Even if we get people to shift to privacy respecting or encrypted apps, the problem still stands. They could just ask you to give access to those services. If you don’t, it would come with its own legal challenges.
Section 247(1)(ii)–(iii) mandates individuals and businesses to disclose passwords or encryption keys and permits officers to “override the access control” of any device or account. If you don’t hand over your phone passcode or email password on demand, officials can hack into the device. Any refusal is now explicitly punishable as non-compliance.
End-to-end encrypted messaging services like WhatsApp or Signal could be forced open during a tax raid.
Solving the issue would need to come from challenging the act itself.
If you scroll down the article you would see that the select committee is shutting down any requests for change with the same set of arguments. The recourse might be to challenge the act in court but that seems unlikely, The public wont really do anything about it, because in their view it doesn’t affect them; they fail to see(and are veiled from seeing) the highly probable misuse angle of such far reaching legislation.
Bottom line: As long as you don’t touch the street dogs you can get away with anything
Even if we get people to shift to privacy respecting or encrypted apps, the problem still stands. They could just ask you to give access to those services. If you don’t, it would come with its own legal challenges.
Solving the issue would need to come from challenging the act itself.
If you scroll down the article you would see that the select committee is shutting down any requests for change with the same set of arguments. The recourse might be to challenge the act in court but that seems unlikely, The public wont really do anything about it, because in their view it doesn’t affect them; they fail to see(and are veiled from seeing) the highly probable misuse angle of such far reaching legislation.
Bottom line: As long as you don’t touch the street dogs you can get away with anything
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I hate that you are right. I really wanted to do something to make a difference, but it’s saddening to see no one batting an eye to this.
But you can do something to make a difference, get others to care. How? See this:
https://lemmy.world/comment/19227806
You are right. This is the least I can do.
Thanks for the words of encouragement.
They won’t know what we’re using.
If you can’t challenge a few apps, you’ll never challenge that.