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As with the UK internet filters, the next step will be "Oh, so we have all this infrastructure already, we should extend it to other forms of illegal content, like piracy, DRM circumvention, etc"


This. I'm pretty sure I've read COVID contract tracing data being used for other purposes somewhere out there.


Was there so much crying about the UK ones or was everyone obsessed with covid? During covid the uk spent a lot on similar (and I think worse) tech? Maybe the uk will license it?


The biggest outcry over the UK one was people's need to contact their ISP to be added to a list to access legal porn, which may have overshadowed the rest of the points.

This was a while before covid and has largely moved to just being accepted to my understanding.


During covid there were these ‘contests’ [0]. And there was more (will try to find).

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/18/uk-names-five-projects-its...




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