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The Coming War on End-To-End Encryption

Reporting Private Activities to the Government Recently, there has been a rise in regulations drafted out of concern for exploitation of children, that have advocated measures that can completely erode privacy on the internet. In 2018 the US Congress passed SESTA / FOSTA, which survived legal challenges by free speech advocates like EFF. This month, the UK again published a draft of the Online Safety Bill which “proposes measures to end anonymous browsing by requiring some online service provid...

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Battle lines drawn in the #waronencryption:

@[email protected] threatens to fine Meta for introducing security and privacy tech—we are really at that point

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/08/21/meta-risks-grotesque-betrayal-children-introducing-encrypted/

Meta risks a ‘grotesque betrayal’ of children by introducing encrypted messaging, says Priti Patel

The Home Secretary urges Facebook’s parent company to ensure safeguards against online child abuse are in place

The Telegraph
At the top of that precarious stack was, as with similar proposals in the United States, client-side scanning. ... Unalterable computer code that runs on your own device, comparing in real-time the contents of your messages to an unauditable ban-list, stands directly opposed to the privacy assurances that the term “end-to-end encryption” is understood to convey. It’s the same approach used by China to keep track of political conversations on services like WeChat, and has no place in a tool that claims to keep conversations private.

It’s also a drastically invasive step by any government that wishes to mandate it. For the first time outside authoritarian regimes, Europe would be declaring which Internet communication programs are lawful, and which are not.
@[email protected]:Orders from the Top: The #EU’s Timetable for Dismantling #End-to-End #Encryption

The last few months have seen a steady stream of proposals, encouraged by the advocacy of the #FBI and Department of Justice, to provide “lawful access” to end-to-end encrypted services in the #UnitedStates.

www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/10/… #Internet #freedom #WarOnEncryption #privacy #RightToPrivacy
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Orders from the Top: The #EU’s Timetable for Dismantling #End-to-End #Encryption The last few months have seen a steady stream of proposals, encouraged by the advocacy of the #FBI and Department of Justice, to provide “lawful access” to end-to-end encrypted services in the #UnitedStates. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/10/orders-top-eus-timetable-dismantling-end-end-encryption

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