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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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New digital ID scheme to be rolled out across UK (www.gov.uk)

submitted 1 month ago by abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Welp, this is gonna be a privacy clusterfuck.

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[–] droolio@feddit.uk 5 points 1 month ago

You maybe right about the authoritarian part, but I guarantee you they don't know a thing about technology - evidenced by their unwillingness to listen to experts on matters like the Online Safety Act or on trying to outlaw e2ee. Starmer made Peter Kyle Secretary of State for Science, who said "For everyone thinking of using a VPN, verifying your age keeps a child safe ... so let's not try find a way around, just prove your age, make the internet safer for children." Authoritarian certainly is an adjective to describe these people, but so also is clueless.