> However while children's charity the NSPCC welcomed the news, its director of strategy Dr Maria Neophytou said it was "disappointed" to not see similar "ambition" to introduce mandatory device-level protections.
Give them an inch and they'll try to take a mile.
snvzz•1mo ago
Yep, the endgame is for the authority over your computing devices to be held by anybody but yourself.
And no access to any network without using an approved device, your connection being of course fully tracked by a third party.
Won't someone think of the children!
nephihaha•1mo ago
So they use children to argue for digital ID online and migration to push it elsewhere. The British government aren't even consistent, and are covering up the fact that digital ID is part of some international agreement that the public aren't privy to.
snvzz•1mo ago
>and are covering up the fact that digital ID is part of some international agreement that the public aren't privy to.
It is indeed no coincidence that such a wave of censorship, attacks on privacy and authoritarianism is happening across the globe in sync.
nephihaha•1mo ago
It is so obviously co-ordinated it would be laughable if it wasn't so tragic. You can see the same patterns with so many things even down to smoking (which I don't do!) and diet.
snvzz•1mo ago
This has been done for ages using photoshop and the like.
It's just gonna be even easier going forward, using local models that will spread faster and farther than DeCSS and its equivalent forbidden numbers did back in the day.
GaryBluto•1mo ago
Give them an inch and they'll try to take a mile.
snvzz•1mo ago
And no access to any network without using an approved device, your connection being of course fully tracked by a third party.
Won't someone think of the children!
nephihaha•1mo ago
snvzz•1mo ago
It is indeed no coincidence that such a wave of censorship, attacks on privacy and authoritarianism is happening across the globe in sync.
nephihaha•1mo ago