How exactly does one make software that makes it impossible to view or transmit CSAM? What is looking at each picture, each video, each text message to make this determination?
This is the same classic "wiretap everything" solution that never works and just undermines people's rights. There's no way they would ever use this ability for anything else, right? And nobody else would ever abuse it either, right?
How long until people start using this to capture and produce CSAM?
ekjhgkejhgk 44 days ago [-]
> Lawmakers in the United Kingdom are proposing amendments to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill that would require nearly all smartphones and tablets to include built-in, unremovable surveillance software.
> The proposal appears under a section titled “Action to promote the well-being of children by combating child sexual abuse material (CSAM).”
So they only believe that surveillance on smartphones and tables, and surveillance on desktops isn't necessary?
OgsyedIE 44 days ago [-]
Surveillance and nothing else? According to the sponsors this is really about the capacity to plant false evidence on protestors.
subscribed 44 days ago [-]
This alone should tell you clearly enough its not about CSAM.
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Don't seem to be able to edit or delete it, but i responded to the wrong person obviously.
dmitrygr 44 days ago [-]
it never was...
luxpir 44 days ago [-]
Not to stand up for bad laws, but what is wrong with everyone in the comments? On what planet would they not have considered all angles? The peanut gallery has gotten ridiculously loud of late.
raxxorraxor 43 days ago [-]
Well, surveillance on smartphones is possible, desktop devices are safer.
a456463 44 days ago [-]
This will also include said lawmakers too right?
teekert 44 days ago [-]
If people can watch the watchers, everybody can watch everybody. So: No. Some animals are equal, but some have to be more equal than others. Otherwise we can't have the most equal system. It's double-plus-good that way.
Now install the app, slave.
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wiml 44 days ago [-]
This would make it illegal to sell a phone or tablet with an unlocked/unlockable bootloader, wouldn't it.
jbstack 44 days ago [-]
All this will do is compel me to import my phones instead of buying them in the UK. If I stay below the thresholds I can even avoid giving 20% VAT to this dystopian government that we've ended up with.
onetokeoverthe 44 days ago [-]
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prajaybasu 44 days ago [-]
Where are all the Europeans gloating about privacy and their "regulations" while their governments are basically erasing actual privacy and free speech?
RestartKernel 44 days ago [-]
This isn't a gotcha. The same Europeans who gloat about privacy laws are horrified with these recent developments.
mahmoudhossam 44 days ago [-]
Friendly reminder that the UK left the EU over "sovereignty concerns" among other reasons.
The EU is the one with actual privacy regulations, for now at least.
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This is the same classic "wiretap everything" solution that never works and just undermines people's rights. There's no way they would ever use this ability for anything else, right? And nobody else would ever abuse it either, right?
How long until people start using this to capture and produce CSAM?
> The proposal appears under a section titled “Action to promote the well-being of children by combating child sexual abuse material (CSAM).”
So they only believe that surveillance on smartphones and tables, and surveillance on desktops isn't necessary?
Now install the app, slave.
The EU is the one with actual privacy regulations, for now at least.