https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/20/no_place_hide_campaign_anti_e2ee_ukgov/

Re: this @GazTheJourno observation that he makes about #NoPlaceToHide, deserves a LOT of public discussion:

> prevents them from trawling through conversations at random and seizing on anything they don’t like the look of…

Quite. This is #DigitalStopAndSearch:

This is a point which I made to Baroness @NickyMorgan01 but have not yet heard back regarding – #NoPlaceToHide is a call for #DigitalSusLaws, #DigitalStopAndSearch, an online Section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000.

What the @ukhomeoffice are calling for — via @Barnardos & others — are #DigitalSusLaws, #DigitalStopAndSearch, an online Section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000.

It is misconceived, illiberal,unwise, and it undermines the foundations of global online security going forward. pic.twitter.com/7VKi29mPRV

— Alec Muffett (@AlecMuffett) January 19, 2022

British Government under all parties have a terrible record of passing surveillance laws which will only be used "in extreme circumstances" but then are repurposed for banal curtain-twitching like fly-tipping:

#NoPlaceToHide is more of the same

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/08/revealed-anti-terror-snooping-law-used-for-fly-tippers-and-parking

We *MUST* resist the creation of #DigitalStopAndSearch #DigitalSusLaws by the "back door" (pun intended) because this is no longer just a matter of infringing the rights of "Keep the Aspidistra Flying" Blighty.

This is the Internet. People need privacy.

Take feedback from platforms (e.g. FB) re: "suspicious behaviour" & "user reports", get "reasonable grounds" & a warrant, pull the person in, and search their devices.

The HO is playing a dangerous game, posting inflated global numbers to garner sympathy: https://t.co/0QrjE11czQ

— Alec Muffett (@AlecMuffett) January 19, 2022

Originally tweeted by Alec Muffett (@AlecMuffett) on 2022/01/20.