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The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide (www.eff.org)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide::The U.K. Parliament is pushing ahead with a sprawling internet regulation bill that will, among other things, undermine the privacy of people around the world. The Online Safety Bill, now at the final stage before passage in the House of Lords, gives the British government the ability to force backdoors into messaging services, which will destroy end-to-end encryption. No

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All of these providers need to cease operating in the UK - it makes no sense to compromise security for the rest of the world just because one country wants to make it easier to spy on citizens.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I believe this is the plan for most of them. I know Signal messenger has said as much and Im sure Telegram and even Whatsapp (lol at the idea of whatsapp being secure) wont stick around either. Seems like the easiest way to solve this problem. The downside is, once this passes the USA and other countries are bound to follow suit. Especially Australia's spying ass, if they havent passed something like this already.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

But there are privacy risks. This wont go in a lot of places.

Non encrypted data and GDPR is a bad combination...