Great news today the French government have launched their own Visio video conferencing tool #digitalsovereignty
But the PR stories, while explaining it is French built, don't mention it is Open Source and based on LiveKit - so any government can reuse what they have done.
@mat I think probably Meta's motivation originally was to establish trust and accountability for their new Twitter replacement where they had none. So there is every chance they will change their minds I agree.
@Mojeek Hi there, yes, we are looking for lists of sites that might be geoblocking the UK, either for GDPR or OSA reasons. We can probably distinguish these by testing in the EU as well as US and UK. eg
Right at the last minute the UK government have added a power to demand access to your device and extract information from any online account, on the say so of a senior police officer, in the #crimeandpolicingbill#cpbill
Really incredibly extreme stuff. No judicial oversight, just hand over your device.
Gov_NC63
Secretary Yvette Cooper
To move the following Clause—
Extraction of online information following seizure of electronic devices
(1) Where an electronic device has been lawfully seized, a senior officer may
authorise an enforcement officer to extract information accessible by means
of one or more online accounts which were accessed by means of the device
before it was seized.
(2) A senior officer may give an authorisation under subsection (1) only if satisfied
that there are reasonable grounds to believe that—
(a) the information mentioned in subsection (1) includes information that
is relevant to a reasonable line of enquiry which is being, or is to be
pursued, by an enforcement officer for one or more relevant purposes,
and
(b) it is not reasonably practicable to obtain that information by other means.
