Das Erstellen von Apps wie Signal oder WhatsApp könnte eine „feindliche Aktivität“ sein, behauptet die britische Aufsichtsbehörde
https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/creating-apps-like-signal-or-whatsapp-could-be-hostile-activity-claims-uk-watchdog
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1984 was supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual.
What the actual fuck, everyone. I live here, so can authorities stop shitting the bed.
Either just come out and say that we are currently engaged in an informational WW3 and you’re enacting war powers, or stop trying to arbitrarily break everything.
Next they’ll be calling ‚closing your curtains at night‘ a suspicious activity.
Criminals can drive cars..ban cars!
What is Atlantic Island doing lately?? Something in the water
Only if you consider your populace the enemy.
Fuck the king!
V for Vendetta vibes by UK…
Kids writing notes in Pig Latin will soon be considered ‚hostile actors‘ as well at this rate.
Please do not create the Torment Nexus.
How many people is the UK trying to scare out of their country?
Like, actually, literally, for real? XD
Did they look at China and think, „oi, we want this!“
End to end encrypted chat is a triviality. Making a profitable, popular service is more difficult. But the functional purpose of the app? It’s nothing more than a tutorial project.
Creating anything could be a hostile activity. FFS!
What next? Can we stop speed rolling into communism for once‽
How much more fucking stupid could they get.
I know it’s happening everywhere, but there is certainly irony in one of the world’s longest and most terrible colonizing nations shutting itself away from the world in a fit of fear and xenophobia.
Humanity desperately needs global unity to survive through this instant in time and the powers that plundered and ravaged the free world at will are now digging all of our graves.
Hostile to who? The authoritarian nutters ruining the country, that’s who.
So I take it that all mmo games could be hostile too? I mean they all encrypt the packets
What is even happening, what’s the end goal here
My AI but plug just morse coded me
„This shit is scaring me“
What’s next, Royal Mail having to read all letters sent via post.
What are they stressing about exactly?
Why are European governments trying so hard to destroy internet privacy lately? It’s concerning.
Looks like we need a tracker for the names of the individuals behind these absurdities.
Fuck the UK overall. Brexit for me was enough of a reason. They are adding on top even more good reasons
The UK is turning into North Korea
What is the cultural reason the UK government is super pro-surveillance state? I mean 1984 was written more than 75 years ago so it seems like it’s been a thing for awhile.
They right, the people deserve an open source, humanity serving, anti exploitation based platform. Not something created by a private company. In this day and age its pretty retarded
I thought the UK just voted in their first progressive government in years. What’s up with them becoming a police state.
The UK is doing stuff that conspiracy theorists have been screaming about for decades.
So we’re all not bothering to read the article again are we.
The watchdog isn’t saying that Devs of apps are hostile activity in a way of targeting them.
„He warns that developers of apps like Signal and WhatsApp could technically fall within the legal definition of „hostile activity“ simply because their technology „make[s] it more difficult for UK security and intelligence agencies to monitor communications.“
He’s saying the legislation as it’s written is so broad that technically they could be classed as that and the reviewers job is to actually make suggestions on how to improve the legislation.
As bad as things are in the US right now, and they are bad, what is going on in the UK? There seems to be hard authoritarian push to get a window into every UK citizen’s digital life along with a big push to prevent UK citizens from protesting against groups the British government seems to support.
You know they say we live in a democracy yet they keep making life changing laws stripping away my rights while because I’m from such a small part of the uk I’ve no way to vote for or against who ever is in power it’s obscene