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The war on privacy and encryption goes on. This time in the UK. Under the “Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill”, lawmakers now want client-side scanning on every phone and tablet. (mastodon.online)
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[–] Lojcs@piefed.social -1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

What made you think I was proposing a scheme compliant with the bill? I repeatedly said that this would be to prevent such a bill from passing. And explained my reasoning why it would do so.

To make it doubly clear: I don't support what they're trying to do. I just think it could do us good to ourselves address any legitimate concerns they use as excuses to implement surveillance so it's harder to use them as excuses.