In this video he discusses how the United Kingdoms “Online Safety Act” would require tech companies to implement backdoors into their encryption algorithms in order to comply with requirements to do proactive scanning for illegal content.

  • Rooki@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I just hope it doesnt spread to other countries. Its like a disease of “encryption” == “bad”

    • Chariotwheel@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Germany is trying this for a while now. We keep fighting back and managed to hold it at bay, but the SPD and CDU keep bringing it back to the table. I fear one day they will have their will.