Discord and other multi-billion dollar corporations could easily fund legal challenges against these freedom-eroding laws.
But they don't because it's a win win for them: They get more of the data they want, and they can blame national governments for it.
Symbiosis of evil.
If you use Gmail, you need to read this.
Google’s AI, Gemini, can read your emails, attachments, bank statements, etc.
For many, this feature was switched on without consent.
Here's how to turn it off 🧵
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Britain’s Labour gov wants to force image-scanning spyware into EVERY phone in the country.
Old, new, secondhand, even the wiped one you hand your kid.
They admitted it this week: reset the phone and the scanner activates. Apple and Google must wire it into the OS and backport it to devices sold years ago.
This is client-side scanning that rips open encryption before the lock even snaps shut, a trained model that needs constant updates.
“Adults can turn it off” after showing digital ID, of course.
Tech reality check: Most old phones do not get OS updates. Many Androids are abandoned forks. Older chips cannot run the AI without melting the battery.
Teens will just stay on old software, flash custom ROMs, or buy cheap handsets without it.
This is expensive theater from a government that does not understand technology but loves control.
"WhY aRE yOu ConCeRneD aBoUt Id FoR ThE IntErnEt? YoU nEeD iT tO bUy bOoZE oR CiGaReTtEs?
I am obviously of age to buy them. I have not been ID'ed in a shop for decades. And even then, the shopkeeper didn't keep my ID on record and document every purchase against it so he could nanny me.
Jesus these people and their bullshit false equivalences.
13 years ago this month, the Guardian broke the Snowden story...the biggest mass surveillance exposé in history.
Today it calls your concern about ID-linked browsing, spyware in your photos and messages, and broken encryption, "fake outrage" while Starmer's government demands backdoors into your iCloud and calls for people to be arrested for tweets.
The watchdog became the lapdog.