@JamesBaker@social.openrightsgroup.org
2026-05-08 12:19 UTC
Ofcom’s work on scanning your private messages has dropped https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-content/consultation-technology-notices it looks to me like they unlawfully narrowed the scope the scope of their impact assessment by refusing to assess the real-world consequences of scanning private communications at scale. @neil @cyberleagle
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@ret@furry.engineer 2026-05-08 12:29
@JamesBaker@social.openrightsgroup.org @neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk @cyberleagle@mastodon.social reassuring that a Reform government will soon be in control of all of this too. Everything you say, send, organise, photograph or video will be available to Nigel, and by proxy, the Russian state.
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@cyberleagle@mastodon.social 2026-05-09 11:59
@JamesBaker@social.openrightsgroup.org @neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk Are you thinking of where they say that they only have to consider the impact of their minimum standards advice, not of the legislative power itself? Or something else?