The “Nude” Ultimatum: Privacy Is Dead
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The UK government’s ultimatum to Apple and Google is a blueprint for mass surveillance. A warning on why “nothing to hide” won’t protect your digital freedom.

The UK government is giving Apple and Google three months to build on-device scanning infrastructure. This isn’t about child safety; it’s about the end of private devices and the death of the “nothing to hide” fallacy.

    • SupremeDonut@lemmy.ml
      23·
      20 hours ago

      That’s based on government surveillance, not skin color. As reductionist as it is, China has been the poster boy for government surveillance since the 90s at very least.

      • All Ice In Chains@lemmy.ml
        1·
        1 hour ago

        While China has surveillance, it’s generally different methods and to different ends. Assuming certain documentaries can be trusted in the first place, you’re looking at naming and shaming operations for social rules at street crossings and censoring shit like racism and misogyny from social media, things it can’t even do amazingly since they’d have to surveille 1.4 billion people, about 5 times the population of the USA.

        Even under central planning and a huge industrial base, we’re not looking at an easy job. Assume general techniques update every ten years, now you have to retrofit a city you built a decade ago. Even with automation, you’d need a huge base of trustworthy people to monitor multiple fronts, all while keeping your nation profitable enough to sustain all this.

      • dubyakay@lemmy.ca
        5·
        16 hours ago

        China has been seen as the poster boy for government surveillance since the 90s at the very least by Western propaganda.

        Fixed that for you.