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submitted 1 year ago by Spudger to c/technology@beehaw.org

Today marks the first day of the Report Stage of the Online Safety Bill. As this Bill progresses through the Houses of Parliament, we hope to (once again) raise the alarm around the risks to encryption posed by this Bill.

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[-] Spudger 2 points 1 year ago

As someone who has spent years extolling the virtues of Matrix/Element to family members I can assure you that there is no known rebuttal to the phrase "but I don't care about privacy". All it needs is to visit a site and sign up. No software required whatsoever. Good luck with GitHub and your ageing aunt or gobby nephew.

[-] PenguinTD@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, they will not adapt and that's not the target audience worry about privacy anyway. They'd give it out for free donuts.

You can also simply provide a host of links to download and install extensions, just like Firefox. People that don't care already gonna sign up stuff and give away personal info for free.(take this survey for a chance to win $5000, but input these personal info so we can contact you if you win.) For people that do care a bit about privacy end to end is like bare minimum. (Like https eventually became standard.)

[-] Spudger 1 points 1 year ago

The problem with people that can't be arsed about privacy is that they're happy to give away your privacy as well as their own. The lesson is that if they don't get it immediately then they probably never will.

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