Privacy is for pedophiles, UK government seems to be saying while spending Β£500k demonizing online chat encryption
So far we’ve got a pisspoor video and… er, that’s it
The British government’s PR campaign to destroy popular support for end-to-end encryption on messaging platforms has kicked off, under the handle “No Place To Hide”, and it’s as broad as any previous attack on the safety-guaranteeing technology.
Reported by us well in advance last year, the Β£500k campaign aims to destroy public support for end-to-end encryption (E2EE) as part of a wider strategy.
That intends to make it easy for police workers and other public-sector snoopers to read the public’s online conversations without having to get prior permission or defeat privacy protections.
Judging by videos earnestly distributed by organisations supporting it, the No Place To Hide campaign (being run by ad agency M&C Saatchi) is much wider than merely targeting Facebook Messenger as was previously thought.
The British government’s PR campaign to destroy popular support for end-to-end encryption on messaging platforms has kicked off, under the handle “No Place To Hide”, and it’s as broad as any previous attack on the safety-guaranteeing technology.
Reported by us well in advance last year, the Β£500k campaign aims to destroy public support for end-to-end encryption (E2EE) as part of a wider strategy.
That intends to make it easy for police workers and other public-sector snoopers to read the public’s online conversations without having to get prior permission or defeat privacy protections.
Judging by videos earnestly distributed by organisations supporting it, the No Place To Hide campaign (being run by ad agency M&C Saatchi) is much wider than merely targeting Facebook Messenger as was previously thought.
Do you know what end-to-end encryption means?
It could mean social media platforms no longer being able to detect cases of child sexual abuse and no longer being able to report it to the police.
Retweet to raise awareness of the dangers of end-to-end encryption.#NoPlaceToHide pic.twitter.com/Hs6itgRiJO
β Barnardoβs (@barnardos) January 18, 2022
Here the video’s contents reflect the police view of E2EE as a digital smokescreen that prevents them from trawling through conversations at random and seizing on anything they don’t like the look of. The message is clear: privacy is for paedophiles.
Inevitably, smart people have fought back β with one buying up an unclaimed domain name similar to the official No Place To Hide site and pointing those at informative material explaining the benefits of E2EE. Thus noplacetohide.uk goes to ex-Facebook chap Alec Muffett’s blog post titled “There are more and better ways to help kids, without destroying the future of internet privacy”. We note that other similar domains appear to be unowned at the time of writing.
Otherwise, the campaign is off to a slow and unnoticeable start. This may be deliberate, so its opponents tire themselves out before it ramps up, but as an exercise in spending Β£500k in public money for minimal effect it’s doing spiffingly so far… More




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