re: Britain goes full Orwell: New law will give govt. access to phone texts

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I’d say it’s lazy to just post a video in the OP.

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Cool, but they don't have open. legal authority to arrest me for anti-_____ messages.

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The debate on end-to-end encryption

One of the most controversial provisions of the OSA is the power of Ofcom to issue notices to deal with terrorism content or child sexual exploitation and abuse (CSEA) content, or both, under s. 121. A notice under s. 121 will require a provider to use technology to deal with content found on or in its services, including (for example) identifying and taking down terrorist or CSEA content.

Critics have noted that this will, in effect, endanger end-to-end encryption, a key pillar of digital privacy, since to identify and take down content requires intercepting the communication between the sender and the recipient, between whom content is encrypted. More practically speaking, the technology required by the OSA to do so is not known to exist, yet Ofcom's power under s. 121 is unfettered, save that the technology must meet minimum standards of accuracy and have appropriate safeguards in place. For now, Lord Parkinson, an Under Secretary of State in the Department of Culture, Media and Sport, has indicated as follows: "I am happy to make clear, as I have, what that means: if the appropriate technology does not exist that meets these requirements, then Ofcom will not be able to use [section 121] to require its use."

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