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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Chat Control approved: Certain EU countries will see your private messages. Is yours on the list? (euroweeklynews.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by pylapp@programming.dev to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] portnull@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The one good thing of brexit: UK isn't beholden to this.

The bad thing is that their own laws aren't much better. And of course all the other brexit bad stuff

[–] DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

From the Online Safety Act Wikipedia page:

The act also requires platforms – including end-to-end encrypted message providers – to scan for child pornography and terrorism content, which experts say is not possible to implement without undermining users' privacy.