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.

      • Squizzy@lemmy.world
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        58 minutes ago

        Absolutely not, it is currently but they are built on googles platform and devices.

        Linux phone is what we want

        • marcie (she/her)@lemmy.ml
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          44 minutes ago

          linux is not secure enough to be a phone lol

          if cops arrest you and its not fully turned off and encrypted with luks youre boned, and look at all the current devices supported for linux, its basically just the very expensive pine or fair phone. older pixels are fairly easy to buy in poorer countries.

          then theres postmarketos which has the far larger selection of devices but most of these are quite old at this point. not to mention it uses far more resources and will drain your battery 10-20% faster

          • Squizzy@lemmy.world
            1·
            36 minutes ago

            I think the goal being to get linux to where it needs to be is better than it being a variation of a google product.

            It is not out of the realm of possibility if gOS got a decent market share that google could get some bullshit corrupt court to block or take it over.

            They have said AOSP wont bave the third party blocking but it very much could be forced through. What then gOS stays on an old AOSP?

            • marcie (she/her)@lemmy.ml
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              24 minutes ago

              idk why you think its somehow a much more monumental task to support something that already works (re:gos and aosp) vs building something entirely from scratch

              linux needs to focus on becoming as secure as aosp/gos first before even considering being on a phone

      • Zerush@lemmy.ml
        3·
        3 hours ago

        All Android forks are, to maintain compatibility with the used apps (LinageOS, e/OS, Degoogled Android …)

      • Alavi@programming.dev
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        3 hours ago

        Ok you fork it and create a FOSS mobile OS. If it was that easy we would already have alternatives. The core is open source but google has been and is trying it’s best to slowly take over the OS. I’m honestly not very knowledgeable about android so I don’t remember the exact details.