• Strawberry@sh.itjust.works
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    10 days ago

    I don’t think it’s intended to be enforced very well, just to ‘boil the frog’ so to say. Either that or incompetence & not realising it won’t work.

    Even if it passes and isn’t enforced well it’ll legitimise more surveillance & identity checks. It’ll probably be terrible for privacy on people who aren’t as tech literate to avoid it.

    • justsomeguy@lemmy.world
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      10 days ago

      This is pretty much it. Someone will google “what’s the best VPN” and get an AI generated answer that leads them to some bigger service that adheres to identification laws. That’ll filter most regular users.

      • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        10 days ago

        In order to make it easier for the CGHQ to track and watch every single civilian in the UK all the time, the UK Governement is de facto creating a generation of Britons trained to evade such surveillance, something which wasn’t happenning in the previous “less than perfect but still good enough” surveillance system.