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What a great excuse to have complete access to all your pictures (www.gov.uk)

submitted 18 hours ago by Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Insanity.

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[–] pineapple@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm pretty sure big tech already had access to all of your pictures, and I don't think this means the UK government will gain access, they don't even know what to do with it anyway.

I mean they explicitly say it should be done in a way so that no data leaves the device.

[–] Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

They're asking for something that will most likely require some server interaction, and can be modified to include more things the government doesn't like (mostly if Farage takes power at some point). It would be insane to think this is all well and good.