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[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 5 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


LONDON, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Britain's long-awaited Online Safety Bill setting tougher standards for social media platforms such as Facebook, YouTube and TikTok has been agreed by parliament and will soon become law, the government said on Tuesday.

"Today, this government is taking an enormous step forward in our mission to make the UK the safest place in the world to be online," she said.

Once the bill receives royal assent and becomes law, social media platforms will be expected to remove illegal content quickly or prevent it from appearing in the first place.

They will also be expected to prevent children from accessing harmful and age-inappropriate content like pornography by enforcing age limits and age-checking measures.

Instead it will require companies to take action to stop child abuse on their platforms and as a last resort develop technology to scan encrypted messages, it has said.

Earlier this month, junior minister Stephen Parkinson appeared to concede ground, saying in parliament's upper chamber that Ofcom would only require them to scan content where "technically feasible".


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[–] grandel@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Will this lead to companies ditching E2EE?

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[–] sarmale@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Cant you just make a keyboard app that encrypts it for the recipient while you type it? Will they even ban that?

[–] 520@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are logistical problems with that. Such as how you plan to get the key out to recipients.

[–] sarmale@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When someone wants to start a conversation they send their public key unencrypted (no need for it to be encrypted) and then you send your public key It will be one more message but the keyboard could have some sort of "profiles" for every persons public key, that you could select (This is just an idea, I have no coding experience)

[–] 520@kbin.social -3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Okay, but how do you then make sure that key isn't intercepted? Anyone who has the key can read your messages

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[–] lckdscl@whiskers.bim.boats 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] sarmale@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, like that, thanks for it. was thinking about something that captures the screen and uses OCR to take the encrypted text and then decrypts it. But that would be complicated and would need to be adapted for every app

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

No they won't. The bill is against social media companies, not your own encryption measures. Where the line exactly falls between hand-coding your own cypher; using good old PGP; using an app to encrypt but sending via a separate service; using an e2ee messaging app+service; being on a community/group-focused e2ee service; normal unencrypted-on-server social media... Going by the Reuters article (I haven't read the actual bill) it seems mostly aimed at main social media platforms, with a to-be-explored relationship with private messages.

[–] Send_me_nude_girls@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

After Brexit there's Digital Brexit

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