![]() ![]() ![]() “E2EE serves an important role both in safeguarding our privacy and online safety,” said Stephen Bonner, the ICO’s executive director for innovation and technology. The ICO, fortunately, is pointing out how the UK government will endanger children (as well as other at-risk groups) by regulating encryption out of existence. ![]() The UK government - the ICO notwithstanding - is seemingly willing to feed the kids to the proverbial wolves in exchange for nominal law enforcement gains. The most innocent of all are the children, who the UK government apparently feels aren’t worthy of strong device or communications security. The narrative is that the innocent have nothing to fear from pervasive surveillance and unsecured communications. Well, that severely undercuts the rest of the government, which has claimed repeatedly that encrypted communications only aids criminals. The Information Commissioner’s Office said strongly encrypting communications strengthens online safety for children by reducing their exposure to threats such as blackmail, while also allowing businesses to share information securely. The UK data watchdog has intervened in the debate over end-to-end encryption, warning that delaying its introduction puts “everyone at risk” including children. The shitty metaphor equates a home with curtains drawn to end-to-end encryption, turning privacy into secrecy while suggesting only criminals are interested in private communications.īut encryption is good for kids, argues none other than the… UK government? The ad flips the script on the sanctity of the home - one given ultimate protection from government intrusion - turning it into a black box where evildoers are free to sexually assault children. Its efforts are being aided by an extremely manipulative ad campaign - one detailed here with righteous anger by Rianna Pfefferkorn. It doesn’t have the strength of character to flat-out demand encryption backdoors so it’s trying to apply indirect pressure to accomplish the same thing. The UK government is trying to regulate encryption into nonexistence. Others who find the chanting of “national security concerns” just isn’t getting the job done have often chosen to lean on abused children to make their points (badly) about the “dangers” encryption poses. Government leaders from around the world have claimed the addition of end-to-end encryption to Facebook’s messaging service will result in millions of abused kids. FBI directors have pointed to device and end-to-end encryption as an aider and abettor in child sexual abuse. What’s the greatest threat to children since the invention of contraceptives? Why, encryption, of course. ![]()
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