alecm
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Why we need #EndToEndEncryption and why it’s essential for our safety, our children’s safety, and for everyone’s future #noplacetohide
Privacy-enabling technologies like End-to-End Encryption are under threat from Governments that want to undermine peoples’ ability to have a private conversation. This has been underway for many years. Having been previously framed around “drugs” and “terrorism” the current round of attacks is focused especially upon child safety, with the co-operation of concerned but misguided and…
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Things children *really* need: involved parents, good childcare, healthy food, better education, positive body images & even learning how to be safer online. None of them require holes to be drilled in the privacy of the people of the world #noplacetohide
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Shelters from domestic violence & abuse. Dissidents. LGBTQ discrimination. Democracy activists. Oppressed religious minorities. People around the world need strong privacy for many reasons. We can’t & shouldn’t take hope away from them #noplacetohide
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How much harm would happen for want of #EndToEndEncryption? How many bank & medical details, business deals, or innocent (but embarrassing) photographs will leak from unencrypted chats & hacked accounts? How shall we measure *that* cost? #noplacetohide
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“I don’t need #encryption, I’ve nothing to hide!” — if you’re paying a mortgage, getting a diagnosis, escaping an abusive partner, you don’t want that data to proliferate. #EndToEndEncryption gives you control over where the data goes #noplacetohide
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People’s passwords get guessed & stolen. Their accounts get hacked. It happens every day. But if sensitive information is sent via #EndToEndEncryption there’ll be very little data to steal… #noplacetohide
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Ever used an “incognito” window in a browser? If we have to stop kids using #EndToEndEncryption then we’ll also have to stop online anonymity; because to do it they’ll have to know who is, and is not, a kid… #noplacetohide
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Remember #CambridgeAnalytica? Facebook does, & they don’t want to get burned again. But the Government is demanding that they must weaken #EndToEndEncryption to retain access to read your messages. Isn’t that odd? #noplacetohide
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Boris Johnson, Priti Patel, the Cabinet—they use encrypted messenger apps like @WhatsApp & @SignalApp for privacy & security. Strange, then, that they don’t want @Messenger to also be private & secure by using #EndToEndEncryption… #noplacetohide
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If you are giving your children their privacy — or not already protecting your children by supervising their internet usage — why would you ask a corporation to do it on your behalf? #EndToEndEncryption is not the problem… #noplacetohide
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Abandoning #EndToEndEncryption would sacrifice the privacy of the adults who your children will grow-up to become. Directly & indirectly they’ll need and use #Encryption to protect their data and loved ones #noplacetohide
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BBC Radio 4 #FileOn4 “Hunting the #Darknet Dealers” – “…you can find the BBC, for example, on the #darkweb, for that very reason” — normalising #endtoendencryption is essential for progress of information security
Previously https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/entries/936e460a-03b3-41db-be96-a6f2f27934e6