Re: Musk et al.

On Sun, 16 Feb 2025, Sn!pe wrote:

chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote:
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D wrote:
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Is it true what I read in the newspaper from my little corner of the world,
that australia is turning into a surveillance state?
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Sweden is also turning into a surveillance state as well, so maybe this is
a new global trend that caught on after corona?
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Same for the UK.  In recent news:
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"UK: Encryption order threatens global privacy rights
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The United Kingdom government's order to Apple to allow security
authorities access to encrypted cloud data severely harms the privacy
rights of users in the UK and worldwide, Amnesty International and
Human Rights Watch said today."
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<https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/02/uk-encryption-order-threatens-global-privacy-rights/>
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IMO we in the UK are going along with that as proxy for the Merkins,
their TLAs being precluded from spying directly on their own citizens.
It's well known that the NSA, CIA, DHS, etc. have a hot line to GCHQ
and info is regularly shared both ways as a matter of course.  Ditto
with the whole Five* Eyes surveillance group.
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* - or however many it is these days.

This is the truth! A very convenient way to game the system. I would vote against it, if I could, and if I were not against voting. ;)