The bill, which aims to make the UK “the safest place in the world to be online,” passed through the Houses of Parliament on Tuesday and imposes strict requirements on large social platforms to remove illegal content.
Additionally, the Online Safety Bill mandates new age-checking measures to prevent underage children from seeing harmful content.
It also pushes large social media platforms to become more transparent about the dangers they pose to children, while also giving parents and kids the ability to report issues online.
But not only does online age verification raise serious privacy concerns — the bill could also put encrypted messaging services, like WhatsApp, at risk.
It joined Signal and other encrypted messaging services in protesting the bill, leading UK regulators to attempt to assuage their concerns by promising to only require “technically feasible” measures.
It matters that the government came out publicly, clearly acknowledging that there is no technology that can safely and privately scan everyone’s communications,” Whittaker said in a statement to The Verge.
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Do these politicians understand that this kind of law will do the exact opposite thing?
“Under the terms of the bill, encrypted messaging apps would be obligated to check users’ messages for child sexual abuse material.”
Good job UK. You broke WhatsApp. Now try Signal or GPG. Oh no. Look. You can’t. Honestly, pure dumbfuckery.
I oppose child sex abuse, but banging your head against a wall will not solve it.
But think of the children!
Stop calling it a safety bill.
I like how UK is going, now, every time someone suggest stupid things in my country I can point to UK and show empirically how it does not work.
lmao. It is easier to tell someone not to play with fire when they see another house burning down
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The bill, which aims to make the UK “the safest place in the world to be online,” passed through the Houses of Parliament on Tuesday and imposes strict requirements on large social platforms to remove illegal content.
Additionally, the Online Safety Bill mandates new age-checking measures to prevent underage children from seeing harmful content.
It also pushes large social media platforms to become more transparent about the dangers they pose to children, while also giving parents and kids the ability to report issues online.
But not only does online age verification raise serious privacy concerns — the bill could also put encrypted messaging services, like WhatsApp, at risk.
It joined Signal and other encrypted messaging services in protesting the bill, leading UK regulators to attempt to assuage their concerns by promising to only require “technically feasible” measures.
It matters that the government came out publicly, clearly acknowledging that there is no technology that can safely and privately scan everyone’s communications,” Whittaker said in a statement to The Verge.
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