La legge sulla sicurezza online non riguarda solo la verifica dell’età: anche la crittografia end-to-end è a rischio

> Back in 2023, as the bill was about to become law, popular messaging apps like WhatsApp and Signal threatened to leave the UK if the legislation was implemented as it was.

> Such a strong backlash brought the UK government to a bold decision – the scanning included in Article 122 would be halted until it is “technically feasible” to do so.

> The devil’s in the details, they say. The fact that this controversial provision has only been halted means that lawmakers are very likely to still be working in the background to find a technically sound solution to scan our chats.

They basically pinky promised not to enforce this part of the Online Safety Act until its “technologically feasible”, and they are most certainly planning to enforce it at some point.

> According to the Internet Society’s Senior Director for Internet Trust, Robin Wilton, there are two possibilities authorities are looking at.

> The first will be simply scanning the messages before being encrypted. This would mean preemptively looking at everyone’s communications, “and that should be unacceptable from the outset, certainly in the EU it would be interpreted as a general monitoring obligation,” Wilton told Techradar.

> This may leave authorities with only one feasible option – forcing device manufacturers to create a technical switch that law enforcement can turn on to access suspects’ chats before being encrypted. A plan that seems to echo the push in the EU to make digital devices monitorable at all times.

The UK government wants backdoors built into your device, so that their malware can monitor everything you do for “safety”.

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If you live in the EU, you can help fight Chat Control by contacting your MEPs with this helpful site: https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

The EU is planning to do the same as we speak. Freedom in Europe is being killed off at an enormous pace.

And then Starmer wonders why he’s unpopular…