I'm sorry if this sounds extreme but mass deletion of information online should genuinely be illegal. as a society we cannot tolerate the notion that any and all knowledge that is created can just be permanently expunged and inaccessible. Like yes it is that serious
THE UK JUST MADE PRIVACY A CRIME.
The government wants a scanner built inside every phone in the country.
Scanning every citizen becomes the law. Refusing becomes 5 years in prison.
- The scanners would inspect every photo, message and video on your device before encryption
- Signal threatened to leave the UK entirely rather than build the backdoor
- Europe's age verification app built to "keep children safe" was hacked in under 2 minutes
- Another verification system leaked 70,000 IDs and selfies in a single breach
Orwell wrote 1984 as a warning. His own country turned it into law