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El_Dorado@beehaw.org to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

UK passes "online safety" bill making end-to-end encryption impossible

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UK passes "online safety" bill making end-to-end encryption impossible

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El_Dorado@beehaw.org to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago
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UK's Online Safety Bill finally passed by parliament
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Britain's long-awaited Online Safety Bill setting tougher standards for social media platforms such as Facebook, YouTube and TikTok has been agreed by parliament and will soon become law, the government said on Tuesday.
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    Does that mean that when you’re sitting on a bench in the middle of a city, you could in theory snoop the passwords and banking details in clear text from the WiFi networks around you?

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      No. Why would it mean that?

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          Yeah but they’re not in any way doing that.

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