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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Chat control (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by rikviergever@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Pandora's iPhone, by Stuart Carlson, 2016. Still spot-on in 2026:

A backdoor for the good guys simply does not exist. Once you build it, hackers walk through, authoritarian governments walk through, and the rest follows.

The UK is pressuring for chat control right now. EU Chat Control initiatives keep popping up. We need to keep saying NO to this!

Pandora's iPhone, by Stuart Carlson, 2016.

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[–] Hypocrite9554@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago (1 child)

Yeah the choice of scale is very weird, why are hackers larger than the FBI? Also doesn't really seem mutually exclusive

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[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Because whoever made this (naively) trusts their government

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