA to mandate pre-emptive scanning of digital communications.
The headline is a flat-out lie.
They’re referring to some of the stuff also discussed today about holding Twitter etc. to account for sharing stuff they shouldn’t be sharing.
Reclaim-the-Net is a shadowy right-wing blog which has pushed anti-vax, conspiracy theory and far-right nonsense over the last few years.
These fuckers really trying to arrest me for wanking
> Compliance will require platforms to perform mass scanning of messages, images, and uploads across their networks, even in spaces traditionally regarded as private
Thats perverted labour and conservative mps for you. Wanting to spy on citizens private communications the creeps.
Reform UK are going to be the government in a couple years – this isn’t a good idea.
We really are living in a shit (sorry UK spybot – arrest me for swearing!) time aren’t we? We’ve got all the authoritarian control of China together with the decaying infrastructure and defunded public services of Britain. No wonder people are feeling fed up and pessimistic!
Setup new iPhone yesterday
Settings > iCloud > Advanced Data protection
“Apple can no longer offer Advanced Data Protection in to United Kingdom to new users.”
Says it all really
This could be weaponised into the current government in power hiding posts from the opposition, dont think they wouldnt try it.
TBH the only real way that your going to get to what the government wants to do (which is ham fisted in the extreme and really doesn’t understand the issues) is going to be device level scanning. Any phone sold in the UK is going to have to have some sort of UK approved device level scanning tech or software that scans and detects all images. videos and messages taken or sent by the device. That device will have to registered to an individual.
App level scanning is really not a solution UNLESS you require any app in an app store sold in the UK to have a Gov issues scanning app incorporated into it.
Its easier to do it at the device level.
But I work in the combatting of online child sexual abuse. And I say….. Fuck that.
Where are all the plebbitors to tell me it’s for le greater good and how you’ve nothing to fear if you’ve nothing to hide?
Watching my country turn into a dystopian fucking nightmare kind of doesn’t feel like any greater good.
Deep Joy. Vote for Totalitarianism! … go left, go right… the destination is the same. You will obey and enjoy your democracy.
I can’t escape the 1984 vibes I’m getting.
I guess all of us that oppose this complete shit are also Saville apologist nonces like last time right?
Remember this next time you are laughing at someone’s genuine concerns around having every single action you take in society being linked to a single digital ID, a single online profile, and stored in a central database.
Yeah, would be totally crazy for a govt who lies to you daily to implement a system where its so easy to surveil you, profile you, and target you, and punish you for whatever the current powers decide at the time.
24 months ago I saw a post on reddit saying “Heads up, this point is the most free humans will ever be.” – Hindsight is a fucker.
Or you could read the actual press release and see that it’s for the platform operators to implement, where they use the Bumble unwanted nude blocking algorithm as their example:
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/stronger-laws-for-tech-firms-to-ensure-you-dont-see-unsolicited-nudes
Notable as others have said for its complete lack of the airdrop example, which seems to be a fabrication.
The way I read the Press Release, a Knobfinder™️algorithm will be run alongside the plethora of classification algos already being used against every word and image you upload to the platform. If you want to get miffed about surveillance – don’t use social media at all.
That is to say, the onus is on the company to do something they could have done but couldn’t be arsed to do. Nowhere is there mention that a company has to report someone sending their meat and two to strangers, so if you want to keep trying you just need to get creative with how you present it to dodge the algorithms.
Starmer wants a law to stop people calling mp’s ####s rather than mp’s stopping being ####s
“An unwanted nude picture has been detected”. What if tes a “wanted” nude picture?
Seriously, the list of prohibited content will get bigger and more comprehensive until the government controls everything we see.
Meanwhile the PM is endorsing people with links to Epstein. But sure, this is to protect women and children lol.
Politicians are exempt, of course.
Lol, and who is going to manage this? OFCOM?
OFCOM haven’t been able to get a single penny from any of the sites they have fined and not one foreign site cares to actually take them seriously. They block sites who dont comply and people just go around them with VPNs.
OFCOM should go back to dealing with the complaints old people send in when two gay men kiss on eastenders. What a joke of an org and what a joke of a government
I get women being upset about having pictures of random guys cocks sent to them on the train, so why not just remove the anonymity? This is the MO of authoritarianism, pretend to give a shit about vulnerable groups (women and children), then use that to encroach on our civil liberties.
It’s like they want to speedrun losing the next general election. They lost me when the first iteration was codified, the lost my parents, who have always voted labour, with the changes to the triple lock, most of my peers are abstaining from voting, it’s a mess.
How is this going to apply to privacy apps
If I have a wife and she sends me boobs on Whatsapp is she getting arrested for armed boobery?
Does the government take a copy ?
I’m turning on my VPN and not turning it off till this is repealed.
They should link up with the NHS to scan the genital / boob pics for early signs of cancer
Unless another party pledges to repeal the OSA, Reform will be getting my vote.
Labour has such a massive hard on (pun intended) for authoritarianism.
Lost my vote forever, and I’ve never once voted anything but left of centre.