🚨 BREAKING: The UK government has confirmed it is rowing back on its plans to scan private messages.
They've finally back down with an announcement that Ofcom won't use powers in the spy clause contained in the Online Safety Bill until it's 'technically feasible' to do so.
They've conceded that no current technology exists that would protect privacy or avoid breaking encryption.
ORG, along with privacy activists, tech companies and security experts, have long warned that it isn't possible to scan messages that use end-to-end encryption without undermining privacy and security.
While this is a victory for all campaigners who've highlighted the dangers of the spy clause to be used for mass surveillance, the powers could still be used in the future.
✊ We continue to fight for the removal of the spy clause.
@openrightsgroup
I'm thinking that on the day it becomes "technically feasible" they will hand their military, law enforcement, and security crypto over to a trusted third party ie the UN to ensure no country can ever prepare for war against another or against its own people. Peace on Earth at last, no?
@openrightsgroup Conservatives undertake not to spy on British citizens, yet seek to persuade us they're doing us a favour, & might do it later anyway?
Given the timeline of their remaining term in office, their undoubted preoccupation now is concealing the evidence of their corruption, to try & keep it out of future Courts & Inquiries.
Justice will be served. #Tory lawbreakers, be on notice: data-thieves, electoral-funding cheats, contract-fixers & bribe-takers will be prosecuted.
@openrightsgroup Yeah, right, like anyone would ever trust a government who said "we're giving ourselves these powers, but we aren't going to use them, honest guv!"
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