cross-posted from: https://monyet.cc/post/153506

The U.K. Parliament is close to passing the Online Safety Bill, which threatens global privacy by allowing backdoors into messaging services, compromising end-to-end encryption. Despite objections, no amendments were accepted. The bill also includes content filtering and surveillance measures. There’s still a chance for lawmakers to protect privacy with an amendment preserving encryption. A recent survey shows the majority of U.K. citizens want strong privacy on messaging apps.

  • insta11@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    At this point they should just try to ban Math because that’s what they’re essentially trying to accomplish fucking morons man

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      1 year ago

      The state of Indiana once almost passed a bill that would’ve legally defined the mathematical constant of pi to be 3.2.