> How to avoid the UK’s new online surveillance powers
How to avoid the UK’s new online surveillance powers, by using things like VPNs, until those become outlawed too, because they circumvent the law. - FTFY
Don't even think you will be safe for long. It's just cat and mouse and in the long run, the law always wins.
We will find new ways to get around things. Its cat and mouse all right, but the law is yet to win. And as long as we can write code, and build new stuff, I have hope.
There is decent advice here but I still think there is a lack of basic tools that would help the everyday citizen get started with protecting their privacy. I think there's a chance for VPN providers to capitalise on the surveillance law whilst helping people by providing really easy tools to use. I know that most of the major VPN providers have apps and programs available that provide little to no configuration but these still seem beyond people I know who aren't tech savvy. I've had countless conversations with even people my own age (mid 20s) and younger who would like to protect their privacy but have no idea what all the fragmented privacy tools mean and how they can use them effortlessly. I wonder if Opera's browser level proxy is possibly a step in the right direction.
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Don't even think you will be safe for long. It's just cat and mouse and in the long run, the law always wins.
We will find new ways to get around things. Its cat and mouse all right, but the law is yet to win. And as long as we can write code, and build new stuff, I have hope.
Shame it got marked as [dupe] and taken off the front page by the time I'd read it.