Admits Defeat, by not changing the law, and just pinkie promising not to actually enforce the law. Presumably until it becomes expeditious so to do.
This is no [ Defeat | Victory ], this is nothing.
I’m not sure this is a defeat at all. It will be easy for the security services in a few years to use that language to compel companies to use client side scanning. This is, in theory, an admittance that unbreakable breakable encryption isn’t a thing, but that was already the case. Saying “until it’s technically feasible” doesn’t mean _ANYTHING_ wrt client side scanning, it’s already technically feasible if the law says apple must build it into the next iphone…and this law says the govt can order that.
I saw a tech journalist do some calculations the last time the UK Govt tried this. The journalist worked out how much metadata (information about information) that each person generated in an average day. Such as 1 line recording each web page visited, each text message sent or received, each phonecall sent or received, each ANPR camera passed etc, then multiplied by the number of people in the country. This number was then turned into a number of computer hard drives full of information, and was then divided by the cost of an average hard drive at the time. And then came out with a cost of £12 million in new / extra hard drives extra every single day (not counting the space / rent, the electrical cost or the staff cost to maintain such a system). So where is the money going to come from to pay for all this?
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Admits Defeat, by not changing the law, and just pinkie promising not to actually enforce the law. Presumably until it becomes expeditious so to do.
This is no [ Defeat | Victory ], this is nothing.
I’m not sure this is a defeat at all. It will be easy for the security services in a few years to use that language to compel companies to use client side scanning. This is, in theory, an admittance that unbreakable breakable encryption isn’t a thing, but that was already the case. Saying “until it’s technically feasible” doesn’t mean _ANYTHING_ wrt client side scanning, it’s already technically feasible if the law says apple must build it into the next iphone…and this law says the govt can order that.
I saw a tech journalist do some calculations the last time the UK Govt tried this. The journalist worked out how much metadata (information about information) that each person generated in an average day. Such as 1 line recording each web page visited, each text message sent or received, each phonecall sent or received, each ANPR camera passed etc, then multiplied by the number of people in the country. This number was then turned into a number of computer hard drives full of information, and was then divided by the cost of an average hard drive at the time. And then came out with a cost of £12 million in new / extra hard drives extra every single day (not counting the space / rent, the electrical cost or the staff cost to maintain such a system). So where is the money going to come from to pay for all this?