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[News, Call for Action] The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide (www.eff.org)

submitted 11 months ago by Raisin8659@monyet.cc to c/technology@beehaw.org

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The U.K. Parliament is close to passing the Online Safety Bill, which threatens global privacy by allowing backdoors into messaging services, compromising end-to-end encryption. Despite objections, no amendments were accepted. The bill also includes content filtering and surveillance measures. There's still a chance for lawmakers to protect privacy with an amendment preserving encryption. A recent survey shows the majority of U.K. citizens want strong privacy on messaging apps.

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[-] comicallycluttered@beehaw.org 3 points 11 months ago

Of course, otherwise we wouldn't still be using it.

But in the context of internet privacy, specifically, my guess is it was initially popularized by tech-libertarians or those who hung around on the conspiracy theory areas of the internet (Venn diagram overlaps a bit there, though not entirely).

There's no doubt it was used as a quote for privacy in general before that.

I should hold back on my assumptions, though, so thanks for reminding me of that. Could obviously be very wrong.