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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 1 day 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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[–] hector@lemmy.today 14 points 23 hours ago

That is longstanding, the US and the UK both have been writing laws broadly enough for them to take down anyone for them, or at least charge, we all just trust it won't be abused, but as we've seen with the uk and their bad faith terror designations, that trust is misplaced, and the mask is coming off society. They aren't pretending anymore, and cynically think "democracy" such as it is, is already dead in all but name, it's only the citizenry that doesn't know it yet, and or is contesting it.