EmbarrassedHelp

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by EmbarrassedHelp 3mo ago
Its far worse than the Patriot Act. Its legislation that attempts to weaken and break encryption so that law enforcement and others can access encrypted communications. It also seeks to require mandatory suspicionless metadata for all onlin
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by EmbarrassedHelp 3mo ago
Nothing will ever be enough for the anti-privacy fanatics pushing for this. They will always demand more.
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by EmbarrassedHelp 3mo ago
The UK should just be banned from modern technology until their government has evolved socially enough to respect privacy. Companies need to pull out and stay out, because that's the only way the UK government will learn a lesson.
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by EmbarrassedHelp 3mo ago
That's not what the UK is demanding. They want client side scanning malware that breaks DRM, circumvents encryption and VPNs, and bypasses other security features in order to scan everything visible on your screen.
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by EmbarrassedHelp 3mo ago
There's no such thing as private or anonymous age verification. It doesn't exist.
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by EmbarrassedHelp 3mo ago
What the UK is trying to do here is evil and authoritarian. Its the sort of thing people brushed off as conspiracy theories not long ago. It is completely and utterly unacceptable.
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by EmbarrassedHelp 3mo ago
> Why did they think clicking "Yes" on an "I am 18 years of age" popup was sufficient? Because that is the only acceptable solution and it doesn't violate user privacy. Other than off-by-default parental controls
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by EmbarrassedHelp 3mo ago
> require any account to be in "child mode" until you can prove you're an adult. That means unacceptable privacy violations that hurts every child and adult.
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by EmbarrassedHelp 3mo ago
Unless you make age verification and age assurance illegal with massive fines that are larger than your proposed fines, that is a terrible idea.
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by EmbarrassedHelp 3mo ago
Until there is zero societal stigma towards sex and legal sexual preferences, mandatory age verification for adult content is completely unacceptable. Mandatory age verification for adult content should be illegal.
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by EmbarrassedHelp 4mo ago
If you know anyone who uses WhatsApp, Signal, iMessage, and other encrypted apps, tell them to speak up now. Otherwise tell them to be prepared to pay for a foreign VPN to continue using the service. They may also need to create a foreign I
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Analysis of Canadian Surveillance Law Expansion Under Bill C-22 – CitizenLab(citizenlab.ca)
11 points by EmbarrassedHelp 4mo ago|1 comments
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by EmbarrassedHelp 4mo ago
The lawsuit is also demanding mandatory age verification to use AI in the first place.
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by EmbarrassedHelp 4mo ago
The legislation intentionally defines "electronic service" extremely vaguely so that it can apply to almost anything software and technology related: > electronic service means a service, or a feature of a service, that involve
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by EmbarrassedHelp 4mo ago
The RCMP confirmed yesterday in a Canadian parliament SECU Committee meeting that Bill C-22 is meant to give them encryption backdoors. * Source: https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/05/rcmp-confirms-bill-c-22-... Var
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by EmbarrassedHelp 4mo ago
We should be focusing only on solutions that don't violate user privacy.
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by EmbarrassedHelp 4mo ago
Because your "solution" creates massive privacy violations unless age verification and age assurance are banned, and result in even larger fines.
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by EmbarrassedHelp 4mo ago
In the video from the CBC Gary Anandasangaree specifically mentions that the Canadian Centre for Child Protection (C3P) has been lobbying him for this legislation, and that he recently met with them to reaffirm his commitment to passing it.
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by EmbarrassedHelp 4mo ago
Why? Because its better to message multiple government officials, rather than betting on a single one. MPs also have a different role than government ministers do.
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by EmbarrassedHelp 4mo ago
That's a months old article, though I'm not sure why it was locked? The r/Canada subreddit unfortunately does not allow articles that the mods deem to be "blog posts" or from organizations they don't consider t
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by EmbarrassedHelp 4mo ago
Doing nothing is guaranteed to fail. Apathy only helps the bad guys win. Messaging campaigns at least have a chance of influencing things.
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by EmbarrassedHelp 4mo ago
I think there could also be some lobbying from Canadian Centre for Child Protection (C3P). C3P's site is filled with anti-encryption and anti-privacy disinformation, and they are a major Chat Control lobbyist in the EU. They are also c
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by EmbarrassedHelp 4mo ago
That article appears to be slightly biased in favor of attacks on privacy, and it omits important details like the UK's ongoing consultation includes questions on banning VPNs.
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by EmbarrassedHelp 4mo ago
Both the mandatory data retention and encryption backdoor requirements will cause encrypted messaging services like Signal, WhatsApp, iMessage, Matrix, and others to block both Canadians and Canadian businesses from their services. If you l
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by EmbarrassedHelp 4mo ago
Don't hardware identifiers also mean that Google can blacklist your device from vast portions of the internet whenever they feel like it?
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by EmbarrassedHelp 4mo ago
Chat Control hasn't passed yet. But the Chat Control lobbyists are still lobbying for it behind the scenes, and are currently pushing for all phone calls in the EU to be covered. Source: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/wp
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by EmbarrassedHelp 4mo ago
The EU Commission was caught breaking the law in order to lobby for Chat Control: https://noyb.eu/en/gdpr-complaint-against-x-twitter-over-ill... The EU Commission also gave a foreign tech company called Thorn (they pr
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by EmbarrassedHelp 4mo ago
> having all your devices blacklisted. Private farms probably won't last long either as I'm sure Google logs everything and will correlate. So basically Google can now ban your device from being able to access a huge portion of
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by EmbarrassedHelp 4mo ago
If you reload the page it'll give you a non QR code captcha to do. Hopefully it stays that way or attestation captchas are removed entirely.
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by EmbarrassedHelp 4mo ago
Your privacy has to be violated in order to receive the easily trackable ZKP tokens.

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