@AmazonHelp order now 3 days late, driver has been here 2 of those days delivering other packages. Had promise from a customer associate that it would be delivered yesterday and then today. Both promises broken. What's going on?
@Halfords_uk had to pay for an appointment slot, you then took 3 hours to change 3 tyres, they're not even balanced properly and now received a parking charge due to you taking so long to replace 3 tyres.
@jalaal_tweets Incorrect. I've just been given a consent form from a school for next year that asks for my permission for the school to publish images, video of my child and if they can be interviewed by journalists, without the need to contact me again. This is very common practice
Piccadilly Circus, London.
Keir Starmer now demands state spyware on every mobile device, always watching the screen, scanning everything, looking for things the government disapproves of.
The UK government spyware demand means that the government decides exactly what should be censored on every mobile device. They say they will start with nude pictures (if you don’t identify yourself as an adult). But it could at any time be expanded to anything the government disapproves of. Today, 30 people are arrested every day in the United Kingdom for writing something online that the government classifies as "grossly offensive". It is obvious that they will use this tool to restrict free speech.
Currently, there appears to be no requirement to report findings outside the device. However, with both legal and technological decision-making power taken away from individuals and transferred to the government, that is only a pen stroke away.
This means that the government could also use this system for total mass surveillance.
And they can do so in secret.
The government recently, in secret, tried to pressure Apple (which is now agreeing to client-side scanning) to build backdoors into its end-to-end encrypted cloud service. They can do this under the Investigatory Powers Act 2016, also known as the "Snoopers' Charter" – a law that makes it illegal for tech companies to disclose secret demands from the government.
@ollyp3@stuey_beef Aww now you stop me replying to your completely made up stats. If you weren't such a muppet you would know ONS don't collect or publish this information. You would also know any institution has to meet the BCA requirements for non enrollments and non completion rates.
Our statement on the UK government’s demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the country be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification and content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all.
https://t.co/VdWe9uhi8p
This is what the UK spyware proposal means.
There must be government spyware on every mobile device. It shall watch everything that happens, including always watching the screen, looking for things the government disapproves of.
When anything is flagged by the software as something the government doesn't like, the software must block it from being sent or displayed (in realtime).
The user of the device must not be able to shut this watching and blocking off. The only way to shut it off would be to ask the government or its proxies to do so for you, at their discretion.
Therefore the whole device must be locked down. Administrator rights and the decision of what software or operating system to run or not to run must be taken from the owner/user and handed to the government and its proxies.
Apple and Google are themselves working hard to lock down the devices they are involved in to shut out competition and establish a duopoly.
The UK government says it is "working closely" with Apple and Google and currently they synchronise and coordinate their communication on this subject.
The UK government is now proposing to mandate what would otherwise be illegal anti-competitive practices.
@GrapheneOS on the Apple and Google duopoly:
https://t.co/rbRmcUDTRu
Statement from @signalapp
https://t.co/vJILcSrs4s
@ReclaimTheNetHQ on the state spyware:
https://t.co/3FCi06bP77
The government announcement:
https://t.co/ynYjR3DIRo
@BillRobins6@BrabinsGut@StormTroop_Aim I remember we used to this ages ago and it didn't work as well as expected but maybe that was because it was one off games here and there, so it was day trippers in the north stand.
@portly_pete@PhilMealey@BBCiPlayer@guardian Love the break in at Comet story and still randomly laugh when i remember the "was he in a state or arousal?...no he was in a Ford Escort" line. Every character was perfect though and the writing was just superb.
@terrychristian Immigration White Paper, specifically the changes around student visas and the impact it's having on higher education sector. Clearly thought out by someone who has no knowledge and understanding of it all and will do nothing to stop the route being abused.