The #OnlineSafetyBill means:

(1) The Home Secretary decides what content FB and Twitter must remove, and how;

(2) Companies must be able to read your private messages

(3) Services that don’t comply get banned from App Stores, blocked on ISPs

politics.co.uk/comment/2021/0…
Goodbye, e2e encryption for private messaging, explains @WebDevLaw.
Hello, state direction of @Facebook and @Twitter @Policy over what stays up, what gets deleted, and how they find it.
Goodbye anyone who thinks this is too much, inappropriate, not feasible for them to implement.

@reddit @telegram @signalapp will be in the @ukhomeoffice’s sights if they don’t remove content, add age gates, roll back encryption

Banned from App Stores, blocked by ISPs.

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25 May
It has been a long road since 2013 when @OpenRightsGroup @BigBrotherWatch @englishpen and Constanze Kurz took the UK to the ECHR over the @Snowden revelations:

privacynotprism.org.uk

Donations from across Europe paid for us to go the ECHR.
Today the ECHR came in with its final judgment that the UK’s laws were deficient and lacked crucial safeguards.

openrightsgroup.org/press-releases…
The court’s judgment makes it plain that bulk interception is a dangerous technology that requires special supervision.
Read 11 tweets
20 Nov 20
This should be all over the papers. Racial profiling of voters without consent is not acceptable.

opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocra…
And, you may ask, why isn’t it all over the papers.

EXHIBIT ONE: The @ICOnews Press Release

ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/…
Any mention of 10 million people being racially profiled? No. But there is this. I feel reassured. Image
Read 8 tweets
19 Nov 20
On the face of it, this is welcome news:

@Google are introducing e2e encryptions for Android RCS messaging

blog.google/products/messa…
This is announced, coincidentally I am sure, during a debate on #onlineharms in the Commons.

In the UK, there is pressure for the Government to ban or “licence” e2e encryption of personal messages as @WebDevLaw wrote on our blog last week

openrightsgroup.org/blog/org-signs…
Many companies are moving towards encrypting chat services. Government and MPs need to ask themselves why that is.

So, why is the market moving towards very secure messaging apps?
Read 5 tweets
19 Nov 20
So far not much coverage of the Commons Trade Committee’s Japan Trade deal report

publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5801/cmse…
It matters when MPs start looking at things the Government is not keen to discuss.

Here they discuss the privacy impacts of “data flow” commitments Image
This is the best news: they plan an inquiry on data and digital matters in trade agreements.

That is a real step forward as it will force some clarity about the strategy and consequences. Image
Read 4 tweets
24 Sep 20
Today the @NHSuk COVID tracing App is launched, and they have ended up using the privacy friendly technology from Apple and Google — and even adopted the same approach for QR code scanning in pubs and bars.

A huge win for privacy, the Govt set their face against this.

*BUT*
* If you are poor, don’t have a smartphone, then your privacy is not properly protected.

* Instead, you hand your details to the venue with no safeguards

* And when you talk to test and Trace, we still know nothing of how bad their privacy is, or if problems are fixed
That is why @OpenRightsGroup and @BigBrotherWatch yesterday asked our lawyers at @A__W______O to write to the Government demanding answers.
Read 5 tweets
27 Jul 20
I guess most people who are on the #twitterwalkout won't be monitoring this.

But rather than just walking out: why not also start using @joinmastodon which has much stronger policies and community around reudcing hateful content?

eg: mastodon.online
Here are more alternatives: joinmastodon.org/#getting-start…
Here's me, if you want to chat there: campaign.openworlds.info/web/accounts/5…
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