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RedGreenDevon

Omnishambles continues.

@JamesBaker of @openrightsgroup writes "At the eleventh hour of the Online Safety Bill’s passage through Parliament, the Government has found itself claiming to have both conceded that it won’t do anything stupid and that it may well press ahead if it wants to. It is in a total mess over its proposals to break end-to-end encryption and scan our private messages.."
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Open Rights GroupOmnishambles over encrypted messages continuesAt the eleventh hour of the Online Safety Bill’s passage through Parliament, the Government has found itself claiming to have both conceded that it won’t do anything stupid and that it may well press ahead if it wants to.
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Michelle Donelan, MP (with the Home Office in addition to DSIT) "said further work to develop the technology was needed but added that government-funded research had shown it was possible. This, incidentally is entirely untrue: their researchers were at pains to explain that the technology is unfit for purpose:"

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Screenshot from article: The independent evaluation concluded that although none of the tools propose to weaken or break the E2EE protocol, the confidentiality of the E2EE service users’ communications cannot be guaranteed when all content intended to be sent privately within the E2EE service is monitored pre-encryption. The Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, writing in The Telegraph … noted that the programme had “demonstrated that it would be technically feasible to detect child sexual abuse in environments which utilise encryption.” Awais Rashid, Professor of Cyber Security at the University of Bristol and Director of the REPHRAIN Centre, said: “The issue is that the technology being discussed is not fit as a solution.” Professor Rashid has worked on development of automated tools to detect child abuse material online as well as engineering privacy into software systems for 15 years. “Our evaluation shows that the solutions under consideration will compromise privacy at large and have no built-in safeguards to stop repurposing of such technologies for monitoring any personal communications,” he said. Rephrain researchers, UCL blog
Sep 08, 2023, 11:06 AM·Public·Tokodon
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