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Landy | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 That law is basically DOA, proposed and voted on by people who don’t even understand the basics of what they’re talking about.

They can pass it but it simply wouldn’t work without being completely gutted by the amount of necessary exceptions that would have to be added.
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Tourne1 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 From my underatanding, it's effective because All it has to do is force Operating Systems to scan data on personal devices before encryption. So, Microsoft (Windows), Apple (iOS & macOS) and Google (Android w/GMS) would comply.
Unless most people switch to small niche OS (e.g. niche Linux Distros or De-googled Android) that can't be forced to follow that law.
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Landy | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Well luckily the bill has been pulled because companies said the tech doesn’t exist to scan for illegal material without compromising privacy, and therefore threatened to remove products from the UK market.

I’d love to see how our current government would cope without WhatsApp 😂