Großbritannien erweitert Online-Sicherheitsgesetz, um präventives Scannen digitaler Kommunikation vorzuschreiben

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

Online Surveillance Act just doing Online Surveillance Act things

Ahh i remember when the chinese government implemented this was quite effective at stopping free speech, lovely.

Anyone with half a braincell knew it had nothing to do with grok just like digital ID had nothing to do with stopping the boats, it’s just another excuse to sneak in communist control.

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.

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.

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.

Abolishing juries
Tracking online activity
Digital ID
Mandating backdoors into encryption

Who voted for any of this?

The most predictable outcome from this grok shit.

How much privacy do we have to lose before we protest?

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“

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.

> 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

„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.

Of course if you asked someone on the street ‘children shouldn’t see harmful content online’ its an agreeable statement prinicipally, but the implementation of this idea is so incredibly stupid that it achieves nothing but enforcing chinese-like internet surveillance and such an overwhelming burden on free speech that people cant even access sites like imgur anymore. There was absolutely 0 thought put into the OSA – ‘verify your ID for EACH individual site if you want to see ‘harmful content’; whatever that means in the vaguest sense possible’

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 wonder at what level it’ll run, probably on the device itself, so in the O/S, like Android, MacOS and Windows.

The general public will except it as they’ve already accepted it’s ok to snoop on your neighbours, your postman, those drivers that drive a bit dodgily, Walking around with them stupid video recording glasses, keeping any eye on your pets when they’re at work. All in The name of safety. This is another slip down the slope. We’re fucked.