The Online Safety Bill (UK) will bring in client-side scanning, a tech for moderating content on encrypted services. Apps will have to compromise encryption to scan your message, putting a spy in your pocket.

Join our campaign to #StopTheSpyClause

👉 https://action.openrightsgroup.org/dont-scan-me

#OnlineSafetyBill #privacy #surveillance #e2ee #ukpolitics

KryptEY - Secure E2EE communication


An Android keyboard for secure end-to-end-encrypted messages through the Signal protocol in any messenger. Communicate securely and independent, regardless of the legal situation or whether messengers use E2EE. No server needed.
https://github.com/amnesica/KryptEY

F-Droid
https://f-droid.org/packages/com.amnesica.kryptey/
IzzyOnDroid
https://android.izzysoft.de/repo/apk/com.amnesica.kryptey

Reminder : new apps available in F-Droid app may not emmediatly show on the F-Droid web site ( ie when you share the link app it returns a 404 error ) some extra time is needed for both to be available
https://gitlab.com/fdroid/wiki/-/wikis/FAQ#how-long-does-it-take-for-my-app-to-show-up-on-website-and-client

#encryption #keyboard #E2EE
#messenger #security #Signal

The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide  | Electronic Frontier Foundation –


The U.K. Parliament is pushing ahead with a sprawling internet regulation bill that will, among other things, undermine the privacy of people around the world. The Online Safety Bill, now at the final stage before passage in the House of Lords, gives the British government the ability to force backdoors into messaging services, which will destroy end-to-end encryption. No amendments have been accepted that would mitigate the bill’s most dangerous elements.

#OnlineSafetyBill #Backdoors #BigBrother #UK #encryption #e2ee

Online Safety Bill

The final day of report stage – a chance to closely scrutinise elements of the bill and make changes – took place on 19 July. 

What happens next?  

Third reading - a final chance to amend the bill – is scheduled for 6 September. 

On Tuesday 18 July, the House of Commons agreed a Carry-over Motion as follows: That the period on the expiry of which proceedings on the Online Safety Bill shall lapse in pursuance of paragraph (13) of Standing Order No. 80A, as extended by the Order of 13 March 2023 (Online Safety Bill: Carry-over Extension), shall be further extended by 103 days until 31 October 2023.

Online Safety Bill - Parliamentary Bills - UK Parliament – https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3137/news

#OnlineSafetyBill #UK #BigBrother #surveillance #encryption #e2ee

Music & clip by Killing Joke - Full Spectrum Dominance - 2023

media.ccc.de - Chat-Control | Chaos Computer Club Berlin

For more than a year now, the European Union's plans for chat-control have been underway.
In this talk we take a look at what's happening in Brussels and Berlin right now, why it's getting tight for fundamental rights and what needs to happen to stop this huge surveillance package.

The EU's plans for chat-control, which in the European Commission's draft remain limited to finding material of sexual exploitation of children and young people as well as sexual advances by adults, include among other things that communication and hosting services can be obliged to scan all content of all users. Not only will machine learning be used to find and report previously unknown images and videos, but text messages will also be analysed and searched for suspicious behaviour. Encrypted communication is not exempt, so that implementation of the plans would be a massive attack on end-to-end encryption and lead to the widespread use of client-side scanning. It is obvious that the use of these dystopian surveillance tools would not be limited to abusive depictions of children and young people in the medium term. Spain which will hold the EU-presidency for the next half year, already declared it would prefer a complete ban on E2EE.

#ChatControl #EU #BigBrother
#E2EE