Thing is the whole bill is such a unworkable mess that it is likely to collapse under its own weight and Ofcom likely not going to be able to enforce 90% of it.
In the end I think the UK gov will backtrack on many parts of the bill but only after they used Ofcom as a scapegoat.
Fewer US companies in the UK? Sign me the fuck up! They’ve already infested our healthcare system. We need to exterminate the vermin.
Im gonna put on my tinfoil hat and say the government is doing this on purpose so when WhatsApp leaves, the government can release some BritChat app with all the backdoors they want.
The legislation requires back doors to be put in software. You can bet your life it will be exploited by criminals and those with malicious intentions on day one. An absolutely stupid idea
Either the government are being wilfully ignorant of how the tech works or are hoping that dodgy tech companies will fill the place of the giants and allow them to spy more easily on people who use the software produced. It genuinely could be either right now.
I hope they quit Ireland. Someone needs to stop the bashings going on in Dublin City centre and US tech giants are probably the only ones with enough leverage to make a difference
So do we have a list of tech firms threatening to quid?
So far off the top of my head its:
Whatsapp, Signal, Apple (imessage and Facetime)
Thats alot of big players
It’s going to end up like this, if it ever gets implemented:
Your private messages will be for sale on darknet and possibly low paid government employees will find a side hustle, selling you access to what your wife, boss, crush are talking about online.
Even if somehow it was possible to develop a framework supporting this bill, with things like IR35, government won’t be able to get talent necessary to do the work to a high standard.
It is interesting, though, that despite most people know this is wrong and nobody voted for it, they are still pushing, as if someone / something mandated them to do it.
With that being said, MI5 of course is asleep at the wheel (probably they’ll love to have it themselves, because fuck democracy).
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Thing is the whole bill is such a unworkable mess that it is likely to collapse under its own weight and Ofcom likely not going to be able to enforce 90% of it.
In the end I think the UK gov will backtrack on many parts of the bill but only after they used Ofcom as a scapegoat.
Fewer US companies in the UK? Sign me the fuck up! They’ve already infested our healthcare system. We need to exterminate the vermin.
Im gonna put on my tinfoil hat and say the government is doing this on purpose so when WhatsApp leaves, the government can release some BritChat app with all the backdoors they want.
The legislation requires back doors to be put in software. You can bet your life it will be exploited by criminals and those with malicious intentions on day one. An absolutely stupid idea
Either the government are being wilfully ignorant of how the tech works or are hoping that dodgy tech companies will fill the place of the giants and allow them to spy more easily on people who use the software produced. It genuinely could be either right now.
I hope they quit Ireland. Someone needs to stop the bashings going on in Dublin City centre and US tech giants are probably the only ones with enough leverage to make a difference
So do we have a list of tech firms threatening to quid?
So far off the top of my head its:
Whatsapp, Signal, Apple (imessage and Facetime)
Thats alot of big players
It’s going to end up like this, if it ever gets implemented:
[https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-66486034](https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-66486034)
Your private messages will be for sale on darknet and possibly low paid government employees will find a side hustle, selling you access to what your wife, boss, crush are talking about online.
Even if somehow it was possible to develop a framework supporting this bill, with things like IR35, government won’t be able to get talent necessary to do the work to a high standard.
It is interesting, though, that despite most people know this is wrong and nobody voted for it, they are still pushing, as if someone / something mandated them to do it.
With that being said, MI5 of course is asleep at the wheel (probably they’ll love to have it themselves, because fuck democracy).