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direwolf20 2 hours ago

"Good" companies in the old days would ensure they don't have your data, so they don't have to give it to the police.

matheusmoreira 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Plenty of companies would do that if they could. The problem is it has become illegal for them to do that now. KYC/AML laws form the financial arm of warrantless global mass surveillance.

direwolf20 2 hours ago | parent [-]

KYC/AML is luckily still confined to the financial sector. There's no law for operating system vendors to do KYC/AML.

matheusmoreira an hour ago | parent | next [-]

There is no law yet.

Where I live, government passed a similar law to the UK's online identification law not too long ago. It creates obligations for operating system vendors to provide secure identity verification mechanisms. Can't just ask the user if they're over 18 and believe the answer.

The goal is of course to censor social media platforms by "regulating" them under the guise of protecting children. In practice the law is meant for and will probably impact the mobile platforms, but if interpreted literally it essentially makes free computers illegal. The implication is that only corporation owned computers will be allowed to participate in computer networks because only they are "secure enough". People with their own Linux systems need not apply because if you own your machine you can easily bypass these idiotic verifications.

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