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Under British and UK Legislation anyone using or developing end-to-end encryption is now a “hostile actor” (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 hours ago by tastemyglaive@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Surveillance strategies in the UK and Israel often go global

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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

That's often the point of this kind of legislation. The review from which this comes points out that the law is very broad and a lot is left up to the discretion of the police about how to apply it. In other words, they implement a law that just about everyone is breaking, then enforce it against environmentalists, critics of Israel, privacy advocates, socialists, anarchists and human rights campaigners, while leaving Meta execs, MPs, banks and the far-right untouched.