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UK Lawmakers Propose Mandatory On-Device Surveillance and VPN Age Verification

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by RevEng

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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?

by ekjhgkejhgk

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> 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?

by a456463

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by wiml

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This would make it illegal to sell a phone or tablet with an unlocked/unlockable bootloader, wouldn't it.

by jbstack

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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.

by onetokeoverthe

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by prajaybasu

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Where are all the Europeans gloating about privacy and their "regulations" while their governments are basically erasing actual privacy and free speech?