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Just moved back to the UK after many years away, and it's creepy here. Doing the elderly under terror legislation, some crazy kangaroo court antics, a frankly sinister approach to "online safety". VPNs? The even more concerning thing is that we've got a far right party that have been leading in the polls for most of the last year. This is a very dangerous situation.
At least we get to raise the next generation of IT geeks because they'll have to understand a bunch of networking basics to watch porn, and might get hooked on it. (on IT)
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> these big companies need to self police It's not possible to prevent a person (of any age) from reaching a specific website if they are determined enough. Full stop.
> It's not possible to prevent a person (of any age) from reaching a specific website if they are determined enough. Full stop. right, and that reveals the absurdity of this "age gate", doesn't it? because I am sure giving every UK national their very own unicorn would also poll very well but that doesn't mean that's what a functional democracy should be prioritizing just because a majority of the public supports bec…
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> big companies need to self police and if a child can reach their service they have to pay the child like lets say GBP 10k per instance? HIPAA has been super effective this way. As we all know, American companies don’t give two shits about user privacy or even security. But wave the HIPAA flag and everyone starts caring real hard and taking extremely cumbersome steps to comply with patient privacy. Very simple: Each…
I agree the threat is there but I've never seen anyone actually punished for HIPAA violations and my data have been involved in several hospital and insurance breaches.
From my understanding, HIPAA mostly just says that you need to have policies in place for various things, such as rotating passwords or encrypting data, but it doesn't go into explicit detail about what all must be IN those policies, or how you enforce them.
> the main thing that we've done is we've commissioned additional research on this because I've not been happy with the evidence. Ah, yes, the existing research doesn't agree with our biases, so let's fund new "research" that does.
Obviously Labour has been "lobbied" and now have to deliver this for whoever wants this. It's pathetic how they use sobbing families to push it through, similar tactic like before Iraq invasion. same players behind the scenes.
Glad HN is getting to experience the true level of adverts on “news” sites in the UK. It really is next level.
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Obviously Labour has been "lobbied" and now have to deliver this for whoever wants this. It's pathetic how they use sobbing families to push it through, similar tactic like before Iraq invasion. same players behind the scenes.
Conspiracy theory^ This is happening worldwide: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_age_verification_laws_b...
I've been using a VPN in the UK on my laptop and phone exclusively for 20 years, and the state has been working with ISPs to make "connection records" for most of that time. On mobile a VPN isn't always effective in avoid geoblocks. Some apps are able to determine I'm in the UK and still ask for ID - reddit is one for example, if you stumble on to an adult subreddit. Using the web interface avoids this. The UK has al…
I've never had this issue (using Private Internet Access on iOS).
They're not a high quality source of news - they've more than decimated their journalism staff and replaced them with 'content' staff who are performance monitored on the number of clicks their articles generate.
Content is syndicated in different accents across their range of papers from the national papers, The Mirror and The Daily Express down into a large number of notionally 'local' outlets.
So, take it with a pinch of salt.